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Tate takes on her first undercover assignment on CBS’s FBI: International season four episode four, “The Unwinnable War.” Episode four, directed by Milena Govich from a script by Wade McIntyre, will air on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 9pm Et/Pt.

Jesse Lee Soffer stars as Supervisory Special Agent Wesley “Wes” Mitchell, Carter Redwood plays Special Agent Andre Raines, Vinessa Vidotto is Special Agent Cameron Vo, Eva-Jane Willis is Europol Agent Megan “Smitty” Garretson, and Christina Wolfe plays Special Agent Amanda Tate.

“The Unwinnable War” Plot: The deputy inspector general calls on Tate, who is fluent in Spanish, to take on her first undercover field mission, joining Wes and the team in Spain as they investigate a seemingly dirty U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration special agent working out of Madrid.

Eva-Jane Willis as Europol Agent Megan “Smitty” Garretson and Carter Redwood as Special Agent Andre Raines in ‘FBI: International’ season 4 episode 4 FBI: International Details,...

CBS’s FBI season seven episode one bid farewell to Special Agent Tiffany Wallace, played by Katherine Renee Kane. Episode two, “Trusted,” introduces Lisette Olivera as Syd, Scola’s new partner. Directed by Milena Govich from a script by Aaron Ginsburg, episode two airs on Tuesday, October 22, 2024 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Missy Peregrym stars as Special Agent Maggie Bell, Zeeko Zaki plays Special Agent Omar Adom “Oa” Zidan, Jeremy Sisto is Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, and Alana De La Garza is Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille. John Boyd plays Special Agent Stuart Scola and Lisette Olivera plays Syd.

“Trusted” Plot: – The team is on the case when a suburban couple is murdered and all forensic evidence points to the home’s previous owner, who is currently serving 10 years in federal prison. Meanwhile, Oa reunites with an old military colleague, and Scola tries to welcome a new partner.

Charlotte Sullivan continues her guest starring run as Maggie’s former colleague Jessica Blake on CBS’s FBI season six episode six. Directed by Milena Govich from a script by Joe Halpin and Marley Schneier, episode six – “Unforeseen” – will air on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Season six stars Missy Peregrym as Special Agent Maggie Bell, Zeeko Zaki as Special Agent Omar Adom “Oa” Zidan, and Jeremy Sisto as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine. Alana De La Garza plays Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille, John Boyd is Special Agent Stuart Scola, and Katherine Renee Kane stars as Special Agent Tiffany Wallace.

“Unforeseen” Plot: After multiple people are targeted and killed with a poisonous gas in broad daylight, the team races to find the killer, who they believe is tied to an eco-terrorist plot. Meanwhile, Maggie continues to explore motherhood.

Charlotte Sullivan as Jessica Blake and Missy...

The team leaps into action to stop a terrorist attack on CBS’s FBI season six episode four. Directed by Milena Govich from a script by Peter Elkoff, episode four – “Creating a Monster” – will air on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Season six stars Missy Peregrym as Special Agent Maggie Bell, Zeeko Zaki as Special Agent Omar Adom “Oa” Zidan, and Jeremy Sisto as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine. Alana De La Garza plays Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille, John Boyd is Special Agent Stuart Scola, and Katherine Renee Kane stars as Special Agent Tiffany Wallace.

“Creating a Monster” Plot: When a federal judge is gunned down execution-style in broad daylight, the team is sent looking for a suspect with ties to a local Islamic center. Also, Maggie reunites with a former colleague while things become tense between Oa and his girlfriend Gemma in the aftermath of her friend’s death.

CBS’s FBI: Most Wanted season five episode two will find the team on the hunt for a serial bomber. Directed by Milena Govich from a script by Richard Sweren, episode two – “Footsteps” – will air on Tuesday, February 20, 2024 at 10pm Et/Pt.

The fifth season premiere drew in 5.2 million viewers, an increase of 11% over the season four finale. Plus, the network reports episode one was up 2% from season four’s premiere.

Season five stars Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott, Roxy Sternberg as Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson, Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon, and Shantel VanSanten as Special Agent Nina Chase.

“Footsteps” Plot: The Fugitive Task Force launches into full gear after multiple bombings appear to be targeting retired NYPD officers. Also, Ray decides he’s ready to take the next step in his relationship with Cora. Steven Williams guest stars as Ray’s father,...

Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson and Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott in ‘FBI: Most Wanted’ season 4 episode 11

FBI‘s Alana De La Garza puts in a guest-starring appearance on CBS’s FBI: Most Wanted season four episode 11. Directed by Milena Govich from a script by Christopher Salmanpour, episode 11 – “Crypto Wars” – will air on Tuesday, January 24, 2024 at 10pm Et/Pt.

Season four stars Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott, Alexa Davalos as Special Agent Kristin Gaines, Roxy Sternberg as Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson, and Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon.

Rebecca Brooksher recurs as Claire Scott.

“Crypto Wars” Plot: As the team chases after the suspects behind an explosion at an Ohio energy plant, they are led toward a major crypto company with enemies looking to take it down. Also, Remy and his sister close a chapter in their lives.

Exclusive: Verve has made several key promotions this week across the motion picture and television literary teams with Partners Felicia Prinz and Chris Noriega being upped to Co-Heads overseeing the Television Literary Team, Parker Davis and Liz Parker will assume the Co-Head mantle of the Motion Picture Literary Team, and Tyler Reynolds has been promoted to head the Television Director Team. Reynolds will report to Prinz and Noriega. In these newly created positions, Prinz, Noriega, Davis, Parker, and Reynolds will be responsible for the day-to-day management of their respective teams while working alongside the Partnership to streamline decision making, communication and to provide strategic support.

“As Verve continues to scale, we realize that empowering our valuable colleagues is the best way to maintain our unique work culture while providing the best creative representation in the business,” said the Partnership. “Felicia, Chris, Parker, Liz, and Tyler are highly respected by their colleagues,...

Exclusive: Verve has acquired veteran TV lit agent Paul Alan Smith’s New Deal Mfg. Co., a boutique lit agency representing a bevy of television and film directors.

New Deal’s founding partner Smith and agent Tyler Reynolds will join Verve where they will continue to represent their clients, some of whom have been with Smith for decades. New Deal’s other founding partner, Lee Rosenbaum, who has served as chief operating officer and general counsel to the firm, will continue as an adviser to the agency.

New Deal’s clients joining Verve include Niels Arden Oplev, Allen Coulter, Tawfik Abu Wael (Our Boys), Oded Ruskin, Adam Arkin (Rebel), Milena Govich (FBI), Elodie Keene (Glee), Leslie Libman (The Manson Murders), Daniel Syrkin (Tehran), Sheelin Choksey (Stargirl), Charles Burnett (To Sleep With Anger...

SeriesFest is expanding its commitment to female-forward initiatives, renewing its partnership with Shondaland, introducing an Executive Elevation Mentorship Program and presenting a live-streamed roundtable discussion about the current state of parity in the industry, Variety has learned exclusively.

Additionally, Christina Yr Jun has won the Women Writing Competition, which comes from SeriesFest in partnership with Big Swing Productions.

“We’re excited to broaden our initiatives and provide real opportunities for minorities who are still very much underrepresented in the television landscape,” said SeriesFest founders Randi Kleiner and Kaily Smith Westbrook in a joint statement. “While statistics are showing an improvement, there’s still a long way to go. As two women who have experienced challenges first-hand, we will continue to put this conversation front and center to raise awareness, and most importantly, opportunities. We’re grateful to have such inspirational industry leaders participate in our mission.”

SeriesFest and Shondaland are...

Exclusive: Sony Pictures Television unveiled the 12 helmers selected for the next class of its Diverse Directors Program: Jeannie Donohoe, Alexandra Fisher, Alesia Glidewell, Mousa Kraish, Sarah Lancaster, Kantú Lentz, C.C. Miller, Aldo Pisano, Aemilia Scott, Monique Sorgen, Ham Tran and Zao Wang. Read more about them below.

Now in its sixth year, the annual program provides opportunities for artists of diverse backgrounds to take part in an intensive episodic directing workshop consisting of discussion and instruction from working directors, production personnel and entertainment professionals at the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City.

The initiative is part of Spt’s commitment to providing opportunities to talented artists of diverse backgrounds.

“The Diverse Directors Program has been instrumental in opening the door to storytellers who offer different perspectives,” said Jeff Frost, President of Sony Pictures Television Studios. “At Spt, diverse voices are essential to telling meaningful and poignant stories, and we...

Universal’s Global Talent Development & Inclusion group has selected filmmakers for its 2019 Directors Initiative, which introduces directors to the studio filmmaking process as well as executives across the company.

The Sundance Institute FilmTwo filmmakers participating in the Directors Initiative include Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (“The Mustang”), Rhys Ernst (“Adam”), Atsuko Hirayanagi (“Oh Lucy!”), and Kirsten Tan (“Pop Aye”). From the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, directors participating include Amber Sealey (“How Does it Start”), Jessica Kaye (“Inheritance”), Carly Usdin (“Suicide Kale”), Parisa Barani (“Ablution (Wuzu)”), Marielle Woods (“Do No Harm”), Shilpi Roy (“Hipsterhood”), Siyou Tan (“Hello Ahma”) and Talia Zucker (“Child”).

Additionally, Lukas von Berg (“L’aria Del Moscerino”) is joining from NBCUniversal’s Global Distribution & International Filmmasters program, while Numa Perrier (“Jezebel”) is participating from American Black Film Festival, and Gabriela Calvache (“The Longest Night”) is joining from New York Latino Film Festival. Dinh Thai (“Monday”) is joining from last...

Hey, "FBI" fans. We hope you guys got a kick out of tonight's second episode of this current season 2. Now that it's all over with, It's time to give you guys a few spoiler facts to think about for the next, new episode 3, which is due out next week. The wonderful CBS folks gave us a little somethin, somethin to work with via their official press release. So, that's what we'll be taking a look at for this spoiler session. For starters, we do have an official title for episode 3. It's officially named, "American Idol." It sounds like episode 3 will feature some very dangerous, intense, dramatic, action-filled and interesting plotlines as a presidential candidate gets threatened with a car bomb! Oa and Maggie attempt to figure out the motive and more. We'll go ahead and start off this spoiler session with the car bomb situation. At some point,a very...

Exclusive: Paul Alan Smith is revamping his ESArtists (Equitable Stewardship for Artists). A unique hybrid, operating as an agency and management company since its 2013 launch, ESArtists has been rebranded as Equitable Mgmt and will function solely as a management firm.

The company has expanded its leadership team as Smith and his partner Lee Rosenbaum are being joined by four newly minted partners: Tyler Reynolds, Neda Niroumand, Varun Monga and Sonia Gambaro. Each will have a stake/ownership in the company, and the six partners will have equal say in all decision making.

Smith, a veteran TV lit rep, decided to change the makeup of his company after taking a close look at the top ranks of Hollywood agencies and management companies and being struck by the lack of diversity, especially when it comes to women in leadership positions.

“My first step was to make my immediate colleagues my equals,” Smith said.

Former Law & Order star Milena Govich has been tapped as director/co-executive producer for the upcoming second season of Dick Wolf’s CBS drama series FBI. She will work alongside Terry Miller, who is set to return as director/executive producer.

Govich will be the first female directing producer on a Dick Wolf series. She got her acting break on Wolf’s venerable NBC drama Law & Order where she played the first and only female detective, Nina Cassady. Govich also starred on Wolf’s short-lived NBC legal drama Conviction. Her TV series acting credits also include FX’s Rescue Me and MTV’s Finding Carter.

In the past several years, Govich focused on directing. She was selected for AFI’s Directing Workshop For Women, as well as the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program. Her short film and TV series proof-of-concept Unspeakable, starring Laura Vandervoort and Jeff Kober, premiered...

In today’s film news roundup, Glenn Close gets an honor, AFI names its Directing Workshop for Women participants and Teri Polo gets cast in a Christmas drama.

Close Honor

Glenn Close will be honored on Feb. 21 by the Us-Ireland Alliance at the 14th Annual Oscar Wilde Awards, held at J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot in Santa Monica, Calif.

Melissa McCarthy, the recipient of an Oscar Wilde Award in 2012, will present Close with her award. Abrams, a previous honoree, will emcee.

A six-time Academy Award nominee, Glenn Close stars in the title role of the film adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s bestselling novel, “The Wife,” with Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater for Swedish director Bjorn Runge. Close has won a Golden Globe Award and a Critics Choice Award for in a tie with Lady Gaga. Close received her sixth Academy Award nomination in 2012 for “Albert Nobbs.”

Close has also been nominated for Oscars for “Fatal Attraction,...

Stunt performer Zoë Bell — Uma Thurman’s double in the “Kill Bill” films and a Quentin Tarantino veteran — is getting into the directing game herself. The New Zealander got her start at 17 as Lucy Lawless’ double on “Xena: Warrior Princess,” and is now among the eight participants in this year’s AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Since 1974, the program has provided tuition-free training to more than 300 women seeking film and television careers behind the camera.

Bell will join Parisa Barani, Jessica Kaye, Shilpi Roy, Amber Sealey, Siyou Tan, Carly Usdin, and Talia Zucker for months of immersive education as they ready short films to debut next year at the Directors Guild of America Theater in Los Angeles. So far, two alumni from the 2017-2018 class have had their Dww projects accepted to prestigious film festivals: Katrelle Kindred premiered “War Paint” at Sundance in January, and Milena Govich will screen “Unspeakable...

Wes Anderson’s Isle Of Dogs to close Austin event; select guests to attend Alita: Battle Angel set on opening night party.

Goodnight Mommy directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala are among a coterie of directors whose horror anthology Field Guide To Evil will receive its world premiere in Midnighters at SXSW next month.

Field Guide To Evil (pictured) contains vignettes about the origins of folklore and boasts a director roster of Peter Stickland (The Duke Of Burgundy, Berberian Sound Studio), Agnieszka Smoczynska, Katrin Gebbe, Can Evrenol, Calvin Reeder (The Oregonian), Ashim Ahluwalia, and Yannis Veslemes.

Midnighters comprises 10 selections, six of which are world premieres. They include: Saw writer Leigh Whannell’s tech horror Upgrade; Owen Egerton’s horror film Blood Fest; Stephen Susco’s dark web tale Untitled Blumhouse-Bazelevs Film; Jenn Wexler’s slasher film The Ranger; and Colin Minihan’s What Keeps You Alive.

The selection includes Ari Aster’s recent Sundance hot ticket Hereditary from A24...

Sony Pictures Television unveiled the eight directors selected for its 2017 Diverse Directors Program. Now in its fourth year, the program provides opportunities for artists of diverse backgrounds to work with established television directors on Spt series. The 2017 program fellows selected from nearly 250 submissions are Alison Turner, Melissa Hickey, Daniel Willis, Tiffany Paulsen, Tanuj Chopra, Milena Govich, Ryan Brown and Joel Novoa. Each will be assigned to work on…...

The AFI Conservatory Directing Workshop for Women (Dww), AFI’s long-running filmmaker training program committed to increasing the number of women working as directors and showrunners in film and television, has today announced its eight participants for 2017–2018.

The Dww Class of 2018 filmmakers are: Beth de Araújo, Georgia Fu, Milena Govich, Tiffany Johnson, Katrelle Kindred, Nancy Mejía, Gandja Monteiro and Lorraine Nicholson. You can find out more about each filmmaker, thanks to their official biographies, right here.

The workshop was founded in 1974 and is billed as AFI’s “hands-on training program committed to increasing the number of women working professionally in screen directing. The workshop is tuition-free and is open to women with three years or more of professional experience in the arts. It provides all participants with an immersive opportunity to learn by doing, and each participant required to complete a short film or series by the end of the program.

Network: MTV

Episodes: 36 (hour)

Seasons: Two

TV show dates: July 8, 2014 -- December 15, 2015

Series status: Cancelled

Performers include: Kathryn Prescott, Cynthia Watros, Anna Jacoby-Heron, Alexis Denisof, and Zac Pullam.

TV show description:

This family drama revolves around Carter Stevens (Kathryn Prescott), a teenage girl who believes she has the perfect life. That all changes one night when the police raid a high school party and she learns that her single mother, Lori (Milena Govich), abducted her as a toddler.

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The second season of MTV's Finding Carter TV show ended on a cliffhanger, with Tuesday's season two finale episode, "Atonement." Since MTV has neither cancelled nor renewed Finding Carter, as of yet, will fans also be left hanging?

The cast of Finding Carter includes: Kathryn Prescott, Cynthia Watros, Anna Jacoby-Heron, Alex Saxon, Zac Pullam, Alexis Denisof, Jesse Henderson, Vanessa Morgan, Milena Govich, Caleb Ruminer, Jackson Rathbone, and Ben Winchell. Will the second season be this cast's last?Read More…...

Talent is currently being sought for the hit MTV series “Finding Carter,” starring Kathryn Prescott and Milena Govich. “Finding Carter” chronicles a young girl’s life after discovering she was abducted as a toddler. Several background roles are being sought out of Atlanta for this paid gig, and shooting will take place this month. For more details, check out the casting notice for “Finding Carter” here, and be sure to check out the rest of our Atlanta audition listings!

Just when you thought things on Finding Carter couldn't get any crazier, the final run of episodes in season one had a shooting, a coma, and another abduction. MTV's kidnapping/family drama was not holding back. "Season two will deal with the fallout from everything that went down at the end of season one," series star Alex Saxon tells E! News. "Plus, now Carter's [Kathryn Prescott] gone for the second time, and Max is worried about her all over again." Quick recap of season one finale: Carter was drugged and abducted by her fake mom Lori (Milena Govich) again, while Max (Saxon) lashed out at everyone after waking up from his coma, breaking up with Taylor (Anna Jacoby-Heron) as a...

Crash (Caleb Ruminer), you are dead to us. We don't care how cute you are on Finding Carter. You shot Max (Alex Saxon), and that's just unforgiveable. At the end of last week's shocking episode, Carter (Kathryn Prescott) was all set to run away with her boyfriend Crash, but wanted to say goodbye to her Bff Max one last time so he could get a message to her "mom"/kidnapper Lori (Milena Govich) before she disappeared. But Crash got impatient, interrupted her conversation with Max and held him up at gunpoint, demanding all the money in the cash register of the convenience store that Max works at so he and Carter would be set to start their lives somewhere else. And the previously adorably...

Things were finally starting to calm down and get normal again for Carter (Kathryn Prescott) on Finding Carter, MTV's kidnapping/family drama (and our newest obsession). She's started to bond with her birth mother Elizabeth (Cynthia Watros) now that the cop promised to stop hunting down Lori (Milena Govich), the woman who kidnapped and raised Carter like her own daughter. She's started to treat her newly discovered twin Taylor (Anna Jacoby-Heron) like a real sister. She's made real friends at her new school. She's even got herself a hot new boyfriend. Things are finally good for Carter after her life got turned upside down in the series premiere.  But you know what that means, right? Even...

Along the same vein as “Switched at Birth,” MTV's latest dramatic entry looks to parental nightmares for dramatic fodder. While the ABC Family show looked at a mix-up at the hospital that switched two babies, sending them home with each other's families, “Finding Carter” explores a much darker premise. The story starts off with Carter (Kathryn Prescott) enjoying her idyllic life with her apparently single mother, Lori Stevens (Milena Govich). But her entire world unravels after she and her friends get busted breaking into a ferris wheel after hours. Her friends get to go home, but when authorities dig into Carter.

What if your family wasn’t your family?

While we all might wish that at some point when relatives are driving us nuts, in MTV’s new series Finding Carter, it becomes a nightmare reality when the titular heroine discovers her “mom” kidnapped her. Now, she’s forced to live with her “real” family — but you don’t have to, so will you stick with them?

Related Finding Carter Stars Preview ‘Intense,’ ‘Fun’ New MTV Kidnapping Drama

Before you chime in with your thoughts on Tuesday’s premiere, a recap of just the pilot (MTV also aired Episode 2 tonight):...

There’s something appealingly retro about MTV’s latest scripted offering—and not just because Finding Carter bears a striking resemblance to Caroline B. Cooney’s beloved 1990 novel The Face on the Milk Carton. (You may know it better as the inspiration for a TV movie that aired in 1995).

These days, shows for and about teenagers tend to fall into one of two categories: the Ryan Murphy-esque dramedy (high-energy, soaked with pop culture references, alternating wildly between irony and sincerity; see MTV’s own Faking It or Awkward. for examples), or the Gossip Girl-ian glitzy melodrama (think privileged...

MTV is bringing Finding Carter, a series about a teen that was abducted as a child, to a television screen near you this July, and to get fans ready the network has released the first trailer for the show.

Finding Carter focuses on a teenage girl, Carter (Kathryn Prescott), who is picked up after a party she’s at gets busted only to be identified as a missing child. Carter finds out that the woman who raised her not only isn’t her mother, but actually kidnapped her when she was just a toddler.

The series follows Carter as she struggles to reintegrate into her real family and come to terms with the awkward new situation in front of her. From the 90-second trailer it looks like the hardest part of this transition will be understanding how much of her life up until this point was a lie. It’ll...

Here's the first trailer for MTV's kidnapping drama Finding Carter, about a teenage girl who discovers that the woman she thinks is her mother actually abducted her when she was a toddler. Drama! The show stars Skins' Kathryn Prescott (she played Emily, the burgeoning lesbian with a homophobic twin sister) as Carter, the girl unexpectedly reunited with her biological family; Law and Order's Milena Govich as her abductor/sociological mom; Lost's Cynthia Watros as her biological mom; and Angel's Alexis Denisof as her bio dad. The show premieres in July, and it looks very Face on the Milk Carton in the best possible way.

New Mentalist season 6,episode 14 spoiler promo clip hit the net. Last night,CBS released the new promo/spoiler clip (below) for their upcoming "The Mentalist" episode 14 of season 6, and it appears to be quite interesting as Patrick seeks to solve a big oil fracking murder case, and more. The episode is titled, "Grey Water." In the new episode 14, Jane and Fischer will end up, investigating a murder at an oil fracking site, while Rigsby and Van Pelt travel to Austin to help investigate suspects in a string of attacks on former Cbi team members. Guest stars are going to include: Shannon McClung (Agent Collins), Judson Mills (Bryce Kendrick), Colby French (Jason Kern),Todd Williams (Agent Miller), Shannon Sturges (Susan Fitzgerald), Sean O’Bryan (Emmett Fitzgerald), Paul Schulze (John Hutton), Cary Grubbs (Samuel Millman), Milena Govich (Molly Becker), Lincoln Hope (Tech Guy), Brendan Patrick Connor (Ethan Zorn), Claire Winters (Jacquelyn Hutton...

New Mentalist season 6,episode 14 official spoilers,plotline revealed by CBS. Recently, CBS released the new,official,synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "The Mentalist" episode 14 of season 6. The episode is entitled, "Grey Water," and it sounds quite intriguing as Patrick attempts to investigate an oil fracking site murder, and more. In the new,14th episode press release: Jane is going to investigate a murder at a fracking site while the FBI attempts to uncover who is hunting former Cbi members. Press release number 2: Jane and Fischer will investigate a murder at an oil fracking site, while Rigsby and Van Pelt travel to Austin to help investigate suspects in a string of attacks on former Cbi team members. Guest stars will feature: Shannon McClung (Agent Collins), Judson Mills (Bryce Kendrick), Colby French (Jason Kern),Todd Williams (Agent Miller), Shannon Sturges (Susan Fitzgerald), Sean O’Bryan (Emmett Fitzgerald), Paul Schulze (John Hutton...

MTV has ordered 12 episodes of a new coming-of-age drama series from Sex and the City executive producer Terri Minsky -- Finding Carter.

The show follows a teenage girl named Carter (Kathryn Prescott) who, after being busted at a high school party, learns that her fun-loving single mother -- Lori (Milena Govich) -- abducted her as a toddler. Now, she must return to her birth family. As she tries to adjust to life with her birth parents (Alexis Denisof and Cynthia Watros) and twin sister (Anna Jacoby-Heron), she decides to find the mother she knew growing up.

Meredith Baxter and Robert Pine will have recuring roles as the girls' grandparents.

What do you think? Does this show sound interesting? Will you check out Finding Carter?...

American Horror Story: Coven

'Coven,' the third season of FX's anthology series "American Horror Story," wrapped up last night with a finale best score of a 2.2 rating and 4.24 million viewers in overnight figures for its 10pm broadcast.

With DVR taken into account, the series has been averaging 7.2 million total viewers and 5.1 million adults 18-49 per episode. That makes it cable's third best performing scripted drama this season behind only AMC's "The Walking Dead" and the final season of "Breaking Bad". [Source: E! Online]

Banshee

Cinemax has renewed Alan Ball's "Banshee" for a third season to debut in early 2015. Currently airing its second season, the crime drama series averaged just shy of 500,000 viewers for its recent season premiere, a series high for a first-run episode. [Source: TV By the Numbers]

Finding Carter

MTV has picked up the hour-long drama pilot "Finding Carter" to series with a twelve-episode order.

Kathryn Prescott plays a teen girl who discovers her...

MTV is committed to “Finding Carter.” The youth-skewing network has ordered the drama pilot to series. Executive produced by Terri Minsky and based on a script by “Bones” story editor Emily Silver, “Finding Carter” will shoot 12 episodes. The coming of age drama follows Carter (Kathryn Prescott), a teen who discovers that her mother, Lori (Milena Govich) actually kidnapped her as a toddler. Carter must then return to the family who thought they had lost her, which includes brand new parents, a twin sister, high school and boys. She also hasn’t given up on Lori, the only mother she knew.

News and notes from all over TV:

- Cinemax's crime drama "Banshee" has been renewed for a third season, the network announced Thursday (Jan. 30). The show is currently airing Season 2 Friday nights at 10 p.m. Et/Pt, as the net grows ever tighter around the man pretending to be Banshee Sheriff Lucas Hood (Antony Starr). Season 3 is scheduled for a 2015 release.

- Jimmy Fallon has lined up his final guests for his tenure on "Late Night." Following three "Best Of" compilations from Feb. 3-5, on Feb. 6 Fallon will welcome Colin Farrell, Chris Pratt and 2 Chainz performing with The Roots. Fallon's last "Late Night" on Feb. 7 will feature Andy Samberg and The Muppets.

- The finale of "American Horror Story: Coven" earned the best Live+Sameday ratings for a finale in the franchise's history, earning 4.2 million total viewers, which is up 85 percent over last year's "Asylum" finale. It also ranked third...

We have the first new drama series commissioned by MTV‘s new programming team under president Susanne Daniels. The network has picked up hourlong pilot Finding Carter to series with a 12-episode order in the kind of success story that inspires young writers. Up-and-coming scribe Emily Silver, a story editor on Bones, originally penned Finding Carter as a writing sample, which was sent to ABC Family and MTV in 2012. When Mina Lefevre moved from ABC Family to MTV to head scripted development in January 2013, she put the project on a fast track. Veteran Terri Minsky (Sex And The City) was brought in as executive producer and, following a quick rewrite, the script landed a pilot order, which has now been followed by a series green light. Finding Carter, directed by Scott Speer is about teenage girl Carter (Kathryn Prescott) who seemingly has the perfect life with fun-loving single mom Lori...

MTV has picked up the drama series Finding Carter from executive producer Terri Minsky (Sex and the City) and based on an original script by Bones writer Emily Silver .

The first drama series MTV has announced this year, Finding Carter is a coming-of-age story about a teenager named Carter (Kathryn Prescott) who seemingly has the perfect life with fun-loving single mom Lori (Milena Govich), until the police bust a high school party and it’s discovered that Lori abducted Carter as a toddler. Now, Carter must return to the family who thought they had lost her. As she navigates brand-new parents,...

MTV is expanding its original scripted drama roster. The network has picked up family drama Finding Carter to series, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The 12-episode drama centers on a teenager who learns that her mother abducted her as a child. Bones' Emily Silver penned the script based on an original idea and Terri Minsky exec produces. Skins alum Kathryn Prescott stars as Carter; Alexis Denisof, Milena Govich, Cynthia Watros, Anna Jacoby-Heron and Zac Pullam co-star, with Meredith Baxter and Robert Pine boarding the show in new recurring roles as Carter's grandparents. Photos: Midseason TV Preview For MTV, Finding Carter

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DVD Release Date: Jan . 31, 2011

Price: DVD $24.98

Studio: Entertainment One

Milena Govich (l.), Steve Guttenberg and Shannon Elizabeth star in A Novel Romance.

Romantic comedy star of yesteryear Steve Guttenberg (Three Men and a Baby) returns in the 2011 independent romantic comedy film A Novel Romance, co-starring Shannon Elizabeth (the American Pie series) and Milena Govich (TV’s Rescue Me).

Written and directed by Allie Dvorin (The Sandlot 3), A Novel Romance follows the lives of two strangers, an unemployed budding novelist Nate (Guttenberg) and Jenny (Govich), who meet and become unlikely roommates.

As they travel down similar, complicated-yet-separate life paths, they struggle with relationship heartaches, career troubles and surviving the death of a loved one. Eventually they realize that true love may just be the thing they need … and it’s waiting right in front of them.

The unrated movie also features Kelly Bishop, (TV’s Gilmore Girls), Jay O. Sanders...

Exclusive: Entertainment One Filmed Entertainment closed a North American distribution rights deal for A Novel Romance, the Allie Dvorin-directed pic that stars Steve Guttenberg, Shannon Elizabeth and Milena Govich, with Morris Levy producing. The deal was worth mid six-figures. The film's international rights were acquired by New Film. All of this happened right after the picture premiered as the closing-night film of the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. The deals were made by Wme Global, and the film will be released later this year.

Actress Shannon Elizabeth has found love again after splitting with her dancer boyfriend Derek Hough - she's dating Police Academy star Steve Guttenberg.

Unfortunately, the new romance is just for the movies - and even that won't last.

In new romantic drama It's Not You, Guttenberg and Elizabeth play lovers who are not meant to be together.

The film, directed by Allie Dvorin, also features actress Milena Govich as the object of Guttenberg's character's affections.

It's Not You will shoot in and around New York in November and December.

Guttenberg and indie movie mogul Morris S.Levy are among the film's producers.

Earlier this year, we reported that Jesse L. Martin expressed his sentiments on leaving Law and Order after his nine solid years of being a part of the show.  In April, his last episode was aired, and since then, he has pursued other endeavors. While fans were sad to see him leave, some of them have been hoping that the 39-year-old actor would come back to the television screen.  Good news await a those who were optimistic, as Martin is in talks to star in an NBC midseason series.

Reuters reports that six months after he departed Law & Order, Martin is interested in coming back to work on a television series titled The Philanthropist.

The new midseason endeavor follows Teddy Rist, played by James Purefoy, a renegade billionaire who uses his assets, power and connections to help people in need all around the world.  Martin will be playing Philip Maidstone,...

Linus Roache has joined the cast of NBC's Law & Order, while Danny Glover is set to recur on ABC's Brothers and Sisters.

Meanwhile, Olivia Wilde, Kal Penn, Peter Jacobson and Anne Dudek have landed recurring roles on Fox's hit medical drama House, and "L&O" alumna Milena Govich has come on board Fox's upcoming drama series K-Ville.

Roache will play the new assistant district attorney who succeeds Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) after McCoy's promotion to DA.

Roache is one of two new major casting additions to the Wolf Films/Universal Media Studios-produced drama this season, along with Jeremy Sisto, whose character replaced Govich's Detective Nina Cassady.

It's a reunion for Sisto and Roache, who starred together on NBC's Kidnapped last season.

On Brothers, from ABC Studios, Glover will play a new love interest to Sally Field.

On House, Wilde, Penn, Jacobson and Dudek are expected to play characters who will be brought in after the resignations of House's (Hugh Laurie) underlings Foreman (Omar Epps) and Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) and the firing of Chase (Jesse Spencer).

Jeremy Sisto is returning to NBC next season with a starring role on Law & Order.

Sisto, who played the lead on NBC's Kidnapped last season, will play a detective on "L&O," which is returning in the fall for its 18th season.

"I've watched Jeremy's career evolve and grow, and I am absolutely thrilled that he has decided to join 'Law & Order, ' " "L&O" creator/executive producer Dick Wolf said.

Sisto is not a stranger to the veteran crime drama. He guest-starred on the show's 17th-season finale last month, playing a defense attorney. He now will play a brand-new character, which is expected to replace Detective Nina Cassady (Milena Govich).

Sisto's deal to join "L&O" comes on the heels of Fred Thompson's announcement Wednesday that he is leaving the series, on which he played District Attorney Arthur Branch for the past five seasons (HR 5/31).

Sisto, probably best known for his role on Alan Ball's critically acclaimed HBO drama Six Feet Under, co-stars in Adrienne Shelly's indie romantic comedy Waitress.

He is repped by ICM and manager Robert Stein.

Dennis Farina is leaving NBC's crime drama Law & Order after two years, while Milena Govich, who co-starred in Conviction, Dick Wolf's midseason drama for NBC, has come on board Wolf's flagship L&O series. On L&O, from Wolf Films and NBC Universal Network TV, Farina played Detective Joe Fontana, who investigated crimes and apprehended suspects with partner Edward Green (Jesse L. Martin). "Dennis is the consummate professional, and I respect his decision to pursue other opportunities, and he will be sorely missed," Wolf said. "I genuinely hope we work together again."...

Scottish actor Dougray Scott has been tapped as the lead in NBC's hot one-hour pilot Heist, which Doug Liman is directing. Meanwhile, Eric Balfour and newcomer Milena Govich have joined the cast of Conviction, the network's midseason drama series from Dick Wolf. Heist, from NBC Universal Television Studio, Hypnotic and Sony Pictures TV, is an ensemble dramedy that chronicles over the course of a season a group of thieves' attempt to simultaneously rob three jewelry stores on Beverly Hills' famed Rodeo Drive. Scott will play the mastermind of the operation.

Scottish actor Dougray Scott has been tapped as the lead in NBC's hot one-hour pilot Heist, which Doug Liman is directing. Meanwhile, Eric Balfour and newcomer Milena Govich have joined the cast of Conviction, the network's midseason drama series from Dick Wolf. Heist, from NBC Universal Television Studio, Hypnotic and Sony Pictures TV, is an ensemble dramedy that chronicles over the course of a season a group of thieves' attempt to simultaneously rob three jewelry stores on Beverly Hills' famed Rodeo Drive. Scott will play the mastermind of the operation.