Greg Berlanti
TV has always been a crap shoot, and the odds of landing a series on the air are long. But don't bet against writer and producer Greg Berlanti, who has managed to land a whopping five pilot orders this winter — including two at CBS and one each at Fox, The CW and USA.
Berlanti, whose previous credits include Brothers & Sisters and Everwood, leads the list of this year's hot pilot producers. "The real work of casting and putting together great production teams is still to come...
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Treat Williams
Law & Order: SVU has drafted Treat Williams to guest-star on an upcoming episode, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
The Golden Globe-nominated actor, 59, will play Jake Stanton, a former all-star quarterback caught up in a sting operation with an underage prostitute. Stanton will be represented by famed defense attorney...
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Scott Porter
You don't have to tell Scott Porter that a show like Friday Night Lights — the football drama that won Emmys, a Peabody and inspired a catchphrase ("clear eyes, full heart, can't lose!") — doesn't come around often. He already knows.
"It was a lightning-in-the-bottle moment of magic with Friday Night Lights and I know that I can never do that again. So to do something starkly different, but still try and capture that same type of magic and create and own a character was great," Porter says. "I wanted a show to be able to call my own again."
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Porter's second chance comes courtesy of Hart of Dixie, The CW's new drama following a city slicker doctor, Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson), whose career forces her to move to the South where she encounters alligators, Southern belles and a...
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Emily VanCamp
She lies. She cheats. She poisons. Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp) intends to take down those who ruined her father's life. But will viewers cheer on this vengeful vamp?
"These people have done horrible, horrible things and I think people will probably enjoy watching mean, rich people who've done horrible things go down," VanCamp tells TVGuide.com of her new series Revenge. "I hope people will root for her...
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Emily VanCamp, Tim Allen, Jane Levy
Suburgatory's Jane Levy has an awesome life, Man Up! is not the Chris Moynihan show and that isn't all of Emily VanCamp's real body on the hot Revenge promo all over the country.
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Scott Wolf
Scott Wolf has left the aliens behind to turn into a G-man.
The actor will guest-star on the ninth season premiere of NCIS, TVLine reports. In a potentially recurring role, he'll play FBI Agent Casey Stratton, who will influence the NCIS team in a surprising way.
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Army Wives
In addition to renewing Army Wives for a sixth season and setting a June 19 return for Drop Dead Diva, Lifetime has announced Monday it had ordered an all-stars edition of Project Runway and several new series.
Kathy Griffin, Lance Bass and Clay Aiken appearing on Drop Dead Diva
Project Runway All Stars, which has been picked up for eight episodes, will feature...
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Emily VanCamp
Former Brothers & Sisters star Emily VanCamp is heading back to ABC in its new drama pilot Revenge, TV Line reports.
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Written by Mike Kelley (Swingtown) and directed by Phillip Noyce (Salt, Lights Out), Revenge is a contemporary ...
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Ally Walker
Lifetime has picked up the procedural dramas Against the Wall and Exit 19, the network announced Monday. Both series received 13-episode orders.
Exit 19 stars Sons of Anarchy actress Ally Walker as Gloria, a divorced mother who juggles her demanding personal and professional life as an intuitive LAPD homicide detective. The drama co-stars Chris Payne Gilbert as Walker's character's brother Davey, Tisha Campbell-Martin (My Wife and Kids) as her police partner and Miguel Ferrer (Crossing Jordan) as their boss.
Jeffrey Bell (V), Nina Wass (Less Than Perfect) and Gene Stein (Accidentally on Purpose) executive-produced the pilot from ABC Studios and CBS Television Studios.
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The Middle
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Question: My current favorite show on TV is Modern Family. How could anyone not love that show? My other favorite show is Friday Night Lights. How it has never been a huge hit baffles me. Both are such refreshing, positive shows about everyday families. There are no other shows that portray families in such a realistic way. Instead of amoral teenagers who have little to no parental influence or just overly dramatic dysfunctional families, these shows celebrate the best of what families are: They fight with and for their each other, but it is because ...
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