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Doris Roberts, ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ Star, Dead at 90
10 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Doris Roberts, who played Ray Barone’s prying mother on the sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,” died Sunday, a representative for the actress told TheWrap on Monday. She was 90. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1925, Roberts began acting in 1952, appearing on the television series “Studio One.” Appearances on “The Naked City,” “Ben Casey” and “The Defenders” followed. She first appeared on the big screen in the 1961 film “Something Wild.” Roberts’ other film credits include “A Lovely Way to Die,” “No Way to Treat a Lady” and “The Honeymoon Killers.” On television, she also appeared on “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” »
- Tim Kenneally
90210 Actress Jessica Stroup Joins Iron Fist As 'Joy Meachum'; Tom Pelphrey Will Play Her Brother, 'Ward'
12 hours ago | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
Joining Finn Jones as Danny Rand, Jessica Henwick as Colleen Wing and David Wenham as Harold Meachum in Iron Fist will be Jessica Stroup (90210, The Following, The Hills Have Eyes 2) and Tom Pelphrey (Banshee, Homefront, Blue Bloods) as Danny's childhood acquaintances, Joy and Ward Meachum. In the comics, Joy believes Iron Fist murdered her father and teams up with her Uncle Ward to take him down. The duo will be siblings in the TV series, however. Here is how they'll factor into the story: The children of Harold Meachum (Wenham), Joy and Ward have spent their lives building Rand Enterprises to its current standing in the world, only to have all their work put in jeopardy when Danny returns to claim his birthright. They are childhood acquaintances of Danny Rand’s who now play an important role in Rand Enterprises. Iron Fist is set to commence production very soon. »
Walton Goggins to Replace Joe Manganiello as Lead in ‘Six’
13 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Walton Goggins will replace Joe Manganiello in the History miniseries “Six,” TheWrap has learned. The “Justified” alum replaces Manganiello, who is departing the series due to a health issue. The eight-episode miniseries, greenlit earlier this year, tells the story of the Navy Seal team responsible for the killing of Osama bin Laden. Written by William Broyles and military special operations veteran David Broyles, “Six” follows a squad of elite U.S. soldiers, Navy Seal Team Six, whose 2014 mission to eliminate a Taliban leader in Afghanistan goes awry when they uncover an American citizen working with the terrorists. Also Read: History Orders Navy. »
- Reid Nakamura
Mel Gibson, Kurt Russell, Kate Hudson to Star in ‘Barbary Coast’ TV Series
14 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Mel Gibson will co-write and direct TV series “The Barbary Coast,” with Kurt Russell and Kate Hudson starring, TheWrap has learned. Gibson will also co-star in a recurring role. The drama, from The Mark Gordon Company, begins with The Gold Rush in 1849 which saw the biggest influx of gold-seekers, gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians and other felonious parasites to the infant city. Thus arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity – yet at the same time possessed more glamour and intrigue – than any other area of vice and »
- Linda Ge
Kevin Bacon to Star in Transparent Creator's Amazon Pilot I Love Dick
14 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Kevin Bacon has found his next TV role, and Ryan Hardy it is not.
The Following vet will fill the title role in I Love Dick, Amazon’s comedy pilot from Transparent creator Jill Soloway, Deadline reports.
Based on Chris Kraus’ 1997 novel of the same name, the potential series follows a struggling married couple in Texas and their mutual obsession with an off-putting but charismatic professor (played by Bacon).
Through that fixation, failing wife and independent filmmaker Chris (Transparent‘s Kathryn Hahn) goes on a journey »
Stana Katic Out at Castle as Part of Season 9 Cast Shake-Up
17 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Cop, out.
Series co-lead Stana Katic will not be a part of Castle Season 9, the victim of a cast shake-up that reportedly is designed to help cut costs for the aging procedural.
RelatedCastle Shocker: Stana Katic’s Dismissal Leaves Series Creator ‘Heartbroken’
Sources confirm for TVLine that which our sister site Deadline first reported, that Katic, whose one-year extension has expired, was not asked back for the fall (in the event the series gets renewed). Nor will longtime cast member Tamala Jones return as M.E. Lanie Parish.
In a statement on the situation, Katic said, “Rather then distract »
Naomi Watts To Lead Sam Taylor-Johnson's Psychological Thriller Series ‘Gypsy’ For Netflix
17 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Naomi Watts has been dipping her toes in different waters lately, going blockbuster with "Allegiant" and indie with fare like "The Sea Of Trees." Now she's going to give a Netflix series a try. The actress will star in "Fifty Shades Of Grey" director Sam Taylor-Johnson's previously announced Netflix series "Gypsy." Lisa Rubin will pen the show that centers on Jean Holloway (Watts), a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients' lives. Doesn't sound like she's following the ethics of her trade... The ten-episode series will debut on Netflix in 2017. Press release below. Beverly Hills, Calif., April 18, 2016 — Netflix, the world’s leading Internet TV network, announced today that two-time Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts will star in the 10-episode season of the one-hour psychological thriller Gypsy, a new series from Universal Television, Working Title and writer Lisa »
- Kevin Jagernauth
‘The Good Wife’ Showrunners Don’t Deny Josh Charles Return Rumors
17 April 2016 6:01 PM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Sunday afternoon at the Tribeca Film Festival, “The Good Wife” stars Julianna Margulies, Matt Czuchry, Cush Jumbo and showrunners Michelle and Robert King gathered to discuss the popular CBS drama, finishing its seventh season May 8, and screen the fourth to last episode.
Rumors are swirling that Josh Charles will return for the series finale, and the Kings told Variety they’re enjoying the buzz.
“We don’t want to squash those rumors, because why would we?” Robert King said. “But there are a lot of possibilities for the last episodes.”
There has also been chatter of possible spinoffs, and the Kings said they haven’t ruled out the idea.
“It’s very preliminary,” Michelle King said. “And a little bit early to be talking about it…But there is a possibility.”
Ultimately, the showrunners admit they are ready to finish the series, and are pleased their tenure will correspond with the show’s finale. »
- Katie Van Syckle
Akiva Goldsman on ‘Underground’: America Should Understand That ‘Our Heroes Are Not All White Men’
17 April 2016 7:58 PM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Wgn America’s “Underground” kicked off its Emmy campaign with a For Your Consideration brunch at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Aldis Hodge, Christopher Meloni, Alano Miller, Jessica de Gouw and Amirah Vann attended the screening and panel discussion for TV Academy members, along with creators Misha Green and Joe Pokaski and director Anthony Hemingway.
“Underground,” which follows a group of men and women who use their ingenuity, power and perseverance to attempt the greatest escape in history, infuses modern day music with the historical Underground Railroad to present the slave story.
“I think by telling the story of the Underground Railroad you have to tell the story of the people who revolted, those who were revolutionaries, so in that way I think people have responded to seeing a different voice,” said Smollet-Bell, who plays Rosalie.
The show has amassed a sizeable fan base, with its premiere »
- Lamarco McClendon
‘Twilight Zone’ Interactive Reboot in the Works (Exclusive)
20 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Your next stop: the “Twilight Zone.” Now you choose what happens next. The iconic science-fiction TV series is being resurrected with a new dimension, as digital video company Interlude has secured a deal with CBS to turn the series into a project marrying television with gaming. Interlude is known for making videos that play like sophisticated choose-your-own-adventure films. The company’s tech first rose to popular prominence more than two years ago with a video revival of Bob Dylan‘s classic anthem “Like a Rolling Stone.” It allowed viewers to channel surf among 16 channels of different actors and reality-tv stars, »
- Joan E. Solsman
HFPA Sets Date For Golden Globes 2017
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions has set a date for the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Sunday, January 8, 2017. The ceremony will air on NBC from 5- »
- Jazz Tangcay
‘Narcos’ Director José Padilha Reteams with Netflix
21 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Madrid – “Narcos” director José Padilha will reteam with streaming ginat Netflix on a yet-to-be-titled Brazilian Netflix original series, charting the Lava Jato (Car Wash) criminal corruption probe which has rocked Brazil’s political elite to its core.
Gaining in large topicality, news of the series broke as Brazil’s congress voted Sunday night to initiate impeachment proceedings against Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff for essentially cooking the books.
Padilha, whose “Narcos” rates as one of Netflix’s most popular series ever, will create and direct the series from screenplays by Elena Soares (“Xingu,” “House of Sand”).
Filming on the title will begin later this year. Netflix will make it available to subscribers on a global basis in 2017.
Series charts the judicial corruption probe which has led to the arrest from 2014 of over 100 politicians – including senators – construction magnates, senior public officials and top brass at Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras. »
- John Hopewell
U.K.’s ITV Recommissions Simon Nye’s Hit Drama ‘The Durrells’
19 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
London — U.K. commercial broadcaster ITV has commissioned a second season of its hit family drama “The Durrells” after airing just two episodes of the first run. The series, produced by Sid Gentle Films, is ITV’s best-rating new drama of the year and its highest-rating new show since September 2014.
The first episode launched on ITV with 6.4 million and a 29% share — the channel’s best new drama since “Cilla” in September 2014. The first episode has since consolidated to 8.2 million and a 33% share, making it the most watched ITV drama of this year.
“The Durrells,” Simon Nye’s adaptation of Gerald Durrell’s trilogy of memoirs, tell the story of Louisa Durrell who makes a radical change and uproots her four unruly children — Larry, Leslie, Margo and Gerry — from Bournemouth, England to start a new life in Corfu in the 1930s.
Keeley Hawes will return as matriarch Louisa alongside her fictional »
- Leo Barraclough
Series Mania: ‘Section Zero,’ ‘Frozen Dead,’ ’Contact’ Underscore France’s New TV Ambitions
2 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Paris – Three high-profile Gallic series – “Section Zero,” “The Frozen Dead” and “Contact” – feature at Coming Next From France, a Series Mania/Tvfi showcase which captures the French TV in evolution.
French broadcasters still have to think of their home markets. Of the six-scripted dramas, three are procedurals made in large part for France, where murder mysteries have a long tradition. All, however, show an ambition to also sell outside their country of origin, while others capture a burgeoning attempt at diversification of France’s scripted-tv offer.
Produced by the Luc Besson-owned EuropaCorp TV’s Bad Company, and a Canal Plus original series co-financed by Studiocanal, which sells world rights, and Belgium’s UMedia, tapping into Belgian tax breaks, “Section Zero” is budgeted at €2 million ($2.3 million) an episode, per Edouard de Vesinne.
That makes “Section Zero” one of the most expensive French TV shows ever made, doubling France’ average TV »
- John Hopewell
Viacom to Launch Comedy Central in the Middle East and Africa on Osn (Exclusive)
2 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Viacom International Media Networks is launching Comedy Central in the Middle East and Africa on the region’s leading pay-tv player Osn, two years after the two companies forged an alliance that marked a significant strategic move for Viacom in an area where it has considerable room for growth.
Comedy Central HD will be the third brand for Vimn in the region, complementing the existing presence of MTV and Nickelodeon/NickJr.
The channel’s offerings will include “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” which Noah will make the trek to launch in Dubai. Comedy Central favorites “Tosh.0” and “Inside Amy Schumer,” and a dedicated block of Spike content comprising “Lip Sync Battle,” as well as “Catch a Contractor,” the non-scripted series that sees host Adam Carolla on a mission to track down shady contractors and drag them back to the scene of their crimes. Internationally produced shows will include sitcom “I Live with Models. »
- Nick Vivarelli
‘Supergirl’ Sails Toward Future in Cliffhanging Season Finale (Spoilers)
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Beyond lauding the pilot, Variety’s initial review of “Supergirl” posed several questions, the most pointed (or at least pragmatic) being whether this sort of unabashed superhero series – having thrived on the network’s kid sister, the CW – could take off on CBS. The answer was not entirely, which didn’t prevent producers Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg and their team from applying a very “The Flash”-like formula to this handsome, fun, chaotic, slightly geeky addition to DC’s stable of TV heroes.
As with their other shows, the series chewed through great chunks of story, revealing Supergirl’s secret identity to multiple characters, introducing additional heroes (as in J’onn J’onzz, a.k.a. Martian Manhunter), and digging deep into comic-book mythology. While those weaned on comics might readily know the effects of red Kryptonite or the rules surrounding alternate universes, these series simply dive in and let »
- Brian Lowry
Scorpion Review: Team Scorpion stops a potential Chernobyl sequel
3 hours ago | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
Not to bring up the whole Doomsday thing, but in this week’s episode of Scorpion, the team will encounter their first nuclear explosion since the first Chernobyl if they can’t stop a decaying nuclear reactor from imploding. Wonder how many minutes the Doomsday Clock is going to move up should this happen in real life? When the plane crash landed into the nuclear reactor building, I literally held my breath as I waited for the dust to clear. I know that Sylvester, Paige and Oksana were alright, but that crash landing made my heart beat a bit faster. I hoped
Scorpion Review: Team Scorpion stops a potential Chernobyl sequel »
- Tiffany
Stephen Colbert Makes ‘Late Show’ Change in First Night Under New Showrunner
4 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Stephen Colbert isn’t afraid of change.
Viewers who tune in regularly to CBS’ “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” may have noticed something different about Monday night’s program. Yes, the host still came on and delivered jokes and made the usual nod to his bandleader, Jon Batiste, and his band, Stay Human. But the show opened with the video introduction that typically comes after Colbert has run out on stage and made a few jokes. The opening segments seemed quicker and tighter. And the host teased what he called an “exclusive” interview in a restaurant with Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during which they discussed the merits of cheesecake.
Why, it almost seemed as if someone had imposed the discipline of a morning-news show on the late-night host.
Indeed, that is what is taking place. Colbert’s broadcast this evening was his program’s first under a new showrunner, »
- Brian Steinberg
'The Voice' Season 10: Top 12 Performance Rankings
4 hours ago | buddytv.com | See recent BuddyTV news »
These final handful of rounds on The Voice give the artists the opportunity to rise above the rest by pushing themselves further than they've ever been before. In their Top 12 performances, some artists seemed to coast along, perhaps saving their strength for two weeks from now when the competition is a much tighter race. As for the frontrunners, they keep pushing themselves and we just might see a female take the title this year. Finally.
Read the recap and watch all of the performances here. »
- editor@buddytv.com
Better Call Saul Review: “Don’t”
5 hours ago | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
Plans are being made, and the subjects have no clue. Someone is leaving notes on cars, and blaring horns; someone is calling specifically to Mike, in a way that only he can here. It’s a simple message, written in capital letters: Don’T. Don’t pull the trigger, Mike. Don’t wait around, Mike. Don’t be impatient, Mike. Don’t half-ass this, Mike. There is only one person who could’ve left that message; there is only one person who who would know, and care, and not drop Mike in a ditch somewhere. The only question is how he knows, but even that is easily
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- Hunter Bishop
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