LeVar Burton Producing ‘Roots’ Remake for History, A&E, Lifetime In 1977, Star Trek: The Next Generation star LeVar Burton made his acting debut in the ABC award-winning miniseries Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley about a young man from Africa named Kunte Kinte who is sold into slavery in colonial America. Now almost forty years […]
Josh Radnor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead to Lead Drama ‘Mercy Street’ PBS has assembled an award-winning cast for their new Civil War drama Mercy Street, the network’s first American drama in over a decade. Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) and Gary Cole (Pineapple Express) will star […]
‘X-Files’ Writers Glen Morgan and James Wong Returning for Revival It wouldn’t be a proper X-Files revival without two of the people who first made the series a hit more than twenty years ago. Former X-Files writer-producers Glen Morgan and James Wong are now confirmed to return for Fox’s six-episode event series due out next year. The duo, known […]
Evan Peters Joins ‘American Horror Story: Hotel’ Evan Peters is staying in the American Horror Story family. According to showrunner Ryan Murphy, the actor who has starred in all four seasons of the anthology series so far will return this fall for American Horror Story: Hotel. Filming on the 13-episode season with costars Lady Gaga, Kathy […]
Netflix Orders ‘Full House’ Sequel ‘Fuller House’ Everywhere you look, everywhere you go, there’s a… former TV show coming back to life. Netflix has ordered a 13-episode revival of ’90s sitcom Full House, titled Fuller House. Candace Cameron-Bure, Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber will return as D.J. Tanner-Fuller, Stephanie Tanner and Kimmy Gibbler, while John Stamos is set to guest-star […]
ABC Family’s new series Shadowhunters, based on Cassandra Clare’s best-selling The Mortal Instruments books, has found its Jace Wayland. British Vampire Academy star Dominic Sherwood will play the lead Shadowhunter, one of a group of human-angel hybrids who hunts down demons. He’s described as narcissistic, lethally gorgeous and a skilled demon hunter, whose mission in […]