Paul Giamatti joins Downton Abbey
The PBS’s Masterpiece Classic hit Downton Abbey has cast Paul Giamatti as Lady Grantham’s “playboy” brother. Giamatti will join the cast and fellow guest-star Shirley MacLaine in the fourth season’s final episode.
The PBS’s Masterpiece Classic hit Downton Abbey has cast Paul Giamatti as Lady Grantham’s “playboy” brother. Giamatti will join the cast and fellow guest-star Shirley MacLaine in the fourth season’s final episode.
Liv Tyler is the latest cast member to join the new HBO drama The Leftovers, in addition to Justin Theroux, who was added recently. The show is directed by Peter Berg and co-written by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta. Tyler plays a young woman who is preparing to get married but needs an escape and is subsequently targeted by a cult.
Oscar-nominated actor John Hurt has been added to the upcoming series The Strain. The Strain is based on a graphic novel series that was written by Guillermo Del Toro. Del Toro co-wrote the script and will direct the show. The is about a CDC team that investigates a mysterious viral outbreak that appears to have an ancient strain of vampirism.
HBO’s vampire drama True Blood premiered its sixth season last night, garnering an audience of 4.5 million viewers. While viewership was down from the previous season’s premiere, the series’ numbers are still a success for the cable channel.
CBS is the first major network to announce its fall television premiere dates. Premiere week kicks off with the long-running comedy hit How I Met Your Mother, which will begin its final season with an hour-long premiere.
Lauren Graham is adapting her debut novel into a series. She will reunite with Warner Bros. and team up with her friend Ellen Degeneres and her production team to produce the show. The show is about a young woman trying to make a career for herself as an actress in New York City.
David Yates will direct the pilot for a new show that has been picked up by FX. The drama is set to be filmed in Morocco, and will be centered around an American family drawn into the dealings of an unstable Middle Eastern nation.
Is Mad Men’s Megan Draper going to die this season? The fate of Don Draper’s second wife has been the subject of passionate Internet fodder, but is this chatter just speculation? Will the conspiracy theory-crazed fans be proven right? Matthew Weiner weighs in on the conjecture.
Promotional photos for Showtime drama Dexter’s eighth and final season have been released and with them an opportunity to speculate on what’s to come for our favorite serial killer.
Bobby Cannavale is in talks to star in a rock ‘n’ roll series that will air on HBO. The show is created by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger; Terrence Winter wrote the pilot. Cannavale has recently been seen on the HBO drama Boardwalk Empire, which is executive produced by Scorsese and Winter.
