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Ashley Judd Jumps to TV for ‘Missing’ Action Drama

Ashley Judd is joining more and more film stars that are hitting the small screen, though production values these days usually mirror that of a movie. The new ABC series which has been in development for a while is called Missing, and it’s story echoes Liam Neesons’ hit movie Taken.  The show centers on Becca […]

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T-Bag Breaks Out Of Prison

Robert Knepper is reprising his character of T-Bag in something of a TV cross-over to help kick-off a new show about convicts breaking out of prison. Breakout Kings is created by Nick Santora and Prison Break‘s Matt Olmstead, and the story focuses on a squad of U.S. Marshals who make deals with a group of […]

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David E.Kelley Finds His Wonder Woman

David E. Kelley‘s re-imagining of the D.C. comic’s character has found it’s leading lady, with 27 year old Adrianne Palicki landing the iconic role of Wonder Woman. The actress was last seen in the short lived series ‘Lonestar’ and played the tough-as-nails Tyra Collette in ‘Friday Night Lights’. She also had guest stints on ‘Smallville’ […]

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New 3D Fantastic Voyage Finds It’s Director

The 1966 film  Fantastic Voyage was a memorable sci-fi special effects extravaganza that was directed by Richard Fleischer and starred screen siren Raquel Welch. The story followed a team of scientists that along with a specially designed nuclear submarine, were shrunk using advanced miniaturization technology to journey inside the body of a fallen diplomat and […]

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Terra Nova – TV Promo

Here’s the first TV promo for the upcoming show Terra Nova that airs in May on Fox and other networks soon after. It’s a mega-bucks production that’s rumored to cost around $4 million an episode so it’s going to have to generate big numbers and a loyal following to keep it on the air. It’s […]

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Tim Kring’s New Show, Reflects on Heroes Demise

Tim Kring is bringing a new show to TV that might take a hint from AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’. Talking earlier this month with Metro, the 52 year old writer / producer who found success writing for the original ‘Knight Rider’, created NBC’s once phenomenal series ‘Heroes’. Combining top notch production values with a great […]

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Kiefer Sutherland’s Web Series and 24 Update

Whilst Jack Bauer’s movie may have been delayed due to script issues, Kiefer Sutherland has been keeping busy with a new web series that will stream on Hulu this March. The Confession consists of 10 five-to-seven-minute webisodes from the Digital Broadcasting Group and features Sutherland as a hitman who has a theological discussion with a […]

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Sarah Michelle Gellar Returns to TV in ‘Ringer’

She’ll probably always be known as Buffy, but Sarah Michelle Gellar has been pursued by the broadcast networks since the show ended in 2003. Now she’ll be returning to TV with a pilot drama, the first to be picked up this season by CBS. The network has given the greenlight to ‘Ringer’, which is from […]

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Larry Hagman To Return For Dallas Reboot

The iconic TV show Dallas which ran from 1978 through to 1991 is being rebooted with series stars Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray and Larry Hagman set to return. Production on the pilot for Turner Network Television begins in a few months and was written by Cynthia Cidre (Mambo Kings & Cane). The new show will […]

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Kennedys Mini-Series Yanked from History Channel

In an abrupt move the 8 part mini-series The Kennedys has been pulled from A&E Television Networks.  Starring Greg Kinnear as John F. Kennedy, Katie Holmes as Jackie Kennedy, Barry Pepper as Robert F. Kennedy and Tom Wilkinson as Joe Kennedy,  the stars and producer Joel Surnow were recently told of the snap decision to […]

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Falling Skies Promo and Comic Series

Heres’ the new promo for the upcoming series on the TNT network which looks like it could have all the right ingredients; aliens, displaced citizens and some impressive visuals. Its from executive producer Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Television with the pilot episode written by Robert Rodat of Saving Private Ryan fame. Falling Skies stars Noah […]

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