April 9th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Melora Hardin has been cast as the female lead opposite Holt McCallany on FX’s drama pilot Lights Out. Elias Koteas and Kevin Conway also have been cast as leads on the pilot from Fox TV Studios and FX Productions. Hardin will play Leary’s wife, while Conway will play Lights’ father and former trainer, a widower who still runs a gym. Koteas will play Lights’ boyhood friend who is his manager/business partner.
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March 27th, 2009 | 0 Comments
The Casting Call brings together the latest casting news to keep you informed on who is showing up on which show. Find out who is joining your favorite show as a series regular, a recurring character, a guest star or special cameo. The Casting Call could reveal upcoming story-lines, so be aware, there may be spoilers ahead.
100 Questions for Charlotte Payne (NBC)
Joy Suprano has joined NBC’s comedy pilot 100 Questions for Charlotte Payne. The show centers on a young woman navigating her life and friends. Suprano will play her best friend.
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March 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Welcome to TV On DVD. This week’s releases include the complete series of Andy Richter Controls The Universe as well as the first seasons of HBO’s In Treatment, the second season of FX’s The Riches and Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided. You can pick up all of this week’s releases and more at The TV Remote’s TV Show Shop.
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March 23rd, 2009 | 2 Comments
Holt McCallany has landed the lead role on FX’s drama pilot Lights Out, which Clark Johnson has come on board to direct. The show comes from writer Justin Zackham and Phillip Noyce. Production of Lights Out, executive produced by Zackham, Noyce and Ross Fineman, is slated to begin April 15 in New Jersey.
The show centers on Patrick “Lights Out” Leary (McCallany), an aging former heavyweight boxing champion who struggles to find his identity and support his wife and three daughters after his fighting days are over, leading him to take a job as a legbreaker, collecting on unpaid gambling debts. He is diagnosed with pugilistic dementia, a neurological disorder that affects boxers who receive multiple blows to the head, so he decides he’ll need to make another big payday to support himself and his family before his brain turns to jelly.
March 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Musician and actor Henry Rollins will guest star in the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy for its second season, which is scheduled to return to FX in the fall, announced Nick Grad, Executive Vice President of Original Programming, FX Networks. Rollins will play a new antagonist in the show’s fictional town of Charming, California who poses a deadly threat to the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club. He is scheduled to appear in six episodes.
Sons of Anarchy stars Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal and Ron Perlman and is executive produced by Kurt Sutter. John Linson and Art Linson are Executive Producers. Sons of Anarchy is a co-production of FX Productions and FOX 21. Production of season two starts on April 27 in Los Angeles.
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March 3rd, 2009 | 0 Comments
Breaking down the new episodes of your favorite network shows, Channel Surfing will give you an hour by hour view of whats on television tonight. Channel Surfing helps you decide what shows to watch, what shows to record and what shows you have to pass on this week.
Setting the DVR for: Reaper, Homeland Security USA, and Trust Me.
8:00 PM/ET
Reaper (The CW)
The second season begins with Sam, Sock and Ben returning from vacation only to discover that they have all been fired from the Work Bench and evicted from their apartment. Later, Sock learns that he has a gorgeous stepsister, and the Devil orders Sam to capture an escapee from hell who broke a deal with him.
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