The BBC has named its new Doctor Who, and the choice has a fair number of people saying, Who?
Matt Smith will be the 11th actor to play the iconic sci-fi character — and the third since the series relaunched in 2005, following Christopher Eccleston and current star David Tennant. The 26-year-old is a relative newcomer [...]
David E. Kelley has gone across the Atlantic to find a star for his pilot Legally Mad.
British actress Charity Wakefield has taken the lead role in the project, about a young lawyer who joins the cast of eccentrics at her father’s firm. The NBC pilot has also added Jon Seda (Close to Home) to its [...]
Mark Feuerstein will be on-call at USA.
The actor stars in Royal Pains, a doctor series that USA picked up for 11 hourlong episodes, in addition to the two-hour pilot, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Jeff Wachtel, executive vp original programing at USA, says the show will be more quirky and personal than the ensemble medical shows [...]
Lauren Velez is trading in her Dexter badge for a nurse’s uniform in a guest arc on Ugly Betty.
Velez will appear in multiple episodes of the ABC series, where she’ll play a nurse. Just who she’s nursing, and how she enters the life of Betty ( America Ferrera) and her family, are details that the [...]
Someone is making money off of CBS’ top TV comedy Two and a Half Men but it’s not Warner Bros. TV according to a $49 million suit they filed against the network lare Tuesday.
CBS originally agreed to pay a $750,000 per episode license fee during the show’s first four seasons. Thing is, it costs an [...]
One more familiar face will be making her final rounds in the ER this season.
Alex Kingston, who had a seven-season run on the NBC series as Dr. Elizabeth Corday, will reprise her role on Thursday, Jan. 15, NBC says. She joins former TV husband Anthony Edwards and Noah Wyle in making guest appearances during the [...]
HBO has ponied up for Cocaine Cowboys, a drama about the 1980s drug trade in Miami.
Prolific producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay brought the project, based on a documentary by Billy Corben, to the cable channel and will executive produce. Meredith Stiehm, creator of the Bruckheimer-produced Cold Case, will write a pilot script, according [...]
FOX is taking another spin into the supernatural, ordering a pilot script for a dramedy about a group of friends who are also werewolves.
The project, called Bitches, and comes from film writer Michael Dougherty (Superman Returns). FOX has given it a script commitment, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Elsewhere, Spike TV has ordered a pilot [...]
The Shield star Michael Chiklis is staying in the FX fold, moving behind the camera to develop a series about a Ponzi scheme.
The project, called House of Cards, will focus on a group of people running a complicated scam similar to the one that investment advisor Bernard Madoff is accused of orchestrating. Madoff’s alleged scheme, [...]
HBO has picked up two more comedy series, bringing the total of new laffers debuting on the channel in the coming months to four.
The latest series orders are for Bored to Death, starring Jason Schwartzman as a writer-turned-private eye, and How to Make It in America, about a pair of would-be entrepreneurs (Victor Rasuk and [...]