8th March 2017
05:35 - MOVIES: Rough Night - Trailer feat Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Ilana Glazer & More
05:35 - MOVIES: Atomic Blonde - Teaser Trailers feat Charlize Theron
05:35 - MOVIES: Geostorm - Teaser Trailer
05:35 - Sharp Objects - Eliza Scanlen Joins Cast
Eliza Scanlen has been cast in the Amy Adams drama. The newcomer will play Amma, the 13-year-old half-sister of Camille (Adams). Having grown up in the small town of Wind Gap, Missouri, she lives a double life as a restrained and girlish daughter when at home with her parents, and as a brash, impetuous teenager when out with friends. The announcement comes on the heels of the news of Patricia Clarkson's casting in the series.
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The Hollywood Reporter
05:35 - Orphan Black: The Game - Teaser Trailer
Thanks to DarthLocke4 for the heads up.
05:35 - Casual - Season 3 - Nadine Nicole, Austin Basis & Kerri Kenney to Recur
Nadine Nicole (Scorpion), Austin Basis (Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Kerri Kenney (Love) have booked recurring roles on Hulu’s comedy series Casual.
Casual is in production on its third season, which will follow the surprising consequences following Charles’ death and Valerie’s decision to move out propel the trio to rebel, exploring different jobs, partners and unfulfilled passions. As they adjust to a new normal, the twosome will explore whether they can maintain boundaries or they will revert to the comfort of co-dependency.
Nicole will play Casey, a captivating environmental activist who enjoys the power that comes from dedicating her life to worthwhile causes. Everyone is enamored by her, which leads to some compelling complications. Basis will play Ethan, a wry and self-deprecating thirtysomething. Ethan is a student in Valerie’s storytelling class and sometime drinking buddy. Kenney is Joanna. In her 50s, assured, and spiritual, Joanna is the teacher of a storytelling class who takes her work very seriously.
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Deadline
12:00 - Versailles - Season 2 - Premiere Date Revealed
Thanks to sonofgod87 for the heads up.
Season 2: Monday, 27 March 2017
7th March 2017
03:30 - Amazon Developing Limited Series About an All-Girl Rodeo from Transparent Creator
Amazon is developing a limited drama series about an all-girl rodeo to be produced by Jill Soloway (Transparent) and Andrea Sperling’s Topple Productions.
Written by Cassie Pappas (Tyrant), the period drama is set in 1942. While the men are away fighting during World War II, women in small-town Texas form the first All Girl Rodeo, riding to unprecedented fame and fortune — as long as they can hold on.
Soloway and Sperling executive produce via their Topple Productions banner, which is under an overall deal at Amazon Studios.
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Deadline
19:35 - The Good Place - Creator Teases Season 2
Thanks to A for the heads up. This is just a small piece of the article here, EW has 4 pages worth of info, please click the link for more.
Will season 2 follow similar adventures as season 1’s, but with new participants as the quartet tries to find their way back to one another?
I’ll only say that the starting point — well, you saw the starting point, basically. The very end of the finale, she woke up, she was in a similar looking office, there were small changes to the neighborhood. The premiere will show where everybody is starting from, at the very least, but I don’t want to say too much about the future of the season beyond that.
Will Todd the lava monster come back?
We have no actual plans to bring him back, but I’ll tell you this: This is all stuff I’ve learned in this last year, because I’ve never worked on a show like this before, but in terms of visual effects, the largest expense is the original design, right? Once you have the design, now it’s in the computer and it’s a lot cheaper and easier to bring it back and do more fun things with it. Let me put it this way: I don’t know how long this show is going to be on the air, I hope it’s a long time, but if you think that I’m not going to take, at some point, a lava monster named Todd Hemple, who has Joe Mande’s voice, and bring him back in the show for some reason, at some point, you don’t know me at all. [Laughs]
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Full Article on EW
19:35 - Opioid Epidemic Family Drama in Development at A+E Studios
Rachel Winter and writer Craig Borten, the Oscar-nominated producer and co-writer of the AIDS-themed Dallas Buyers Club, are reteaming to tackle another epidemic that is sweeping large areas of small-town America. The hourlong drama series project is set up at A+E Studios, the in-house production arm of A+E Networks, where Winter has a first-look deal.
The untitled drama follows a family as they move to a small town in Maine where the community has been rocked by its first-ever drug overdose. The series will explore the opioid epidemic through the points of view of the parents, children, DEA, lobbyists, pharmaceutical companies and the drug cartels.
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Deadline
19:35 - Unsolved - Marcc Rose And Wavyy Jonez Cast as Tupac and Biggie in USA Network Drama Pilot
Marcc Rose (Straight Outta Compton) and newcomer Wavyy Jonez have been tapped to play Tupac and Notorious B.I.G., respectively, in Unsolved, USA’s scripted drama pilot that follows the major police investigations into the murders of the iconic rappers.
Rose will play Tupac Shakur. A poet, actor and legendary rapper, Shakur was as brilliant as he was self-destructive. Shot and killed in Las Vegas in 1996, his murder still remains unsolved today.
In his first acting role, Jonez is set to portray Christopher Wallace, AKA Biggie Smalls. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Wallace quickly went from honor student to small-time drug dealer to the face of East Coast rap. The “Mo Money Mo Problems” rapper was shot and killed in Los Angeles, just six months after Shakur. His murder also remains a mystery.
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Deadline
4th March 2017
00:00 - Z Nation - Prequel Comic - First Look Photos
Thanks to Bazooka for the heads up.
Full Article with Additional Photos Here via BleedingCool.
3rd March 2017
03:15 - Insecure - Season 2 - Amanda Seales Promoted to a Series Regular
Amanda Seales, who appeared in four episodes as Tiffany in the first season of HBO’s Insecure, has been promoted to series regular for Season 2. Insecure follows the friendship of two modern-day black women, Issa (Issa Rae) and Molly (Yvonne Orji) and all of their uncomfortable experiences and racy tribulations. Seales’ Tiffany is one of Issa and Molly’s “bougie” friends from college. She works in PR and believes she has the perfect, aspirational relationship with her husband, Derek (Wade Allain-Marcus).
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Deadline
03:15 - The Chi - Armando Riesco Joins Cast
Armando Riesco has booked a series regular role in Showtime’s hourlong drama The Chi, from Lena Waithe, Elwood Reid, Common, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Fox 21 TV Studios. Created/executive produced by Waithe, executive produced/showrun by Reid and executive produced by Common and Kaplan, The Chi is a coming-of-age story that follows a half-dozen interrelated characters in the South Side of Chicago.
Riesco will play a seasoned homicide detective working the turbulent streets of Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods. When one of his street informant’s kids gets murdered, he mistakenly gives him information that leads to a senseless death of yet another kid. This detective has a soft spot for some of his regulars and finds himself torn at times between his colleagues and his neighborhood.
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Deadline
03:15 - Jack Ryan - Peter Fonda Joins Amazon Original Series
Peter Fonda is set for a key role opposite Abbie Cornish and John Krasinski in Amazon’s straight-to-series drama Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, from the Lost duo of co-showrunner Carlton Cuse and writer Graham Roland, Platinum Dunes, Skydance Media and Paramount TV.
Fonda will guest star/potentially recur as Cathy Mueller’s (Cornish) father in the opening episode directed by Morten Tyldum. There is a possibility for Fonda to return for subsequent episodes as the storyline for Cornish’s character further develops as Jack’s love interest over the course of the season.
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Deadline
20:00 - Happy! - Patrick Fischler, Zabryna Guevara & Ritchie Coster Join Syfy Pilot
Patrick Fischler (Hail Caesar), Zabryna Guevara (Gotham) and Ritchie Coster (Blackhat) have signed on as series regulars opposite Chris Meloni and Lili Mirojnick in Syfy pilot Happy!, based on Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s graphic novel.
Fischler will play Smoothie, a well-dressed mob enforcer and sardonic soulless torturer who claims to take a “New Age” approach to his work. Vicious, lacking in empathy and capable of holding long grudges, Smoothie is thin, dapper and fastidious – the Andy Warhol of Death!
Guevara is Amanda Hansen, a single mom facing every mother’s worst nightmare; the disappearance of her young daughter. Facing an official cover-up, and dragged into a cruel conspiracy, Amanda must overcome a history of depression and anxiety to find within herself the strength and resources she’ll need to go up against a seemingly unbeatable foe.
Coster is Mr. Blue, the lead villain otherwise known as Leonardo Scaramucci, whose wealth and status as a legitimate businessman in the wine import trade support an increasingly profitable and highly illegal sideline.
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Deadline
20:00 - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Season 2 - Soundtrack Released + Interview
Soundtrack coming soon to Amazon, Google Play and Spotify, and yes, we hope to do album commentary again!
— Rachel Bloom (@Racheldoesstuff) March 3, 2017
The Season 2 album for #CrazyExGirlfriend is out now! pic.twitter.com/S6l2MlWJxX
— Rachel Bloom (@Racheldoesstuff) March 3, 2017
"Period Sex" is on the CD and the video finally came out. Did The CW not let that air in full or was it always supposed to be an online thing?
We assumed they wouldn't let it air. I sent it to Patricia who's the head of the [standards and practices] and said, "Here's a song, there's no way we could put this on the air." There was a version in which maybe as a tag for an episode and it's just a really, really long tag. And she was like, "…No."
It's always hard with the FCC stuff because the FCC prohibits vulgar or graphic language and basically it's up to standards and practices to interpret what that means. I mean, I think the "cherry lube" line is probably what took it over the edge. Technically we don't say the words, vagina, clitoris, pussy—there's actually no technically bad words in it, but it's, um, yeah. [Laughs.] I just did press for the show in Paris and the journalists' questions were about the song "Sexy French Depression" and "Period Sex."
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Read More on E!Online
20:00 - Ray Donovan - Season 5 - Rhys Coiro to Recur
Rhys Coiro is returning to the Hollywood hustle.
The Entourage favorite is set to appear in the upcoming fifth season of Showtime's Ray Donovan, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Coiro will be in at least two episodes as Rob Heard, a shady Hollywood manager who is married to a major star.
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The Hollywood Reporter
2nd March 2017
00:15 - Sense8 - Netflix Reassembling Cast After Options Had Expired
Thanks to 90sbaby for the heads up.
EXCLUSIVE: Season 2 of Netflix’s sci-fi drama series Sense8, from Lana and Lilly Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski, is set to debut May 5. It comes almost two years after the first season premiered on June 5, 2015, a year and nine months after the series was renewed for a second season, and eight months after the second season wrapped its marathon filming in more than a dozen locations across four continents.
As Season 2 episodes are being edited, I hear Netflix recently reached out to the core cast with offers for new contracts to make them available for a potential third season. I hear about half of the eight leads have closed deals, and the rest are in negotiations. Insiders are optimistic all would come back. I hear that under the new pacts, which include Season 3 provisions, the cast would be on hold until June, so Netflix will likely make a renewal decision by then. Given the trouble the Internet network is going through to secure the cast, it is logical to assume that Netflix is probably high on a potential third season.
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Read Full Article on Deadline
00:15 - Saturn Awards 2017 - Nominations
Thanks to miracle2012 for the heads up.
Nominations Here
16:50 - The Good Fight - UK's More4 Acquires Rights to Air CBS All Access Series
MORE4 ACQUIRES THE EXCLUSIVE U.K. RIGHTS TO “THE GOOD FIGHT” FROM CBS STUDIOS INTERNATIONAL
“The Good Wife” Sequel Picks up a Year on from the Events of the Finale and Stars Christine Baranski alongside Cush Jumbo and Rose Leslie
LONDON and AMSTERDAM – March 1, 2017 – More4, the British digital television channel owned by Channel 4, has acquired from CBS Studios International the exclusive U.K. broadcast rights to the CBS All Access original series, THE GOOD FIGHT. The series is set to premiere on More4 in the spring.
From “The Good Wife” creators Robert and Michelle King, THE GOOD FIGHT picks up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of “The Good Wife.” An enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia (Rose Leslie, “Game of Thrones”), while simultaneously wiping out her mentor Diane Lockhart’s (Christine Baranski, “The Good Wife”) savings. Forced out of Lockhart & Lee, they join Lucca Quinn (Cush Jumbo, “The Good Wife”) at one of Chicago’s pre-eminent law firms.
“This is the first original series from our digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service, CBS All Access, a platform that provides us with yet another opportunity to license our world-class, premium programming to the international marketplace,” said Stephen Tague, SVP Europe, CBS Studios International. “‘The Good Wife’ has been a ratings success for More4, so we are pleased for loyal fans of the series that the spin-off has found its U.K. home here.”
Robert and Michelle King serve as showrunners and executive producers of THE GOOD FIGHT. Phil Alden Robinson co-wrote and executive produced the premiere episode with the Kings. Ridley Scott, David Zucker, Liz Glotzer, Brooke Kennedy and Alison Cross also serve as executive producers. Kennedy directed the premiere episode. The series is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Scott Free Productions and King Size Productions and is distributed worldwide by CBS Studios International.
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CBS
1st March 2017
05:15 - The Good Fight - John Cameron Mitchell to Guest
Thanks to Linda for the heads up.
The CBS All Access drama has cast the Hedwig and the Angry Inch actor/auteur to play a Milo Yiannopoulos-type provocateur in an upcoming episode that tackles the issue of free speech vs. hate speech, TVLine has learned.
In the ep — which begins streaming on Sunday, March 19 — Reddick, Boseman & Kolstad is hired by Chumhum tech mogul Neil Gross (John Benjamin Hickey, reprising his role from The Good Wife) to combat hate speech on his company’s Twitter-like social media platform. They quickly come into contact with one of the primary offenders, a flamboyant, openly gay provocateur by the name of Felix Staples (see photo, above).
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Full Article on TVLine
03:40 - Mayans MC - Richard Cabral to Co-Star in FX’s Sons Of Anarchy Spinoff Pilot
American Crime standout Richard Cabral is set to co-star opposite JD Pardo in Mayans MC, Kurt Sutter’s Sons of Anarchy spinoff pilot for FX.
Set in the aftermath of Jax Teller’s death at the end of SOA’s seven-season run in 2014, Mayans MC will focus on the struggles of Ezekiel “EZ” Reyes (Pardo), a prospect in the Mayan MC charter on the California/Mexico border. EZ is the gifted son of a proud Latino family, whose American dream was snuffed out by cartel violence. Now, his need for vengeance drives him toward a life he never intended and can never escape.
Cabral will play Johnny “El Coco” Cruz, a full patch member of Mayans MC, Santo Padre. Former Army sharpshooter and weapons specialist, Johnny earned a section 8 for shooting a cigar out of his CO’s mouth from a half-mile away… while he was stoned.
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Deadline
03:40 - Disney XD Airs Its First Same Sex Kiss
2016 was the best year for LGBTQ representation on television yet, and if Disney XD's recent move is any indication, 2017 is set to be a pretty inclusive one as well.
In a recent episode of Disney XD's Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Mashable points out there were numerous same-sex kisses. The multiple makeout sessions marked the first time Disney has ever shown same-sex cartoon characters kissing, making history for the channel.
In "Just Friends," Season 2, episode 39, of the show, the main characters go to a concert where a boy band is crooning on stage. The tunes are so seductive, the boy band woos everyone in the crowd, making the atmosphere so romantic everyone just had to kiss - as boy bands are wont to do. In the crowd, a bunch of different kissing couples are shown, including a few same-sex couples.
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Read More on TeenVogue
19:30 - The Alienist - Douglas Smith and Ted Levine Join Cast
Douglas Smith and Ted Levine have joined the cast of TNT’s upcoming 10-episode straight-to-series psychological thriller The Alienist, a co-production of Paramount Television and Turner’s Studio T. Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning star in the series set during the Gilded Age of New York City in 1896, when a series of gruesome murders of boy prostitutes has gripped the city. Newly appointed Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt calls upon criminal psychologist — aka alienist — Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Brühl) and newspaper illustrator John Moore (Evans) to conduct the investigation in secret.
Smith will play Detective Sgt. Marcus Isaacson, an expert in the criminal sciences and forensic medicine and the abrasive twin brother of Lucius (Matthew Shear). The pair are called upon to help with the investigation. Levine (Jurassic World sequel) will recur as Thomas Byrnes, the incredibly confident ex-police chief who is prominent in helping unravel the mystery.
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Deadline
19:30 - Grey's Anatomy - Season 13 - June Squibb and Hal Holbrook to Guest
Thanks to Jay for the heads up.
“Grey’s Anatomy” has tapped June Squibb and Hal Holbrook as guest stars, Variety has learned exclusively.
The duo will appear in the episode on Mar. 23, playing Elsie Clatch and Lewis Clatch, a married couple who visit Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. No other details on their storyline have been revealed.
Additionally, the Mar. 23 episode will also welcome back guest star LaTanya Richardson Jackson, who will reprise her role as Maggie’s (Kelly McCreary) mother, Diane Pierce.
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Variety
19:30 - Ramses the Damned - Anne Rice Hints That a TV Miniseries Is In Very Early Talks
28th February 2017
00:00 - MOVIES: Trolls 2 - Dreamworks Announces Sequel Coming in 2020
Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls is getting a sequel, and stars Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake will be back for it. Universal today set an April 10, 2020, release for Trolls 2, a date they had set aside earlier as an untitled Universal event film.
This will be the follow-up to the 2016 hit that has made $339.5 million at the box office since its November bow. That was distributed by 20th Century Fox under DWA’s previous output deal before it was acquired by NBCUniversal. Now the new studio will take a crack at the franchise, with stars Kendrick and Timberlake as the eternal optimist Poppy and the curmudgeon Branch, respectively. The musical comedy-adventure scored a Best Song Oscar nom this year for Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” which won was 2016’s most downloaded track.
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Deadline
00:00 - Mayans MC - Antonio Jaramillo to Co-Star in FX's Sons of Anarchy Spinoff Pilot
Antonio Jaramillo is set to co-star opposite JD Pardo in Mayans MC, Kurt Sutter’s Sons of Anarchy spinoff pilot for FX.
Set in the aftermath of Jax Teller’s death at the end of SOA’s seven-season run in 2014, Mayans MC will focus on the struggles of Ezekiel “EZ” Reyes (Pardo), a prospect in the Mayan MC charter on the California/Mexico border. EZ is the gifted son of a proud Latino family, whose American dream was snuffed out by cartel violence. Now, his need for vengeance drives him toward a life he never intended and can never escape.
Jaramillo will play Michael “Riz” Ariza, Vice President of the Mayans MC, Santo Padre and former leader of a local Mexican MC, patched over by the Mayans. He uses his even-tempered charm to mask his mistrust and lingering resentment.
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Deadline
00:00 - Salvation - Shazi Raja & Rachel Drance Join CBS' Summer Event Series
Shazi Raja and Rachel Drance have landed series regular roles on Salvation, the CBS summer series starring Jennifer Finnigan, Santiago Cabrera and Charlie Rowe. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo will direct and executive produce the first episode of the suspense thriller hailing from Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout and CBS Television Studios.
Salvation follows whip-smart MIT grad student Liam (Rowe) and tech billionaire Darius Tanz (Cabrera) who bring to a low-level Pentagon official (Finnigan) a staggering discovery: An asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth. Liam and Darius team to launch a secret project to save the planet — a secret Liam must keep from the ones he loves.
Raja (HBO’s High Maintenance) will play Amanda Charles, a junior reporter for a D.C. tabloid news site determined to break that one killer story that will launch her career as an investigative journalist — until she discovers the story she’s onto could cause a worldwide panic. Drance (Reign) will play Zoe, a high school senior near graduation who’s always been an achiever and done the right thing, but finds herself taking risks she never thought she would after discovering a life-altering secret. Jacqueline Byers and Ian Anthony Dale also are aboard.
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Deadline
00:00 - Power - Season 4 - Maurice Compte to Recur
Maurice Compte (Narcos) is set for a recurring role on the upcoming fourth season of Starz’s hit crime drama series Power. It follows James “Ghost” St. Patrick, a drug kingpin living a double life who in Season 4 seeks to find redemption.
Compte will play Maurice, a high-level drug dealer. Courtney A. Kemp is the creator, showrunner and executive producer of Power. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Mark Canton, Randall Emmett and Gary Lennon serve as executive producers.
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Deadline
00:00 - MOVIES: Okja - Teaser