Emily Deschanel, Katharine McPhee, Mark Harmon
Every week, editors Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
Can't wait for Bones to come back in April! Got any scoop until then? — Gina
ADAM: One of Brennan's books is being turned into a film, and wouldn't you like to know who Hollywood has chosen to play our blood-and-guts lovers? You will, when a murder on set brings Booth and Bones and their movie alter egos together. Booth's stand-in is an action star whose stunts aren't limited to filming. It seems his criminal history of drug use and assault are just attempts to make headlines on TMZ. The actress playing Brennan? Well, she's kind of a slut. No thanks, poetic license; we'll stick with the originals.
So Ivy won the role of Marilyn Monroe on Smash. But Katharine McPhee is in all those commercials! Safe to say that's not permanent casting? — Lucy
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AJ Cook
Check one off the wish list for A.J. Cook. After seven seasons, the Criminal Minds star's dream has come true: She's getting beat up.
"My wish was granted! I was so excited when I got the script," she tells TVGuide.com. "It was like a kid in a candy store moment. I was just super giddy about it."
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Cook will show off her combat chops on Wednesday's episode (9/8c, CBS) when JJ faces off with an unsub who's been leaving dead bodies in lifeguard towers. And frankly, if you ask Cook, it's been a long time coming. After all, half the cast has been tortured and battered by the likes of C. Thomas Howell, James Van Der Beek and Luke Perry already.
"It started out as a joke. I guess there was a fan video put together with all the action and everyone getting beat up and shot, and we're like, 'JJ's done nothing but shoot a dog [in Season 2's "The Big Game"]. That was the most danger she's faced! It's her turn!'" Cook says. "It was that realization it's my ...
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Tommy Flanagan
As Sons of Anarchy's Sargeant-at-Arms Filip "Chibs" Telford, Tommy Flanagan is used to finding himself on the wrong side of the law in front of the camera. But his latest role, Flanagan is going to have to answer to NYPD Fin (Ice-T) and Amaro (Danny Pino).
On Wednesday's episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (10/9c, NBC), Flanagan plays Murphy, a sadistic Irish loan shark. "He ain't the most pleasant fellow," Flanagan says, "and apparently he likes to hurt people if they don't pay his...
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Jordan Peele, Keegan-Michael Key
Just two weeks after its debut, Key & Peele has been renewed for a second season, Comedy Central announced Tuesday.
The sketch comedy series debuted...
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Rosie and Sophia Grace, Ellen DeGeneres
Meet the next stars of Hollywood.
Ellen DeGeneres enlisted British web sensations Sophia Grace and Rosie, who have previously performed on her show, to work the Grammys red carpet. The young ladies, who became popular after a video of them singing Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" went viral, had...
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