Justin Lin Could Make "True Detective" Season 2 Awfully Fast and/or Furious

Whle True Detective Season 2 has been swirling in the rumor mill since the first season basically ended, with every able-bodied man and woman "potentially" eyed for a role, Deadline reports that Fast and Furious 6 director Justin Lin is set to direct the first two episodes of HBO's hit series' sophomore season.
 

I have learned that The Fast And The Furious‘ Justin Lin is in talks to direct at least the first two episodes of the upcoming season. He would succeed Cary Fukunaga, who helmed and executive produced all eight episodes from Season 1 and just won the best director for a drama series Emmy for his work. 

Deadline sticks to rumors that the True Detective Season 2 cast will include Colin Farrell (In Bruges, Fright Night ), Vince Vaughn (The Cell, PSYCHO ), and Taylor Kitsch (John Carter, SAVAGES ) with a female lead still being eyed. 

According to circulated breakdowns, the second cycle of True Detective will be set in California and focus on the investigation of a corrupt city manager who gets murdered amidst a potential groundbreaking transportation deal.

GAME OF THRONES Leads 2014 Emmy Nominations; Good Shows Get Snubbed

 

The Nominations for the 2014 Emmy Awards were revealed today, and leading the pack was HBO's Game of Thrones which ended it's bloody 5th season this past June, with Netflix's Orange is the New Black and AMC's Breaking Bad trailing not too far behind. 

Best Comedy series: 

"The Big Bang Theory" 

"Louis"

"Modern Family"

"Orange Is the New Black"

"Silicon Valley"

"Veep"

Best Actress in a Comedy Series:

Lena Dunham, "Girls"

Edie Falco, "Nurse Jackie"

Julia Louis Dreyfus, "Veep"

Melissa McCarthy, "Mike & Molly"

Amy Poehler, "Parks & Recreation"

Taylor Schilling, "Orange Is the New Black"

Best Actor in a Comedy Series:

Jim Parsons, "The Big Bang Theory"

Ricky Gervais, "Derek"

Matt LeBlanc, "Episodes"

Don Cheadle, "House of Lies"

Louis C.K., "Louie"

William H. Macy, "Shameless"

Supporting Actor, Comedy:

Andre Braugher, "Brookiyn Nine-Nine"

Adam Driver, "Girls"

Jesse Tyler Ferguson, "Modern Family"

Ty Burrell, "Modern Family"

Fred Armisen, "Portlandia"

Tony Hale, "Veep"

Supporting Actress, Comedy:

Mayim Bialik, "The Big Bang Theory"

Julie Bowen, "Modern Family"

Allison Janney, "Mom"

Kate Mulgrew, "Orange Is the New Black"

Kate McKinnon, "Saturday Night Live"

Anna Chlumsky, "Veep"

Best Drama Series:

"Breaking Bad"

"Downton Abbey"

"Game of Thrones"

"House of Cards"

"Mad Men"

"True Detective"

Best Actress, Drama:

Lizzy Caplan, "Masters of Sex"

Claire Danes, "Homeland"

Michelle Dockery, "Downton Abbey"

Julianna Margulies, "The Good Wife"

Kerry Washington, "Scandal"

Robin Wright, "House of Cards"

Best Actor, Drama:

Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad"

Jeff Daniels, "The Newsroom"

Jon Hamm, "Mad Men"

Woody Harrelson, "True Detective"

Matthew McConaughey, "True Detective"

Kevin Spacey, "House of Cards"

Supporting Actor, Drama:

Aaron Paul, "Breaking Bad"

Jim Carter, "Downton Abbey"

Peter Dinklage, "Game of Thrones"

Josh Charles, "The Good Wife"

Mandy Patinkin, "Homeland"

Jon Voight, "Ray Donovan"

Supporting Actress, Drama:

Anna Gunn, "Breaking Bad"

Maggie Smith, "Downton Abbey"

Lena Headey, "Game of Thrones"

Christine Baranski, "The Good Wife"

Christina Hendricks, "Mad Men"

Joanne Froggatt, "Downton Abbey"

Miniseries or Movie:

"American Horror Story: Coven"

"Bonnie & Clyde"

"Fargo"

"Luther"

"Treme"

"The White Queen"

Best Actress, Miniseries or Movie:

Jessica Lange, "American Horror Story: Coven"

Sarah Paulson, "American Horror Story: Coven" 

Helena Bonham Carter, "Burton and Taylor"

Minnie Driver, "Return to Zero"

Kristen Wiig, "The Spoils of Babylon"

Cicely Tyson, "The Trip Bountiful"

Best Actor, Miniseries or Movie:

Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Dancing on the Edge"

Martin Freeman, "Fargo"

Billy Bob Thornton, "Fargo"

Idris Elba, "Luther"

Mark Ruffalo, "The Normal Heart"

Obviously it's been a pretty good year for TV; and as usual plenty were taken aback that shows such as NBC's HANNIBAL or FX's The Bridge and The Americans weren't nominated for much.

The 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Seth Meyers will air August 25 at 8 p.m. on NBC. 

Marilyn Manson is Coming to Charming in SONS OF ANARCHY's Final Season

 

The testosterone-filled biker drama Sons of Anarchy is gearing up to enter it's final season this fall, and shock-rocker Marilyn Manson has reportedly been cast as a shot-caller whom Jax Teller (Charlie Hunnam, Pacific Rim) uses to expand his influence while in jail.

Deadline reports:

“Sons has been such a big part of my life, as well as my father’s,” said Manson, who had a bit role on HBO’s Eastbound & Down last year. “So I was determined to make him proud by being involved in what will probably be remembered as the most amazing piece of television cinema. After all, the very heart of SOA is about that relationship. So now all I need is a motorcycle.” 

Sons of Anarchy follows the titular SAMCRO Gang located out of Charming, California and has been a huge hit for FX in the past 6 years it has been on, pushing the boundaries of even it's TV-MA rating.

The show ended it's bloody and controversial 6th season with a huge death, and the 7th season is expected to begin "just before" the big kill.

Sarah Silverman to join Showtime's MASTERS OF SEX

 

Sarah Silverman, "comedian" and star of The Sarah Silverman Project as well as Venelope VonSweets in Wreck-It Ralph and can be seen this summer in A Million Ways to Die in the West, has been set to join Showtime's Masters of Sex (probably topless) which premiers this July entering it's second season.

USA Today reports:

Showtime announced she will "recur in the guest starring role of Helen."

She will be joining Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan as Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson who are responsible for changing the entire landscape of how people view and know about sex.

Silverman will also be joining newcomer Betsy Brandt, best known as Marie Schrader on AMC's critically acclaimed drama Breaking Bad.

Masters of Sex stars Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan as real-life pioneers of human sexuality, William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the series chronicles their unusual lives, romance and pop culture trajectory. Their research touched off the sexual revolution and took them from a mid-western teaching hospital in St. Louis to the cover of Time magazine. The series is an adaptation of Thomas Maier’s book Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, The Couple Who Taught America How To Love.

Masters of Sex returns Sunday, July 13. 

GLEE's Final Season Will Go Somewhere New; Finale Focuses on Rachel and Will.

 

Showrunner Ryan Murphy, busy with hihs HBO film The Normal Heart as well as the upcoming American Horror Story has detailed how fans should expect the long-running Fox series GLEE to end in it's sixth and final season.

“The final season is its own story in its own location; it is not New York-centric at all. It really is a lovely, fitting season that dwells on the original people on the show and what happens to them and how they give back. … We’ll revisit some of the new kids that came and went, there’s a return of [Jane Lynch's Sue Sylvester] and [Matthew Morrison's Will Schuester] in a big way.”

As Season 5 has mostly taken place in New York City and moved away from McKinley High with an almost new set of characters, Murphy told TV Line that they are reaching out to any and all cast that want to return to send off the hit musical drama as well as doing a time jump.

We are going to do a time jump. And my feeling about the last season of Glee is very clear, and that is that we have, or we will be, reaching out to all the regulars on the show — the original group of glee club members and teachers, and anyone who wants to come back. Anyone who wants to be a part of the show, we welcome them. I know people are saying, “Well, why isn’t Heather [Morris] on the show now?” and things like that. 

Murphy then opened up about the tragic passing of star Corey Monelith and how it affected the series' ending plans:

We talk about this in the writers’ room all the time. That’s a really hard, very painful, very difficult thing for the show. I’ve said it before, and it was even in Cory’s eulogy, but that was the ending of the show for me, these two star-crossed lovers having a happy ending and both getting their dreams. So the fact that that can’t be is a big pain in all of our hearts. 

You can read the full article at TV Line, and GLEE will enter it's final season next year. 

A&E Will Check Back Into the BATES MOTEL for a Third Season

 

White Pine Bay has it's fair share of secrets, and A&E is hoping to stick around to uncover some more of them.
Based on Alfred Hitchcock's acclaimed PSYCHO (based in turn off the novel of the same name), Bates Motel premiered in 2013 to rave reviews and shot to become A&E's most watched drama, so it's no surprise the drama series would get renewed again.

From Variety, David McKillop, A&E Network Exec VP and General Manager said:

 “The incredible writing team and talented ‘Bates Motel’ cast has made this series one of the most compelling original dramas on television,” McKillop said in a statement. “The brilliant twists and turns of the past two seasons keep its loyal fanbase coming back for more. We are so proud of the show.”

Production will begin in the fall, with Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga as well as the rest of the series' stellar cast expected to return (unless some people start dropping like flies).

New Promo for 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY: Every Second Counts

 

Jack Baur returns this May to FOX with a special 12 episode mini-series, 24: Live Another Day, and in the mean-time here's a new promo showing just how high the stakes have gotten for Baur (who now has a sleeve tattoo which is just so damn sexy).

24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY is a thrilling new event series set to restart the ticking clock on the groundbreaking and Emmy Award-winning drama. 
The high-octane saga reunites the Emmy Award-winning team of executive producer Howard Gordon; star and executive producer Kiefer Sutherland; co-creator Robert Cochran; executive producers, Evan Katz, Manny Coto, David Fury, Brian Grazer and director Jon Cassar. It also will retain the real-time, pulse-pounding, fast-paced format with split screens and interweaving storylines. 
Set and shot in London, the suspenseful event series once again will follow the exploits of heroic agent JACK BAUER (Sutherland). Four years ago, Jack was a fugitive from justice. Now an exile, he nevertheless is willing to risk his life and freedom to avert yet another global disaster. Tracking Jack are CIA head STEVE HARRIS (Benjamin Bratt, "Law & Order"); CIA agent KATE MORGAN (Yvonne Strahovski, "Dexter"), who is both resourceful and ruthless; JORDAN REED (Giles Matthey, "Jobs"), a smart and sophisticated CIA computer tech; and ERIK RITTER (Gbenga Akinnagbe, "The Wire"), a sharp, strong and arrogant field operative. Calling the shots is JAMES HELLER (William Devane, "The Dark Knight Rises"), now President of the United States. Heller is flanked by his Chief of Staff MARK BOUDREAU (Tate Donovan, "Damages"), who is married to Heller's daughter -- Jack's former flame, AUDREY (Kim Raver, "Revolution"). Meanwhile, a hardened CHLOE O'BRIAN (Mary Lynn Rajskub, "Firewall"), Bauer's CTU confidante, is now working underground with high-profile hacker ADRIAN CROSS (Michael Wincott, "The Crow"). Guest stars on 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY include Golden Globe Award winner Judy Davis ("Life with Judy Garland") and Golden Globe Award nominee Stephen Fry ("Alice in Wonderland," BONES). The harrowing day will have Jack attempting to thwart an unthinkable terrorist attack that could change the world forever.

Story Trailer for FX's FARGO

 

FX is on the ball when it comes to dramatic television, with such hits as Justified, The Bridge, The Americas, American Horror Story and now adding an anthology-based series off of the Coen Brothers acclaimed 1996 film of the same name, with the Coens themselves acting as executive producers.

The series premiers April 15 and stars Billy Bob-Thorton (Friday Night Lights, Bad News Bears), Martin Freeman (The World's End, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Colin Hanks (King Kong, DEXTER).

An original adaptation of the Academy Award®-winning feature film, Fargo features an all-new “true crime” story and follows a new case and new characters, all entrenched in the trademark humor, murder and “Minnesota nice” that made the film an enduring classic. Oscar® winner Billy Bob Thornton stars as “Lorne Malvo,” a rootless, manipulative man who meets and forever changes the life of small town insurance salesman “Lester Nygaard,” played by BAFTA Award® winner and Emmy®-nominated Martin Freeman. Colin Hanks plays Duluth Police Deputy “Gus Grimly,” a single dad who must choose between his own personal safety and his duty as a policeman when he comes face-to-face with a killer. Allison Tolman also stars as “Molly Solverson,” an ambitious Bemidji deputy. 

First Official Look At Harvey Bullock's (Donal Logue) Fedora in FOX's GOTHAM

 

Well if you're interested in FOX's drama based off the life and times of James Gordon working the mean streets of Gotham, you've probably already seen the leaked set pics of the show's pilot episode; but today we get out first official look at Donal Logue (Sons of Anarchy) as Harvey Bullock, tipping his fedora to the crime ridden streets of Gotham.

Warner Bros TV has released this image of Donal Logue as Gotham City Police Detective Harvey Bullock.Gotham explores the origin stories of Commissioner James Gordon (Ben McKenzie) as an idealistic rookie detective in Gotham City and the rogues’ gallery of villains that made the city infamous. Bullock is Gordon’s rough-around-the-edges partner and mentor.

Deadline reports.

 

GOTHAM is soon coming to FOX, along with another DC program going to NBC, Constantine, which will round out the holy trinity as ARROW soon enters it's 3rd season. 

AMERICAN HORROR STORY Season 4 To Be "Carnival" Set

Love it or hate it or don't care either way, since FX's American Horror Story seems to be one of the most divisive shows around, either way it's coming back, and Huffington Post reports (by way of A.V. Club) that they'll be going into some HBO territory.

In a podcast with Nerdist Writers Panel, "AHS" writer and co-executive producer Douglas Petrie spilled the setting of Season 4. When first asked about it, he quickly responded, "I can say nothing." Then Moira Kirkland, a writer for "Castle" and "Arrow" also on the podcast, said, "Well I don't know if it's true, but I heard carnival." Petrie responded, "Yes -- that was the, it -- it does not have a title."

They continued:

Podcast moderator Ben Blacker then asked, "But that's the setting?" and Petrie confirmed, "That's the idea, that's very roughly the idea." Listen to the podcast around the 33-minute mark to hear for yourself.

So there you have it. Haunted house, an asylum, a coven of witches, and now a carnival of evil.
There's a lot that could be done around that premise, and FX doesn't seem to be slowing down in terms of quality, so Season 4 might be American Horror Story's best yet.