Peter Dinklage (Threshold) has joined the cast of a new CBS SF drama pilot, Ultra, based on the comic book of the same name, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Dinklage will play The Scientist in the CBS show, which stars Lena Headey as a single, city-girl superhero. Dinklage was last seen in the network’s short-lived alien-invasion series Threshold, in which he also played a scientist.
The CW network’s untitled Aquaman pilot has a new leading man: Justin Hartley, who replaces the previously announced Will Toale in a major recasting, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Will is a talented actor with a promising career, and we hope to work with him in the future,” a CW spokesman told the trade paper. “We have made the decision to go in a different direction with the Aquaman role and wish him the best of luck in all of his endeavors.”
Ving Rhames has signed on for a role in the untitled Aquaman drama that The CW has in the works. Rhames will play McCaffery, a mentor to A.C., aka Aquaman. The series is a spin-off of Smallville.
Originally, American Idol drop-out Alan Ritchson played A.C. on one episode of Smallville, but the new series has actor/model Will Toale in the lead role. The same team that developed Smallville is creating Aquaman.
Furious at Jack for disobeying orders at the shopping mall, Lynn McGill orders Bauer back to CTU. But, Jack being Jack, he instead ignores McGill to follow a lead on the terrorists that he obtained from an unlikely ally. Plus, we get our first look at terrorist mastermind Vladimir Bierko (Julian Sands), who rules his organization with an iron hand.
Captain Barry Trammell (John Heard) becomes the latest Pegasus commander to rub Major Adama and Thrace the wrong way. Meanwhile, Gaius Baltar ramps up his campaign to unseat Laura Roslin. After tonight, only three episodes left in the second season.
The season two finale of SCI FI Channel’s critically-acclaimed original series “Battlestar Galactica” will be its biggest episode ever. “Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2″ will be presented as a special 90-minute television event on Friday, March 10, 2006 at 10pm-11:30pm ET/PT.
