James Frain
Grimm is getting an early start on casting: James Frain has signed on for Season 2 as a recurring guest star, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
The True Blood and The Tudors alum will play...
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Bonnie Somerville, Diane Farr
The Mentalist has recruited Numb3rs' Diane Farr and Friends' Bonnie Somerville to guest-star in an upcoming episode, TVLine reports.
Farr, 42, will play Amy, a Type-A owner of a small Northern California winery. Somerville, 37, will play Amy's friend and...
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James Frain
Burn Notice has sucked in True Blood's James Frain to guest-star on an upcoming episode, Entertainment Weekly reports.
Frain, 43, will play the powerful owner of a pharmaceutical company behind several medical breakthroughs, who is willing to go to great extremes to protect its...
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The Cape
NBC has cut the initial episode order for The Cape down from 13 episodes to 10, TVGuide.com confirmed.
News is not too surprising: Ratings for the superhero drama have fallen steadily since the show's premiere in January ...
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The Cape
Superheroes have been wearing capes since their creation. But NBC's The Cape is the first TV series to turn that part of the masked crusader's costume into his main source of power.
"To me, capes are superheroes," executive producer Tom Wheeler said Thursday at the Television Critics Association's winter previews. "There's something about the cape that speaks to childhood. When you...
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The Cape
With Batman locked up by Warner Bros.' feature-film department, NBC's The Cape may be the closest thing we'll get to a Dark Knight TV series in the foreseeable future. And that's just fine by creator Tom Wheeler, who has been a major comic-book geek (mostly Marvel) since he was 5. "There's a lot of inspiration," says Wheeler, who has also woven in elements of his other obsession: magic. "I've always been a big fan of Harry Houdini, escapism and illusion."
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Episodes
Only a week into the new year, and already the volume of new TV is overwhelming. Case in point: this Sunday's logjam of new titles on network and cable, ranging from the truly sublime to the hopelessly ridiculous and instantly forgettable. Here's a rundown from best to worst.
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The Cape
A new superhero is lurking on the same Hollywood lot where a collection of everyday Heroes spent four seasons trying to defeat the maniacal Sylar. Did they succeed? No clue
(I was long tuned out by then). I'm far more intrigued by NBC's new show, The Cape. Former ER doc David Lyons plays the titular hero; his archenemies are Scales (Vinnie Jones from X-Men: The Last Stand) and Chess (True Blood's James Frain). "A hero is only as strong as his villains," David says.
Viewers will meet ...
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On Sunday's episode of True Blood, Bill gets a proposition from the King of Mississippi. Sookie and Eric team up to find him while fending off werewolves. Tara, Jason and Lafayette all meet new love interests, while Sam meets his family.
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James Frain
True Blood has returned with a sexy new vampire — Franklin Mott (James Frain), who's certainly stirring up plenty of mystery and intrigue as he tries to uncover Bill Compton's secrets. So why is he in town digging around and who is he working for? TVGuide.com caught up with Frain (who says dressing up as a vampire is "like Halloween for two months") to get the...
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