Noah Wyle will be back on TNT this winter in the latest high-adventure installment of the successful Librarian franchise, The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice. Other returning cast members Bob Newhart and Jane Curtin join newcomers Bruce Davison (X-Men, Knight Rider) and Stana Katic (Heroes) in a new conspiracy that leads Wyle to New Orleans to protect the Judas Chalice from falling into the hands of notorious vampire Prince Vlad Dracul. The first installment in the series became the No. 1-ranked movie on ad-supported cable in 2004, and the sequel placed among the top five cable movie telecasts of 2006. Production began in New Orleans earlier this week, but no firm premiere date has been set. — Adam Bryant
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Ausiello's imaginary girlfriend Keri Russell is being courted to play Adam Sandler's would-be squeeze in Bedtime Stories, a Disney comedy in which the bedtime stories a Realtor tells his niece and nephew start coming true.... Bull Durham director Ron Shelton has been signed by HBO to helm the movie version of Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the book Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports. Expect a shorter title by the time the pic unspools.... Slumming Bruce Davison has agreed to play the heroine's father in NBC's backdoor Knight Rider pilot. — Ben Katner
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Things are a bit different this season on CBS' Close to Home (Fridays at 9 pm/ET). There are more male faces — JAG alum David James Elliott's included — and perceptibly less focus on Annabeth Chase's struggle to juggle a career and what is now single motherhood. Is it all too much at once for the sophomore drama? TVGuide.com invited Jennifer Finnigan to weigh in on the series she holds so close to her heart.
TVGuide.com: First, explain something to me: Why does Close to Home get a full-season pickup announcement when it's in its sophomore year? It's not like ABC is out announcing, "Yes, we've picked up Lost." Is it because the show was on the fence for much of last year?Jennifer Finnigan: I think last year we were definitely the re
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Rena Sofer will play the wife of Mr. Nice Guy (Dietrich Bader) in a sitcom pilot for ABC.... Bruce Davison has been added to the cast of ABC's Southern Comfort.... Catherine Bell and Gary Cole have joined the CBS drama Company Town.... Mercedes Ruehl, if only because of her first name, is in talks to costar on CBS' Paul Reiser-penned comedy set at a car dealership.... Cheryl White and D.W. Moffett are the latest additions to Kevin Williamson's untitled CW sudser.... Kevin Hart (Barbershop) is ready for The Weekend, a CBS comedy about three male friends.... John Sloan (Commander in Chief) has scored the second male lead (opposite Lex Medlin) in Fox's odd-couple comedy Happy Hour.
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Starting tonight at 9 pm/ET, Sci Fi Channel will explore The Triangle — as in the inexplicable Bermuda phenomenon — over the course of a three-part, six-hour miniseries event. (Take an extended look behind the scenes of The Triangle in this special video.) The premise: Sam Neill's shipping magnate, fed up with losing carriers and cargo to the deep blue sea, recruits a ragtag group of experts — Eric Stoltz, Catherine Bell, Bruce Davison and Michael Rodgers included — to make some sense of the oceanic mystery of the Triangle once and for all. At the helm, so to speak, are producers D
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