TV News Roundup – March 2010 – Week 1
Nathan Fillion Hints At More Than Just A Sequel For ‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’
“I’ve heard some of the lyrics for one of the new songs,” Fillion said. “I’ve heard a title for the sequel, and I’ve heard some great ideas. I’ve also heard of some kind of other accoutrements that are coming out aside from a sequel that we’re planning on. So… exciting things. ‘Dr. Horrible’ [is] far from dead,” he added.
HBO greenlights ‘Game of Thrones’ to series
HBO has greenlighted highly anticipated fantasy series “Game of Thrones,” the series based on the George R.R. Martin novels. The premium network has picked up the project for a first season debut next spring. Nine episodes plus the pilot have been ordered. Production will begin in Belfast this June. The sprawling tale set in the mythical land of Westeros tells the story of the noble Stark family who become caught up in high court intrigue when patriarch Eddard (played by Sean Bean) becomes the king’s new right-hand man. The four-and-counting books in the series would each be used as one season of the series.
V will reveal more spaceship! Lizard skin! Anna’s true face!
Andrew Orloff, executive creative director/visual-effects supervisor for Zoic Studios, the visual-effects team behind V’s spaceships and aliens, revealed his studio’s work on the upcoming episodes. “It’s just more,” Orloff said. “If you’re a fan of the show, you see the engine room of the ship in the last episode. We’ll keep continuing to open up and explore different rooms and parts of the ship that’ll be, I think, interesting for the viewers. It’ll drive the story forward, and for us, … since the entire interior of the ship is virtual, that means more visual effects work for us, for sure.”
Matt Stone & Trey Parker Are Not Your Political Allies (No Matter What You Believe)
Both men were adamant that the show has no political affiliation. “I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show’s more important than that. It isn’t for everybody else in the world, but it is for us. We don’t want you to come to it thinking, ‘These guys are going to bash liberals,’” Matt explained. “I look at it like this,” Trey added. “I have a cat, I love my cat and it’s like someone coming in and saying, ‘Hey, is that cat a Republican or a Democrat?’ He’s my fucking cat, leave him alone.”
Disney Channel developing ‘Tron’ series (and why the franchise reboot is outdated)
Disney Channel is developing a “Tron” animated series to follow the upcoming theatrical release of “Tron: Legacy.” The news was part of Disney’s upfront presentation Tuesday evening to media buyers and clients, which included a preview of the “Tron” series. Geared towards kids age 6-14, the plan is to precede “Tron” with another project, a 10-part “Tron” micro-series premiering in fall 2011 on Disney XD.
Firefly’s ‘Kaylee’ will guest on Warehouse 13
Browncoats rejoice! Our favorite cargo ship engineer, Jewel Staite (Kaylee of Firefly/Serenity fame), will appear in an upcoming episode of Syfy’s Warehouse 13. (She also played Dr. Jennifer Keller on Syfy’s Stargate Atlantis.) Staite tweeted the news herself: “Got offered a lovely role on Warehouse 13. Wish I could tell you more. All I can say is, you Browncoats are gonna freak.
Kill all humans! New Futurama is coming in June!
New episodes of the sci-fi animated show will arrive on Comedy Central in June. Comedy Central sources confirm that Thursday, June 24, at 10:00 p.m. is currently set to be the premiere of the first new half-hour episode of “Futurama” since 2003.
NBC renews ‘Office,’ ‘Community,’ ’30 Rock’
NBC has renewed the rest of its Thursday comedies for next season — “The Office,” “Community” and “30 Rock.” The network previously picked up “Parks & Recreation.” “We are happy to give these early pickups to these critically acclaimed, incredibly funny comedies,” said NBC entertainment president Angela Bromstad.
‘Lost’ Returnees, ‘Brothers & Sisters’ Renewed
“Lost,” won’t come to an end without bringing back a few favorite characters. Desmond, Penny, Charles Widmore, and the French doctor, Rousseau, are all on their way back to the island. That means we’ll see Henry Ian Cusick, Sonya Walger, Alan Dale and Mira Furlan, respectively, all returning.
HBO series ‘Rome’ may finally be headed to the big screen
Multiple sources have confirmed that a big-screen sequel to the sword-and-sandals series is well underway. Rome creator/executive Bruno Heller — who went on to create CBS’s hit The Mentalist — has finished a script for Morning Light Productions, which financed the development and will produce the film.
‘Fringe’ picked up for a third season
Fox has picked up Fringe for a third season. Though the show isn’t exactly blowing the roof off of Nielsen — it’s been averaging just 7.6 million viewers and is ranked No. 50 in the all-important adults 18-49 demographic this season — it managed to survive in a tough new time period on Thursdays. The show returns with new episodes — and the promise of more visits from Leonard Nimoy and to the parallel universe — on April 1.
‘Third Watch’ actor joins ‘Burn Notice’
Coby Bell will play a cocky counterintelligence expert
“Third Watch” alum Coby Bell is joining USA’s flagship series “Burn Notice” as a regular. He will play Jesse Garcia, a cocky and sarcastic counterintelligence expert with a chameleon-like ability to assume different cover identities and an intense desire to see bad guys get punished. After his career ended under suspicious circumstances, Jesse is committed to finding out who burned him and tracks down the one person in Miami he has something in common with … Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan).
James Marsters on CAPRICA, And, Well, Everything Else
“I love anybody who has convictions enough to make mistakes because only people who make mistakes get into enough trouble to be called drama, I think…So, you know, I’m playing the character so actually I feel like I understand why he’s doing what he’s doing. He’s living in a time which is coming apart at the seams just like the Roman Empire did. And…in his world people are committing human sacrifice and mass executions and mass orgies, friends are shooting each other in the head for fun. And, you know, in Rome it was called the Coliseum and on Caprica it’s called the V-Club.”
Felicia Day comes to Syfy in fantasy tale Red
Felicia Day (The Guild, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog) will portray a werewolf-hunting descendant of Little Red Riding Hood in the new Syfy Saturday Original Movie Red, which is slated to premiere in 2011.
Matt Frewer Cast as Pestilence on Supernatural
Matt Frewer (Dawn of the Dead (remake), “Max Headroom”) has joined the cast to portray the third of the Four Horsemen to appear during Season Five: Pestilence.
But Wait, There’s More…
- ‘The Pacific’ actor, Jon Seda, joins ABC’s ‘Cutthroat’
- Michael Imperioli joins ABC drama pilot’187 Detroit’
- Jason Isaacs to star in Fox drama pilot ‘Pleading Guilty’
- Comedy Central orders ‘Workaholics’ series
- ABC shortens ‘Forgotten’ run
- Jason George joins ‘Off the Map’
- Lost spoilers: Jacob’s plan, Sideways Ben, Jack’s baby mama?
- How Fringe promises to shock you in its 2nd-season finale
- Trio joins Matt LeBlanc series ‘Episodes’ for Showtime/BBC comedy
- A glimpse of the new worlds of Caprica
- Blair Underwood joins NBC pilot ‘The Event’
- ‘Body of Evidence’ seeks Dana Delany
- ‘Friday Night Lights’ alum Scott Porter tapped as ‘Nomads’ lead
- Has Caprica Season Two Been Given The Green Light?
- Ryan Devlin will star opposite William Shatner in CBS’ ‘Shit My Dad Says’
- ‘Ugly Betty’s’ Ana Ortiz joins ‘True Blue’
- Q&A: NBC’s Angela Bromstad, president of primetime entertainment, on fall pilots, ‘Chuck,’ ‘Heroes’
- Q&A: Fox’s Kevin Reilly, president of entertainment, talks fall pilots, ’24,’ ‘Target,’ Cowell
- Q&A: Steve McPherson, president, ABC Entertainment Group, on ABC’s comedy block, fall plans
- Q&A: CBS’ Nina Tassler, entertainment president, on O’Loughlin, Shatner, diversity
- Q&A: CW’s Dawn Ostroff, president of entertainment, talks pilots, ‘Vampire Diaries’ and more
- NBC sets ’100 Questions,’ ‘Persons Unknown’ premieres
- Jeri Ryan cast in ABC’s ‘Body of Evidence’
- Caprica’s Esai Morales answers YOUR questions
- ‘Almost Famous’ star Patrick Fugit joins ABC comedy pilot
- ‘Worst Week’ star, Kyle Bornheimer, joins CBS comedy pilot
- Breckin Meyer, Mark-Paul Gosselaar join TBS’ ‘Franklin & Bash’
- Boone fans: Somerhalder to appear again on Lost. Maybe
- Rob Morrow cast in ABC’s legal drama ‘Truth’ pilot
- Brittany Snow joins David E. Kelley pilot
- Kevin Dunn, Nick Nolte in Milch/Mann HBO pilot
- ‘Heroes’ actress joins ‘Entourage’; ‘Hung,’ Sons of ‘Anarchy’ expand
- What’s Next for Dexter? How Is Michael C. Hall Doing? The Cast and Creators Tell You
- Sendhil Ramamurthy to co-star in new USA series ‘Covert Affairs’
- Jean Smart to ‘Hawaii Five-O’; Tom Cavanagh tapped as lead in ‘Edgar’
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