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TV Casting Round-Up: Stephen Moyer to Headline Fox Marvel Pilot
True Blood alum Stephen Moyer is set to star in Fox’s Marvel pilot, and Diana Rigg is joining PBS’s Victoria to play a confidante of the infamous queen.
Ryan Murphy reunites with Glee‘s Darren Criss for the highly anticipated second season of American Crime Story and Parks and Recreation‘s Retta returns to NBC for the drama Good Girls
Cable giant HBO has put into development Edison, a new dark comedy musical from the minds of John Roberts and H. Jon Benjamin, who both provide voices on the popular Fox animated series Bob’s Burgers. They’ll also executive produce alongside Amy Poehler.
Marvel has booked its cast for the upcoming Runaways series on Hulu. The series hails from Fake Empire’s Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, Marvel Television, and ABC Signature.
In a spoof on the Greek myth, THE TRUE MYTH OF PERSEUS tells the story of Perseus as he struggles against his inferior genes to fulfill his heroic destiny.
The 2016-2017 Writers on the Verge at NBCUniversal has finalized their selection of scribes. The annual program seeks television writers of diverse backgrounds and assists them with the final polish and pitch presentation skills.
A new divorcee hires his former wedding planner to throw him a divorce party.
Person of Interest alum Winston Duke has been tapped for Marvel’s forthcoming Black Panther movie starring Chadwick Boseman. Duke is set to play one of the movie’s key villains, M’Baku, who is also known as Man-Ape.
The indie sci-fi movie Crossbreed has tapped Vivica A. Fox to play the President of the United States. The story follows a group of retired military war heroes who are sent to retrieve an extraterrestrial from an illegal Medical Facility using its DNA to manufacture weapons.
When Max befriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, part of Vanguard One Middle School’s new Robot Integration Program, she helps him learn everything he needs to know about surviving middle school — the good, the bad, and the really, really, ugly.
Adrianne Palicki has been cast opposite Seth MacFarlane in his new hourlong comedy-drama for Fox. Scott Grimes, who has collaborated with MacFarlane on various projects (Family Guy and American Dad), will also appear in the series.
Launch Pad alum Jeff Bower has signed with Paul Weitzman and Manal Hammad of Abrams Artists Agency, which puts him on the list of more than 150 LP Alums who have landed representation in the past 3 years.
