J.J. Abrams has a longstanding tradition of casting unknown ingénues as the female leads of his projects. Following in the hallowed footsteps of Keri Russell ("Felicity"), Jennifer Garner ("Alias"), Evangeline Lilly ("Lost") and Anna Torv ("Fringe"), British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw has landed the female lead of "Undercovers," Abrams' new pilot for NBC.
Mbatha-Raw is a graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art best known for her breakthrough role as Ophelia opposite Jude Law in the D...
Michael C. Hall of “Dexter” fame has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, but is on the road to recovery.
In a statement yesterday, Hall said he was fortunate to be diagnosed with a “treatable and curable condition,” and thanked his doctors and nurses for their expertise.
The actor’s spokesguy, Craig Bankey, said the cancer is in remission and Hall’s treatment will continue as planned. Hall, 38, is expected to attend Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards with his wife and...
Cusick -- who plays Desmond Hume on "Lost" -- has settled a sexual harassment lawsuit with a former production staffer who sued him back in April for allegedly grabbing and touching her inappropriately.
The woman sued Cusick, ABC and a Hawaiian production company. Her lawyer tells TMZ she has settled with all the defendants and the terms are confidential.
This Article is a follow up to my previous article - http://eztv.it/tvnews/3741/lost...
Betty Suarez is boldly going where she has never gone before: inside a one-piece.
Sources confirm to EW that Ugly Betty is heading to the Bahamas next month to shoot an episode on location at the Atlantis Resort and Casino.
Most of the cast will be making the trek for the special episode, which will air in November and revolve around a big Mode photo shoot. “Location shoots can make or break you as an editor, so it’s a big deal for Betty, there’s also some drama with a ...
It’s not James Marsters but this will do nicely…
Dollhouse has tapped spooky-cool Ray Wise to join the cast in the potentially recurring role of Howard, an intelligent higher-up in the Dollhouse who has huge presence and humor.
Wise is coming off of a two-year stint as Lucifer on The CW’s Reaper. Of course, he’ll forever be the dude who offed Laura Palmer.
Dollhouse, which kicks off season 2 a week from Friday, is amassing quite the impressive talent roster th...
Forget Nation. It's a Colbert Universe now and we just live in it.
After finally docking at the International Space Station Sunday night, astronauts on the Space Shuttle Discovery have unloaded that long-awaited treadmill NASA named after Stephen Colbert.
Dubbed C.O.L.B.E.R.T., the exercise machine, in typical space agency parlance, stands for Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill. Its mission: to enable residents of the ISS to get a good workout as they go about ...
News comes that 'Deadwood'’s John Hawkes had been tapped to play Lennon, the “scruffy, edgy, charismatic spokesperson/translator for the president of a foreign corporation.†in the sixth and final season of ABC's 'Lost'.
Also in Lost casting news. Super-famous Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, best known stateside for his roles in The Last Samurai and Rush Hour 3, will also be joining the final season, sources confirm however his role within the series has not yet been announ...
Vampire fans can rest easy. True Blood has been renewed for a third season of blood-sucking starting next summer.
The show, which is HBO's biggest hit since The Sopranos, has steadily increased its audience with every episode, reaching a network-high average of 3.8 million viewers each week.
Also returning will be Hung and Entourage, two solidly performing series that fill out the rest of HBO's Sunday night lineup.
This new deal maintains the two consecutive hours of hit programming,...
Bolivian TV channel PAT broadcasted extraordinary images of the last moments of Air France flight 447, lost over the Atlantic on 1 June:
According to the report, the snaps were retrieved from a recovered Casio Z750, which was subsequently traced via the serial number to its owner - "Paulo G. Muller, an actor from a well-known children's theatre on the outskirts of Porto Alegre".
In fact, the camera can be traced to ABC Studios and sharp-eyed readers will notice that the photograp...
The identity of Top Gear's test driver has long been debated. It is one of the most popular internet search questions.
Schumacher's appearance on the show was more than likely a stunt to mark the first episode of the new BBC Two series.
A spokesman for Top Gear confirmed Schumacher had been The Stig during the Ferrari circuit, where he completed a lap of the Top gear track in 1 minute 10.7 seconds in a £1 million Ferrari FXX – seven seconds faster than ever before.
Stephen Colbert kicked off his week of Colbert Report tapings in Iraq by shaving his head.
Though Colbert's jokes got plenty of laughs, the loudest roar came when General Ray Odierno, following a direct order from President Barack Obama, shaved the funnyman's hair.
Colbert, wearing a camouflaged business suit custom-made for him by Brooks Brothers and carrying a golf club like former USO tour regular Bob Hope, opened the show by declaring victory in Iraq. "By the power vested in me b...
Season four of Heroes begins filming next Monday, and the cast of guest stars is beginning to fill out. Along with returning regulars, like Star Trek's Zachary Quinto, Volume Five: Redemption will include a new villain and a new friend for Hayden Panettiere's wayward Claire.
Who are these new characters, and what is the setting for season four? Here's what we know:
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Prison Break's Robert Knepper (aka creepmaster T-Bag) will be playing Samuel, a charismat...
Following the dramatic finale, which jumped four years into the future, this special edition fills in the gaps and tells us what happened to Michael and Lincoln during those missing years.
The Final Break continues from the season four series finale and will be exclusively broadcast on Sky1 in the UK on Wednesday May 27, 2009.
The episodes are scheduled for Blu-ray and DVD release on July 21, 2009.
Hats off to Latina.com for taking the time to get the ‘full’ story on this latest contrversy. Fringe star Kirk Acevedo, who plays Charlie on the show, announced - in caps - that he had been fired from the show via his Facebook account. “Well boys and girls they done did yer boy wrong! They fired me off Fringe and I’ve never been fired in my life!!!!†Acevedo declared, setting a blogging firestorm into action. So far, FOX has said nothing further about the suppos...
Television can be very strange. Here we are in the tense month of May, as several shows teeter between cancellation and renewal, waiting for news on their fates - But one thing these shows have in common is they've actually aired. Meanwhile though, FOX has renewed The Cleveland Show for Season 2. That's right, The Cleveland Show, which doesn't debut until this fall.
FOX is obviously feeling very confident in the Family Guy spinoff. Originally scheduled as a midseason debut this spring, Seaso...
Here's something you don't see every day. Zachary Levi, the star of the TV series Chuck, making sandwhiches?
He has been in the UK for the past couple of days, having attended the Starfury T1 convention.
With the final episode of season two now broadcast, the fear is that NBC won't be renewing the show for a third season.
So, a campaign was launched that involved going to Subway and buying a sandwich. Levi, being in Birmingham, UK at the time, promptly invited everyone to follow him to ...
Apologies in advance for perpetuating an overused pun, but Dexter's fourth season sounds, well, killer.
When the Showtime hit returns next fall, six months will have lapsed on screen, leaving newlyweds Dexter (Michael C. Hall) and Rita (Julie Benz) the proud parents of a baby boy. "This season, we're going to deal with: Can a serial killer juggle a personal life, work, and his 'dark passenger'?" reveals executive producer Sara Colleton. "In other words, can Dexter have it all?...