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Blanc/Biehn Productions recently announced a multi-picture deal with executive producer Lony Ruhmann (read about that here), and we now have more details, including the directors who will be helming all of their upcoming projects.

From the Press Release:

Jennifer Blanc-Biehn (Wrong Cops, "Dark Angel," The Victim, Among Friends) will direct her husband, Michael Biehn, along with Evie Louise Tompson (The Call, Hidden in the Woods) in the sci-fi tinged thriller The Girl.

Brianne Davis (Among Friends, Jarhead, Prom Night) will direct The Night Visitor 2: Heather's Story. “We are so excited since she understands the vision, having starred as the lead in The Night Visitor,” exclaims Blanc-Biehn. The story is based on Ruhmann's characters in The Night Visitor (now in post-production) with a screenplay by twin brothers Bradley and Kevin Marcus, who also penned the script for The Night Visitor. In The Night Visitor 2: Heather's Story, the sci-fi...

NBC keeps making moves for the fall. They’ve passed on Wonder Woman, and Mann’s World, which sounded horribly offensive (but that may get shopped to cable). They renewed Parenthood. And they picked up Awake, which sounds doomed to fail. And more importantly, they picked up The Playboy Club, which we wrote about back in February as having a significant gay element. Did I mention the cast signed nudity clauses? They also picked up fairy tale based Grimm, which has gay connections via executive producer Sean Hayes (becoming quite the behind-the-scenes mogul), and Caprica’s Sasha Roiz.

In other television news, this week marks the anniversary of the first regularly scheduled television broadcasts back in 1928, when they put out thirty minutes of programming three days each week. Now, Americans watch on average of five hours each day.

Over at Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi provides a stunning investigation of Goldman...