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04:35 - Black Mirror - Bryce Dallas Howard and Alice Eve to Star
EXCLUSIVE: Joe Wright is set to direct an episode of Netflix’s keenly anticipated new season of Charlie Brooker’s anthology series Black Mirror with Bryce Dallas Howard and Alice Eve on board to star. Created and written by Brooker, Black Mirror taps into our collective unease with the modern world and each stand-alone episode is a suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia. The series, which premiered on Channel 4 in 2011 and aired for two seasons, has received an international Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, a Rose D’Or and been nominated for a BAFTA.
It marks an interesting creative choice for Wright after the big-budget Pan for Warner Bros. The director, who first emerged as one of the UK’s most exciting young directors with the likes of Pride And Prejudice and Atonement, should revel in the dark humor that permeates throughout the Black Mirror universe.
It was announced last year that Netflix would be ordering 12 new episodes of the acclaimed series from Brooker’s House of Tomorrow. Brooker and Annabel Jones, who exec produced the first seven episodes of the series, will continue to serve in that capacity as well as be showrunners for the new shows, which Brooker has written. House of Tomorrow is a part of the Endemol Shine Group.
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04:35 - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Episode 1.12 - Josh and I Work On A Case! & Episode 1.13 - Josh and I Go to Los Angeles! - Promotional Photos
Episode 1.12 - Josh and I Work On A Case!
Episode 1.13 - Josh and I Go to Los Angeles!
02:15 - Rosewood - Sam Huntington to Recur
Being Human alum Sam Huntington is joining the cast of Fox’s freshman drama Rosewood. He’s been tapped for a recurring role with an option to become a regular in Season 2.
Huntington will play Mitchie Brickman, a fun, fast talking new-to-town private pathologist who was forced to close his lab in Pensacola due a penchant for doing pro bono work.
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02:15 - 99 Days - Comedy Based on Bestselling Book in Development at MTV
MTV has put in development 99 Days, a half-hour single camera comedy based on the New York Times bestselling book by Katie Cotugno, from Lila Feinberg, Alloy Entertainment (Gossip Girl) and Warner Horizon TV.
The book centers on Molly Barlow, who’s facing one long, hot summer – 99 days — with the boy whose heart she broke and the boy she broke it for … his brother.
Feinberg is writing the series adaptation and serves as supervising producer. Alloy’s Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo are executive producers.
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23:30 - 2 Broke Girls - Episode 5.13 - And the Lost Baggage - Promotional Photos
23:30 - 2 Broke Girls - Episode 5.12 - And The Story Telling Show - Promotional Photos
23:30 - Family Guy - Episode 14.13 - An App A Day - Promotional Photos
22:10 - American Gothic - Elliot Knight Joins Cast as a Series Regular
American Gothic is adding a spellbinding new series regular.
Elliot Knight, best known for playing Merlin on Once Upon a Time, has joined CBS' murder mystery drama, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
American Gothic follows a prominent Boston family attempting to redefine itself in the wake of a chilling discovery that ties their recently deceased patriarch to a string of murders spanning decades, amid mounting suspicion that one of them may have been his accomplice.
Knight will play Brady. Solid and honest with a touch of cynicism, he is happily married to Tessa (Megan Ketch), the youngest daughter of a prominent Boston family. A cop who's just been promoted to detective, Brady is starting work on a cold case that's suddenly had new evidence brought to light. A good man and a good detective, Brady is puzzled and a bit alarmed when Tessa seems to have some important information that she feels she can't tell him.
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20:10 - MOVIES: Battlestar Galatica - Movie in Development With Producers Michael De Luca & Scott Stuber
Battlestar Galatica is getting another shot at the big-screen.
Powerhouse producers Michael De Luca is teaming up with Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark of Bluegrass Films to produce the movie for Universal, which is hoping to launch a massive event franchise.
Galactica was the short-lived but impactful television series created by Glen A. Larson in the post-Star Wars halo that aired on ABC from 1978 to 1979.
The show was revived and re-imagined for the post-9-11 world in 2004 as a thought-provoking, politically-charged series that ran to great acclaim on Syfy from 2004 to 2009.
As the show was winding down, Universal began developing the property as a movie, enlisting Bryan Singer to direct it and several screenwriters coming and going. Singer hasn’t been involved with the project since at least 2014.
No writers are on board at this early stage of the project.
The hook of the show concerned human civilization on distant planets being almost wiped out by intelligent machines known as Cylons. The survivors flee on starships, and led by the Galactica and her heroic crew, try to find a mythic human colony called Earth.
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20:10 - Lawrence In Arabia - Period Drama in Development at HBO
Former Sons Of Anarchy executive producers Art Linson and John Linson are developing Lawrence In Arabia, an HBO period drama series set in the Middle East. The project is based on Scott Anderson’s bestselling book Lawrence In Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly And The Making Of The Modern Middle East, published in 2014.
Written by Oscar-nominated Anthony McCarten (The Theory Of Everything), the drama is described as chronicling the adventure of T.E. Lawrence, David Hogarth, William Yale, and Rudolph McGovern as they dangerously navigate the burgeoning Arab Revolt in the Middle East in the years leading up to World War I. McCarten, Art and John Linson executive produce, while Anderson serves as consultant.
Lawrence In Arabia falls under the Linsons’ first-look deal with HBO. Under the pact, the father-and-son duo also have developed Yellowstone, a drama about a ranching family’s struggle against encroachment in southwest Montana, and Vietnam War drama The Long Gray Line, based on Pulitzer Price-winner Rick Atkinson’s bestselling book.
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20:10 - MOVIES: Winx Club - Live-Action Movie in Development
Warner Bros.-based Hollywood Gang have partnered with Italy’s Rainbow Group to develop and produce a live-action motion picture inspired by the animated and popular global Winx Club TV series. This comes after Netflix recently announced that it ordered two seasons of programming this year for a Winx Club spin-off animated series from Rainbow called Winx Club Wow: World of Winx. The original animated series ran on Nickelodeon for about five years. The property heavily draws in a young, female demographic.
“It’s a charming, magical, infectiously empowering, and hip series,” said Nunnari in a statement. “We are tremendously excited to bring the live-action feature of this international sensation to the big screen for the world to enjoy.”
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20:10 - Hap and Leonard Poster
Thanks to Pawel for the heads up.
20:10 - ABC Announces Frozen Holiday Special for 2017
ABC Announces All-New Animated “Frozen” Special from Walt Disney Animation Studios
ALL-NEW “FROZEN” HOLIDAY SPECIAL ANNOUNCED
ABC PROUDLY ANNOUNCES AN ALL-NEW, ALL-ORIGINAL ANIMATED “FROZEN” SPECIAL FROM WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS
With “Frozen” Favorites Olaf, Anna, Elsa, Kristoff and Sven Returning
Do you wanna build a snowman? ABC proudly announces the next chapter in the “Frozen” story, an all-new, all-original holiday special starring the whole “Frozen” cast of characters, including Olaf, Anna, Elsa, Kristoff and Sven. The special is directed by two-time Emmy Award-winning directors Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton (ABC’s “Prep & Landing” and “Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa”), produced by Oscar®-winning producer Roy Conli (“Big Hero 6”) and features the original voice cast including Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel and Josh Gad. The currently untitled “Frozen” special will air Holidays 2017 (date tba) on the ABC Television Network.
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17:10 - Dead of Summer - Elizabeth Mitchell & Elizabeth Lail join cast
ELIZABETH MITCHELL AND ELIZABETH LAIL JOIN THE GROWING LIST OF CAMP COUNSELORS IN FREEFORM’S HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW ORIGINAL SERIES “DEAD OF SUMMER”
Freeform continues to pull up seats to the campfire with the additions of Elizabeth Mitchell (“Lost,” ”The Purge: Election Year”) and Elizabeth Lail (“Once Upon a Time”) to its new original series “Dead of Summer.” Mitchell joins already announced cast members Zelda Williams (“Teen Wolf”), Mark Indelicato (“Ugly Betty”), Alberto Frezza (“Charlie’s Angels”), Eli Goree (“The 100”), Ronen Rubinstein (“Orange Is the New Black”) and Paulina Singer (“Gotham”).
Set in the late 1980s, school is out for the summer and a sun-drenched season of firsts beckons the counselors at Camp Clearwater, a seemingly idyllic Midwestern summer camp, including first loves, first kisses—and first kills. Clearwater’s dark, ancient mythology awakens, and what was supposed to be a summer of fun soon turns into one of unforgettable scares and evil at every turn. Part coming-of-age story, part supernatural horror story, "Dead of Summer" is a bold, new series that mixes genres as it examines the light and dark of a summer like no other. Production on the series will begin in March.
Mitchell will be playing “Deb,” the new owner of Camp Clearwater. Once a camper herself, Deb has her heart set on bringing back the magic of the summer camp she loved. She exudes authority while simultaneously presenting a warm and welcoming vibe. Behind closed doors however, Deb seems to value her control over the camp for a much darker reason.
Lail will be portraying “Amy,” a clever but nervous camp counselor who is new to Camp Clearwater. Amy is not unfamiliar with being the new girl in social situations and the pitfalls that come with it, so she tries hard to fit in with the already bonded counselors. As the others reminisce about their past summers at camp, Amy is the first to discover clues that something disturbing is going on at Camp Clearwater.
“Dead of Summer” will be produced by ABC Signature Studios and Kitsis/Horowitz. Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis (“Lost,” “Once Upon a Time”) and Ian Goldberg (“Once Upon a Time,” “Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior”) will write and executive-produce the series. Horowitz and Kitsis will direct the first episode.
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11:45 - Blunt Talk - Season 2 - First Look Photo + Production Begins
STARZ RELEASES FIRST LOOK PHOTOS FROM SET
Golden Globe® Nominee Patrick Stewart Returns in Half-Hour Scripted Comedy from MRC, Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane and Jonathan Ames
The STARZ Original series “Blunt Talk” began production in Los Angeles on the 10-episode second season of the half-hour scripted comedy series from Media Rights Capital (MRC) and executive produced by Seth MacFarlane, Jonathan Ames, Tristram Shapeero, and Stephanie Davis. Lesley Ann Warren (“In Plain Sight”) has joined the expanding guest cast roster this season in the role of Cornelia, a long lost love of Walter Blunt. Mary Holland and Karan Soni who star as Shelly and Martin, segment producers on Blunt’s show, are now series regulars. The series will return this Fall on STARZ.
In season 2, Walter Blunt and his team are on top of the network ratings when Walter runs into an old flame, in town to investigate a conspiracy involving one of Los Angeles’ most crucial environmental threats. Rosalie, Jim, Celia, Martin, and Shelly (with all their various neuroses intact) are by Walter’s side as he delves into his past, which leads him into a web of intrigue affecting the future of LA.
The cast is led by Patrick Stewart (X-Men franchise, Ted) in the role of Walter Blunt, Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook) as Rosalie, Blunt’s tough and motherly producer-manager and Adrian Scarborough (The King’s Speech) as Harry, Blunt’s manservant. Dolly Wells (“Doll & Em,”) and Timm Sharp (“Enlightened”) star as Celia and Jim, Blunt’s senior producers along with Mary Holland (“Silicon Valley”) and Karan Soni (Safety Not Guaranteed) who star as Shelly and Martin, segment producers on Blunt’s show.
Romany Malco (Think Like A Man, Top Five) returns in his recurring role of Bob Gardner, the general manager of the news station while musician and actor Moby, Jason Schwartzman (The Grand Budapest Hotel, “Bored to Death”), Fred Melamed (“Casual”),Golden Brooks (“Girlfriends”), Erik Griffin (“Workaholics”), Brett Gelman (“Another Period”) and Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) continue to make guest star appearances in the series.
MacFarlane and Fuzzy Door Productions, Inc. serve as executive producer. Ames, who originated the idea for the series, serves as executive producer, writer and showrunner. Tristram Shapeero (“Community”) and Stephanie Davis (“Bored to Death”) also serve as executive producers with Shapeero also serving as director. Stewart also serves as producer on the series.
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04:55 - The Grinder - Episode 1.16 - Delusions of Grinder - Promotional Photos
04:55 - Billions - Episode 1.07 - The Punch - Synopsis
20:55 - Young & Hungry - Episode 3.04 - Young & Parents - Promotional Photos
18:00 - MOVIES: Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates - Trailer feat Adam Devine, Zac Efron, Anna Kendrick & Aubrey Plaza
18:00 - Dead of Summer - Amber Coney Cast as a Series RegularAmber Coney has booked a series regular role in Freeform’s Dead Of Summer horror drama series.
Set in the late 1980s, school is out for the summer and a sun-drenched season of firsts beckons the counselors at Camp Clearwater, a seemingly idyllic Midwestern summer camp, including first loves, first kisses—and first kills. Clearwater’s dark, ancient mythology awakens, and what was supposed to be a summer of fun soon turns into one of unforgettable scares and evil at every turn. Production will begin in March.
Coney will play Carolina “Cricket” Diaz. Better known by her nickname “Cricket” because she likes to chirp, Carolina joins her old gang of camp friends as a counselor at Camp Clearwater. Coney’s most recent credit as an actor is Sony TV/Lifetime movie Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? with Tori Spelling, for which she also wrote the screenplay.
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