Can Mighty Aphrodite crack the Da Vinci Code? Fresh from her Super Bowl-night turn on House, Mira Sorvino has signed on to star in The Last Templar, an NBC miniseries based on Raymond Khoury's best-selling novel (shop Amazon), says Variety. The Academy Award winner will play a Manhattan archaeologist who goes searching for the medieval Knights Templar, while Victor Garber (Alias) costars as Monsignor De Angelis, who helps in the quest. Shooting begins next month in Montreal and Morocco.
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It's getting to be a bit of a cliché to walk away, exhausted, from the TV on Super Bowl Sunday and declare that the game was more memorable than the overhyped ads. That was certainly the case this year, when a low-scoring but high-tension match between the previously unbeaten Patriots and the underdog (and ultimately triumphant) Giants upstaged a parade of silly ads, only a few of which are likely to be remembered in a day or a week, let alone a year from now.Thankfully, the day-and-night-long orgy of infotainment ended with a first-rate post-game episode of House — which in the New York market didn’t begin until 11 pm, thanks to a local news insert milking the jubilation. Mira Sorvino was the appealing guest star, playing an ailing shrink who catches the grouchy doctor’s eye all the way from the South Pole. It was a satisfying ending to a wearying day of overdone bluster.It was a day of Super Synergy for Fox, starting early with a Fox News special that awkwardly...
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As if the implications of the writers’ strike weren’t already giving us migraines, along comes Fox to make our heads explode with its latest incomprehensible schedule announcement, covering the strike-impacted midseason from January to April (consider most everything you read from here on subject to change). The first piece of bad news was expected: The seventh season of 24 is being postponed indefinitely, until Fox can ensure the entire season can run intact and uninterrupted. Who knows when that will be? Another blow: Fox is finally living up to its threat to move Bones to Fridays, effective Jan. 4, where it will be paired with repeats of House (the Fox equivalent of Law & Order, considering how often the hit medical drama will be peppered throughout the network’s new and unimproved lineup).To try to help make sense of it all, let’s look at the schedule night by night:Monday: With 24 out of the picture, the new big-ticket midseason item is now the action-pa...
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In the Lifetime two-part movie Human Trafficking (airing Oct. 24 and Oct. 25 at 9 pm/ET), Mira Sorvino plays Kate, a Russian-born ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agent out to break up a ring that traffics women and children across international borders. We talked to the Oscar-winning actress about the movie, her activism and her new life as a working mom.
TVGuide.com: Is Human Trafficking to the international sex trade what Traffic was to drug smuggling?Mira Sorvino: Yes. [We] want the film to be a tool for awakening people to this growing problem. The film weaves together three stories: We follow two Eastern European women who are brought into the U.S. and made to work as prostitutes, and a young American girl who is kidnapped in the Philippines and sold into sex slavery. One
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Southern-bred soap vet Perry Stephens — who starred on ABC’s Loving as preppie Jack Forbes from 1983 to 1989 — died Sept. 8 of undisclosed causes at Hemet Valley Medical Center in Hemet, Calif. He was 47 years old. Following his Loving stint, he briefly returned to daytime in 1993 as Forrester Creations attorney Steve Crown, who posed as Brooke’s masseur to finesse her into signing a contract. Later on, Stephens played JFK to Mira Sorvino's Marilyn Monroe in the TV movie Norma Jean & Marilyn and was a shady studio flack on the AMC original series The Lot.
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