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Ed Burns is fast becoming TNT‘s Mvp. The actor, who is a regular on Mob City, the network’s upcoming noir drama series set in 1940s Los Angeles, is behind another TNT period crime drama project, which has received a pilot order. The network has greenlighted Public Morals, written, to be directed by and starring Burns. Amblin TV and TNT Original Prods are producing, with Steven Spielberg and Burns executive producing alongside Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey and Aaron Lubin. The project is set in 1967 in New York City’s Public Morals Division, where cops walk the line between morality and criminality as the temptations that comes from dealing with all kinds of vice can get the better of them. It centers on cop Terry Muldoon (Burns), who knows the line between the good guys and bad guys is thin, and he is determined to raise his sons to be...

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"The Good Wife" guest cast keeps on growing for Season 4. Returning guest player Denis O'Hare took to Twitter to share the latest casting scoop: Brian Dennehy will appear in the upcoming season.

Dennehy, whose small screen credits include "Just Shoot Me," "The Fighting Fitzgeralds" and numerous TV movies, is the latest famous face to join the CBS drama for Season 4. Other upcoming guest stars include Kristin Chenoweth, Maura Tierney, Amanda Peet and Nathan Lane.

Meanwhile, O'Hare has appeared many times on "The Good Wife" as a liberal judge.

"The Good Wife" Season 4 premieres Sun., Sept. 30 at 9 p.m. Et on CBS.

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Malik Yoba will play Martin Luther King Jr. in Lifetime's "Betty and Coretta." Angela Bassett will play Coretta Scott King in the new TV movie. [Indiewire]

Geoff Stults is heading to "Ben and Kate." Beginning with the Tues., Oct. 30 Halloween episode, the "7th Heaven" alum will...

Four new adventurers are set to join the "Stargate" franchise on the Sci Fi Channel. Justin Louis, David Blue, Brian J. Smith and Jamil Walker Smith will join the cast of the highly anticipated new original series "Stargate Universe."

Celebrity News Service has learned that the four will enlist alongside Robert Carlyle (Dr. Nicholas Rush) in the latest adventure in the "Stargate" franchise. Production will begin in Vancouver in February 2009 with an eye toward a fall '09 premiere.

Edgier and younger in tone than the two previous series, Sgu follows a band of soldiers, scientists and civilians, who must fend for themselves as they are forced through a Stargate when their hidden base comes under attack. The desperate survivors emerge aboard an ancient ship, which is locked on an unknown course and unable to return to Earth.

Justin Louis, who starred in "Hidden Hills" and "The Fighting Fitzgeralds," will portray Colonel Everett Young,...

Writer-producer Brian Burns is having a busy development season with three projects set up at CBS and HBO.

At CBS, Burns is shepherding two dramas with his brother, filmmaker Ed Burns, both produced by CBS Par TV. The first is an ensemble about young arson investigators at the New York City Fire Department, while the second is a psychological thriller whose premise is being kept under wraps.

The Burns' father is a retired NYPD police sergeant, and the two had been looking to do a TV series in that arena that wouldn't be just another New York-based cop show.

They were drawn to arson investigators, who Brian Burns describes as "the fire department's version of detectives."

"It's a such a unique job that very few people know about, so it felt like a cool area for a procedural," he said.

The two CBS projects mark a reteaming for the Burns brothers,...