British actress Elizabeth Hurley has been cast in a drama pilot set to air on E! The series is a contemporary drama called The Royals, centered around a fictional royal family. It draws from the British monarchy and also utilizes elements from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Noted scientist and children’s show star, Bill Nye will be on season 17 of Dancing With the Stars.
The seventh season of HBO’s popular vampire drama True Blood, set to air in 2014, will be its last season.
Cynthia Addai-Robinson has been added to the cast for the second season of CW’s hit show Arrow. She will play Amanda Waller, employed by A.R.G.U.S, a mysterious agency with key information about the Arrow that looks to threaten the organization. She has previously been seen in Spartacus.
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot has sold a project to cable network HBO. Westworld is an adaptation of Michael Crichton’s 1973 science fiction feature of the same name.
Veronica Mars creator is developing a modern-day drama series inspired by the Victor Hugo classic Les Miserables. Will this new project cash in on the recent ‘Les Mis‘ hype or has America’s love affair with the iconic story fizzled out?
David Morrissey has been cast in the leading role in the new AMC pilot Line of Sight. He currently plays The Governor on The Walking Dead. In this series, he will play Lewis Bernt, a National Transportation Safety Board investigator, who survives a plane crash and is taken on an emotional and mysterious journey in order to discover the cause of the accident.
Paul Giamatti has joined the new pilot, Hoke, about an out of control, hard-boiled homicide detective. The series is based on a series of books by Charles Willeford and is sure to pack in the action. It will be a story of mid-life crisis and murder as we follow our main character, Hoke Moseley.
Fares Fares from Zero Dark Thirty will be in FX’s pilot Tyrant
The premiere date for season three of American Horror Story (titled Coven) has been announced.
