
Kim Raver
Grey's Anatomy alum Kim Raver has landed the female lead role opposite John Corbett in the NCIS: LA spin-off pilot, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
NCIS: Red will follow a team of mobile agents as they solve crimes across the country. The potential series will be introduced as a backdoor pilot on an episode of NCIS: LA titled "Red" later this season.
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John Corbett
John Corbett has been cast as the lead of the NCIS spin-off pilot, TVGuide.com has learned.
This second spin-off in the franchise will follow a team of mobile agents as they solve crimes across the country. The potential series, titled Red, will be introduced as a "backdoor pilot" on an episode of NCIS: LA later this season.
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Anjelica Huston and Jack Davenport
Bombshell? More like a bomb.
Smash crashed and burned in its much-hyped, two-hour, revamped return, drawing a mere 4.5 million viewers and a 1.1 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic Tuesday. That's down a whopping 71 percent from its post-Voice series premiere last ...
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Pauley Perrette and Sean Murray
CBS topped Tuesday with another big NCIS showing, while NBC's sitcoms slid to new lows.
NCIS returned to 21.8 million viewers and a 3.7 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, down two-tenths from its last new episode. NCIS: Los Angeles (17.2 million, 3.1) and Vegas (11.1 million, 1.9) were both up.
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Last Resort
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LL Cool J
In the next installment of Oprah's Next Chapter, LL Cool J will open up about his childhood abuse.
The rapper and NCIS: LA star first described the abuse in his 1998 autobiography, I Make My Own Rules, which detailed how a man who lived with Cool J's mother, would beat him and torment him psychologically...
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Private Practice
Private Practice closed out its six-year run with its highest numbers since October.
The series finale drew 5.2 million viewers and a 1.5 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, up 25 percent from last week. Lead-in The Taste averaged 6 million viewers and a 2.2 for its series premiere, helping ABC to a win. The Taste was the night's top-rated program and was a tenth higher than Dancing with the Stars' premiere in the slot last season.
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Private Practice did lose the 10 p.m. slot to Parenthood, whose season finale earned ...
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Mark Harmon and Michael Weatherly
NCIS surged to its second-biggest audience ever Tuesday.
The CBS hit snagged 22.3 million viewers and a 3.8 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, up 9 percent from last week. The audience falls just shy of the 22.8 million mark the show set for a Season 8 episode two years ago. Lead-outs NCIS: Los Angeles (17.5 million, 2.7) and Vegas (11 million, 1.6) were down and even, respectively.
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NBC took second behind CBS, with Go On (4.3 million, 1.7) rebounding ...
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Jon Tenney
TNT has picked up a new series from NCIS: LA showrunner Shane Brennan centered on two former Secret Service agents-turned-private investigators, Deadline reports.
The untitled series, starring Jon Tenney and Rebecca Romijn, received a 10-episode order and is set to premiere some time this summer. Adapted from characters by bes-tselling author David Baldacci, the show follows...
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Peter Cambor, David Bickford and Linda Hunt
Ever since Peter Cambor became a recurring cast member on NCIS: Los Angeles, the return visits of operational psychologist Nate Getz have been rather illuminating.
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While last season revealed Nate to have become exceedingly more skilled in hand-to-hand combat than we ever imagined, this time around, the case is personal, dealing with matters of the mind — and, more importantly, the heart. When the team's investigation of a Marine's death leads them to the morgue, the agents begin to question whether the coroner, Nate's former flirty friend Rose (Kathleen Rose Perkins), is hiding information.
"Nate kind of has a thing for Rose and Rose kind of has a thing for Nate," Cambor, who now stars on TBS' Wedding Band, tells TVGuide.com....
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