26th September 2017
03:20 - MOVIES: Geostorm - New Trailer feat Gerard Butler
18:00 - MOVIES: The Lost Wife of Robert Durst - Trailer feat. Katherine McPhee & Daniel Gillies
Thanks to Dot for the heads up.
17:00 - Goliath - Season 2 - Matthew Del Negro to Recur
Matthew Del Negro (Scandal) has signed on for a key recurring role in the upcoming second season of Amazon’s original drama series Goliath.
Del Negro will play Danny Loomis, a charismatic yet devious political operator and consiglieri to the city’s power elite under the guise of being a “financial analyst”.
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17:00 - You - Nicole Kang to Recur in Lifetime Thriller
Nicole Kang has booked a recurring role in Lifetime’s straight-to-series psychological thriller drama You, from Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble. Written by Berlanti and Gamble based on Caroline Kepnes’ best-selling novel, You is described as a 21st century love story that asks, “What would you do for love?” When a brilliant bookstore manager Joe (Penn Badgley) crosses paths with an aspiring writer, Beck (Elizabeth Lail), his answer becomes clear: anything.
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25th September 2017
23:40 - Law & Order: True Crime — The Menendez Murders - Harry Hamlin to Recur
Harry Hamlin is set for a key recurring role in NBC’s Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders.
Hamlin will play Barry Levin, a former LAPD officer turned attorney, who is co-counsel to Edie Falco’s Leslie Abramson during the second trial of Erik Menendez.
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21:00 - Underworld - TV Series Adaptation from Len Wiseman Eyeing Premium Cable / Digital Services
EXCLUSIVE: Len Wiseman and his production company Sketch Films are moving forward with the long-gestating Underworld TV series based on the popular action horror movie franchise, which is targeting the premium cable/digital space.
“The series will be a pretty big departure from the films,” Wiseman said. “I don’t want to say it’s more adult, but it’s definitely less comic book in its tone and character.”
Wiseman has been involved in all five movies in the Underworld franchise, which he helped launch — he co-wrote and directed the first two and produced the remaining three. Wiseman will executive produce the potential TV series via his Sketch Films with Lakeshore Entertainment’s Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi and Eric Reid. (Lakeshore produced the Underworld movies, with the company’s Rosenberg and Lucchesi serving as producers on all of them). The TV division of Sony, whose Screen Gems unit distributed the features, also is involved in the project.
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21:00 - Grown-ish - Abraham D. Juste to Recur
Abraham D. Juste (Jessica Jones) has joined the cast of Grown-ish in a recurring role. He’ll play Cassius “Cash” Mooney, the top-ranked shooting guard in the nation with a megawatt smile, and a freshman at California University with Zoey (Yara Shahidi).
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21:00 - The Haunting of Hill House - McKenna Grace & Violet McGraw Join Netflix Series
Netflix’s upcoming The Haunting Of Hill House has added a pair of young actresses as McKenna Grace and Violet McGraw have been cast in the series adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s classic 1959 novel from Amblin TV and Paramount TV. The re-imagining draws from the original classic ghost story while expanding on the mythology of the Crane family.
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22nd September 2017
The Last Ship - Episode 5.05 - Tony Winters Cast
Thanks to Mar1o for the heads up.
TONY WINTERS
Booked: THE LAST SHIP Episode #505
Role: Major Bill Lang
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21:30 - Happy - Debi Mazar & Michael Maize to Recur in Upcoming Syfy Series
Debi Mazar (Younger) and Michael Maize (Mr. Robot) are set for recurring roles in Syfy’s new live-action/animated series Happy! from Universal Cable Productions.
Based on Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s graphic novel, Happy! centers on Nick Sax (Christopher Meloni), an intoxicated, corrupt ex-cop-turned-hitman who is adrift in a world of casual murder, soulless sex and betrayal. After a hit gone wrong, his inebriated life is changed forever by a tiny, relentlessly positive, imaginary blue winged horse named Happy (Patton Oswalt).
Mazar will play Isabella Scaramucci, a calculating, dripping-in-Dolce mother who is dead-set on exacting revenge. Maize portrays Le Dic, a terrifying arms-dealer with a cutting sense of humor.
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21:30 - MOVIES: 1922 - Trailer feat Thomas Jane & Molly Parker
18:15 - Bull - Season 2 - Archie Panjabi to Guest
Archie Panjabi, best known for her beloved turn as Kalinda Sharma on The Good Wife will guest-star on the second season of Bull, EW has learned exclusively.
Panjabi will play Arti Cander, who the drama describes as “a brilliant and resourceful British trial scientist with no shortage of charm.” Here’s her official logline: “Bull [Michael Weatherly] meets his match in the Oxford-educated Cander, a successful former D.C. lobbyist who’s more than a worthy adversary for him. She knows how to read a jury as well as he does, and is ready to prove to everyone that Bull isn’t the only trial scientist in town.”
Panjabi will film her episode next week. It will air in November.
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18:15 - The President Is Missing - Bill Clinton & James Patterson Novel Being Developed As TV Series by Showtime
In a very competitive situation, Showtime has acquired the rights to The President Is Missing, the upcoming thriller novel by President Bill Clinton and bestselling author James Patterson. It will be developed as a TV series.
The President Is Missing, which is set to be published in June 2018, hit the Hollywood marketplace at the beginning of August when Clinton flew to Los Angeles to pitch it alongside Patterson. Word is the duo had 16 meetings with film & TV studios, cable and streaming networks as well as producers, directors and financiers. Leslie Moonves, chairman and CEO of Showtime parent CBS Corp., is said to have helped secure the book for the pay cable network via his longstanding relationship with Clinton. Additionally, Patterson is in the CBS family. He has had an overall deal at CBS TV Studios and has two series on CBS, Zoo and the upcoming Instinct, as well as projects in development at the broadcast network.
“Bringing The President Is Missing to Showtime is a coup of the highest order,” Showtime Networks president and CEO David Nevins said. “The pairing of President Clinton with fiction’s most gripping storyteller promises a kinetic experience, one that the book world has salivated over for months and that now will dovetail perfectly into a politically relevant, character-based action series for our network.”
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21st September 2017
21:15 - MOVIES: Isle Of Dogs - Trailer
Thanks to DarthLocke4 for the heads up.
20:30 - MOVIES: Peter Rabbit - Trailer feat Domhnall Gleeson, Rose Byrne, James Corden, Daisy Ridley & More
20:30 - Jessica Williams to Star in Showtime Comedy in Development
EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Showtime has landed a comedy series project from former The Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams and indie filmmaker Jim Strouse, the duo behind The Incredible Jessica James, with Williams set to star.
Williams and Strouse will write and executive produce the comedy, which tells the story of an African American aspiring science fiction writer (Williams) who comes of age in Brooklyn. Strause will direct.
Showtime is the studio. I hear Annapurna TV is in negotiations to come aboard as a producer.
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20th September 2017
04:15 - You - Daniel Cosgrove to Recur in Lifetime Thriller
Daniel Cosgrove (Billions) is set for a recurring role in Lifetime’s straight-to-series psychological thriller drama You, from Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble. Written by Berlanti and Gamble based on Caroline Kepnes’ best-selling novel, You is described as a 21st century love story that asks, “What would you do for love?” When a brilliant bookstore manager Joe (Badgley) crosses paths with an aspiring writer, Beck (Lail), his answer becomes clear: anything.
Cosgrove plays Ron, a parole officer who is the neighbor of Joe, and the abusive stepfather with a drinking problem to Paco (Luca Padovan).
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04:15 - Law & Order: SVU - Season 19 - Sam Waterston to Guest
Thanks to Emily for the heads up.
Sam Waterston, who played prosecutor Jack McCoy for 16 seasons on NBC’s mothership Law & Order, will reprise his role in a guest appearance on Law & Order: SVU later this season. No other details were revealed.
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04:15 - The Hunt - Jordan Peele Developing Nazi Hunting Drama Series
Seven months after signing an overall TV development deal, Jordan Peele has lined up his first project.
Peele is set to executive produce the drama The Hunt, a 1970s-set Nazi hunter drama from Sonar Entertainment. David Weil is on board to pen the script and exec produce alongside Peele. A network is not yet attached; insiders stress the project is already drawing interest from several potential bidders.
Inspired by true events, The Hunt follows a diverse band of Nazi hunters in 1970s America as they set out on a quest for revenge and justice — tracking and killing hundreds of Nazis who, with the unconscionable help of the U.S. government, escaped justice and embedded themselves in American society.
Sonar Entertainment, where Peele has a first-look deal, is attached to produce the potential series, along with Peele's Monkeypaw Productions. Sources say the package started going around town following the Charlottesville, Va., neo-Nazi protest and counter protest.
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21:45 - Jane the Virgin - Season 4 - Alex Meneses to Recur
Former Telenovela star Alex Meneses is set for a recurring role on the upcoming fourth season of the CW’s hit dramedy Jane the Virgin.
Meneses will play Katherine, owner of The Cortes Hotel Conglomerate, who is a possible investor of Rafael (Justin Baldoni) and Petra’s (Yael Grobglas) hotel.
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20:50 - Will & Grace - Seasons 1 - 8 to Stream on Hulu & NBC App
NBC AND HULU BRING WILL & GRACE (AND JACK & KAREN) TO SCREENS EVERYWHERE WITH FIRST-EVER STREAMING DEAL FOR MULTI-EMMY AWARD WINNING SERIES
Groundbreaking Comedy to Make its Debut on NBC App, Hulu and Pay TV Providers
Universal City, Ca, September 20, 2017 – TV fans rejoice! For the first-time ever, all 194 episodes of the Emmy Award-winning pop-culture phenomenon “Will & Grace” will be available to stream and on-demand. The iconic series will be available on the NBC app, Hulu and on-demand through satellite, cable and telco pay TV providers, beginning Thursday, September 21, one week ahead of the return of “Will & Grace” on NBC.
Hulu will be the exclusive SVOD partner for the original eight seasons, which will also be available on the NBC App and pay TV providers with authentication.
The original eight seasons ran from 1998 to 2006, and in to addition quickly earning its place as a critic and fan favorite, “Will & Grace” was nominated for 83 Emmy Awards, winning 16 of them including Outstanding Comedy Series. This digital distribution deal, which will get 194 episodes of “Will & Grace” into nearly 100 million homes across platforms nationwide, marks an opportunity to introduce a new generation of audiences to original episodes of the show that have been largely unavailable for the past 11 years. The deal will go into effect one week before “Will & Grace” rejoins the NBC lineup with all new episodes Thursday, Sept. 28 at 9 p.m.; each week, following their broadcast airing, new episodes will also be available to stream across the aforementioned digital platforms.
“As we gear up for the launch of the upcoming season premiere, I can’t think of a better way to reintroduce ‘Will & Grace’ to the cultural zeitgeist than by giving audiences the opportunity to watch this historic and hilarious series wherever and whenever they want,” said NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt. “With its witty comebacks, pop-culture references and social commentary, ‘Will & Grace’ is one of the most binge-able comedies in television history, and I am certain fans both old and new will jump on this opportunity to devour it.”
“There’s no question that ’Will & Grace’ has resonated with audiences since the series made its broadcast premiere. To be able to bring such an iconic show into the streaming universe for the first time ever is an opportunity we couldn’t pass up,” said Joel Stillerman, Chief Content Officer, Hulu. “This landmark deal will allow fans to re-watch their favorite moments ahead of the series premiere, as well as bring ‘Will & Grace’ and its cast of characters to a whole new audience.”
The new season of “Will & Grace” will begin its 16-episode run on September 28, 2017 and has already been picked up for a second season with 13 additional episodes. Both the original and new episodes of “Will & Grace” are written and executive produced by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, and directed and executive produced by James Burrows.
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14:25 - MOVIES: Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle - Trailer 2
19th September 2017
02:30 - Deadlier Than The Male - Bryant Tardy Joins TNT Pilot
Bryant Tardy (Logan) is set for a series-regular role opposite Amy Brenneman, Lily Rabe and Enrique Murciano in Deadlier Than the Male (working title), TNT’s drama pilot produced by Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Turner’s Studio T.
Written by Harriet Warner, Deadlier Than The Male follows a trio of characters, each with a mysterious and troubling past: a young woman who once looked into the eyes of a dangerous killer, a former serial predator desperate to find redemption and Mary, a grieving mother (Brenneman) obsessed with finding her missing daughter. As each of them is pushed to the edge, the truth about their pasts and motives grows ever murkier, blurring the lines between victim and perpetrator.
Tardy will play Jay. Damaged but still charmingly optimistic, Jay is Jess’ best friend at the group home where they live, St. Jerome.
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21:45 - Timeless - Season 1 - Gag Reel
Thanks to miracle2012 for the heads up.
21:30 - For the People - Production Temporarily Shut Down on Upcoming Shondaland Series
EXCLUSIVE: Filming has been paused on ABC’s midseason legal drama series For the People for some additional script work.
I hear the stoppage stems from the recent recasting of the series’ leads, with Britt Robertson and Jasmin Savoy Brown tapped for the roles. After reshooting the pilot and filming the series’ second episode and seeing Robertson and Brown in the roles, I hear a decision was made to stop and rework the upcoming scripts, which had already been completed, to better fit the new dynamic on the show.
I hear the series will stay dark for about one cycle, or 2.5 weeks, before resuming production. For the People has no premiere date and is slated for a midseason launch, so the delay is not going to impact delivery.
Meanwhile, start of production on the other midseason Shondaland drama series for ABC, the upcoming Grey’s Anatomy firefighter spinoff, was just pushed back by a week as casting on the project is still ongoing.
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21:30 - MOVIES: The Croods 2 - Dreamworks Brings Back Sequel After Pulling It
Dreamworks Animation’s The Croods 2 is back on the release calendar. Originally dated for the end of this year, but then pulled when the Universal acquisition of DWA took place, the sequel to the cave people toon will now debut on Sept. 18, 2020 via Universal.
In addition, DWA announced Spooky Jack in partnership with executive producer Jason Blum for Friday, Sept. 17, 2021.
Written by Night at the Museum scribe Robert Ben Garant and produced by DWA’s Damon Ross, Spooky Jack is a comical look under the bed and in the closet of kids’ imaginations. Three siblings move into an eerie new home and discover that there are creatures that go bump in the night, from crafty leprechauns to Big Foot to a shy Boogeyman. As such, the kids are forced to take the situation into their own hands and deal with their newfound, unusual squatters.
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