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Terry Gilliam - to take the soothing spa waters in Karlovy Vary after his trouble and strife in Cannes Photo: UniFrance

With less than two weeks to go before the start of the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Bohemian spa town in the Czech Republic the organisers today announced the presence of Oscar winning actor and director Tim Robbins, veteran director Terry Gilliam (for his Don Quixote opus) and actor Anna Paquin (who won an Academy Award for The Piano at the age of nine) on the burgeoning guest list.

Tim Robbins is to be awarded a Crystal Globe for his “outstanding contribution to world cinema.” Photo: UniFrance

Robbins, who will receive the Festival’s Crystal Globe for his “outstanding contribution to world cinema,” won his Academy going for best supporting actor in Mystic River and was nominated as best director for Dead Man Walking. His role...

Academy Award winner Tim Robbins will be honored by the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Central and Eastern Europe’s top annual film event.

The multi-hyphenate star will take the Crystal Globe Award for his “contributions to world cinema,” festival organizers announced on Tuesday.

Robbins won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2003 for “Mystic River,” among other trophies that year, opposite Sean Penn. The prolific performer’s greatest hits include “Bull Durham,” “The Shawshank Redemption” and Robert Altman’s “The Player.”

Also Read: Karlovy Vary Film Festival Delivers Cinema and Glamour, With a Side of Goulash

His directorial efforts include the Oscar-winning “Dead Man Walking,” “Cradle Will Rock” and “Bob Roberts.” Robbins is also a principal in the experimental theater group The Actor’s Gang, and a musician.

Robbins will claim the prize in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic at the festival which runs from June 29 – July 7. His band will also...

It appears as if everything is coming up Milhouse for Pulitzer, Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda of Broadway's Hamilton fame, as he has been tapped by Showtime to executively produce a new TV series alongside John Rogers (Leverage, The Player) as the forthcoming program's showrunner. In addition to his executive producer role, Miranda will also compose music for the... Read More...

Hamilton phenom Lin-Manuel Miranda has signed on to executive produce The Kingkiller Chronicle television series adaptation, which is in development at Showtime. He joins previously attached John Rogers (Leverage, The Player), who serves as showrunner on the Lionsgate-produced project. Miranda also will compose music for the series, which is based on Patrick Rothfuss's global bestselling contemporary fantasy trilogy. The Kingkiller Chronicle is a collaborative franchise…...

Showtime is developing fantasy series “The Kingkiller Chronicle” from “Hamilton” mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda. The project is an adaptation of author Patrick Rothfuss’ best-selling novel trilogy of the same name. John Rogers (NBC’s “The Player”) will serve as showrunner. The show focuses on two wandering performers and their adventures in the frightening world of Temerant. The origin tale is set a generation prior to the events of the book series’ first novel, “The Name of the Wind,” published in 2007. Also Read: 'Game of Thrones' Cast Won't Get Scripts for Final Season, Says Star Miranda will executive produce and...

Black Lightning has struck twice, adding a pair of TV veterans to its freshman season cast.

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James Remar (Dexter) and Damon Gupton (Bates Motel) have joined Season 1 of The CW’s latest superhero drama, both as series regulars, TVLine has learned. The news was confirmed during the show’s Comic-Con panel on Saturday.

Remar will play Peter Gambi, the oldest friend of Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning (Cress Williams), who serves as father figure and mentor to the masked crime fighter. Gupton plays seasoned lawman Inspector Henderson,...

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A brand new trailer for sci-fi action movie Kill Switch, starring Dan Stevens, has landed...

Update: A second trailer has now landed for this one. Which looks like this...

Here's our story on the original trailer from the start of the month...

Dan Stevens has been a busy man these past few years, evidenced by the debut trailer for one of the many projects on his docket: sci-fi action film Kill Switch. However, the trailer showcases a rather unconventional effort with cinematography so reminiscent of a first-person-shooter video game, you’d think that this was a trailer for a movie adaptation of Half-Life. For the record, it’s not.

Video of Kill Switch Teaser Trailer #1 (2017) | Movieclips Trailers

The Kill Switch trailer is a teaser for its video game cinematic style, showcasing flying ships and things falling from the sky amidst a story about an experiment for unlimited energy gone awry.

When Chicago Justice was announced, many people asked "Do we really need a Chicago lawyer show?" Based on Chicago Justice Season 1 Episode 1, the answer is we most certainly do.

"Fake" is everything that Chicago Justice needed to be and everything that a great legal drama should be. It's a smartly written hour with genuine suspense that provokes meaningful discussion, and the Law & Order references are a very nice touch for anyone who knows their Dick Wolf series history.

The episode wisely stays away from simplifying its legal drama down to "Chicago Pd catches bad guy and State's Attorneys bust bad guy." It actively attacks the police's investigation of the massive warehouse arson and encourages the audience to do the same.

It even gets particularly thorny when State's Attorney Mark Jefferies, who is as politically minded as he is legally minded, makes his top litigator Peter Stone aware that both Stone's...

Judging the #OneChicago franchise’s latest entry, Chicago Justice, off Wednesday’s special preview feels a bit like cheating. After all, the hour was part of a crossover, not a regular installment. But the Chicago shows are always intermixing, sometimes casually, sometimes meaningfully. So in a way, Justice‘s premiere was a normal episode.

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Before you tell us if you’ll be making DVR space for yet another spinoff, let’s recap the plot and players: The arsonist responsible for killing 39 kids, including P.D. detective Olinsky’s daughter Lexi,...

Fans of The Player are in luck. Recently, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the short-lived NBC series on DVD, TVShowsonDVD reports.Set in Las Vegas, the drama follows a huge game in which world events are predicted, gambled upon and influenced by a shadowy elite. The cast includes Philip Winchester, Charity Wakefield, Damon Gupton, and Wesley Snipes. The show ran for only nine episodes before NBC cancelled it in 2015.Read More…...

The 2016 Doctor Who Christmas Special, or Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio, will be coming out on Blu-ray / DVD beginning February 21st! Bonus features include a behind-the-scenes look at the special, and an interview with Peter Capaldi, who is heading into his final season as the Doctor.

Press Release: Catch up on the Doctor’s latest adventure with Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio on Blu-ray and DVD February 21, 2017, with newly announced bonus content.

Doctor Who: The Return Of Doctor Mysterio

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In Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio, join the Time Lord, played by Peter Capaldi, as he teams up with an investigative journalist, played by, and a superhero to save New York from a deadly alien threat. Written by Steven Moffat, the special stars Justin Chatwin (Orphan Black, Shameless) as Grant,...

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s adaptation of “The Kingkiller Chronicle” has found its showrunner in “The Player” creator John Rogers, Lionsgate announced Tuesday. Lindsey Beer is writing the feature film adaptation, based on the first book in Pat Rothfuss’ “Kingkiller Chronicle” series, titled “The Name of the Wind.” Simultaneously, the planned TV drama series will “expand on the world outside of the books.” Miranda and Rothfuss will be involved in the development of the new characters and storylines explored in the TV show. Also Read: Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Kingkiller Chronicle' Adaptation: 5 Things to Know “With the addition of the incredibly talented John Rogers as showrunner,...

With a new holiday season upon us, it's time to fill your cup with egg nog and hop in the Tardis to see another Doctor Who Christmas special, The Return of Doctor Mysterio. Ahead of the special's limited release in theaters later this month from Fathom Events and BBC Worldwide North America, a new trailer has been unwrapped for fans to enjoy.

Previous Press Release: Denver – November 16, 2016 – BBC Worldwide North America and Fathom Events announce their last theatrical event of 2016, the Doctor Who Christmas Special, “The Return of Doctor Mysterio,” in movie theaters nationwide for two nights only on Tuesday, December 27 and Thursday, December 29, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. local time both days.

The event will include the full 60-minute special plus two exclusive bonus features, A New Kind of Superhero, giving a special inside look at Doctor Who’s concept of a modern superhero, and a special Christmas Doctor Who Extra,...

Doctor Who‘s annual holiday special is looking mighty super.

BBC One on Friday released a new trailer for Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio, which finds Orphan Black and Shameless alum Justin Chatwin as the titular vigilante.

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In the hour-long standalone episode (airing Christmas Day at 9/8c on BBC America), The Doctor partners with Doctor Mysterio and an investigate journalist (The Player‘s Charity Wakefield) to save New York from an alien threat. Matt Lucas also turns up, reprising his role as Nardole from 2015’s The Husbands of River Song.

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Christmas has arrived early for Doctor Who fans. This week, BBC America released new key art and a preview for the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special, Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio.In the special, “The Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, teams up with an investigative journalist, played by Charity Wakefield (Wolf Hall, The Player) and a superhero to save New York from a deadly alien threat. Matt Lucas (Bridesmaids, Little Britain) returns to the series as Nardole and Justin Chatwin (Orphan Black, Shameless) joins the cast in a guest starring role as Grant.”Read More…...

"We'll be laughing all the way to the slab." BBC America has released a new sneak peek for the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special.In the special, "The Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, teams up with an investigative journalist, played by Charity Wakefield (Wolf Hall, The Player) and a superhero to save New York from a deadly alien threat. Matt Lucas (Bridesmaids, Little Britain) returns to the series as Nardole and Justin Chatwin (Orphan Black, Shameless) joins the cast in a guest starring role as Grant."Read More…...

Christmas has come early, Doctor Who fans, courtesy of a sneak peek at the show’s annual holiday special.

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In the above scene from The Return of Doctor Mysterio (airing Dec. 25), guest stars Charity Wakefield (The Player) and Justin Chatwin (Orphan Black, Shameless) play an investigative journalist and vigilante superhero, respectively, who team with The Doctor to save New York from an alien threat. (Wait, is this part of the Arrowverse crossover?)

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Cherished by Doctor Who fans as much as decorating the tree or sipping eggnog by the fire are the series' popular Christmas specials, and Fathom Events and BBC Worldwide North America have teamed up to bring the show's latest holiday adventure, The Return of Doctor Mysterio, to select cinemas for two nights this December.

Press Release: Denver – November 16, 2016 – BBC Worldwide North America and Fathom Events announce their last theatrical event of 2016, the Doctor Who Christmas Special, “The Return of Doctor Mysterio,” in movie theaters nationwide for two nights only on Tuesday, December 27 and Thursday, December 29, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. local time both days.

The event will include the full 60-minute special plus two exclusive bonus features, A New Kind of Superhero, giving a special inside look at Doctor Who’s concept of a modern superhero, and a special Christmas Doctor Who Extra, showing the making of this year’s special,...

In the wake of Thomas Gibson's firing from Criminal Minds, the CBS drama has added a new member to its Bau team.

CBS revealed Friday that Damon Gupton has joined the cast and will serve as a series regular. Fans can expect to see his character's introduction in the eighth episode of the current season 12.

Gupton, 43, will play Special Agent Stephen Walker from the Behavioral Analysis Program who will bring his spy-hunting skill set to the Bau.

"Our Bau family is growing," executive producer/showrunner Erica Messer said in a statement. "We're excited to have Damon join the show...

In the wake of Thomas Gibson's firing from Criminal Minds, the CBS drama has added a new member to its Bau team. CBS revealed Friday that Damon Gupton has joined the cast and will serve as a series regular. Fans can expect to see his character's introduction in the eighth episode of the current season 12. Gupton, 43, will play Special Agent Stephen Walker from the Behavioral Analysis Program who will bring his spy-hunting skill set to the Bau. "Our Bau family is growing," executive producer/showrunner Erica Messer said in a statement. "We're excited to have Damon join the show...

A Chicago Fire alum is coming up in the world.

Daisy Betts, who was Firehouse 51’s beleaguered Rebecca Jones, will play a billionaire in Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce‘s upcoming third season, TVLine has learned exclusively.

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Betts’ Gemma is described as “an eccentric and charismatic billionaire” who will become pals with Phoebe. Gemma is also very interested in trying new things. (That’s gotta mean the pair is totally going to hook up, right?)

Bravo renewed the Lisa Edelstein-fronted Girlfriends’ Guide for three more seasons, before announcing that...

Remember “Second Chance”? “Truth Be Told”? Here are 15 canceled shows from last season you’ve already forgotten about. “Second Chance” You probably don’t remember Fox’s sci-fi drama because it had two other titles before it even made it to air – “Frankenstein Code” and “Lookinglass.” “Truth Be Told” Another victim of the title change and another piece of evidence “Houdini and Doyle” That’s right, for a short while, Fox aired a show about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle teaming up with Harry Houdini to solve crime. “The Player” was supposed to be Wesley Snipes‘ big return to acting, but instead it fizzled out,...

Chicago Justice will be served by a slightly different team of lawyers when the NBC drama premieres midseason.

Nazneen Contractor, who played Asa Dawn Patel in the backdoor pilot of the Chicago P.D. spinoff, has exited the series, per The Hollywood Reporter.

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Contractor won’t be without work for long, though. The actress has joined the upcoming CBS drama Ransom, from executive producer Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files).

The Windy City-set franchise has experienced its fair share of cast changes. The Walking Dead alumna Laurie Holden appeared in backdoor pilot for Chicago Med, but then...

After shots were fired during Wednesday night’s Chicago P.D., we got our first taste of the Windy City-set franchise’s likely next offshoot, Chicago Justice.

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The crux of the episode involves a shooting, in which Roman is seriously injured. Burgess runs after the assailant and shoots him in the back multiple times. But it’s hardly case closed after that. The young man, Michael Ellis, is, by all accounts, an Eagle Scout. Even worse, the police have no eyewitnesses and can’t find the gun...

Burgess and Roman’s decision to mix business with pleasure on Chicago P.D. will have life-changing consequences during tonight’s backdoor pilot for potential spinoff Chicago Justice (airing at 10/9c on NBC).

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After the officers are shot at while simply sitting in their patrol car, Assistant State Attorney Peter Stone (The Player‘s Philip Winchester) starts an independent investigation, during which he discovers Burgess and Roman’s intimate history.

“That’s what the case rests on: Did Burgess react [to the shooting] the way she would have if she wasn’t sleeping with her partner?...

Voight gets an unwelcome blast from his incarcerated past on Wednesday’s Chicago P.D. (10/9c, NBC), which serves as a backdoor pilot for potential spinoff Chicago Justice.

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When Burgess becomes embroiled in a controversial case, Asa Peter Stone (The Player‘s Philip Winchester) comes in to investigate, which does not make Voight happy in this exclusive video.

“[Peter] was the Asa who put Voight away,” executive producer Matt Olmstead tells TVLine. “So there’s a real history there, a kind of begrudging respect from Voight to him. But also, is...

Lorraine Toussaint is taking on the criminal justice system once again — on Chicago Justice, NBC’s next installment in its Windy City franchise.

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According to THR, Toussaint will guest-star in the forthcoming backdoor pilot as defense attorney Shambala Green, a role she originated on Law & Order in 1990 and last played in 2003. Chicago Justice‘s trial run (no pun intended) will air this spring, as Episode 21 of Chicago P.D.

Toussaint, who currently co-stars on Fox’s Rosewood, joins Philip Winchester (The Player), Nazneen Contractor (Heroes Reborn), Joelle Carter...

True Blood‘s Anna Paquin will be surrounding herself with a different breed of soulless bloodsuckers in ABC’s divorce law-themed drama pilot Broken.

TVLine has learned that the Oscar-winning actress has joined the project in the starring role of Gemma, a ruthless Dallas divorce attorney whose life begins to unravel when her emotionally damaged, love-addicted sister (played by The Player‘s Charity Wakefield) resurfaces. Gemma has made a fortune off of the heartbreak of wealthy Texans. But beneath her carefully constructed facade are layers of vulnerability, self-destruction, and deeply buried trauma.

Related Pilot Season ’16: Scoop on This Fall’s (Possible) New Shows,...

The Player alumna Charity Wakefield and Thad Luckinbill (The Young and the Restless) have booked series-regular roles in ABC's untitled Meaghan Oppenheimer drama pilot, executive produced by Reese Witherspoon. Written by Oppenheimer, the project follows the personal and professional life of Gemma, a ruthless divorce attorney in Dallas, which begins to unravel when her emotionally damaged, love-addicted sister resurfaces, triggering self-destructive tendencies and exposing…...

Move over, Annalise Keating.

Blair Underwood has been cast as a sexy, cutthroat law professor in ABC’s upcoming divorce-law drama pilot, TVLine has learned.

The potential series, known for now as The Untitled Meaghan Oppenheimer Project, follows the as-yet-uncast Gemma, a ruthless Dallas divorce attorney who doesn’t know how to handle it when her emotional mess of a sister comes back into her life.

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Underwood will play James, Gemma’s boss and occasional lover who was her teacher and mentor for years. He...

Philip Winchester is once again a player at NBC.

The actor has closed a deal to star in Chicago Law, the latest tentacle of NBC’s exploding Windy City-set franchise, Deadline reports.

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The proposed spinoff, the seeds of which were planted in a recent episode of Chicago P.D., is slated to launch sometime next season.

Winchester is coming off of NBC’s short-lived drama The Player. He’s also being eyed to star in a big-screen continuation of his late Cinemax series Strike Back.

Exclusive: Philip Winchester is set to topline the next installment in Dick Wolf’s Chicago franchise for NBC, tentatively titled Chicago Law. He is the first actor cast in the legal drama, eyed for a potential launch during the 2016-2017 season, likely in midseason. Strike Back star Winchester was among the most sought actors last pilot season, ultimately signing for the lead in NBC’s drama pilot The Player, which went to series. While the show did not last, I hear NBC…...

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Watch A&E's "Mother" teaser for the fourth season premiere of the Bates Motel TV series, below. In season four, Norma Louise Bates (Vera Farmiga) is alarmed by the changes she sees in son Norman (Freddie Highmore). A&E already renewed this Psycho prequel through its fifth season, so while fans don't have to worry about it being cancelled too soon, Ep Carlton Cuse has previously said he imagined the show running five seasons.

The cast of Bates Motel also includes Max Thierot, Olivia Cooke, and Nestor Carbonell, from Cuse's Lost. Damon Gupton, late of NBC's cancelled series, The Player, joins this thriller drama in a recurring role. Bates Motel, season four, premieres Monday, March 7, 2016 at 9:00pm Et/Pt, on A&E.

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Game of Thrones' Neil Marshall will direct NBC's TV show pilot, Time, written by Supernatural's Eric Kripke and The Sheild's Shawn Ryan. The three will executive produce with The Blacklist's John Davis and John Fox. Ryan's much beloved Terriers was cancelled by FX after its first season. Davis's The Player was cancelled after nine episodes on NBC.

Time features a threesome traveling through time to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to alter history, regardless of the disaster that could ensue.

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Private Practice alum KaDee Strickland has landed the female lead in Shut Eye, Hulu’s dark comedy about the underground world of Los Angeles storefront psychics and the organized crime syndicate that runs them.

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The 10-episode series stars Burn Notice‘s Jeffrey Donovan as Charlie Haverford, a failed magician who now works as a psychic and con man. When he suffers a blow to the head, Charlie begins to question everything he has ever believed and is urged by his wife to break out on his own.

Damon Gupton (The Player) has booked a recurring role on the upcoming fourth season of A&E’s Psycho prequel Bates Motel. Gupton will play Dr. Gregg Edwards, described as Resident Doctor at Pineview Mental Institution. He walks a fine line between professional curiosity and personal investment in his patients' lives. Gupton, repped by SMS Talent, Harden Curtis, and Brookside Artist Management, was most recently a series regular on NBC’s The Player. He also recurred on…...

Network: NBC

Episodes: Nine (hour)

Seasons: One

TV show dates: September 24, 2015 -- November 19, 2015

Series status: Cancelled

Performers include: Philip Winchester, Charity Wakefield, Damon Gupton, and Wesley Snipes.

TV show description:      

Set in gambling capital Las Vegas, this high action drama series shows us a world where the rich and powerful are betting on crime.

"The House" is a huge game where world events are predicted, gambled upon and influenced by a shadowy elite. Controlling the game is the "The Pitt Boss," a mysterious Mr. Johnson (Wesley Snipes). "The Dealer" is Cassandra (Charity Wakefield) and she recruits rogue FBI agent Alex Kane (Philip Winchester) as "The Player".

Highly skilled in both analytics and field operations, Alex is driven by the need to find out who killed his wife. Where once there was a...

Tonight, NBC airs the ninth episode of their action drama The Player. Is this the last episode? Has the show been cancelled or will it be back with more episodes in 2016?

Set in Las Vegas, The Player follows a huge game in which world events are predicted, gambled upon and influenced by a shadowy elite. Controlling the game is the "The Pitt Boss," a mysterious Mr. Johnson (Wesley Snipes). "The Dealer" is Cassandra (Charity Wakefield) and she recruits rogue FBI agent Alex Kane (Philip Winchester) as "The Player". Alex is driven by the need to find out who killed his wife. Damon Gupton also stars.Read More…...

NBC’s “The Player” rode the ratings bench for its entire 9-episode run this fall. While the series’ final whistle blows tonight, there remains at least some semblance of life from 9 other broadcast series that are actually faring worse than the Wesley Snipes drama. At 1.3, “The Player” rounds up in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic to the same number as CBS’ “CSI: Cyber” and a pair of Fox shows, “Bob’s Burgers” and “MasterChef Junior”–but is actually higher rated when the rating is extended out to the hundredth of a point. To be fair to those nets, “CSI” skews above the age.

This story first appeared in the Nov. 13 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. What does it take to get a show canceled these days? Rather than yank Wesley Snipes' little-watched thriller The Player, NBC on Oct. 23 cut the episode order from 13 to nine. The same day, ABC trimmed Don Johnson's Blood & Oil from 13 episodes to 10. And four days after that, NBC's low-rated comedy Truth Be Told had three episodes slashed. All of it came after an early October move by Fox to chop three

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We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Once Upon a Time, Chicago Fire, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Supernatural!

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NBC had high expectations for their new Thursday night action drama, The Player. Unfortunately, the ratings have not been good and the network has now cut the show's episode order. Has the series already been cancelled or does it still have a shot at being renewed for a second season next year?

Set in Las Vegas, The Player follows a huge game in which world events are predicted, gambled upon and influenced by a shadowy elite. Controlling the game is the "The Pitt Boss," a mysterious Mr. Johnson (Wesley Snipes). "The Dealer" is Cassandra (Charity Wakefield) and she recruits rogue FBI agent Alex Kane (Philip Winchester). As "The Player", Alex is driven by the need to find out who killed his wife. Damon Gupton also stars.

Debuting on September 24th, The Player got off to a poor start in the ratings, averaging a 1.16 rating in the 18-49...

Jennifer Lopez‘s cop drama “Shades of Blue” will premiere Thursday, Jan. 14 at 9 p.m. on NBC, the broadcast network announced Wednesday. The two-hour premiere was directed by Barry Levinson and co-stars Ray Liotta. The show will move to its regular 10 p.m. timeslot the following Thursday, Jan. 21. This will put “Shades of Blue” into the timeslot currently held by the Wesley Snipes thriller “The Player,” which had its episode order cut from 13 to nine. Also Read: Fall TV Preview: 126 New and Returning Shows Premiere Dates “We’re so excited to have locked in a premiere date and can’t wait to.

The verdict on four more Fall launched series have seemingly been revealed.

The news is very good for CBS' "Limitless" and "Code Black". The former has scored a full season pick-up, while the latter has received orders foe six additional scripts which means it has a good chance of going to a full season.

In Live+Same Day numbers, "Limitless" has been averaging a 1.7 rating and nine million viewers while "Code Black" is doing a 1.3 and 7.4 million viewers.

The news isn't so rosy for several other shows - notably ABC's Don Johnson-led "Blood and Oil" and NBC's Wesley Snipes-led "The Player". Both shows have seen their initial thirteen episode orders now cut to ten and nine respectively.

Both shows have been low raters and critical flops. 'Oil' has stablised at a 1.1 rating in adults 18-49, while "The Player" episodes average a 0.9 rating.

Source: Variety...

The Player won't be playing for much longer. According to Deadline, NBC has cut down the freshman series' episode order from 13 to nine.

The action drama, which stars Phillip Winchester and Wesley Snipes, follows a Las Vegas security expert who is drawn into the city of sin's crime world after an intruder shoots his ex-wife. The series premiered on September 24 to fair ratings, but its viewership has only recently seen an increase.

The Player will air at its regular slot on Thursday at 10 p.m. until the ninth episode airs later this fall.

No official news of a cancellation yet.

What do you think? Do you watch The Player? Would you like to see more the series?...

NBC has reduced the episode order for “The Player.” The Wesley Snipes series will air only nine episodes instead of the original order of 13, ending its run earlier than anticipated in mid-November. Airing Thursday nights at 10 p.m. following “The Blacklist,” the series debuted to 1.2 rating among adults 18-49. The most recent outing slipped to a 0.7 rating with 4 million total viewers. Also Read: Ratings: Fox's 'Bones,' 'Sleepy Hollow' Sink From Last Week The network previously gave a full season order to Monday night drama “Blindspot” from executive producer Greg Berlanti and starring Jaimie Alexander and Sullivan Stapleton.

It’s (almost) game over for The Player.

NBC has trimmed the freshman drama’s episode order to nine, our sister site Deadline reports; Episode 9 is currently being filmed, and production will shut down once it’s completed.

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The Player, which airs Thursdays at 10/9c, stars Philip Winchester as Alex Kane, a former security expert who now stops crimes of which high-rollers are betting on the outcome. The series also stars Charity Wakefield, Damon Gupton, and Wesley Snipes.

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A few thoughts on the end of "Strike Back" coming up just as soon as I'm just a guy carrying something that happens to be white... "Ain't my fault you're the good guys, huh?" -Faber "Hey, Faber? We were never that good." -Stonebridge "Strike Back" wrapped up its UK run earlier this year, which meant that recent news about a possible sequel film with Stonebridge and Scott was not a spoiler to anyone living in England or watching through extra-legal means. But given the design of the series in its Cinemax-affiliated incarnation, I'm not sure anyone was expecting either Michael or Damien to go out in a blaze of slo-mo glory like Faber talked about. I mean, it could have happened, and the finale went for a fake-out earlier with Scott appearing to die after winning the fight in the river. But that seemed more a case of "Strike Back...

NBC execs have been slowly rebuilding their schedule and they've had a hard time finding new successful series. Will The Player be a ratings success or, will it be cancelled like so many others? Will it be renewed for a second season? Stay tuned.

Set in Las Vegas, The Player follows a huge game in which world events are predicted, gambled upon and influenced by a shadowy elite. Controlling the game is the "The Pitt Boss," a mysterious Mr. Johnson (Wesley Snipes). "The Dealer" is Cassandra (Charity Wakefield) and she recruits rogue FBI agent Alex Kane (Philip Winchester) as "The Player". Alex is driven by the need to find out who killed his wife. Damon Gupton also stars.

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Strike Back might be headed to the big screen. The series was cancelled after five seasons, but Sky is looking to bring back the characters and series, and they have asked Cinemax to join them.

Entertainment Weekly reported on Friday that Left Bank Pictures is in the early talking stages to bring this series to the big screen. If talks are successful, the movie would start production in South America in 2016.

Will the stars of Strike Back return if the project goes forward? It is being reported that Sullivan Stapleton and Philip Winchester would "likely" reprise their roles. Stapleton currently stars on NBC's Blindspot and Winchester is also starring on an NBC series, The Player.

If this project moves forward and is successful at the box office, it could be the start of a Strike Back theatrical franchise.