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Michael Chiklis joins the cast of 'American Horror Story: Freak Show'
12 hours ago | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
Michael Chiklis is making a freaky return to television.
The Emmy-winning actor has joined the cast of American Horror Story: Freak Show. The announcement was made onstage at the final night of this year’s Paleyfest during the American Horror Story: Coven panel. Chiklis is new to the Ryan Murphy world of actors and will join previous Horror Story regulars Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Basset and Frances Conroy in the fourth season of the franchise.
Murphy revealed that Chiklis will be playing Evan Peter character’s father and Kathy Bates’ ex-husband. As previously reported exclusively on EW, »
- Jake Perlman
Syfy's 'Helix' renewed for season 2
16 hours ago | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
The infection will spread to a second season: Syfy is renewing its dark bio-thriller Helix.
Syfy has commissioned another 13 episodes of the freshman drama series from producers Ronald D. Moore and Steven Maeda. Helix followed a Centers for Disease Control team’s efforts to contain the outbreak of a strange virus in a remote facility. “Helix has built one of our most loyal and consistent audiences in its first season on Syfy,” said Bill McGoldrick, an original content executive at Syfy. “We look forward to growing this passionate audience in what promises to be an even more memorable second season. »
- James Hibberd
Piers Morgan Announces Last Show on CNN Is Tonight
11 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Piers Morgan has announced that tonight will be his last show on CNN. “My last ‘Piers Morgan Live' show airs live at 9 p.m. Et tonight,” Morgan tweeted on Friday. ”And I will have something important to say at the end.” Morgan revealed in February that he would be leaving the network after a three-year run in primetime. His admission came a month after TheWrap exclusively reported British host's show was in trouble. Also read: CNN's Piers Morgan Guest Host Bill Weir Tops Fox News’ Megyn Kelly in »
- Greg Gilman
Ryan Murphy Lauds ‘American Horror Story: Coven’ Cast as ‘Most Amazing Group of Women Ever on TV’
1 hour ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Forget the boys, let’s hear it for the girls.
Girl power reigned supreme at PaleyFest’s closing night presentation of “American Horror Story: Coven” on Friday night at the Dolby Theatre, where stars Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Emma Roberts and Angela Bassett humbly discussed what it was like to be part of what co-creator Ryan Murphy calls “the most amazing group of women that has ever been on TV.”
See Also: Michael Chiklis Joins “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
“This was a season about female empowerment,” Murphy said. His co-creator, Brad Falchuk echoed the sentiment: “Each season is about something behind the genre, and this season was about women, and about mothers and daughters. You can’t have a more female horror genre than witches. If you want to tell a female story, there’s no other choice.”
“‘Coven’ might have the most speaking roles for women of any show on TV, »
- Allegra Tepper
Networks Interrupt Programming To Cover 5.1 Earthquake And Aftershocks; Disneyland Shuts Down Rides
3 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
The local TV networks went into quake mode tonight — but not immediately. Kcbs, Knbc and Kabc continued with their regular 9 Pm programming after a magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck the Southland at 9:09 Pm. Kcal 9 did go live with news within about 15 minutes, and one of its co-anchors was Kent Shockneck — who famously doing a live newscast on Knbc when the 5.9 1987 Whittier Narrows quake struck and promptly got under his newsdesk. (Relive video of that incident below). Interestingly, tonight’s temblor occurred on same thrust fault that caused the ’87 quake, according to preliminary data. For their part, the three network O&Os went to their news teams by 10 Pm — pre-empting The Insider on CBS, Hannibal on NBC and 20/20 on ABC. Fox 11 went with its regular 10 Pm newscast. This was the second small-to-moderate earthquake to strike the Greater Los Angeles area in less than two weeks. Disneyland shut down its rides after the main quake, »
- THE DEADLINE TEAM
Michael Chiklis Joins ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Michael Chiklis is returning to FX, this time as part of the ensemble on “American Horror Story: Freak Show.”
Chiklis will play the former husband of Kathy Bates’ character and father of Evan Peters’ character in the fourth-season incarnation of “American Horror Story.” Creator Ryan Murphy announced the fan-friendly casting as part of the “Ahs” Paleyfest panel on Friday at the Dolby Theater.
Murphy disclosed earlier this week that “Freak Show” would live up to its title. Set in the early 1950s in Jupiter, Fla., “Ahs” mainstay Jessica Lange will play a German expatriate who runs a sideshow circus.
Chiklis starred in the edgy cop show “The Shield” that put FX on the map with original programming map from 2002 to 2008. The TV vet most recently starred in CBS’ period drama “Vegas” last season.
Chiklis was on hand for Friday’s Paleyfest session to trumpet the news.
Son! I couldn't be more proud @tweetsonurface! »
- Variety Staff
Michael Chiklis Joins American Horror Story: Freak Show
4 hours ago | TVGuide - Breaking News | See recent TVGuide - Breaking News news »
Michael Chiklis has joined the cast of American Horror Story: Freak Show. Chiklis surprised Horror Story fans by joining the cast on stage during Friday's PaleyFest panel.
"[This is] somebody who I have loved for many, many years and courted for many, many years and we finally found the right role for him," executive producer Ryan Murphy said before the actor came out on stage. "He's playing...
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- Natalie Abrams
After Chasing Jimmy Fallon On Twitter, Ford Strikes Ad Pact With ‘Tonight’
4 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Ford Motor Co. won a heated contest among Detroit’s top automakers to get “Tonight” host Jimmy Fallon to buy one of their trucks, and may have done so through an ad pact with NBCUniversal.
Automakers including Ford, General Motors, Chrysler Group’s Ram Trucks and even Nissan have lit up Twitter since March 5 after Fallon revealed on “Tonight” that he intended to buy a truck. In the first segment of the March 28th episode of the program, Fallon revealed he had chosen a Ford F-150, and that the show would spend next week showing 10 Ford dealers from around the U.S. competing to sell him the vehicle by keeping their hands on a F-150 placed on the U.S.S. Intrepid in New York City.
The contest, called “Fingers on a 4X4,” was given an on-screen graphic festooned with a Ford logo, and the automaker made its victory known »
- Brian Steinberg
'American Horror Story: Freak Show' adds Michael Chiklis; Emma Roberts and Gabourey Sidibe returning
4 hours ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Exciting news from the "American Horror Story: Freak Show" panel at Paleyfest 2014. "The Shield" Emmy winner Michael Chiklis is joining the cast for the fourth season of the show.
Creator Ryan Murphy says, "[Michael Chiklis] is playing Evan [Peter's] father and he will be Kathy Bates' ex-husband," which is exciting indeed. Murphy does not specify if Bates is Peters' mother, however.
Chiklis says of his reaction when Murphy pitched the piece to him, "I'm terrified and I'm going to do it."
Murphy also confirms that every person on the panel is coming back in some capacity, which means in addition to the previously-announced Jessica Lange, Angela Basset, Kathy Bates, Evan Peters, Frances Conroy and Sarah Paulson, Season 4 will also feature Denis O'Hare, Gabourey Sidibe, Emma Roberts, Jamie Brewer and Chiklis. Murphy further says that there will be a few faces from Seasons 1 and 2 appearing in Season 4, but he does not reveal who they might be. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
PaleyFest: Michael Chiklis Joining FX’s ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’
4 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
The biggest news on the closing night of PaleyFest was the reveal that Michael Chiklis is joining the American Horror Story cast for the fourth season. Series co-creator Ryan Murphy said the Emmy winner will make his Ams debut playing the father of Evan Peters’ character and the ex-husband of Kathy Bates’ character on American Horror Story: Freak Show, the title of which Murphy announced in a tweet this week. “What a way to come back to my home network,” Chiklis told the screaming crowd at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. “We’re going to freak you and scare you!” Said Murphy: “Every person on this stage is coming back,” referring to Bates, Emma Roberts (Madison Montgomery), Angela Bassett (Marie Laveau), Sarah Paulson (Cordelia Grove), Gabourey Sidibe (Queenie), Frances Conroy (Myrtle Snow), Jamie Brewer (Nan), Denis O’Hare (Spalding) and Evan Peters (Kyle Spencer). While most of the castmembers were announced in the press recently, »
- ANTHONY D'ALESSANDRO
‘Saint George’ Hits Low In Week 4, Not Likely To Continue Beyond Initial Order At FX
5 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Airing against Ncaa basketball on CBS and TBS last night, George Lopez‘s sitcom Saint George drew 721,000 total viewers on FX, down 9% from last Thursday and a new series low for the comedy as it approaches the midpoint of its initial 10-episode run. Compared with its series premiere, last night’s fourth episode was down 40%. In adults 18-49, it delivered 401, 000 viewers, down 15% from last week and off 28% from the premiere (see ratings chart below). Saint George hails from Lionsgate TV and sibling TV distribution company Debmar-Mercury and is produced under Debmar-Mercury’s 10/90 model. That means a straight-to-series 10-episode order which, if a ratings threshold is met, triggers a 90-episode back order. Lionsgate/Debmar-Mercuty’s FX sitcom Anger Management, starring Charlie Sheen, is a product of the same model. Its original 10-episode order, fueled by a big initial interest in Sheen post-Two And A Half Men, hit the ratings target »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
'Helix' renewed for Season 2 on Syfy
6 hours ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
"Helix" has been renewed for Season 2 on Syfy. The tense, mysterious series will return in 2015 with 13 new episodes.
"Helix has built one of our most loyal and consistent audiences in its first season on Syfy," says Syfy executive vice president Bill McGoldrick in a statement. "The incredibly talented writing and producing team have crafted a thriller that consistently delivered suspense, twists and high quality drama. We look forward to growing this passionate audience in what promises to be an even more memorable second season."
Since its premiere in Jan. 2014, "Helix" has averaged a total of 2.1 million viewers in a tough, Friday-night timeslot. Executive produced by Ronald D. Moore ("Battlestar Galactica"), Steven Maeda and Lynda Obst, "Helix" tells the story of a Cdc team that heads to a remote Arctic base, only to find much more than an disease outbreak.
The "Helix" Season 1 finale airs Friday, March 28 at 10 p.m. on Syfy. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
CNN’s Piers Morgan Signs Off With Final Blast At U.S. Gun Laws
6 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Piers Morgan wrapped his three-year CNN run tonight with (gasp!) a full hour of discussion about the missing plane. But in his four-minute final remarks, he couldn’t resist taking a parting shot at the NRA. “I assumed that after 70 people were shot in a movie theater, and then, just a few months later, 20 first-graders were murdered with an assault rifle in an elementary school, the absurd gun laws in this country would change,” he said. “But nothing has happened. The gun lobby in America, led by the NRA, has bullied this nation’s politicians into cowardly, supine silence. Even when 20 young children are blown away in their classrooms. This is a shameful situation that has made me very angry.” He continued to rail and wrapped it with this: “But I’ve made my point. … Now it’s down to you. It’s your country; these are your gun laws. »
- LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
Press Runs Interference For ‘The Colbert Report’ As #CancelColbert Grows Louder
6 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Column: Social media went all Lord of the Flies today over a Twitter conflagration that erupted when @ColbertReport tweeted out a single line that Stephen Colbert had delivered on Wednesday night’s The Colbert Report mocking Dan Snyder for his latest reaction to the calls to change the racist name of his Washington NFL team. Snyder, in an effort to placate those calling for a name change — including President Obama — recently announced he’s started a foundation to help Native Americans. Proving his critics’ point, he hilariously named it The Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation. “I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever,” @ColbertReport tweeted yesterday. It since has been deleted. Related: ‘Colbert Report’ Embroiled In Racial Controversy It’s a line from a bit he did on the Wednesday edition of his Comedy Central show which, »
- LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
Starz’s ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’ Down In Season 2 Debut, On Par In Premiere Weekend
7 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Starz‘s fantasy drama learned the hard way last weekend just how important a lead-in can be. With the 2013 pic White House Down playing beforehand, the Season 2 premiere of Da Vinci’s Demons fell 44% from its Season 1 debut last year. The Saturday night 9 Pm airing on March 22 had 580,000 total viewers. Having the series finale of Spartacus: War Of The Damned as its lead-in, the Season 1 premiere pulled in 1.04 million total viewers in its 10 Pm airing on on Friday, April 12. The news for the David S. Goyer-created series’ Season 2 debut gets a lot better when all its plays over the whole weekend are counted up. The Adjacent Productions show drew 2 million viewers over all its broadcasts last weekend. That’s just a 6% dip from the 2.14 million that Demons had over its Season 1 debut weekend last year. It’s also a 41% rise over the show’s Season 1 finale weekend in early June. »
- DOMINIC PATTEN
'Grey's Anatomy': Ellen Pompeo shares photo with Isaiah Washington back on set
7 hours ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Dr. Burke is officially back on "Grey's Anatomy."
Ellen Pompeo shared a photo on Instagram on Friday (March 28) with her arm around Isaiah Washington on set of the ABC medical drama. "Burke Is Back," Pompeo writes. "#itsallgoodinthehood #burkeisback"
Despite Washington's controversial exit from "Grey's Anatomy" during Season 3, both Pompeo and Washington are all smiles in the pic now that he's back nearly seven years later. Washington even shared a photo of his own on Twitter:
#Day2 Done. #BurkeIsBack pic.twitter.com/4tffquZmQk
-- Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) March 28, 2014
Washington will be back for one episode this season as a part of Sandra Oh's farewell as she departs the series after Season 10. Creator Shonda Rhimes has said that it was necessary to bring Burke back to give closure to Cristina's story before she leaves.
How do you think Burke will return onscreen?
"Grey's Anatomy" airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. Et on ABC. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Andrea Parker Joins NBC Pilot ‘Feed Me’; Ryan Devlin In CW’s ‘Jane The Virgin’
7 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Andrea Parker (Desperate Housewives) has been cast in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Feed Me, from Witt-Thomas and Universal TV. Written by Sally Robinson and starring Mary-Louise Parker, it centers on a dysfunctional family bound by love and the restaurant they run together. Andrea Parker will play Amanda, the angry, spiteful and vengeful ex-wife of John (Ed Quinn) who’s been dragging out their divorce for five years and is determined to make his life miserable. Apa-repped Parker recurs on Pretty Little Liars. Related: 2014 NBC Pilots Ryan Devlin (Cougar Town) has landed a recurring role on the CW‘s drama pilot Jane The Virgin. Based on the successful Venezuelan telenovela Juana la Virgen, Jane The Virgin centers on Jane (Gina Rodriguez), a hardworking religious girl who, due to a series of outrageous events, is accidentally artificially inseminated. Devlin, repped by TalentWorks and Michelle Grant at Grant Management, will play Andre, »
- THE DEADLINE TEAM
Writers Rail As Talks Resume – Fifth Question In A Deadline Survey
7 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
As talks are about to resume Monday on the final elements that many hope will lead to a new deal for the Writers Guild Of America, we wanted to lend some perspective and give voice to the TV and feature writers whose fortunes will be tied directly to the deal their union makes. This is the fifth in a quick succession of five questions we asked a panel of 10 writers. Here are their responses, and hopefully other writers will be moved to comment about the issues that worry them most as their work is monetized in this fast-changing digital age. (Note: Writer #10 didn’t reply to this question.) Related: WGA: Why Gains, Lessons From 2008′s Strike Will Keep Hollywood From Another War Deadline: What tangible gains or losses did you realize through that strike, financial or other? Writer #1: I support my guild 100% and I always will. I think of »
- MIKE FLEMING JR
Deadline Awards Watch 67 – The CinemaCon Wrapup Podcast
7 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
In this week’s podcast, Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond returns to the mike after a post-Oscar break to talk with host David Bloom about the just-ended CinemaCon gathering in Las Vegas. While all the studios used the confab to tout their hottest upcoming projects to theater operators, the longtime head of the National Association of Theater Owners touched off controversy with head-scratching comments about not watching Best Picture Oscar winner 12 Years A Slave on the big screen. Pete and David also discuss whether, in the wake of Josh Charles’ abrupt departure from The Good Wife, having your character killed off a hit TV show can be a shortcut to the Emmy red carpet. Finally, Pete gives his take on the weekend’s notable movie debuts, led by Darren Aronofsky’s audacious take on the Genesis story Noah. Deadline Awards Watch podcast 67 (.MP3 version) Deadline Awards Watch podcast 67 (.M4A »
- PETE HAMMOND
Writers Rail As Talks Resume – Fourth Question In A Deadline Survey
7 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
As talks are about to resume Monday on the final elements that many hope will lead to a new deal for the Writers Guild Of America, we wanted to lend some perspective and give voice to the TV and feature writers whose fortunes will be tied directly to the deal their union makes. This is the fourth in a quick succession of five questions we asked a panel of 10 writers. Here are their responses, and hopefully other writers will be moved to comment about the issues that worry them most as their work is monetized in this fast-changing digital age. Related: WGA: Why Gains, Lessons From 2008′s Strike Will Keep Hollywood From Another War Deadline: Patric Verrone is running for California State Senate and in establishing his cred to writers said, “We won the writers strike.” Would you vote for him? Writer #1: Honestly, I wouldn’t vote for Patric Verrone »
- MIKE FLEMING JR
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