Becker alum Shawnee Smith has been cast as Charlie Sheen's on-screen ex-wife in his upcoming comedy, Anger Management, Deadline reports.
In Anger Management, produced by Bruce Helford (George Lopez), Sheen will...
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Now that NBC has assembled the cast of Law & Order: Los Angeles, you might be curious about the team's first case. Series creator Dick Wolf promised he wouldn't shy away from stories based on real Tinseltown scandals, and is following up on that by titling his first episode "Hollywood...
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When watching VH1's latest reality show, you might want to keep your finger on the volume button. The cable channel is partnering with Lionsgate for Scream Queens, an eight-episode competition show featuring 10 aspiring actresses hoping to land a role in a Lionsgate horror film, says the Hollywood Reporter. Actress Shawnee Smith (Saw), writer/director James Gunn (Dawn of the Dead, Scooby-Doo) and acting coach John Homa will serve as the judges. Additionally, Smith will act as host of the show, Homa will coach the girls in each challenge and Gunn will direct the contestants' weekly performances. So, does this news make you want to Scream? — Adam Bryant
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He's come a long way from Firehouse Dog. Bruce Greenwood has landed the role of Captain Kirk's predecessor, Christopher Pike, in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek prequel.... Saw slasher Shawnee Smith, Texas Chainsaw Massacre babe Erica Leerhsen and Day of the Dead's AnnaLynne McCord have been cast in Slaughter, as actresses unwittingly hired to be in a Japanese snuff film.... Billy Bob Thornton has been tapped to play a good-guy G-man in Eagle Eye, a thriller in which Shia LaBeouf (of all people) is accused of being a terrorist. — Ben Katner
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Who's doing what this pilot season? Per Variety and the Hollywood Reporter:• Missi Pyle (Heroes, The Wedding Bells) will join Shawnee Smith (Becker) and Virginia Williams (Monarch Cove) in ABC's Traveling in Packs, a comedy about three women in their thirties who live together.• Dondre T. Whitfield (Girlfriends) and Christine Woods are en route to CBS' Atlanta, playing the best friends of Freddie Prinze Jr. and Leslie Bibb, respectively.• Barry Shabaka Henley (Barbershop) is an internal-affairs investigator in NBC's David Shore/Peter Blake drama starring Famke Janssen as a cop.• Jerrika Hinton is an art-gallery owner in the CW's Eight Days a Week.• The CW's I'm Paige Armstrong is now called I'm Paige Wilson, while ABC's newsroom comedy from Ric Swartzlander (Rodney) now has a title (get your final guesses in now, hurry!): The News.
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