TV Show Thread (EVIL DEAD TV Series; Video of THE SIMPSONS/FAMILY GUY Crossover)

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Update: August 6, 2014

Rodrigo Santoro, Jeffrey Wright and More Join WESTWORLD

HBO's Westworld is flushing out its ranks, adding six cast members to the Anthony Hopkins starrer. Joining Hopkins and Evan Rachel Wood are Rodrigo Santoro (Lost), Jeffrey Wright (Boardwalk Empire), Shannon Woodward (Raising Hope), Ingrid Bolso Berdal (Hercules), Angela Sarafyan (Twilight: Breaking Dawn — Part 2)and Simon Quarterman.

Santoro is set as the terrifying and brutal with a dark sense of humor Harlan Bell, Westworld's perennial "most wanted" bandit. He subscribes to the theory that the West is a wild place, and the only way to survive is to embrace the role of predator. Wright will play Bernard Lowe, the brilliant and quixotic head of the park's programming division. His keen observation of human nature provides him with boundless inspiration for his life’s work — creating artificial people.

Woodward, marking her first regular role since Fox's Raising Hope, is Elsie King, a sardonic rising star in the programming division charged with diagnosing the odd quirks of behaviors in the park's hosts. Berdal will portray Armistice, a savage fighter and brutal bandit whose ruthlessness with her victims is surpassed only by her abiding loyalty to her fellow outlaws.

Sarafyan is set as Clementine Pennyfeather, one of Westworld's most popular attractions, every aspect of Clementine is perfectly beguiling, by design. Quarterman rounds out the new additions as Lee Sizemore, the narrative director of Westworld, whose inspired storylines consistently delight or terrify the guests — and his artistic temperament consistently grates on his colleagues.


HBO's 'Westworld' Adds Rodrigo Santoro, Jeffrey Wright, Shannon Woodward, and More

 

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Just watched the 7th episode of Tyrant, the first three episodes were good, but its started to become predictable.

I'll wait until the season is over to marathon the rest.

 

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Update: August 14, 2014

Ed Harris to Play the Key Villain in HBO's WESTWORLD

HBO's Westworld adaptation continues to add to its already impressive cast. Four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris has landed a pivotal role in the premium cable network's adaptation of the sci-fi hit. Harris (The Hours, Pollock, The Truman Show, Apollo 13) will star as The Man in Black, described as the distillation of pure villainy into one man. Thandie Newton and Miranda Otto has also boarded the sci-fi series.

Newton (Crash) will play Maeve Millay, a beautiful and razor-sharp woman with a genius for reading people and a knack for survival. Maeve is the Westworld madame whose seen-it-all-before worldview is about to be truly challenged.

Otto will play Virginia Pittman, the head of the quality assurance department whose brutal honesty with her colleagues and ruthless efficiency in dealing with malfunctioning "property" have made her a formidable and unpredictable power player in Westworld.


Ed Harris, Thandie Newton and Miranda Otto Join the Cast of HBO's WESTWORLD

 

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Update: July 22, 2014

Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood to Star in WESTWORLD

Anthony Hopkins and Evan Rachel Wood are heading West for HBO and J.J. Abrams. The Silence of the Lambs Oscar winner has been tapped to star in the premium cable network's Abrams-produced Westworld adaptation, which has been formally picked up to pilot, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, with Wood set to co-star. Inspired by Michael Crichton's 1973 film of the same name, the drama is billed as a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin.

Hopkins is set to play Dr. Robert Ford, the brilliant, taciturn and complicated creative director, chief programmer and chairman of the board of Westworld, who has an uncompromising creative vision for the park — and unorthodox methods of achieving it. Wood will portray Dolores Abernathy, the quintessential farm girl of the frontier West — who is about to discover that her entire idyllic existence is an elaborately constructed lie.

Abrams will executive produce alongside veteran producer Jerry Weintraub and Bad Robot's Bryan Burk. Person of Interest's Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote the pilot, will executive produce and direct as well.


HBO Picks Up WESTWORLD Pilot; Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood to Star

 

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Update: August 8, 2014

James Marsden to Star in WESTWORLD; Other New Additions

James Marsden is heading to HBO. The X-Men star has landed a lead role in the dark drama pilot Westworld. Marsden will play Teddy Flood, a mysterious new arrival to a small frontier town. He quickly proves both his charm — and his talent with a revolver. His pursuit of a local beauty launches him on a dark odyssey.

Marsden recently starred in Anchorman 2, Lee Daniels' The Butler and 2 Guns, appeared on 30 Rock and Modern Family and next toplines the Nicholas Sparks big-screen adaptation Best of Me, D-Train and Business Trip.

Eddie Rouse (Pandorum, American Gangster) has also joined as "Kissy," short for Kisecawchuck, the laconic American-Indian card — and contraband — dealer from the town saloon, making him an expert in games both on and off the card table. Other new additions include Demetrius Grosse (Justified), Kyle Bornheimer (She's Out of My League, Bachelorette), Currie Graham (Murder in the First), Lena Georgas (Ray Donovan), Steven Ogg (Grand Theft Auto V) and Timothy Lee DePriest.


James Marsden to Star in WESTWORLD; Eddie Rouse and Kyle Bornheimer Also Star

 

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April 11, 2014

Syfy Orders Ambitious Space Opera THE EXPANSE to Series

Syfy is continuing to reinvent itself, handing out another straight-to-series order for a space odyssey based on the best-selling book series The Expanse. The NBCUniversal-owned cable network has picked up 10 episodes of The Expanse, based on James S.A. Corey's book series that includes the well-known Leviathan Wakes.

The drama is described as a thriller set 200 years in the future and follows the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.

The series hails from Alcon Television Group, with Oscar-nominated screenwriters Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (Children of Men, Iron Man) attached as writers and exec producers. Sean Daniel and Jason Brown of the Sean Daniel Co. developed the pitch with Fergus and Ostby and are also on board to exec produce.

The Expanse is a three-book series that includes Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War and Abaddon's Gate. The first book in the series was nominated in 2012 for the Hugo Award for best novel as well as the Locus Award for best sci-fi novel. Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin described Leviathan as a "kickass space opera.


Syfy Orders 'The Expanse' Based on James S.A. Corey's Best-Selling Book Series