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*Although the pilot aired in full nearly two months ago in what FOX called “a preview,” tonight marks the official series premiere of “Touch,” a supernatural drama starring “24” vet Kiefer Sutherland and “Undercovers” alum Gugu Mbatha-Raw. As reported before the show’s initial Jan. 25 broadcast, Mbatha-Raw plays Clea Hopkins, a social worker who must evaluate [...]
*She hunted down bad guys as an international spy on NBC’s ill-fated “Undercovers.” On Wednesday, actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw takes it down a notch as a social worker assigned to evaluate a young boy and his father as they hunt down bad guys in Fox’s new drama “Touch.” Mbatha-Raw’s Clea Hopkins must evaluate the domestic situation [...]
*Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson will play a role in Stephen Sommers’ adaptation of the Dean Koontz bestseller “Odd Thomas,” reports Variety. The rapper joins a cast that includes Anton Yelchin, Addison Timlin, Willem Dafoe, Patton Oswalt, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Nico Tortorella. In the supernatural thriller, Yelchin plays a clairvoyant short-order cook who encounters a mysterious [...]
*The jet-setting is over for NBC’s spy drama “Undercovers” and its star Boris Kodjoe. NBC announced today that it will not pick up additional episodes from the freshman series beyond the original 13-episode order, according to Deadline.com. The Warner Bros TV-produced show is currently filming Episode 12. The news follows Wednesday night’s episode hitting another [...]
*NBC got some good news and bad news for two of its new dramas this week. The network’s latest “Law & Order” franchise entry “Los Angeles” earned solid ratings in its Wednesday premiere, but numbers for the second week of spy series “Undercovers” slipped dangerously low, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “Law & Order: Los [...]
*Nearly two years after America elected its first black president, NBC will present network television’s first prime time drama featuring two black actors in the lead. Boris Kodjoe and Gugu Mbatha-Raw make history as married spies in the J.J. Abrams series “Undercovers,” billed as a “sexy, fun, action-packed spy drama” in the vein of Brad [...]
*Actress Mekia Cox, most recently seen on The CW’s “90210″ and in the Michael Jackson documentary “This Is It,” has been cast in NBC’s upcoming spy drama “Undercovers.” Cox will replace Jessica Parker Kennedy on the J.J. Abrams series, according to the Hollywood Reporter. She’ll play Lizzy, the older sister of the female lead, who [...]
*If you ladies have been going through withdrawals to get an opportunity to see the big and tall guy of Hollywood , wait no longer, he’s back and in full force! Boris Kodjoe is joined by lesser known counterpart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, as his chef wife. But, why’d I mention her anyway, you ladies won’t have time to pay her [...]
*The Hollywood Reporter’s Nellie Andreeva has written a piece detailing an unprecedented boost in diversity among drama pilots targeted for the fall. “Halfway through the castings of broadcast drama pilots this season, the top-billed actors on four pilots are non-Caucasian,” Andreeva writes. “What’s more, the four projects are among the highest-profile drama pilots this year. [...]
*Much is being made of NBC breaking racial barriers on television with the casting of two biracial leads in a prime time network drama. As previously reported, “Soul Food” star Boris Kodjoe and British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw will play the married couple at the heart of the NBC pilot “Undercovers,” a project described as a [...]
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