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.

First Official Look At Selina Kyle In FOX's "Gotham" & More Set Pics

Courtesy of Warner Bros TV, they have released the first official still of Camren Bicondova as Selina Kyle, who will in the future become the notorious villian known as Catwoman. Below, we also have a couple set photos from recent filming (via GothamSite) featuring more shots of Bicondova as Selina, as well as young Bruce Wayne. 

Gotham already has a full series order and is set to debut this fall starring Ben McKenzie as James Gordon, Donal Logue as Harvey Bullock and Robin Taylor Lord as Oswald Cobblepot.

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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.

RT If You Remember the 90s: More People Comin' Back for GIRL MEETS WORLD

It would appear that a few familiar faces will join The Disney Channel sequel to their loved and acclaimed Boy Meets World which ran for 7 seasons from 1993 to 2000 and has since become a treasured nostalgic beacon for "90s kids" allover Facebook and Twitter.

Danielle Fishel, who reprises her role as Topanga Lawrence-Matthews, posted a photo to her Instagram saying:

"Happy to have these familiar faces on set with us this week,"

Showing the Matthews family dining with returning stars Rider Strong (Shawn), as well as Betsy Randle and William Russ who played Corey's parents in the series.

Also announced was the return of Mr. Feeny and Minkus, portrayed by William Daniels and Lee Norris respectively.

No premier date is set for the sequel series.

Girl Meets World follows Riley Matthews (Rowan Blanchard), daughter of Cory (Savage) and Topanga (Fishel) as well as her "BFF" Maya (Sabrina Carpenter) as they begin 7th grade in New York City where Cory has followed Mr. Feeny's foot-steps as a history teacher, and Topanga owns a popular after-school hangout that specializes in pudding.

New Trailer for GAME OF THRONES Featuring "The Devil Inside" by London Grammar

 

In honor of thought's New York City premier of Game of Thrones season 4, The Official Facebook Page has given up a new trailer featuring British hip-hop band London Grammar's song "The Devil Inside" over scenes of Daenerys' conquest of Mereen, Jon Snow leading the Battle of the Wall, and the chaos in King's Landing around Tyrion, Jaime, the Red Viper of Dorner, and a brief set up for Brienne's mission to find a missing Stark.  

Thanks for watching the #GoTPremiereNYC Facebook Live Stream.

Watch an exclusive #GoTSeason4 trailer ft. the song “Devil Inside,” performed by London Grammar.

Based on the acclaimed A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin, Season 4 sets things up to the second "big climax" of the series after Season 1's earth-shattering actions involving Joffrey's taking of the throne, Lord Eddard Stark's beheading, and the sparking of the War of the Five Kings as well as the scattering of the Stark children, and the birthing of Daenerys Targaryen's dragons.

Game of Thrones premiers April 9 on HBO, 9/8c.

Showtime's MASTERS OF SEX Decides to "Break Bad" With Betsy Brandt

 

Betsy Brandt, best known as Marie Schrader on AMC's critically acclaimed drama Breaking Bad, has joined Showtime's fantastic period-drama, Masters of Sex, which also recently cast Keke Palmer.

Brandt will recur and play Barbara, new secretary to Dr. William Masters (Michael Sheen). She fills the role previously held by MargoMartindale's Miss Horchow, who guest-starred in the series premiere, and Caitlin Fitzgerald's Libby, who temporarily filled in as his secretary in season one. 

Masters of Sex premiered in September and went on to receive numerous accolades for it's leading performances by Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon) and Lizzy Caplan (Cloverfield) as sex-researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. 

The Hollywood Reporter broke the news, with Season 2 currently filming right now in Los Angeles. 

George R.R. Martin Has A Plan To Keep GAME OF THRONES From Catching Up With His Novels

 

After news came earlier last week about the hit HBO series Game of Thrones and what "might" happen should the series catch up with writer George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels, author Martin has told Vanity Fair in their feature Game of Thrones themed issue his plan for making sure the series doesn't catch up before he can release The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring, the final two novels of his story of Westeros.

 The season that’s about to debut covers the second half of the third book. The third book [A Storm of Swords] was so long that it had to be split into two. But there are two more books beyond that, A Feast for Crowsand A Dance with Dragons. A Dance with Dragons is itself a book that’s as big as A Storm of Swords. So there’s potentially three more seasons there, between Feast and Dance, if they split into two the way they did [with Storms]. Now, Feastand Dance take place simultaneously. So you can’t do Feast and then Dance the way I did. You can combine them and do it chronologically. And it’s my hope that they’ll do it that way and then, long before they catch up with me, I’ll have published The Winds of Winter, which’ll give me another couple years. It might be tight on the last book, A Dream of Spring, as they juggernaut forward.

This is what show-runners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss told Vanity Fair regarding Game of Thrones and the novels current time-frame:

"Last year we went out to Santa Fe for a week to sit down with him [Martin] and just talk through where things are going, because we don’t know if we are going to catch up and where exactly that would be," explained Benioff. "If you know the ending, then you can lay the groundwork for it. And so we want to know how everything ends. We want to be able to set things up. So we just sat down with him and literally went through every character.”

It was made clear long ago Martin and the show-runners had gone over the future of the series, as the television show has already featured and hinted at many things not yet touched upon in the books.

Martin also said he isn't opposed to a mid-season break much like Breaking Bad  or Mad Men had, or maybe even a prequel season.

“I don’t want to sound too glib about this. This is a serious concern.” He continues, “We’re going forward, and the kids are getting older. Maisie was the same age as Arya when it started, but now Maisie is a young woman and Arya is still 11. Time is passing very slowly in the books and very fast in real life.”

A Prequel season, in my opinion, would be the smartest thing to do, given the series has a "no flashbacks and no fools" policy, fans of the show who have yet to read the books have not been exposed to Lyanna Stark, Rhaegar Targaryen, and many of the events that have a huge impact on the world. 

Game of Thrones returns to HBO this April. 

"How I Met Your Mother" Spin-Off, "How I Met Your Dad", Find it's Leads

 

Deadline reports the last of How I Met Your Dad's cast has been filled out, with Nick D'Agosto and Andrew Santino.

 In the vein of the original series, HIMYD tells the story from a female point of view, that of Sally (Gerwig), and revolves around a new group of friends in New York. D’Agosto, repped by UTA, Emerald Talent and SMGSB, will play Frank, the head of IT for Juliet’s (Rodriguez) fashion blog who falls for Sally. Santino, repped by CAA and Underground, will play Danny, Sally’s older brother, a perfect but uptight overachieving lawyer. 

D'Agosto has had his fair share of comedy work from Fired Up and is currently starring in ShowTime's Masters of Sex, and Santino is best known for producing Henry Poole is Here as well as starring in Arrested Development and the current running Mixology.

Workaholics Anders Holm was also recently cast in the program as well.

How I Met Your Mother is nearing the end of it's 9 year run, and has been a ratings and cultural phenomenon for CBS starring Neil Patrick Harris, the girl from American Pie and the chick from the Marvel movies.