The CBS series BLUE BLOODS starring Tom Selleck has brought aboard producer/director Fred Keller and producer/writer Linda Gase to replace the recently departed showrunner Ken Sanzel.
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AMC is feeling a strong bout of confidence in their new series THE WALKING DEAD going ahead and renewing it for a second season, before the first even begins to air.
Sharon Lawrence has signed on for a multi-episode arc on the upcoming season of ONE TREE HILL.
Fox has put in a 12-episode order of the new half hour sketch comedy series by Jamie Foxx tentatively called THE JAMIE FOXX PROJECT. The show will star Affion Crockett and other young, rising comedians, who will spoof pop culture related items. Foxx/King Entertainment and The Tannenbaum Co. are producing the series.
Mekhi Phifer has exited Fox’s series LIE TO ME.
Sarah McLachlan and Ben Lee will guest star on separate episodes of CW’s LIFE UNEXPECTED where they will act/cameo and perform their music.
Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel, Charlie Rowe and Bob Hoskins have signed on to star in SyFy’s new min-series event NEVERLAND.
SyFy has picked up NEVERLAND, from writer/director Nick Willing with the plan to make it a four hour event mini-series, as it did with previous Willing projects ALICE and TIN MAN. The series will play as a prequel to J.M. Barrie’s PETER PAN.
Frances Conroy has signed on to guest-star on the Showtime series UNITED STATES OF TARA.
CBS has confirmed that Wil Wheaton will make a return to hit comedy series BIG BANG THEORY next season. Details about the length of this stay on the series are not yet determined.
HBO has picked up Thomas Jane-starrer HUNG for a third season with a new 10-episode order for 2011.
NBC Universal has committed to a new drama project from BATTLESTAR GALACTICA producer, Ronald D. Moore. The new series is pitched as an adult HARRY POTTER where the world is ruled by magic instead of science.
GLEE stars Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, and Amber Riley will guest star on an upcoming episode of FOX’s THE SIMPSONS.
Maiara Walsh, last seen in DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, will be turning up in a recurring role on CW’s VAMPIRE DIARIES.
Warner Bros. Television has snatched up the TV rights to Neil Gaiman’s comic book series “SANDMAN.” The series, has firmly established itself as one of the most renowned works in the medium, having been in some form of film development for almost 20 years (the series first began in 1989).
But, now WB, alongside DC Comics (who published the book via their “Vertigo” imprint and will produce the TV series) sees a very bright future in the series, and is in talks with Eric Kripke, the creator of the CW’s “Supernatural,†to possibly take a stab at adapting. While “Supernatural” and “Sandman” in my opinion are at opposite ends of the spectrum, I think the type of show I’d love Sandman to be, isn’t necessarily one that would rake in viewers, so I’ll wait to pass any judgement until we’re much farther down the road.
Prior to WB’s involvement on the TV side, DC was in talks with HBO and James Mangold to develop a show, with Mangold even meeting with Gaiman to discuss the series as a whole, but after a long dormant hiatus due to scheduling issues, that never came to be.
The story of “Sandman†began with Morpheus, the Lord of the Dreaming realm, a deity who personifies dreams, and could work and alter your dreams as he see fit. As he series continued we met the rest of his family, a group who were the bearers of a majority of humanity’s darker emotions; Destiny, Death, Destruction, Despair, Desire and Delirium, and Morpheus’ real name – Dream.
LOCKE & KEY has gone through almost every media platform before finding a home that has not only bought it (third sale) but has confirmed to shoot it.
As we reported a little over a week ago, the project, based on the Joe Hill (Stephen King’s son) graphic novel, was originally set up as a film. After busy schedules, and a sluggish move through development, the team decided on a new outlook, with producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman went for some heavies, bringing on Steven Spielberg to produce alongside them, and Josh Friedman to pen a TV pilot. And, lets be honest, any TV project with those 5 names on it, is already on a level echelons above any other spec pilot.
And that is precisely what Fox thought, snatching up the pilot today, with a commitment to shoot the pilot, and a hefty penalty if the series does not air.
So, ratchet the number of Steven Spileberg TV shows on Fox in 2011 to two, with LOCKE & KEY joining TERRA NOVA.
Hearing JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot is about to go out with a hot new drama spec called ALCATRAZ written by Elizabeth Sarnoff. The project is kept under wraps, but going off the title and previous Bad Robot projects, it’s bound to be about strange happenings on the island prison in the San Francisco Bay. Sarnoff, previously worked with Abrams’ in the last four years of LOST, writing or co-writing over 19 episodes.
Kevin Rankin has signed on for a recurring role on the upcoming season of HBO’s BIG LOVE.
Paul Giammati is set to guest star in the first two episodes of 30 ROCK’s fifth season on NBC as a grouchy editor.
Joan Cusack has signed on and replaced Allison Janney in the new Showtime drama, SHAMELESS, about an agoraphobic housewife in Chicago.
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