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Continue reading The Spoiler Roundup 05.28.08
Michael Ausiello is reporting that Jorja Fox has inked a deal to return for the show’s ninth-season premiere next fall. There are no details on what Fox will be doing during her comeback, but Ausiello’s source says she “won’t be appearing in a flashback.” The most likely scenarios are for Sara to return to Las Vegas to mourn Warrick who was shot and in this season’s finale. That’s assuming Warrick is actually dead, the episode ended without confirmation of his death. And in the current issue of TV Guide, CSI showrunner Carol Mendelsohn says Gary Dourdan will be back in the fall — and “not just in flashbacks.” Dourdan could also only be back to portray Warrick’s “final scene”. The other scenario would be to have Sara come back and address her romance with Grissom.
NBC announced the premiere dates for its fall lineup, including a three-hour Heroes premier on September 22, which begins with a one-hour clipshow before the two-hour third season premiere. Also slated to launch during premiere week are Law & Order: SVU on September 23, new drama Knight Rider and Lipstick Jungle on September 24 and comedies My Name Is Earl and The Office - which will return with one-hour premieres - as well as ER on September 25.
Sophomore dramedy Chuck and new drama My Own Worst Enemy, toplined by Christian Slater, will join Heroes on September 29, while Life will return for a second season October 3. The mother-daughter comedy Kath & Kim, starring Molly Shannon and Selma Blair, will make its Thursday entrance Oct. 9 and air in the plum post-The Office 9:30 p.m. slot.
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Kelsey Grammer has signed on for a starring role on ABC’s comedy pilot Roman’s Empire says The Hollywood Reporter. Roman Empire is a single-camera comedy that centers on Leo (Nick Thune), a lovable guy who, after getting dumped by his girlfriend (Christine Woods), tries but cannot extricate himself from her wealthy family, the Prettys, and her outrageous, overbearing father, Roman Pretty (Grammer). Also cast in the CBS Par/ABC Studios pilot are Laura Leigh and Carla Gallo as Roman’s other two daughters and Zachary Knighton as the boyfriend of one of them.
Michael Ausiello is reporting that Brad Garrett has signed on to appear in Monk’s July 18 season premiere. He’ll play a handyman who helps Tony Shalhoub with his home renovations. Also on the Monk front, Robert Loggia (Big, Mancuso, FBI, assorted mobster roles) has been cast as an aging boxer in Mr. Monk Takes a Punch, a Season 7 episode slated to air in August.
CCH Pounder has been added to the cast of SCI FI Channel’s paranormal drama pilot Warehouse 13, Variety reported. Pounder will play Mrs. Fredric, the director of a secret government organization. She joins a cast that also includes Eddie McClintock, Saul Rubinek and Joanne Kelly. Warehouse 13 follows a pair of FBI agents who investigate artifacts in a mysterious South Dakota facility; Pounder’s character is charged with securing those threatening objects.
Sam Neill, Sean Bean and Joss Ackland have joined the cast of NBC’s action series Crusoe. The show, based on Daniel Defoe’s novel, chronicles the adventures of the dashing and resourceful castaway Crusoe (Philip Winchester) and his companion Friday on a desert island while looking in flashbacks at Crusoe’s life before he embarked on the ill-fated voyage. Among the flashbacks are Crusoe’s tragic childhood with widower father. James (Bean), the relationship with the love of his life, Susannah (Anna Walton), and his efforts to launch a business under the watchful eye of family friend, Jeremiah Blackthorn (Neill).
NBC will air a special Incredible Hulk-themed episode of American Gladiators with guest star Lou Ferrigno sharing the arena with host Hulk Hogan. Ferrigno played the muscular green avenger in the 1970s TV series version of The Incredible Hulk. The episode will include a hulked-out Gladiator Arena and an exclusive 60-second preview from the upcoming movie The Incredible Hulk. The Hulk-themed American Gladiators episode airs June 9; the film opens four days later. At the movie’s premiere, gladiator Titan will walk the red carpet. For the episode, the show’s Los Angeles Sports Arena will be revamped with Hulk theming. About 1,000 pairs of Hulk Hands will be given to audience members to wear throughout the episode, and some also will wear Hulk masks. Gladiators will likewise use Hulk Hands while competing in the Gauntlet. The arena’s water will look green. Titan will be green. There will be green lighting, green graphics, green balls for Powerball.
Eric Lively, Tony Todd and Gil Bellows have been cast in the 24 prequel. The two-hour 24 prequel to the upcoming seventh season will feature Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) battling an international crisis in Africa while the U.S. ushers in a new president on Inauguration Day. Lively, brother of Gossip Girl star Blake Lively, will play the president’s son. Bellows will play a State Department officer ordered to serve Bauer with a subpoena to appear before the Senate. Todd, who also will appear during Season 7, will play cruel African dictator General Juma. Todd has been recurring on NBC’s Chuck as CIA director Graham. On the prequel, Lively, Todd and Bellows join previously cast Robert Carlyle.
Ron Perlman is set to star in FX’s upcoming series Sons of Anarchy says The Hollywood Reporter. Sons of Anarchy revolves around a notorious outlaw motorcycle club’s efforts to protect their town of Charming, Calif., from drug dealers and local corporate developers. Perlman will play the club’s president and stepfather of the central character, Jax Teller (Charlie Hunnam). The role, played by Scott Glenn in the pilot, has been recast after the character was re-imagined as part of the project’s shift in a more darkly comedic direction.