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*Robin Givens has joined the cast of ABC Family’s new drama “Twisted” in a recurring role. The series focuses on 16-year-old Danny Desai, who returns to his hometown after killing his aunt five years prior. While trying to rekindle old friendships and fit in with his judgmental peers, Danny becomes the prime suspect in the [...]
*The CW has just announced its summer lineup of original programming, which will include the revival of comedy improv series “Whose Line is it Anyway?” hosted by “The Talk’s” Aisha Tyler. The new version will kick off the CW’s summer schedule on Tuesday, July 16 with back-to-back episodes beginning at 8 p.m., according to The [...]
*Justin Timberlake is headed to the CW next week for the hourlong “Target Presents The IHeartRadio Album Release Party With Justin Timberlake.” Airing Tuesday, March 19 at 8 p.m., the special will feature performances and interviews with Timberlake, who just hosted another strongly rated “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend and is in the midst [...]
*Benjamin Charles Watson, best known for playing Tariq on The CW’s “The L.A. Complex,” has landed a recurring role on the third season of AMC’s revived drama, “The Killing.” He will appear in at least four episodes as “Gay Ray,” a transgender teen who left home because of a domineering and bigoted adoptive father and [...]
*Charles Michael Davis (“The Game”) is set to co-star opposite “The Vampire Diaries’” Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies and Phoebe Tonkin in the potential spinoff “The Originals,” which will be introduced in the April 25 episode of the CW drama, reports Deadline.com. “The Originals” follows the Original family of vampires, as Klaus (Morgan) returns to the [...]
*Golden Brooks is an ex-girlfriend in more ways than one this fall. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The ex “Girlfriends” star will play a recurring role in The CW’s “Hart of Dixie” this season as the ex-girlfriend of Cress Williams’ character Lavon Hayes, a linebacker who spent a decade in the NFL before becoming the [...]
*Ne-Yo is set to make a cameo appearance on the CW’s “90210,” reports TVGuide.com. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The R&B star will play himself in a scene at the Hollywood Bowl where Adrianna (Jessica Lowndes) is also performing. Ne-Yo will sing “Let Me Love You” and one other song in the episode scheduled to [...]
*Following Debmar-Mercury’s success with the Tyler Perry sitcoms “House Of Payne” and “Meet The Browns” and Ice Cube’s “Are We There Yet?,” Byron Allen’s syndicated company is attempting the same accelerated production of an urban comedy series for a run in broadcast syndication. Allen’s Entertainment Studios has just finished production on “Mr. Box Office,” a [...]
*Queen Latifah is bringing yet another talent competition show to television. The CW has given a series order to “The Star Next Door,” which will feature mentors including Latifah, Gloria Estefan and John Rich traveling across the country looking for the best and brightest to compete and represent their home towns when they face-off in [...]
*Bloody hell. The so-called British Invasion of “America’s Next Top Model” didn’t go so well on Wednesday night. The new U.S. vs. UK edition of Tyra Banks’ reality show delivered its lowest rated season premiere ever, declining 54 percent from last February’s debut. The CW series had 1.3 million viewers, which was less than NBC’s [...]
*Sean Patrick Thomas, best known for his roles in “Barbershop” and “Save the Last Dance,” has been cast in the CW drama pilot “The Selection,” The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The project is described as an epic romance set 300 years in the future in which a poor young woman is chosen by lottery to [...]
*The CW has ordered a 19th season of “America’s Next Top Model” that has been billed as a college edition, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Casting is expected to begin soon on the Tyra Banks-hosted series, and the season will debut in the fall. As previously reported, the 18th season, premiering Wednesday, Feb. 29 at [...]
*Jessica Lucas has been tapped as the lead in the CW drama pilot “Cult,” reports Deadline. The project, from writer Rockne S. O’Bannon, Warner Bros. TV and Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire, centers on Skye (Lucas), an inquisitive, young female production assistant on a wildly popular television show called “Cult” who, after a [...]
*The CW’s “90210” has a little something in store for Tristan Wilds’ character Dixon. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that La Toya Jackson will guest star on an episode airing in late-February. She’ll play a high-powered music executive who has a knack for knowing what sells. According to the trade mag, the character’s brilliance and [...]
*Controversy hovered over the Wednesday’s season finale of “America’s Next Top Model’s” first all-stars cycle due to an out-of-the-blue and largely unexplained disqualification of one of the final three contestants. Lisa D’Amato, Allison Harvard, and Angelea Preston were battling for the crown, but after an unusual panel, the judges declared that Preston was disqualified – [...]
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