Friends With Benefits is getting a Saturday time slot, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The NBC series, starring Ryan Hansen, Danneel Ackles and Jessica Lucas, follows five friends having trouble finding love.
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How I Met Your Mother star Cobie Smulders is the frontrunner to play Samuel L. Jackson's female sidekick in Joss Whedon's upcoming superhero flick, The Avengers, Deadline.com reports.
Smulders is set to play SHIELD Agent Maria Hill, who was the ruthless interim executive director of SHIELD in the comics. Smulders, whose deal is expected to close soon, reportedly beat out such actresses as Morena Baccarin, Jessica Lucas and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Whedon first took note of Smulders when he was trying to cast his failed Wonder Woman film....
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ABC's Scoundrels is going through a casting change.
JAG's David James Elliott has been cast as the lead in Scoundrels opposite Virginia Madsen, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Elliott replaces...
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Jessica Lucas knows that signing on to play Riley, one-half of Melrose Place's happy couple (Michael Rady's Jonah is the other half), is a risky move on a show so single-centric. For that reason, she says, "What was important to me ... [was] establishing Riley away from Jonah and as having a strong point of view." Though she sings Rady's praises, let's face it: Nobody stays together forever on this show like this. "We're kind of headed down that road," Lucas admits. But first, she'll pose on a beach for photographer Jo Reynolds (original cast member Daphne Zuniga), who returns to Melrose for two episodes this season starting Tuesday (9/8c, CW). Lucas tells us why Riley isn't cut out to be a model, what Zuniga told her and why we should all brace ourselves for the cutest breakup ever.
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The CW's Melrose Place has found its newest resident in Cloverfield star Jessica Lucas.
Lucas will join Melrose as rich kid Riley Richmond, a 24-year-old inner-city elementary school teacher (she cares, people!), says The Hollywood Reporter. Riley's engaged to Jonah (Michael Rady), but is having second thoughts about walking down the aisle.
Lucas knows what it's like to be on a reboot. She recurred as ...
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