Piper Perabo has landed the lead role in Covert Affairs, a USA Network spy-thriller pilot expected to be ordered to series later this month.
Perabo will play Annie Walker, a top-shelf CIA trainee who excels at every skill, says the Hollywood Reporter.
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As you can imagine, given last week's resignation, this week's show spent a lot of time on the Foreman question. Will he or won't he stay, or does he just want House to ask him to stay? Then of course there's the "will House ask him to stay?" question. Enough already! I'm approaching House's level of annoyance with Foreman's existential crisis. "I want to be a really great doctor like you, but only if I can be nice, too!" I'm not knocking friendly patient care, but House is who he is and Foreman believing he has to lose his humanity in order to replicate House's level of expertise is just plain silly. Besides, it's clear that Foreman wants to stay and a simple request from House would get Foreman to rescind his own walking papers, but since when has House ever done anything the easy way? Here's a man who could have asked Wilson if he was on antidepressants but chose instead to spike Wilson's coffee with uppers and wait for a possible heart attack to answer that question. Hmm. Ma...
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Per Variety, Hugh Laurie and Chris Evans (Fantastic Four) are set to play internal affairs agents in Night Watch, a James Ellroy-penned crime drama about a downward-spiraling cop (Keanu Reeves) framed by his onetime mentor (Forest Whitaker).... Speaking of House, imminent guest star Piper Perabo is heading South of the Border for a live-action Disney pic about a Beverly Hills chihuahua lost in Mexico.... Aussie Luke Ford, 26, is Brendan Fraser's son (ouch...) — and the franchise's heir apparent — in the third Mummy movie.... Peter Jackson is shopping his spec script for an adaptation of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones.... Per Variety, Blade II's Luke Goss has gone bad again, playing a ruthless prince in Hellboy 2: The Golden Army.
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Question: As a fellow Diet Raspberry Snapple addict, I feel we are deeply connected. In fact, I actually just purchased myself a new case! I'd be willing to share some with you in exchange for some major House scoopage! Whaddya say?
Answer: This is what I say: Piper Perabo is guest-starring in this season's next-to-last episode as a potential love interest for House. Click here for more! I'll take that Snapple now.
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A few casting quickies:• As scooped on Monday by the Ausiello Report, Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly) is joining House for the season's penultimate episode, playing a potential love interest for the grumpy doc. See Mike for more.• Kevin Sorbo (Hercules, The O.C.) will headline Hallmark Channel's Avenging Angel, playing a fallen preacherman out to punish some church-torching marauders.• Also per the Reporter, Andy Serkis, aka the LOTR films' Gollum, will star as Albert Einstein in Einstein and Eddington, a TV-movie collaboration between HBO and the BBC. Doctor Who's David Tennant will play the latter astrophysicist, Sir Arthur Eddington.
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