May 22, 2013

Sinqua Walls to Visit USA’s ‘Necessary Roughness’

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*Sinqua Walls, a vet of NBC’s “Friday Night Lights” and MTV’s “Teen Wolf,” has been added to the growing slate of guest stars on the USA drama, “Necessary Roughness,” The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Walls will appear in the third episode of the upcoming summer season, playing star basketball player Devon Langer, the son of [...]




‘Key and Peele’s’ Keegan Michael Key Lands USA Pilot

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*Keegan Michael Key of Comedy Central’s “Key and Peele” will join Brad Morris in USA Network’s untitled comedy pilot starring Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The single-camera, semi-autobiographical comedy revolves around a single parent, Maggie (Parham), who asks her single and career-minded best friend Emma (St. Clair) to raise [...]




Hill Harper Leaving ‘CSI: NY’ for USA’s ‘Covert Affairs’

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*Hill Harper has made his exit from “CSI: NY,” which airs its ninth season finale and by most accounts will be a series finale, reports Deadline.com, as the “CSI” spinoff appears unlikely to return. Harper will join the upcoming fourth season of USA’s drama series “Covert Affairs” as a new series regular alongside Piper Perabo, [...]




Daniel Sunjata: ‘My Ambiguous Ethnicity has Helped Me’

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*This summer, Daniel Sunjata, 41, will return to series television in USA Network’s “Graceland,” a Southern Cali-set drama about a crew of undercover DEA, FBI and Customs agents who work crimes while forced to live together in a seized beachfront mansion. The house – nicknamed Graceland by the drug lords who previously owned it – [...]




‘Necessary Roughness’ Renewal Brings Smiles to Cast and Fans

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*“Necessary Roughness” the drama on USA Network, just received the good news that they are renewed for a third season, according to Deadline.com. The show, which stars Callie Thorne as New York Hawks sports-psychologist Dr. Dani Santino; who works to keep the team’s trouble-prone wide receiver, Mehcad Brook’s character Terrence “TK” King (pictured above) in line, [...]




Pres. Obama to Intro ‘Mockingbird’ on USA Network

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*President Barack Obama will provide a special introduction to USA Network’s airing of the 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” at 8 p.m. April 7, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “I’m deeply honored that President Obama will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by introducing it [...]




Khandi Alexander to Guest on Michael Ealy’s ‘Common Law’

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*Former “CSI: Miami” star Khandi Alexander will guest-star on the upcoming first season of USA’s “Common Law,” the freshman dramedy co-starring Michael Ealy. Premiering Friday, May 11 at 10/9c,“Common Law” tells the story of Travis Marks (Ealy) and Wes Mitchell (Warren Kole), two sharp LAPD detectives whose partnership becomes so strained that Captain Mike Sutton [...]




Michael Ealy Redefines Couples Therapy in USA’s ‘Common Law’

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*As reported earlier, the USA network today announced that Friday, May 11, is the new premiere date for its new series “Common Law,” which stars Michael Ealy and Warren Kole as a pair of dysfunctional Los Angeles police detectives who are put into couples therapy because they don’t get along. “It’s not so much that [...]




USA Network Sets a Date for Michael Ealy’s ‘Common Law’

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*USA Network has announced it will premiere Michael Ealy’s new series “Common Law” in the summer, a network source confirms to The Hollywood Reporter. The CBS Television Studios/Junction Entertainment drama will launch its 12-episode season on Friday, May 11 at 10 p.m. following the Sarah Shahi-led mediator series “Fairly Legal.” Ealy and Warren Kole star [...]




Brandon Jay McLaren Lands Untitled USA Pilot

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*You know him best from AMC’s “The Killing.” Now, actor Brandon Jay McLaren has landed a co-starring role in the untitled USA pilot from “White Collar” creator Jeff Eastin, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The hour-long drama sticks agents from various federal and local agencies, including the FBI and the LAPD, together in the same [...]




USA Network Picks Up Michael Ealy Series

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*USA Network has announced its pickup of “Common Law,” a drama featuring Michael Ealy in the lead. Fresh from CBS’ “The Good Wife,” Ealy will join Warren Kole in the series as two cops whose superior (Jack McGee) sends them to couples therapy so that they can resolve their differences and get their professional lives [...]




‘The Game’s’ Coby Bell Puts Fans on ‘Notice’

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  *Coby Bell was nestled deep into the explosive world of USA Network’s “Burn Notice” in Miami when he got the call that his cancelled CW series, “The Game,” had not only been revived by BET for a new 2011 season, but was moving its set from Los Angeles to the ATL. “I lucked out [...]




Michael Ealy’s New USA Network Show

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*Yes he is everywhere lately, with his latest role in “Takers,” Michael Ealy landed a recurring role in new police drama “Common Law” on USA Network. He will play the role of a LAPD officer Travis Marks. The character is a carefree, charismatic guy who was an abandoned baby raised by the system. He lives [...]




Coby Bell Put On ‘Notice’

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*”Third Watch” veteran Coby Bell has been cast as a regular in USA’s flagship series “Burn Notice.” The actor will play Jesse Garcia, described by the Hollywood Reporter as “a cocky and sarcastic counterintelligence expert with a chameleon-like ability to assume different cover identities and an intense desire to see bad guys get punished.” “Burn [...]