The latest word on who's doing which pilots, per the Hollywood Reporter and Variety:• But what about Nikki emerging later this season as an "iconic" character?! Lost's Kiele Sanchez has a second-position gig lined up for the fall, playing the pregnant wife of a rising star in ABC's Football Wives.• Julianna Margulies has the lead, playing an edgy defense attorney, in Fox's Canterbury's Law.• Playing one of NBC's Nurses, Less Than Perfect's Sara Rue is a married woman who (gasp!) frequents online dating sites.• Frances O'Connor (Mansfield Park) is an investment banker in ABC's Cashmere Mafia.• Aubrey Dollar (Point Pleasant) is a crime reporter in ABC's Women's Murder Club.• Jaime Murray (Hustle) has joined CBS' Demons.• Glenn Fitzgerald is a minister with secrets in ABC's Dirty Sexy Money, starring fellow Six Feet Under alum Peter Krause.• Jonathan Cake (Six Degrees) is (are?) identical twin brothers in NBC's The Mastersons of Manhattan.
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Peter Krause and Julianna Margulies, The Lost Room
America loves it when an average Joe suddenly exhibits superpowers — witness the success of the Spider-Man movies and NBC's white-hot Heroes. Now Sci Fi Channel is taking that premise one crazy step further. In The Lost Room, a sprawling $20 million, six-hour miniseries (premiering tonight at 9 pm/ET), it's not the people who have amazing abilities, it's the simple, ordinary objects. There's a comb that stops time, a nail file that induces sleep, a pen that can microwave a body and — the big-ticket item — a key to a 1960s motel room that will open a portal to any destination in the world. Crime lords covet these objects, as do millionaires and religious crackpots, because to possess one is to possess its power.
But all Peter Krause wants to possess right now is some bug repellent. The actor, in his first
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Julianna Margulies, Snakes on a Plane
By now, we all know how the esteemed Samuel L. Jackson ultimately came face-to-face with those sinister (and box-office, title-worthy) Snakes on a Plane. But what is ER alumna Julianna Margulies doing flying the same deadly skies, as a flight attendant who, thankfully, proves handy with a fire axe?
Again, it all ties back to her esteemed costar. "I got sent this script called Pacific Air 121 aka Snakes on a Plane, with a cover letter that said Samuel L. Jackson is attached," Margulies relates to TVGuide.com. "I was laughing, to be honest, because I could not believe this was
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Samuel L. Jackson, Snakes on a Plane
In theaters Friday and not being screened in advance for critics — or even cast members, who will see it for the first time at a Thursday-night premiere — Snakes on a Plane, starring Samuel L. Jackson as an FBI agent escorting a mob snitch who gets targeted for a clever in-flight "assaspination" via the release of 400 poisonous slitherers, has been the subject of many questions. Such as:
Is that really the title?
If so, who on God's green earth approved it?
Is Snakes on a Plane actually about snakes on a plane?
And: Can a movie about snakes on a plane that's titled Snakes on a Plane be any good?
Reporters greeting Jackson at the Snakes press junket (
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Question: Anything juicy on The Sopranos?
Answer: Julianna Margulies and Hal Holbrook will be guest-starring this coming season, her as a real-estate agent and him as a former scientist at Bell Labs. And at press tour last week, series creator David Chase said the sixth and final season will revolve around Johnny Sack's arrest and upcoming RICO trial for murder. "People have the chance to see a possible future for themselves in that," he says, "and it has a ripple effect psychologically."
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Question: OK, so I have heard that they are planning to bring back an old character from ER. Any hints as to who this might be?
Answer: You read that in The Ausiello Report, silly. My gut — and strictly my gut — tells me the MVP that producers are hoping to snag is Julianna Margulies. In other ER news, John Leguizamo says producers are looking at some "several incredibly hot, sexy, dirty white girls" to play the woman from Dr. Clemente's past that Matt Webb Mitovich teased in his Insider last month. "They've talked to several really great actresses," he adds. "It's going to be a heated, sexual-healing kind of [dynamic]."
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Tonight at 9 pm/ET, The Practice's Dylan McDermott and ER's Julianna Margulies co-star as counterterrorism agents in TNT's six-hour miniseries, The Grid. Actually, TNT is billing this as a "limited series," since it will play out over three Monday nights, instead of three nights in a row. McDermott and Margulies found their FBI badass roles an exciting departure from their all-too-familiar TV personas, Attorney Bobby Donnell and Nurse Carol Hathaway. So we can't help but wonder: What if the ratings are great, and TNT offers to pick up The Grid as a full-on series? Would the actors bite?
"I don't know," McDermott coyly tells TV Guide Online. "I'd have to look at it again. I mean, I had fun — and I like the idea of a limited series because there's a beginning, middle and end. I haven't really thought about would I do it or not. We'd have to see.
"Right now, I really dig going from project to project," h
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Do you love Fear Factor, The Bachelor or Real World? Better shut up about it if you're around Julianna Margulies. The ex-ER star — who romanced George Clooney as Nurse Carol Hathaway — thinks reality series have gotta go. Stat!
"I don't watch any reality-TV shows," Margulies says. "I truly boycott all of them and I hope more people will. I think it's a horrible thing in the entertainment industry right now. I have eight friends out of work. They're genius writers and fantastic actors who always used to have work. It's just sad."
The curly-tressed actress's beef goes beyond just Trista and Ryan competing with professional thespians for airtime. "I think it's gross to sit and watch someone else's life because yours is too boring," she gripes. "That's how I feel. I have to watch someone pick a date? Or be afraid 'cause they're gonna eat bugs? That's entertainment?
"I just heard a
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