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The adventures of Ichabod Crane will continue on Fox early next year, with the season 4 premiere of Sleepy Hollow scheduled to air on Friday, January 6th at 9:00pm Et.

Press Release: Fox is announcing premiere dates for new series The Mick (special premiere Jan. 1; time period premiere Jan. 3), Star (special premiere Dec. 14; time period premiere Jan. 4), My Kitchen Rules (Jan. 12), 24: Legacy (two-night event beginning Feb. 5, following Super Bowl Li, and continuing on Feb. 6) and Apb (Feb. 6); and returning series Bones: The Final Chapter

(Jan. 3), Sleepy Hollow (Jan. 6) and Masterchef Junior (Feb. 9). In addition, New Girl moves to its new Tuesday night time period (8:00-8:31 Pm Et/Pt), beginning Jan. 3. Hell’S Kitchen moves to Thursdays, beginning Jan. 5, with two all-new back-to-back episodes (8:00-9:00/9:00-10:00 Pm Et/Pt). The series then premieres in its regular time period Jan. 12 (8:00-9:01). Rosewood...

Dynamite Entertainment has announced Z Nation: Black Summer, a prequel comic book series to the events that unfolded throughout Z Nation’s two seasons, written by series co-creator Craig Engler and Fred Van Lente. Set in the second year of the zombie apocalypse, the comic series will be released in early 2017:

Press Release: July 18, 2016, Mt. Laurel, NJ: As the world gears up for Season Three of the fan-favorite SyFy series Z Nation, Dynamite Entertainment proudly announces an all-new canonical comic series, entitled Z Nation: Black Summer, co-written by series co-creator Craig Engler and Fred Van Lente (The Mocking Dead, Big Trouble in Little China)! Set one year prior to the events depicted in the television series, the Black Summer storyline will reveal previously untold tales from the post-apocalyptic wasteland, events that shaped the characters that fans know and love.

ZNation: Black Summer is set in Year Two of the Zpocalypse,...

Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox) has given series orders to new dramas 24: Legacy and Star. Both series are scheduled to premiere in the upcoming 2016-2017 season. 24: Legacy is the next chapter in the groundbreaking and award-winning action series from Emmy Award-winning executive producer Howard Gordon (Homeland, 24: Live Another Day), Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning executive producer Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, 24), writers and executive producers Manny Coto and Evan Katz (24, 24: Live Another Day), director and executive producer Stephen Hopkins (24) and executive producer and original series star Kiefer Sutherland.

Starring Corey Hawkins (Straight Outta Compton), Miranda Otto (Homeland) and Jimmy Smits (Sons of Anarchy), 24: Legacy chronicles an adrenaline-fueled race against the clock to stop a devastating terrorist attack on United States soil - in the same real-time format that has propelled this genre-defining series. Fox hasn't announced how many episodes of 24: Legacy will be produced, or when the series may debut.

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Warner Bros is set to be the latest studio to gamble on fewer blockbuster movies. But there's a big silver lining, Simon argues...

Last week, the news landed that Warner Bros was considering reducing its output of films, focusing its slate primarily on DC, Lego and Harry Potter movies.

The argument runs that it’s had a bumpy few years, with expensive films such as Pan, Jupiter Ascending and In The Heart Of The Sea leaving the office copy of Excel looking decidedly red and distressed. The box office tail off of Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice is said not to have helped, either. It actually looks like we're officially in the era where a movie will end up making just under $1bn and end up being called a commercial disappointment.

If and when Warner Bros follows such an approach – and it’s not confirmed that it will,...

A new pilot from Empire creator Lee Daniels will go into production this December. Star, which will revolve around four female leads in a girl group, will be set in Atlanta, where it will also film. The pilot was written, directed, and executive-produced by Daniels. Writer Tom Donaghy (The Mentalist, The Whole Truth) will write and executive-produce with Daniels. While the show is not an Empire spinoff, it's also not not a spinoff, because Fox knows what's up. As Fox CEO Dana Walden stated, "It is modern-day music music in Atlanta and Empire is modern-day music business in New York. It’s not inconceivable that the two shows can cross." Included in the casting breakdown for the female leads — Star, Alexandra, Simone, and Cotton — is the call for Cotton to be played by a half-African-American, half-Latina transgender woman "with an eye for fashion." Here's hoping Cookie flies down to Atlanta...

Fox hopes that it’s found the new “Empire” — and the network and studio didn’t have to go very far to get it. Lee Daniels‘ follow-up to his massive hip-hop soap opera hit has its casting underway, and the project will enter production this December in Atlanta. “Star,” from 20th Century Fox Television, is written, directed and executive-produced by Daniels. Tom Donaghy (“The Whole Truth”) will serve as a writer and executive producer on the pilot. The project is the first to emerge from Daniels’ multi-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television. Also Read: 'Empire' Creator Lee Daniels' 'Star' Will Focus on White.

Before she signed onto Showtime's "The Affair," Maura Tierney had done practically everything it's possible for an actor to do in television. Her first regular series role (on "The Van Dyke Show") was opposite no less than Dick Van Dyke; her second ("704 Hauser") was working for Norman Lear, on the same set where "All in the Family" took place. She's been the leading woman on a classic (if underappreciated in its time) sitcom in "NewsRadio," helped carry an enormous hit drama ("ER") as it transitioned away from its original cast, been the lead on a legal procedural ("The Whole Truth"), and was one of the original stars of "Parenthood" before a bout with breast cancer forced her to drop out of the role of Sarah Braverman. She had done all of those things on one broadcast network or another, which is why she agreed to play Helen Solloway, the wife...

Fox opened its day at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour with a big announcement: The network is teaming with Empire co-creator Lee Daniels for a new music drama pilot.  Fox TV Group chairman and CEO Dana Walden announced that the network has ordered Star, a drama pilot set in the music business.  "Like Empire, it's set against the backdrop of the music business but from a different perspective," Walden said. Daniels will write, exec produce and direct Star. Tom Donaghy (The Whole Truth) will serve as a writer and Ep on the pilot alongside

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With the success of "Empire," Fox is continuing their relationship with both producer Lee Daniels and shows about the behind the scenes of the music business.

The network has ordered the drama pilot "Star," an Atlanta-set tale about three girls rising to the top as they form a band.

Speaking at the network's TCA presentation, Fox TV chief Dana Walden says: "The project features a lot of Lee's own DNA and represents a new perspective, that of the artist. The setup lends to a great soap operatic storytelling machine."

Daniels will co-write and executive produce the project with "The Whole Truth" creator Tom Donaghy. There is reportedly crossover potential between "Star" and "Empire," though there are no plans at this time.

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Jamie acts like a right arse in this week’s Outlander — and that’s a good thing. Here’s why.

Aside from sending some rather mixed messages to Laoghaire, Claire’s husband has made all the right moves in the short time we’ve known him. He’s deftly navigated complex clan politics. He’s landed a smart, hot, capable wife. He’s even believed the most unbelievable of stories — that Claire is a time-traveling nurse from the 1940s — with a wry grin and a love-endures-all attitude. We’ve rarely seen him make a misstep; the guy is on point.

“The Bachelor” will try to spice things up with a 3-hour live premiere The Jan. 5 season premiere will mix in taped segments, such as the limo arrivals, with Chris Harrison live with a studio audience joined by "Bachelor" and "Bachelorette" alums offering commentary, according to TV Line. The live premiere may be a response to concerns that "Bachelor" Chris Soules is "boring" and "as exciting as watching soybeans grow." Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's newly elected successor declines Jimmy Kimmel’s invitation John Tory, who was elected this week to replace Mayor Rob Ford, says he’s not going on the ABC talk show because “I’m not in show business.” He adds: Let’s talk (about) why I’m there. I’m there because the previous guy was the subject of jokes and all the sort of stuff and they’ll probably replay old tapes. I just don’t...

Maura Tierney is dipping her toe into unfamiliar waters, and we're not talking about those off the shore of Montauk; the Emmy nominee is heading to cable with The Affair. Tierney spent almost 10 years on ER, NBC's hit medical drama. Before that there was nearly 100 episodes of the comedy NewsRadio. Stints on Rescue Me, The Good Wife and a short-lived legal drama The Whole Truth followed, but now Tierney is heading to Showtime for the provocative new drama costarring Dominic West, Ruth Wilson and Joshua Jackson. "Initially, I had really wanted to work on cable television. I was on network TV for about 15 years or so, which I loved. I was on two amazing shows on network, but I've never worked without...

• Oscar winner Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardner) may join Michael Fassbender (12 Years A Slave) in Dreamworks’ The Light Between Oceans based on the M.L. Stedman novel. Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine) is directing the film about a lighthouse keeper and his wife who raise 2-month-old baby after finding it in a rowboat next to a dead body. [The Wrap]

• Fifty Shades of Grey’s Dakota Johnson will star in Forever, Interrupted, another book-to-film adaptation. The debut novel from Taylor Jenkins Reid tells the story of a young woman who forms a relationship with the mother she never knew after her whirlwind marriage is cut short.

Wild Bunch unleashed Abel Ferrara’s Welcome to New York on big and small screens at Cannes on Saturday night [May 17].

Although not in Official Selection, the film starring Gerard Depardieu in a role inspired by former Imf chief and French presidential candidate Dominique Strauss Kahn’s humiliating arrest in New York in 2011 on sex charges, later dropped, was one of the most anticipated on the Croisette.

Industry, press and public watched the picture at the Star cinema as well as in a makeshift theatre on the Carlton’s Nikki Beach, before heading to party where guests were frisked by fake NYPD cops on entering and goodie bags stuffed with white bath robes, whips, masks and handcuffs were handed out.

Simultaneously, the film also went up live on a dozen VOD sites in France, including Wild Bunch’s platform FilmoTV, as well as in Germany, Spain and Italy.

Starring Depardieu as Mr Devereaux — a sex addict, business tsar — the...

Wild Bunch unleashed Abel Ferrara’s Welcome to New York on big and small screens at Cannes on Saturday night [May 17].

Although not in Official Selection, the film starring Gerard Depardieu in a role inspired by former Imf chief and French presidential candidate Dominique Strauss Kahn’s humiliating arrest in New York in 2011 on sex charges, later dropped, was one of the most anticipated on the Croisette.

Industry, press and public watched the picture at the Star cinema as well as in a makeshift theatre on the Carlton’s Nikki Beach, before heading to party where guests were frisked by fake NYPD cops on entering and goodie bags stuffed with white bath robes, whips, masks and handcuffs were handed out.

Simultaneously, the film also went up live on a dozen VOD sites in France, including Wild Bunch’s platform FilmoTV, as well as in Germany, Spain and Italy.

Starring Depardieu as Mr Devereaux — a sex addict, business tsar — the...

Take a meeting, take a number. Several dozen actors in Hollywood are taking meetings with J.J. Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy and the producers of “Star Wars: Episode VII.” You can add to that mix Lupita Nyong'o, who recently won an Oscar for her role in Steve McQueen’s “12 Years A Slave.” With “Girls” star Adam Driver being the only name that looks locked in right now (he’ll play the new Darth Vader-like baddie apparently), contenders include John Boyega ("Attack The Block"), Ed Speleers (aka Jimmy Kent from "Downton Abbey"), theatre actors Matthew James Thomas and Ray Fisher, and the already-rumored "Breaking Bad" and "Friday Night Lights" star Jesse Plemons. There hasn’t been too much word of females in the mix for 'Star Wars' thus far. One early name that popped up, “The Grand Budapest Hotel” star Saoirse Ronan already confirmed to us that she took meetings, but...

Jeremy Kay on the 2014 European Film Market in Berlin.

It was the warmest of Berlins, it was the coolest of Berlins. As the Efm began to wind down this week, only the mild weather offered succour to the lack of heat in the market.

The proximity of the holidays, Sundance and the Iffr in Rotterdam routinely makes preparing for Berlin a perplexing time, yet this year there were fewer marquee titles on offer than usual.

Nonetheless the low number of must-haves, which included FilmNation’s The Whole Truth, Im Global’s Labor Of Love, K5’s Vice and Qed International’s Rock The Kasbah, did not preclude a sustainable if unflashy volume of trade.

Naturally there were talking points. The plight of Exclusive Media came into sharp focus and will dominate conversations in the weeks to come, while The Weinstein Company swooped in a $7m preemptive deal for potential Oscar contender The Imitation Game.

The out-of-competition...

Jeremy Kay on this year’s European Film Market in Berlin.

It was the warmest of Berlins, it was the coolest of Berlins. As the Efm began to wind down this week, only the mild weather offered succour to the lack of heat in the market.

The proximity of the holidays, Sundance and the Iffr in Rotterdam routinely makes preparing for Berlin a perplexing time, yet this year there were fewer marquee titles on offer than usual.

Nonetheless the low number of must-haves, which included FilmNation’s The Whole Truth, Im Global’s Labor Of Love, K5’s Vice and Qed International’s Rock The Kasbah, did not preclude a sustainable if unflashy volume of trade.

Naturally there were talking points. The plight of Exclusive Media came into sharp focus and will dominate conversations in the weeks to come, while The Weinstein Company swooped in a $7m preemptive deal for potential Oscar contender The Imitation Game.

The...

Having meted out justice for his country in the last three James Bond outings, Daniel Craig is now set to do the same in an entirely different setting in the courtroom drama, The Whole Truth.

Word surfaced earlier this month via the Daily Mail that Craig was in negotiations to lead the project, with Variety announcing that he’s now attached to star in the upcoming film.

Interestingly, the original report specifically describes the film as a courtroom drama, whilst the more recent describes it as a thriller. Of course, a film like Runaway Jury shows that the thriller element can be introduced very successfully into the courtroom drama, and given Craig’s undeniable talents in the thriller genre, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we get a little of both.

Details of the plot are currently being kept under wraps, but we do know that Craig is...

Though Daniel Craig is all set to return for Bond 25, we might be seeing the English actor on screen beforehand in a different kind of role. Variety is reporting today that Craig has signed on for Courtney Hunt’s upcoming film The Whole Truth. The script, penned by Nicholas Kazan, is set to be a courtroom thriller/drama and will have the actor playing a lawyer. That, and the fact that it will be shot in Boston, are all we really know about the project at this time.

Bond 25 currently has a release date set for November 6th, 2015. With that in mind, I would imagine that The Whole Truth will go first as being an indie film, it’s clearly not as big of a production and no doubt has a shorter shooting schedule. Unfortunately, no release date has been set yet but with Craig now on board,...

Daniel Craig has taken the lead in Courtney Hunt's upcoming courtroom drama The Whole Truth.

Plot details are being held under wraps, but we do know he will be portraying a lawyer. Frozen River director Courtney Hunt is directing from a script by Nicholas Kazan. Richard Suckle will be producing with FilmNation handling foreign rights.

Daniel Craig most recently appeared in Sam Mendes's James Bond sequel Skyfall. The actor will be returning as the secret agent in the action franchise's next installment Bond 24.

A production schedule has not been released.

With the future for “The Girl Who Played With Fire” still uncertain—“Seven” screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker was reported to have taken a crack at the script last summer—and only “Bond 24” to look forward to, Daniel Craig doesn’t have a lot on his plate, but Variety reports that’s about to change. According to the trade magazine, Craig has attached himself to the Nicholas Kazan-scripted thriller “The Whole Truth.” As it stands now, not much is known about the film nor when production is planned, especially since Craig is set to jump back into a tuxedo later this year for the “Skyfall” follow-up which is set for release in 2015. But Baz Bamigboye notes it will be directed by "Frozen River" helmer Courtney Hunt. Last fall we found out “Gattaca” director Andrew Niccol was teaming up with Ethan Hawke again for an untitled drone thriller that sees...

The Whole Truth

Daniel Craig is attached to star in Courtney Hunt's courtroom drama "The Whole Truth". Nicholas Kazan wrote the script and Richard Suckle will produce, but no story details are available. [Source: Deadline]

The Good Luck of Right Now

Brie Larson ("Short Term 12") is in negotiations to star in Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' film adaptation of Matthew Quick's novel "The Good Luck of Right Now" at DreamWorks.

Mike White has adapted the Philadelphia-set story following the lives of four people, all outsiders, who come together. Larson plays a librarian who believes she was abducted by aliens, and falls for a quirky young man who takes care of his dementia-stricken mother. [Source: Variety]

Entourage: The Movie

Perrey Reeves has signed to reprise her role of Melissa Gold, the long-suffering high-society wife of Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven), in the upcoming film based on HBO's "Entourage".

Reeves appeared in...

Daniel Craig is set to star in "The Whole Truth" from "Enough" writer Nicholas Kazan. There are however, no details on the plot at this time, reports Variety. Richard Suckle of Atlas Entertainment is producing while FilmNation is selling the film on international ground in Berlin. Craig is of course set to reprise his role as James Bond in the upcoming "Bond 24" film which finds theaters on November 6th, 2015. Craig's last work was in the latest Bond flick "Skyfall," and prior to that in David Fincher's remake of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."...

Because running around spying as James Bond is clearly not enough for him, Daniel Craig has decided that what his career needs is another espionage thriller. At least, that's what we assume given that he’s signed on to The Whole Truth.Details about the film are Eyes Only for now, but given the genre and the title we suspect a courtroom might be involved at some point. Yet with Enough’s Nicholas Kazan on board to write the script, it was clearly the concept – whatever that is – that grabbed Craig’s interest.Atlas Entertainment is producing the film, which doesn’t yet appear to have a director attached. It’ll be for sale at the European Film Market, and Craig’s name should go a fair way to generating interest. Still, if it does aim to shoot this year, it might need to get a wiggle on, as the...

• Meg Ryan will make her directorial debut with Ithaca, an adaptation of William Saroyan’s novel The Human Comedy, which frequent co-star Tom Hanks will executive-produce. The story follows the teenage Homer Macauley, left at home in Ithaca, Calif., to care for his mother, sister, and little brother, Ulysses, while his older brother fights in World War II. Ryan will also star in the film opposite Melanie Griffith, Sam Shepard, and Jack Quaid (Ryan’s 21-year-old son, who played Marvel in The Hunger Games). Clarence Brown directed a version of the story in a 1943 film starring Mickey Rooney. [THR]

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First reported earlier this month by The Daily Mail , Deadline has now confirmed that Daniel Craig will headline an upcoming courtroom drama titled The Whole Truth . Frozen River helmer Courtney Hunt is directing from a screenplay by Nicholas Kazan ( Matilda , The Bicentennial Man ). Details on the plot of The Whole Truth are still few, but Craig is said to be playing a lawyer with production targeting Boston, Massachusetts. Craig hasn't appeared on the big screen since his last outting as James Bond in 2012's Skyfall . He is, however, set to reprise the 007 role for the franchise's still-untitled 24th film , which will again be directed by Sam Mendes. Richard Suckle is attached to produce with FilmNation already set to handle foreign rights. (Photo Credit:...

Daniel Craig is headed for the courtroom. The British actor, who recently ended his Broadway run in Betrayal, is attached to star in The Whole Truth, an indie film that CAA has been shopping to financiers and foreign sales agents on the eve of Berlin's European Film Market. Glen Basner's FilmNation has boarded the Atlas Entertainment project and will shop it to foreign buyers in Berlin. Story: Berlin: 'Apollo 18' Director Tapped for Horror Pic 'Sanctuary' Craig enjoys plenty of clout these days after helping to reinvigorate the James Bond film franchise. Skyfall, released in 2012, was a monster hit, grossing

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ABC added four drama pilots to its roster late Friday, picking up projects from Tom Donaghy, Chris Keyser, Richard Lagravanese and Stephanie Savage. Agatha, from The Whole Truth's Donaghy, is a character-driven procedural and centers on a former convict-turned-big-city criminologist who is brought in to help local police crack a case involving a perplexing disappearance. The chief detective she's been hired to help is her father -- and they haven't spoken in 15 years. Donaghy will pen the script and executive produce the ABC Studios entry alongside The Mark Gordon Co. and Michael McDonald. It marks Gordon's third pilot

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Imagine if you will a steely television executive, whom we’ll call Hank, sitting in his plush office across from an equally intimidating man in a fitting black suit chain smoking his life away. The year is 1960 and the cigarette smoking man has just come off the successful first season run of his show “The Twilight Zone”. “Mr. Serling”, the TV exec says with a steady voice, “while your show is a major hit for the CBS Corporation it is greatly taxing our money reserves. At $65,000 per episode you have greatly exceeded your, if I may say so, generous budget.” Mr. Serling just stares at Hank with his piercing brown eyes. “So what do you propose?” he asks as he takes another drag from his cancer stick. The exec replies that he is willing to slash the cost per episode by filming on videotape rather than the usual film. Serling...

Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t watched the season finale of Sons of Anarchy, do not read below.

The death toll on FX’s Sons of Anarchy has swelled once again, and while that’s to be expected from a season finale of one of the most deadly shows on TV, the shocking murder of Maggie Siff’s Tara Knowles at the hands of Gemma (Katey Sagal) is one that will change Jax Teller forever.

“Obviously, it’s a major shift in the mythology,” executive producer Kurt Sutter said at an intimate screening event Tuesday evening in Los Angeles. “I knew that,...

Exclusive: The Mark Gordon Company has set up two more drama projects at ABC through the company’s overall deal at ABC Studios — a character-driven procedural written by Tom Donaghy, creator of the ABC drama The Whole Truth, and a project penned by feature scribe Dean Georgaris (Paycheck). Both are executive produced by Gordon and Nick Pepper. The untitled Tom Donaghy drama, which the Mark Gordon Co is producing with ABC Studios-based Michael McDonald, centers on a big city criminologist who is brought in to help local police crack a case involving a shocking string of disappearances. But the chief detective she’s been hired to help is her father — and they haven’t talked in 10 years. The Georgaris-penned Clementine, produced by the Mark Gordon Co and Ilene Staple, centers on a profoundly troubled 28-year-old psychic who sees her life to begin to change in unexpected ways when she...

Who doesn’t love The Twilight Zone? Well, I don’t know, but I know I don’t want to meet them. It’s safe to assume that most horror fans of any form of advance age(I’m 35) grew up, at the very least, watching re-runs of The Twilight Zone on syndicated television. Some of the creepiest moments in television history are thanks to this series. Hell, I remember as a kid, when I was falling asleep to the sound of the TV playing in the background, just the sound of the opening theme chilled me to my core. I have so many fond memories of watching this show as a child, and as an adult.

Collectors of media are aware, The Twilight Zone has been available on various formats, in various packages for us to consume. But, they’ve always been a bit on the pricey side. I...

Image Entertainment, of Rlj Entertainment, has released The Twilight Zone: The Complete Second Season on DVD, this June 4th, 2013. For $29.98 you can get the entirety of the second season of Rod Serling’s classic sci-fi series, including appearances by William Shatner, Don Rickles, Art Carney and a ton more in what are some of the most indelible moments of the series. Check out the press release below, and stay tuned for a review by yours truly.

Image Entertainment, an Rlj Entertainment (Nasdaq: Rlje) brand, announces the release of the second season of Rod Serling’s groundbreaking, science fiction anthology The Twilight Zone: The Complete Second Season, available on DVD on June 4, 2013 at an Srp of $29.98. Season two features an incredible list of guest stars including Agnes Moorehead, Art Carney, Bill Mumy, Buddy Ebsen, Burgess Meredith, Dick York, Don Rickles, Rod Serling, Sydney Pollack, William Shatner and more!

The Twilight Zone...

Bobby Brown and his wife Alicia Etheredge-Brown have filed a million dollar defamation lawsuit against American Media and author Derrick Handspike. An article in The National Enquirer last March stated, "Whitney Houston was set to stun the world by walking down the aisle once again with her badboy ex-hubby Bobby Brown." The information was sourced to Handspike, who was reported in the article to be a close friend of Brown's and who wrote the book, Bobby Brown the Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But... . Story: Whitney Houston Files Released by FBI Reveal Stalker Letters Now, the

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Teddy ‘fesses up to Rayna in this week’s Nashville, a move that makes the prospect of co-headlining a long tour with a bratty blonde suddenly seem attractive. Elsewhere, Scarlett and Gunnar do what we’ve been wanting them to do since the pilot, and Juliette determinedly finds a way around Sean’s no-sex-before-marriage vow. Before the country-music hour goes on a break until the new year, let’s review the major events that take place in “Where He Leads Me.”

The Whole Truth? | We pick up right after Rayna and Juliette bring the house down at the record-company’s anniversary concert,...

The CW’s Arrow had an abs-olutely impressive debut on Wednesday night, delivering 4.02 million total viewers and a 1.3 demo rating — the network’s most watched episode of anything in three years and its highest rated drama bow since Nikita in 2010. (Last year, Ringer did 2.7 mil/1.2 while Hart of Dixie opened to 1.8 mil/0.7.)

Leading out of Arrow, Supernatural did 2.6 mil/1.0, up 37 and 25 percent from its premiere. Nice.

Related | Fall TV Poll: Did The CW’s Arrow Hit the Spot? Cast Your Vote

Turning to the night’s pair of 10 o’clock debuts: ABC’s Nashville drew 9 million viewers and a 2.8 rating,...

Marsha Thomason is taking a break from keeping an eye on Neal Caffrey.

The White Collar star has lined up a guest spot on Season 2 of TBS’ Men at Work, TVLine has learned exclusively.

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Thomason will play a beautiful British chef for whom James Lesure’s Gibbs falls in Episode 10. The storyline marks a reunion for Thomason and Lesure, who both starred on the NBC drama Las Vegas.

The actress joins previously announced guest stars Seth Green (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Sarah Wright (Parks and Recreation...

Television's quest to make a modern-day adaptation of everything in the public domain continues apace with a new update of "Wuthering Heights" being developed at NBC. According to the Hollywood Reporter, "Everwood" creator Greg Berlanti (whose recent USA miniseries "Political Animals" ended last month) is working on a contemporization of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel about the ill-fated love between Catherine Earnshaw and the brooding Heathcliff. The hourlong drama, which will be written by Tom Donaghy ("The Whole Truth"), is called "Napa" and is set in California wine country, a slightly more welcoming environment than the moorland of the original. Berlanti and Donaghy will executive produce the potential series. "Wuthering Heights" has been adapted to the big screen many times -- "Fish Tank" filmmaker Andrea Arnold's 2011 version, which for the first time casts a black actor,...

Producers Tom Donaghy ("The Whole Truth") and Greg Berlanti ("Arrow") are teaming up on the drama series "Napa" for NBC reports The Live Feed.

Set against the backdrop of Napa Valley, the project is being pitched as a contemporary take on Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" which deals with a doomed love affair.

Berlanti is also teaming with Sara Goodman ("Gossip Girl") for the drama "Family Affair" which is also set up at the network. That show will revolve around two families in a small Connecticut town who are thrown together when an accident claims the lives of a mother and father who were having an affair.

Both projects have received a put-pilot commitment.

The Hollywood Reporter says that NBC is developing a modern "Wuthering Heights" adaptation with Greg Berlanti. Tom Donaghy ("The Whole Truth") will write the Napa-set version. The show is set to be titled "Napa" and will be executive produced by Berlanti and Donaghy. Berlanti Television's Melissa Kellner Berman is on board to co-executive produce. "Wuthering Heights" is the tale of the troubled orphan Heathcliff and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. The novel was published in 1847, the year before author Emily Bronte's death at the age of 30. The windswept moors are the unforgettable setting of this tale of the love between the foundling Heathcliff and his wealthy benefactor's daughter, Catherine. Through Catherine's betrayal of...

NBC is developing a modern-day update of Wuthering Heights. Napa will relocate the events of Emily Bronte's 1847 romantic novel to contemporary Napa Valley, California, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Tom Donaghy - creator of short-lived ABC legal drama The Whole Truth - will script the adaptation and executive produce alongside Greg Berlanti (Arrow, Brothers & Sisters). The original Wuthering Heights charts the doomed love affair between protagonist Catherine Earnshaw and the tortured Heathcliff. Previous adaptations include a 1939 film version starring Laurence (more)...

Prolific producer Greg Berlanti may have two more wins under his belt as he has sold two dramas to NBC.  First up is an hour-long drama series based on Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights."  Set in the Napa Valley, Napa will be written by Tom Donaghy (The Whole Truth).  Donaghy, Berlanti and Melissa Kellner Berman will co-executive produce the hour, which has a put-pilot commitment from the network.  The story, originally published in the mid-1800s, centers on the doomed relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff.  Hit the jump for info on Berlanti's family drama, Family Affair. THR reported on Berlanti's sale of Napa to NBC, as well as the family drama, Family Affair.  The series, which also received a put-pilot commitment from NBC, revolves around two Connecticut families who clash when an accident claims the lives of a mother and father who were involved in an affair. Sara Goodman...

After seeing four projects go to pilot last year, Greg Berlanti is well on his start this development season. The prolific producer has sold two dramas to NBC, including a modern take on Wuthering Heights, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. Titled Napa, the hourlong drama will be written by The Whole Truth's Tom Donaghy, who will executive produce alongside Berlanti. Berlanti Television's Melissa Kellner Berman is on board to co-executive produce the hour, which has received a put-pilot commitment from the network.

Emily Bronte'sWuthering Heights was first

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Ringer‘s ill-fated Gemma has found new life on CSI: NY.

TVLine has learned exclusively that Tara Summers has booked a guest spot in a Season 9 installment of the CBS cop drama.

Summers will drop by this November as Dr. Carly Emerson, a British psychiatrist whose patients mysteriously start turning up dead. Appearing in the same episode is actor Jake Thomas, of Lizzie McGuire fame. He’ll play a college student named Steve, who hails from a wealthy but dysfunctional family.

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In addition to The CW’s short-lived Ringer,...

Josh Stamberg, whose Drop Dead Diva boss man discovered he had a long-lost kid, will be dealt a whole lot more family drama when he visits Criminal Minds.

TVLine has learned that Stamberg will guest-star on the CBS crime drama in Season 8′s third episode, “Through the Looking Glass,” as the father of a desperate family that has been abducted.

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Stamberg tends to keep busy during Diva hiatuses; prior to this, he booked a double-episode arc on ABC’s Castle, playing a suspicious CIA agent. His TV...

Blake Lively may be ready to say goodbye to "Gossip Girl," but another actress is about to say hello.

Andrea Gabriel, best known for playing Sayid's love interest Nadia on ABC's "Lost," will join the cast of the CW teen drama for its sixth and final season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Gabriel, 34, will take on a recurring role as a businesswoman from Dubai (though no word on how her character will fit into the Upper East Side gang's story lines).

Since "Lost" ended in 2010, Gabriel has appeared on ABC's "The Whole Truth" and TNT's "Franklin & Bash," and also landed a role in the forthcoming final "Twilight Saga" installment, "Breaking Dawn -- Part 2."

The sixth season of "Gossip Girl" premieres Monday, Oct. 8.

Andrea Gabriel has been cast on Gossip Girl Season 6.

The actress - best known to TV viewers as Nadia on Lost - will appear on multiple episodes of The CW drama this fall as Amira, a businesswoman from Dubai, Variety reports.

Gabriel has also guest-starred on House, The Whole Truth and Franklin & Bash. She will make her big screen debut this November as Kebi in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2.

Gossip Girl, meanwhile, kicks off its final stretch of episodes on October 8.

Exclusive: Rain Management Group has hired Anne Damato as a manager to focus primarily on TV. She worked for James Cameron at Lightstorm Entertainment and as a VP Motion Pictures at Brillstein Grey before segueing to the TV side with a stint at Patricia Heaton’s 4 Boys Films before her most recent gig at Rabiner/Damato Entertainment. Her clients are writers and directors expected to follow her from her previous post at Rabiner/Damato: writers Dee Harris Lawrence (Zero Hour), Marc Halsey (Brothers & Sisters, The Carrie Diaries), Robert Chiappetta & Glen Whitman (Fringe), Sandy Isaac (Franklin & Bash), Ayanna Floyd (Private Practice), Keto Shimizu (Being Human), Ali Laventhol & Tawnya Bhattacharya (Fairly Legal), Tom Donaghy (The Whole Truth), Eric Haywood (Private Practice), and Monica Macer (Infamous); and directors Wendey Stanzler (The Client List, Nine Lives Of Chloe King pilots) J Miller Tobin (Revenge, Covert Affairs, The Vampire Diaries), Ron Lagmarsino (Pretty Little Liars,...

In their ongoing campaign to misrepresent how Crime Scene Investigation actually works, CSI: NY will focus on a string of arsons in their CSI: NY season 9 opener. Reeled in to assist Gary Sinise and company with their over-the-top forensic shenanigans will be a “firebug” expert, Rob Morrow.

I’m sure the CSI: NY season 9 premiere will be a thrill a minute: Fires, explosions, fires, children in danger, Nyfd firefighters and fires. And Rob Morrow.

What does it all mean for the former centerpiece of Northern Exposure? Rob Morrow expands his quiet dynasty over TV. That’s what it means.

Numb3rs was, of course, Rob’s latest home. What a happy home it was. It had a healthy six-season run, just enough to tickle the whiskers of syndication, and then bowed out. He then gravitated over to one of the legal procedural dramas that tend to spawn like tribbles every few years,...