Grey's Anatomy is looking to clean up this sweeps with the addition of two very familiar faces.In the same November episode (exact airdate TBD, thank you, McCain and Obama), Mary McDonnell (aka Battlestar Galactica's Roslin) and Melissa George (Vaughn's eeeeeevil wife on Alias) will begin recurring roles on the ABC serial. McDonnell will play a surgeon scrubbing in at Seattle Grace, while George will appear as an intern who very well may further complicate Callie and Erica's already-sticky Sapphic situation.Both actresses are signed for multiple episodes, with George having the possibility of becoming a series regular, say sources. Word of George's possible Grey's visit was originally reported by EW's Ausiello. — Matt Mitovich
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Justin Timberlake will play a professional hockey player who is romanced by teammate Romany Malco's missus in the Mike Myers comedy The Love Guru.... Also per the Reporter, Carla Gugino is a CSI who woos Robert De Niro in the crime drama Righteous Kill, also starring Al Pacino.... David Schwimmer is Kate Beckinsale's hubby in the political thriller Nothing But the Truth.... Ron Livingston is Eric Bana's bud in The Time Traveler's Wife.... Jason Isaacs and Melissa George are John Cusack's nemesis and girlfriend, respectively, in the thriller Stopping Power.... Per Variety, Eva Mendes has joined Frank Miller's The Spirit.
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Melissa George, formerly of Alias, swears she doesn't watch TV, but now that she's starring in a new HBO series, In Treatment with Gabriel Byrne and Dianne Wiest, she'll have to at least TiVo her own show. The new drama is based on the Israeli series Therapy and George tells TV Guide, "I play a patient and Gabriel Byrnes is my therapist. The whole show is in one room. It's just a monologue of me, very troubled, but very humorous, lots of love, lots of drama. On HBO you have the freedom to say whatever you want. HBO's genius. I'm very happy to be working for them. You can take risks and for an actress it's a pretty good gig.” Also starring are Josh Charles, Blair Underwood, and Embeth Davidtz. An air date has not been announced but HBO has picked up 40 episodes. —reporting by Paula Paige
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Before the Cineplex got hostile with Hostel, there was the equally chilling Turistas, in which a pack of young, nubile folk take a very bad detour down a very bad road while backpacking through Brazil. Thing is, Turistas is just hitting theaters now, though it's sure to slake any horror buff's thirst for a bloody, tense time. TVGuide.com spoke with Josh Duhamel, who stars in the pic, about his rumble in the bug-infested jungle, the fate of NBC's Las Vegas and, of course, his Fergalicious lady love.
TVGuide.com: I'm thinking the Turistas shoot was either sun-kissed and full of soft, warm sand, cold drinks and beautiful people, or bug-infested and dysentery-tainted. Or was it somewhere in between?Josh Duh
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HBO's In Treatment, that is. Blair Underwood, Melissa George and Dianne Wiest have been added to the cast of Gabriel Byrne's half-hour drama series, based on (no kidding) an Israeli hit. Byrne plays a shrink who's beyond therapy, while Underwood and George play his patients. The fantabulous Wiest, last seen badly miscast on Law & Order, is Byrne's once and future analyst.
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