Image Credit: Valerie Macon/Getty Images; Sonja Flemming/CBSAre we about to meet one of Hetty’s legendary sexual conquests?
Sources confirm to me exclusively that NCIS: LA has tapped Raymond J. Barry — whose long list of credits includes playing Jack’s grandfather Ray Shephard on Lost — to play a former secret agent who shares a past with Linda Hunt’s onetime minx. READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Mike Muller/FXThis Just In: FX has picked up Sons of Anarchy for a 13-episode fourth season. READ FULL STORY »
Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders will be tackling a real-life superhero with their next TV project. Sources confirm that the longtime Smallville showrunners are teaming with uberproducer McG on The Last Hope, a potential new CBS drama loosely based on professional finder-of-lost-loves (and star of WE tv’s reality series The Locator) Troy Dunn. The project, from Warner Bros. Television, is being eyed for next fall. Peterson and Souders are currently hard at work on the 10th and final season of Smallville.
Image Credit: Trae Patton/NBCTonight’s episode of Community will finally answer the centuries-old question: What happens when Jeff-crushing classmates Annie and Britta stop being polite and start engaging in a knock-down, drag-out oil fight in the middle of the Greendale quad? See for yourself in this exclusive first look clip! READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Jordin Althaus/NBCNBC has brought production to a halt on Outlaw, the network’s new legal drama starring Jimmy Smits. Three episodes have already aired at 10 p.m. Fridays but the series hasn’t exactly burned down the house of Nielsen: Outlaw only averaged 4.7 million viewers on Oct. 1, down from its premiere week average of 4.98 million. The network still has five original episodes in the can that are scheduled to air so its plan is to monitor the show’s performance in the coming weeks before deciding whether to resume production.
Other than featuring the popular Smits, the other fascinating aspect about Outlaw is that it comes from Conan O’Brien, who developed the series for NBC under his Conaco production banner. O’Brien is not involved in the day-to-day operation of the show, though. That responsibility falls on Conaco head David Kissinger and Russell Schwartz.
Outlaw is the first show of the 2010-11 season to go on production hiatus. Two other dramas have already been canceled, which are Fox’s Lone Star and ABC’s My Generation.
Outlaw premiere review: Jimmy Smits, stuck in one of the fall season’s worst?
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Question: I have to admit, I’m a little disappointed that it’s Cristina and Owen getting married in the Grey’s premiere and not Callie and Arizona. Will you make me feel better by giving us some Callie-Arizona scoop? —J
Ausiello: There’s a major Calzona development in the Oct. 28 episode, but a Grey’s source assures me that it’s not a turn for the worse. So don’t go barraging Shonda Rhimes with angry tweets. In the same episode, a camera crew invades Seattle Grace to film a documentary about the hospital’s recovery in the wake of the shooting rampage. In fact, the entire ep will be shot from the POV of the crew, so if shaky-cam makes you queasy you’d best pop a Dramamine before showtime.
Question: So sad to hear that you’re leaving EW! So, to cheer me up, any chance you could give me some Grey’s Anatomy scoop? —Mary
Ausiello: The sublime Amanda Foreman, who’s currently recurring on Parenthood, will guest-star in the aforementioned Oct. 28 episode as (I believe) a patient. This is also the episode that marks the return of Mandy Moore and Ryan Devlin. BTW, you’re not getting rid of me that quickly. I’m still here for a few more weeks—plenty of time to get me a really expensive farewell gift. (Registry info is forthcoming.) READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: NBC; Chris Cuffaro/Miranda Penn Turin/FoxOkay, so maybe “crossover” is the wrong word. But an entire upcoming episode of The Office will be dedicated to the Dunder Mifflin staff getting together to watch Glee.
Bizarre, right? And brilliant! READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Bob D'Amico/ABCNow that ABC has canceled its first drama, My Generation, it must decide how to fill the void on Thursdays without losing viewers to the competition. For the next two weeks, the alphabet will air repeats of Grey’s Anatomy at 8 p.m. until it selects a more permanent replacement from its midseason lineup. There’s always a chance that Thursdays will become all Shonda Rhimes, all the time, and the 8 p.m. slot will go to her new drama Off the Map. (Rhimes is also responsible for Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice.) But those who’ve seen Map, which follows three American docs who to go to work in the tropics, say it may be too gritty for the family hour. Plus, do viewers really want to watch three back-to-back medical dramas on Thursdays?
ABC also developed two additional comedies that are waiting in the wings – Mr. Sunshine starring Matthew Perry and Happy Endings from former ABC exec Jamie Tarses — but it seems far more likely the network will take advantage of the fact that no one’s airing a reality show in the timeslot and program its new unscripted show Secret Millionaire, instead. READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Matthias Clamer/FoxMartha Plimpton FTW!
Sources confirm that Fox has given its critically acclaimed rookie comedy Raising Hope a back-nine order, bringing its total to 22 episodes. According to Fox, Hope ranks as the No. 1 new comedy among teens and young women, and the No. 2 new comedy among adults 18-34. (Having Glee as your lead-in has its advantages.) This is the first freshman show to receive a full-season pickup.
Hey, I just thought of the perfect way to mark this joyous occasion: I could offer up four exclusive first looks at the Chance family’s never-before-seen photo album (to be unveiled in next week’s episode) after the jump! READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Chris Hatcher/PR PhotosBig Love just got a little bigger: Onetime Terminator Robert Patrick has just signed on to appear in multiple episodes of the show’s upcoming fifth season. READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images; Inset: Ed Araquel/FoxBefore you start screaming “scientifically impossible!” know this: I omitted a key word from the headline in a shameless attempt to draw more eyeballs to this story. Read on as I explain… READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Albert L. Ortega/PR PhotosI’m hearing Ron Moore—the genius writer-producer responsible for rebooting a little show called Battlestar Galactica— and former CSI EP Naren Shankar are in the very early stages of developing a remake of the ’60s classic The Wild, Wild West.
And I mean very early stages (read: it could be weeks or even months before he starts pitching it to the networks). READ FULL STORY »
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