Pilots. Casting. Variety. Reporter. Go.• Gregory Itzin, whose disgraced President Logan's life currently hangs in the balance on 24, will play an alpha-male, adrenaline-junkie boss in ABC's Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office.• Another 24 politico, Logan VP Ray Wise, is a real devil in the CW's Reaper. Oh, Leland...!• Emmy winner, meet Oscar winner: Cynthia Watros is Marisa Tomei's dancer/best friend in CBS' The Rich Inner Life of Penelope Cloud.• Rachel Boston (American Dreams) has landed the lead, playing a rising-star exec, in an ABC comedy set in a Phoenix TV newsroom. Amy Yasbeck is on board as a coanchor.• The Wire's Domenick Lombardozzi is a cop alongside CBS' The Man.• Rade Serbedzija (24's Gredenko) is a vampire in CBS' Twilight.• Brandon Quinn (The O.C.'s Spencer) is Lacey Chabert's love interest in Fox's untitled, life-after-college comedy.
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Question: I'm so excited for The Wire to start, I can barely stand it. I'd cancel my own wedding if it conflicted. Any scoop?
Answer: The first four episodes are better than ever (or so TV Guide's Bruce Fretts tells me). Here's some scoop: Dominic West's Jimmy (who is still working as a beat cop) has settled down and is living with Beadie (Amy Ryan) and her two kids. Prez (Jim True-Frost) takes a job teaching at a rough inner-city middle school. Herc (Domenick Lombardozzi) is working as a driver for the mayor and walks in on Hizzoner in a very compromising (and very explicitly depicted) position. And Michael K. Williams (Omar) goes full-frontal in the opening minutes of Episode 3. BTW, if you have yet to jump on The Wire, now's the time. Per Fretts, the new season — beginning Sept. 10 —
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Kevin Dillon, Entourage
Real life has been just as exciting as reel life for Kevin Dillon, who over the past six weeks has tied the knot with model-actress Jane Stuart as well as welcomed the arrival of their first child, a daughter named Ava. Now the proud pop has a third season of HBO's Entourage (premiering this Sunday at 10 pm/ET) to deliver. TVGuide.com chatted with the veteran actor the day after the show's Wednesday-night premiere screening in NYC.
TVGuide.com: First off, congratulations on the wedding and the child!
Dillon: Oh, thank you! It really is amazing.
TVGuide.com: How is little Ava doing?
Dillon: She's doing great. She's an amazing little girl.
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