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Dan Stevens loves Christmas. Not in the way that everybody who Christmases loves Christmas, no, he is a Christmas tree up, hang the lights after Halloween kind of Christmas guy. "We enjoy it very much in our house. I have three kids now, so that's three times the fun," he says of daughters Willow, 7, and Eden, 1, and son Aubrey, 5, with his wife, jazz singer Susie Hariet. "It's a lot of board games, classic movies. We always screen The Muppet Christmas Carol every Christmas Eve. For us, it's a special time of year."

Their Christmas Eve screening may soon become a double feature, as the actor's new movie, The Man Who Invented Christmas, out Nov. 22, makes a fitting follow-up to Kermit the Frog's starring role as Bob Cratchit, with The Great Gonzo as Charles Dickens. In it, Stevens plays Dickens as he sets out to write a Christmas book on a six-week deadline and dreams up his unexpectedly...

Dan Stevens loves Christmas. Not in the way that everybody who Christmases loves Christmas, no, he is a Christmas tree up, hang the lights after Halloween kind of Christmas guy. "We enjoy it very much in our house. I have three kids now, so that's three times the fun," he says of daughters Willow, 7, and Eden, 1, and son Aubrey, 5, with his wife, jazz singer Susie Hariet. "It's a lot of board games, classic movies. We always screen The Muppet Christmas Carol every Christmas Eve. For us, it's a special time of year."

Their Christmas Eve screening may soon become a double feature, as the actor's new movie, The Man Who Invented Christmas, out Nov. 22, makes a fitting follow-up to Kermit the Frog's starring role as Bob Cratchit, with The Great Gonzo as Charles Dickens. In it, Stevens plays Dickens as he sets out to write a Christmas book on a six-week deadline and dreams up his unexpectedly...

Teresa Wright: Later years (See preceding post: "Teresa Wright: From Marlon Brando to Matt Damon.") Teresa Wright and Robert Anderson were divorced in 1978. They would remain friends in the ensuing years.[1] Wright spent most of the last decade of her life in Connecticut, making only sporadic public appearances. In 1998, she could be seen with her grandson, film producer Jonah Smith, at New York's Yankee Stadium, where she threw the ceremonial first pitch.[2] Wright also became involved in the Greater New York chapter of the Als Association. (The Pride of the Yankees subject, Lou Gehrig, died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in 1941.) The week she turned 82 in October 2000, Wright attended the 20th anniversary celebration of Somewhere in Time, where she posed for pictures with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. In March 2003, she was a guest at the 75th Academy Awards, in the segment showcasing Oscar-winning actors of the past. Two years later,...

With his Australian accent, long locks and ripped physique, Jaason Simmons was one of the sexiest stars to ever wear a red "Baywatch" swimsuit.To celebrate the show's 25th anniversary this week, the 44-year-old actor sat down with toofab's Brian Particelli for a look back at the long-running show about a group of incredibly good-looking lifeguards.Video: Alexandra Paul Reveals "Baywatch" Set Secrets!"Yasmine [Bleeth] and I joined and it was pretty much into the mix right away, at the height of it we had hundreds of paparazzi on the beach and coach loads of tourists. It was sort of like doing a circus," Simmons says of his first days on the set back when he made his debut in 1994. "First day I drove the truck into the tower and swiped the side of the door, because in Australia we drive on the other side of the road," he adds. "Then...

Death is happening "Under the Dome," fans. Is Linda Esquivel one of the victims?

At the 2014 TCA winter press tour presentation by CBS, a sizzle reel was shown for Season 2 of the popular summer drama, with executive producers teasing that two fan-favorite characters will be killed off in the premiere episode. "No one is safe in this town," says Ep Neal Baer.

Deadline is reporting that actress Natalie Martinez, who plays Sheriff Esquivel on "Dome," has joined ABC drama "Secrets & Lies," which stars Ryan Phillippe as a man who finds the body of a young boy and becomes the prime suspect in his murder. Martinez is cast as Jess, the child's mother.

Does this mean that it's curtains for Esquivel?

Deadline mentions that "Secrets & Lies" has a series penalty, which means if the pilot doesn't get made and aired on TV, the network will owe a rather hefty sum to the producer/writer.

News and notes from up and down your channel guide:

- Max Greenfield -- the man who plays Schmidt on "New Girl" -- will be hopping forward half an hour to guest-star on "The Mindy Project" in an upcoming episode. Greenfield will play Lee, described as a hot guy and a player at a bar. The episode is scheduled to air Tuesday, April 22. [E! Online]

- CBS' summer thriller "Under the Dome" has added two new series regulars. Eddie Cahill ("CSI: New York") is set to play Sam, Big Jim's (Dean Norris) brother-in-law and former Emt, while Karla Crome (above) is making her U.S. TV debut as Rebecca, a beautiful teacher who is "quite forceful" and will cause some heat for Big Jim. [THR]

- "The Exes" has been renewed for a 12-episode fourth season, which will debut this summer. TV Land president Larry W. Jones says in a statement, "From the...

A new set of Breaking Bad bloopers premiered recently on Today. In them, actors bump into one another, forget lines and innocently walk through the backgrounds of scenes holding guns.

The best one finds Bryan Cranston and Michael Bowen, who plays the swastika-tattooed character Jack Welker, out in the desert where a pivotal scenes takes place. It begins as Cranston, playing Walter White, stares off into the distance. Bowen sidles up to him and just stares. Off-screen, a voice says, "Let's take that back."

Five Revelations From the Near-Perfect '...

Breaking Bad came to its devastating, bloody end two months ago. But according to Bryan Cranston (Walter White), it could've stretched even further. "I'm kind of sad that we don't have another year to go, because I really thought that maybe we could do another 10 or 12 episodes," Cranston said at last night's premiere of No Half Measures, a documentary on the making of the final season. "But it's better to be finished early and proud so that the fans and us say, 'I really miss that show' as opposed to saying,...

Sundays at Comic-Con tend to be the slowest of all four days, with the event coming to an end at an earlier time (5pm), most of the attendees choose to walk the floor and make their last-minute purchases before heading home. Regardless, fans still have plenty to see, and even with popular hit TV shows dominating the monstrous Hall H, CBS’ newest sci-fi drama, Under the Dome, was still able to find its place amongst attendees. Producers Brian K. Vaughan and Neal Baer, accompanied by stars Rachelle Lefevre, Dean Norris, and Mike Vogel, hit the Comic-Con stage to discuss the current season, provide insight into the characters, and tease what’s coming up in future episodes. Hit the jump for highlights from the panel. Before the panel began, the audience was treated to a screening of Under Dome’s newest episode — set to air Monday. While we won’t go...

Comic Con hasn’t been strictly superheroes in a long, long time. We have scoured the schedule for this year’s event and have pulled out the dark, the bloody, the monstrous, and the ghostly panels that look to be right up FEARnet readers’s alley.

Paranormal Passion Panel

Authors discuss the inclusion of romantic elements in their action-packed novels. Protagonists must battle the forces of evil while trying to keep the world (and often their lovers) safe from destruction. Maryelizabeth Hart of Mysterious Galaxy leads a discussion with Comic-Con special guest Christine Feehan (The Dark Series), Claudia Gray (Spellcaster), Aprilynne Pike (Earthbound), Lauren Kate (The Fallen Novels), Kendare Blake (Antigoddess), and Magnus Flyte (City of Dark Magic).

Thursday July 18, 2013 10:30am - 11:30am

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Masters of the Web

Some of the most prominent and influential film pundits on the web discuss the film industry, writing for film online,...

Los Angeles — There's no summer break anymore for broadcast networks, with overachieving cable competitors regularly airing new series instead of succumbing to rerun laziness.

That's why NBC has "America's Got Talent," Fox is airing "So You Think You Can Dance" and ABC scheduled the flirty "Mistresses." Over at CBS, star students have teamed up for the ambitious "Under the Dome."

The 13-episode drama series debuting Monday is based on the best-selling Stephen King book and includes heavyweights Steven Spielberg, Neal Baer ("ER," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"), Jack Bender ("Lost") and comic-book and TV scribe Brian K. Vaughan as executive producers.

Such firepower counts in this increasingly competitive season, said CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler. It's even more crucial because CBS is rolling the dice with a drama, atypical first-run network fare in June.

"There is a lot of original content on-air during the summer, and there will be choices for viewers.

Now that the full WonderCon 2013 schedule has been released, we know what other genre projects will be joining the already announced Evil Dead and "Under the Dome." It looks like a very busy weekend for horror fans!

Below you'll find a majority of the WonderCon 2013 horror highlights (and a few fringy panels that we thought might have crossover appeal). For all the latest updates visit the official WonderCon website.

Friday, March 29

3:00pm - Exclusive Warner Bros. Television Screenings of "Revolution," "Arrow," and "The Following" (more info here) - Arena

6:30pm - Netflix's "Hemlock Grove" - Room 300De

From executive producer Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) and based on Brian McGreevy's novel of the same name, Netflix's Hemlock Grove is a riveting one-hour murder mystery series that revolves around the residents of a former Pennsylvania steel town. When 17-year-old Brooke Bluebell is brutally murdered, any of Hemlock's peculiar inhabitants-or killer creatures-could be suspects.

As promised by Trent Reznor, tons of details on his six LP, 39-track Ost for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo have been revealed tonight, including a particularly special surprise. Composed with his cohort of the Oscar-winning The Social Network score Atticus Ross, we have a song to stream now, as well as the full tracklist, pre-order details, party announcement and much more. We’ll kick things off with a message from Trent Reznor himself on his official site:

For the last fourteen months Atticus and I have been hard at work on David Fincher’s “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”. We laughed, we cried, we lost our minds and in the process made some of the most beautiful and disturbing music of our careers. The result is a sprawling three-hour opus that I am happy to announce is available for pre-order right now for as low as $11.99. The...

The season premiere of ABC’s Castle (Mondays at 10/9c) not only dealt with Beckett’s life-and-death crisis, how Rick’s profession of love landed (or not) on Kate’s ears and the introduction of a new boss, it also set up quite the Catch-22 moving forward. Beckett has avowed that she can’t be in a relationship with any (lucky) fella until she solves her mother’s murder, while Castle is resolved to keeping his partner far away from said case, lest next time some sniper gets the job done.

Of course, the opener famously closed with Kate revealing...

It was, in a painful way, poetic.

Just as ABC’s Castle ended its Season 3 finale with its titular novelist (played by Nathan Fillion) professing, “I love you” to Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic), the Season 4 premiere closed out with a game-changing three-word confession of its own.

“I remember everything.”

Yep, after claiming to Castle that she had no recollection of her shooting, let alone what happened or was said to her in the moments immediately afterward, Kate revealed to her psychiatrist (Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Michael Dorn) that she had been lying, and thus knows full well how Rick feels about her.

One Breaking Bad guy will attempt to thwart a whole band of bad guys when Dean Norris guest stars on ABC’s Castle this season, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Castle Boss Teases a Season of ‘Explosive’ Secrets, Defends Controversial Twist

As I previously reported in my Inside Line column, one of Season 4′s fall episodes will find Castle (played by Nathan Fillion) and his mother, Martha (Susan Sullivan), trapped inside a bank during a heist pulled off by a group of colorfully named robbers.

Norris will play the hostage negotiator who tries to defuse the situation, and get everyone out...

The girls appear to be much more excited about going to the senior dance than the guys are, while Ben learns some upsetting news about his mother, on The Secret Life Of The American Teenager, premiering on Monday, August 1 (8:00 – 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt).

In the one-hour episode, “Dancing With the Stars,” Amy encourages a reluctant Ricky to take her to the senior dance while Adrian convinces Ben to take her as his date as well – but whom will Jack go with?

After Ben was witness to Nora’s relapse, Leo shares some news about his mother he would have never expected. Meanwhile, Amy discovers what Adrian is up to and begs Ricky to tell Ben before he lets temptation win and do something that could change their lives forever.

The series cast includes Shailene Woodley, Ken Baumann, Mark Derwin, India Eisley, Greg Finley, Daren Kagasoff, Megan Park, Francia Raisa...

The complete schedule for the WonderCon 2011 has been released, which will take place over three days from Friday, April 1 through Sunday, April 3. The event will be held in San Francisco at Moscone Center South. Take a look at all the movie and TV events at WonderCon below.

Friday, April 1

1:30-2:30 Behind the Music with CW3PR: Composing for Sci-Fi, Horror and Fantasy Film

Award-winning composers Jim Dooley (Pushing Daisies), Nathan Barr (True Blood), Scott Starrett (The Event), Marco Beltrami (V, Scream 4), Michael Suby (The Vampire Diaries) and Sean Callery (24) have all composed WonderCon and Comic-Con fans' favorite movies and TV series, and are here to share a behind-the-scenes perspective on creating exhilarating musical moments for television and film. Together with moderator Bryan Fuller (creator, Pushing Daisies; producer, Heroes), the panelists will discuss their respective projects, the pivotal director/composer relationship, and how they got their big break into the music composing industry.

The Academy has spoken...check out the full list of winners of the 82nd Academy Awards below!

Best Picture:

The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment), A Voltage Pictures Production, Nominees to be determinedAvatar (20th Century Fox), A Lightstorm Entertainment Production, James Cameron and Jon Landau, ProducersThe Blind Side (Warner Bros.), An Alcon Entertainment Production, Nominees to be determinedDistrict 9 (TriStar), A Block/Hanson Production, Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, ProducersAn Education (Sony Pictures Classics), A Finola Dwyer/Wildgaze Films Production, Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, ProducersInglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company), A Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production, Lawrence Bender, ProducerPrecious (Lionsgate), A Lee Daniels Entertainment/Smokewood Entertainment Production, Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, ProducersA Serious Man (Focus Features), A Working Title Films Production, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, ProducersUp (Disney/Pixar), A Pixar Production, Jonas Rivera, ProducerUp in the Air (Paramount), A Montecito Picture Company Production,...

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and Oscar-nominated actress Anne Hathaway arose early this morning to announce The 82nd Annual Academy Award nominations. Avatar tied with The Hurt Locker for most recognized film of 2009, with both garnering nine nominations each.

Oscars will be given out when The 82nd Annual Academy Award airs live on Sunday, March 7th from the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Only on ABC. This year, a total of ten films were nominated for best picture.

The Nominations Announcement

Who will win? Here is a full list of nominated films

Best Picture:

Avatar (20th Century Fox), A Lightstorm Entertainment Production, James Cameron and Jon Landau, ProducersThe Blind Side (Warner Bros.), An Alcon Entertainment Production, Nominees to be determinedDistrict 9 (TriStar), A Block/Hanson Production, Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, ProducersAn Education (Sony Pictures Classics), A Finola Dwyer/Wildgaze Films Production, Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey,...