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Rob Lowe has cut quite a path through primetime during the 20-plus years since he joined “The West Wing.”

He turned down “Grey’s Anatomy,” but landed in the ensemble of “Parks and Recreation.” He sold a show about chasing Bigfoot with his sons to A&e Network. From 2003 to 2018 he was also a regular or recurring on series “Code Black,” “The Grinder,” “Californication,” “Brothers and Sisters,” “Dr. Vegas” and “The Lyon’s Den.” Then there was the scene-stealing turn as a plastic surgeon in 2013’s “Behind the Candelabra,” and roles in U.K. episodic series productions including 2005’s “Beach Girls,” 2015’s “You, Me and the Apocalypse” and 2019’s “Wild Bill.”

Last year, Lowe landed his biggest hit yet as a TV leading man when he moved into Ryan Murphy’s orbit as the star of Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star.” In the spinoff of the procedural about emergency responders, Lowe plays Owen Strand,...

The new issue of cléo features interviews with Sally Potter and Julie Taymor, a profile of Sylvia Schedelbauer and articles on Alexander Payne’s Election, Jonathan Lynn's Clue, Mia Hansen-Løve's Eden, John Fawcett’s Ginger Snaps and Jon Hall's Beach Girls and the Monster. Necsus has rolled out its autumn issue with and essay by the late Harun Farocki. In the new journal Kinetophone, we can read about Dario Argento's Opera, Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva, Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo and Federico Fellini's E la nave va. The new Cineaste is out and Fireflies is preparing its second issue on Abbas Kiarostami and Béla Tarr. » - David Hudson...

The new issue of cléo features interviews with Sally Potter and Julie Taymor, a profile of Sylvia Schedelbauer and articles on Alexander Payne’s Election, Jonathan Lynn's Clue, Mia Hansen-Løve's Eden, John Fawcett’s Ginger Snaps and Jon Hall's Beach Girls and the Monster. Necsus has rolled out its autumn issue with and essay by the late Harun Farocki. In the new journal Kinetophone, we can read about Dario Argento's Opera, Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva, Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo and Federico Fellini's E la nave va. The new Cineaste is out and Fireflies is preparing its second issue on Abbas Kiarostami and Béla Tarr. » - David Hudson...

ABC's Nashville has cast Chris Carmack of Shark Night as Will, a charming and sexy guitar player, reports Deadline. The character is described as the guy men want to be pals with, and woman want. Carmack's set for 6 episodes of this season. Aside from Shark NIght 3D, Carmack's previous credits including The O.C., Beach Girls, Related, Suburban Girl, voicing Garth in Lionsgate's animated Alpha and Omega and TV's Beauty and the Briefcase with Hilary Duff and Michael McMillan, among others. Carmack's in post-production on John Milton Branton's Dark Power with Sean Patrick Flanery, Kristanna Loken...

ABC's Nashville has cast Chris Carmack of Shark Night as Will, a charming and sexy guitar player, reports Deadline. The character is described as the guy men want to be pals with, and woman want. Carmack's set for 6 episodes of this season. Aside from Shark NIght 3D, Carmack's previous credits including The O.C., Beach Girls, Related, Suburban Girl, voicing Garth in Lionsgate's animated Alpha and Omega and TV's Beauty and the Briefcase with Hilary Duff and Michael McMillan, among others. Carmack's in post-production on John Milton Branton's Dark Power with Sean Patrick Flanery, Kristanna Loken...