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After Michael Eisner made his pitch to online video advertisers at the AOL Digital Content NewFront in New York City, the newly promoted CEO of his multi-platform independent studio Vuguru took the stage. Larry Tanz addressed the audience of advertisers, brand representatives, and reporters before showing off a pair of online originals he noted would soon debut on On AOL, the internet portal’s shiny new video destination. One of those originals was Little Women Big Cars, a Vuguru original series directed by Melanie Mayron, created by Sherry Coben (Kate & Allie), and starring an ensemble cast headlined by Amy Yasbeck (Wings, Hot in Cleveland), Kristy Swanson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Psych), Romy Rosemont (Glee), Julie Warner (Crash, Nip/Tuck), Ed Begley Jr. (Portlandia, The New Adventures of Old Christine) and Antonio Sabato Jr. (Melrose Place, The Bold and the Beautiful). It’s about four moms navigating the comedy, drama, and associated gossip of PTA meetings,...

The latest teaser trailer from Starz/BBC’s Torchwood still is just that – a tease of what Miracle Day means to the people of Earth and leaves the consequences up to your imagination. But would it help to know that Star Trek’s Q, John de Lancie, has joined the cast in an unspecified guest starring role?

Like Doctor Who that the series spun off from, this season of the series will have episodes that take place stateside. Torchwood: Miracle Day, a ten episode season, will premiere on July 8, 2011 on BBC One in the UK and Starz stateside. Check out the trailer below.

Torchwood: Miracle Day – New Trailer

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John de Lancie (Breaking Bad, The Unit), pictured above, joins Torchwood regulars, John Barrowman and Eve Myles as well as new villain Bill Pullman (Too Big To Fail), Mekhi Phifer (ER), Arlene Tur (Crash), Lauren Ambrose...

Torchwood: Miracle Day will premiere on Friday, July 8th at 10pm Et/Pt. The Us installment of the BBC smash hit series will star Mekhi Phifer, Bill Pullman and, in an extended guest role, Lauren Ambrose. Bill Pullman, who portrays Oswald Danes, a former school teacher and convicted child killer, and Phifer, join “Torchwood” alumni John Barrowman (Capt. Jack Harkness) and Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper) in the series. Also joining the cast are Alexa Havins (When in Rome, Fat Girls) as Esther Drummond, a deskbound CIA employee who dreams of active duty and who suddenly finds herself running alongside Jack, Gwen and Rex; and Arlene Tur (“Crash,” Eat Pray Love) as Dr. Vera Juarez, a Washington D.C. surgeon, who finds herself on the frontline of medical care on “Miracle Day” advising the government...

The first one-sheet for the remake of the Japanese terror tale Apartment 1303 is here, and it takes its cues from everything from A Nightmare on Elm Street to The Frighteners. Dig it!

Mischa Barton (Homecoming, Walled In, The Sixth Sense), Rebecca De Mornay (Mother's Day, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle), John Diehl (Stargate, Jurassic Park III), Julianne Michelle (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps), and Robert Blanche ("Crash," "Ghost Whisperer") have all been cast.

Dig on the synopsis for the original Japanese film below, and look for more soon!

Apartment 1303 is white, bright and airy with a sheer white curtain blowing from the wind off the balcony and is on the 13th floor of a large building. The view onto the sea is breathtaking, but the history of the apartment is shocking. A number of young women have committed suicide by jumping off the balcony, and it is now about to happen again!

Bloody Disgusting just scored a pretty awesome sales one sheet for Daniel Fridell's 3-D remake of Apartment 1303 3D, which will star Mischa Barton (Homecoming, Walled In, The Sixth Sense), Rebecca De Mornay (Mother's Day, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle), John Diehl (Stargate, Jurassic Park III), Julianne Michelle (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps), and Robert Blanche ("Crash," "Ghost Whisperer"). The poster, featuring a wall coming to life, looks inspired by the infamous sequence in A Nightmare on Elm Street. Penned by Kei Ohishi and Michele Taverna, the redo of the 2007 Japanese flick is a modern ghost story which turns a love/hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror. Some rentals are too good to be true.

Moran Atias and Jayne Atkinson have signed up for guest roles in the upcoming third season of White Collar. TV Line reports that Atias will play Christie, the cardiologist girlfriend of Diana Barrigan (Marsha Thomason). Christie will first appear in the season's third episode, when she is recruited to assist with the FBI's latest investigation. The previously-unseen character has been referred to in past episodes and is expected to recur in the future. Atias previously played Inez in Starz series Crash (more)...

Diana’s ol’ ball and chain on White Collar is about to put in an appearance, and sources confirm to TVLine exclusively that she’s quite the looker.

Israeli beauty Moran Atias (from Starz’s Crash) has landed the potentially recurring role of Marsha Thomason’s oft-referred-to-but-never-seen onscreen sweetheart, Christie, on the USA Network hit.

White Collar Leads Matt Bomer and Tim DeKay Score Pay Hikes

The character — who turns up in the third episode of the show’s upcoming third season — is described as a cardiologist who brings out Diana’s lighter side with her sweet smile and scalpel-edged wit.

Science-fiction fans, Warner Home Video is debuting two movies on high-definition Blu-ray for you on July 26: 2000 film Red Planet and 1998’s Soldier.

Soldier

Both have decent casts, but our favorite of the two is Soldier. The futuristic R-rated movie stars Kurt Russell (Grindhouse: Death Proof) as a soldier trained since he was a child to be a killer. When he’s left for dead by genetically engineered replacements (including Jason Scott Lee, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story), Russell is taken in by a peaceful community and becomes their last hope when the same soldiers come back with orders to destroy. Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) and Connie Nielsen (A Shine of Rainbows) also star.

The simple story shows that a soldier’s heart is never changed, no matter how much brain-washing, and the movie, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (Avp: Alien vs. Predator) features a nice score by Joel NcNeely.

The new, U.S.-based season of "Torchwood" will premiere in the summer, and based on the poster the show has just released, we're already kind of excited for it.

"Torchwood: Miracle Day" will debut on Starz at 10 p.m. Et Friday, July 8. John Barrowman and Eve Myles return as Capt. Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper, and they'll be joined by new cast members Mekhi Phifer ("ER," "Lie to Me"), Bill Pullman ("Independence Day"), Alexa Havins ("All My Children") and Arlene Tur (Starz's "Crash"). Lauren Ambrose ("Six Feet Under") will have a recurring part.

"Miracle Day" begins with a day where no one on Earth dies -- including Pullman's character, a murderer who was due to be executed by lethal injection. No one dies the next day either, or the next, plunging the world into an instant population crisis. Phifer plays CIA agent Rex Matheson, who's investigating the calamity and...

I'm really excited for this new series Torchwood: Miracle Day series. I just hope it turns out to be as good as the origianl BBC series.

John Barrowman will return as Captain Jack Harkness and Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper, along with new cast members. The series will take on a more international scope. The new story will shift from the U.K. to North America.

BBC Worldwide Prods. executive vp Jane Tranter had this to say previously,

This gives 'Torchwood' the chance to feel like a real global drama, The story of 'Torchwood' will impact worldwide humanity and not just a small area of the U.K. This will scale it up.

The creator of the series Russell T. Davies added,

It's not a new version, it's not a reboot. It's not going to be 'Lost' and take 20 years to find out what's going on.

Starz announced today that “Torchwood: Miracle Day” will premiere on Friday, July 8th at 10pm Et/Pt. The Us installment of the BBC smash hit series will star Mekhi Phifer (“ER,” “Lie to Me”), Bill Pullman (Independence Day, The Grudge) and, in an extended guest role, Lauren Ambrose (“Six Feet Under,” The Other Woman) and is currently in production in Los Angeles.

Bill Pullman, who portrays Oswald Danes, a former school teacher and convicted child killer, and Phifer, join “Torchwood” alumni John Barrowman (Capt. Jack Harkness) and Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper) in the series. Also joining the cast are Alexa Havins (When in Rome, Fat Girls) as Esther Drummond, a deskbound CIA employee who dreams of active duty and who suddenly finds herself running alongside Jack, Gwen and Rex; and Arlene Tur(“Crash,” Eat Pray Love) as Dr. Vera Juarez, a Washington D.C. surgeon, who finds herself on the...

Starz announced today that “Torchwood: Miracle Day” will premiere on Friday, July 8th at 10pm Et/Pt. The Us installment of the BBC smash hit series will star Mekhi Phifer, Bill Pullman and, in an extended guest role, Lauren Ambrose and is currently in production in Los Angeles. Bill Pullman, who portrays Oswald Danes, a former school teacher and convicted child killer, and Phifer, join “Torchwood” alumni John Barrowman (Capt. Jack Harkness) and Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper) in the series. Also joining the cast are Alexa Havins (When in Rome, Fat Girls) as Esther Drummond, a deskbound CIA employee who dreams of active duty and who suddenly finds herself running alongside Jack, Gwen and Rex; and Arlene Tur (“Crash,” Eat Pray Love) as Dr. Vera Juarez, a Washington D.C. surgeon, who finds...

Exclusive: In his first regular series role in almost a decade, Tom Sizemore is set to co-star opposite Ethan Hawke in Fox's drama pilot Exit Strategy, a high-octane procedural about a team of five experts associated with the CIA led by Eric Shaw (Hawke) who are deployed when a CIA operation goes bad to extract the ones involved before it's too late. Sizemore will play Jonathan Marks, a veteran CIA spymaster and mentor to Shaw who is the Exit Strategy unit's Logpac (support officer). A man who has been everywhere and done everything, Marks is the man who can get you anything, anywhere, anytime. Sizemore, repped by Global Artists Agency, last did a pilot in 2002, the drama Robbery Homicide Division, which was picked up to series and had a brief run on CBS. He has since done arcs on CBS' Dr. Vegas and Starz's Crash. Eric Winter, who has been...

Eric Roberts is set to star in ABC drama pilot Grace, from creator-executive producer Krista Vernoff.  A dysfunctional family drama set in the world of professional dance, it centers on Michael Grace (Roberts), a famous choreographer who tends to sleep with his dancers and has three daughters  with different mothers. A much better dance teacher than he is a father, he is in danger of losing his studio until one of  his daughters steps in as studio manager. Mad Men helmer Lesli Linka Glatter is directing the pilot, which has added Flody Suarez as an exec producer.  Mia Michaels (So You Think You Can Dance?) will do the choreography. Roberts' series credits include Starz's Crash and NBC's Heroes.

As SciFi Mafia reported to you back in December, The Walking Dead showrunner, Frank Darabont, considered shifting gears with how the show is written and use freelance writers for the next season. The latest news is that the hit AMC show adapted from Robert Kirkman’s graphic novel series will return to “a traditional writing staff model with a staff comparable or a little bigger in size to Season One whose order was for six episodes versus thirteen for Season Two.”

Glen Mazzara (The Shield, Crash) has just closed a deal to be the show’s writing executive producer and No. 2 to Darabont for The Walking Dead’s second season. Mazzara has already tousled with zombies in the first season, having written the fifth episode, “Wildfire.” He replaces Charles Eglee who left to pursue a television adaptation with Sony TV of the Brian Michael Bendis / Michael Avon Oeming-penned series Powers.

Glen Mazzara (The Shield, Crash) has joined AMC’s The Walking Dead as executive producer while a team of five new writers have also come on board, squashing rumors of a freelance written second season. Mazzara penned the episode ‘Wildfire’ for The Walking Dead’s first season as a freelancer so he’s very familiar with the groundbreaking new series about surviving a zombie apocalypse. Mazzara will be replacing Charlies ‘Chic’ Eglee as the second in charge to showrunner Frank Darabont. Eglee left The Walking Dead after finding out that Darabont wanted to become more deeply involved and didn’t want to find himself in a supporting creative role. Robert Kirkman, who created the comic book in which the AMC adapted show is based, will remain as an executive producer himself and plans to write...

Just three months ago, it was reported that the writing staff of AMC's breakaway hit The Walking Dead were let go en masse. At that time it seemed that executive producer / creator Frank Darabont was considering a freelance-writer-model for new episodes, much like the one favored by Doctor Who. Today, Deadline reports that Glen Mazzara has agreed to join the staff of The Walking Dead as a writing executive producer, second to the series creator Darabont.

Mazzara's work will be familiar to fans of the show, as writer of the episode 'Wildfire', one of the best episodes of Season 1. He was also a writer and producer of three highly-regarded serial dramas: Crash, Hawthorne, and The Shield.

It would have been interesting to see how the freelance-writer experiment worked (having Kirkman's comic book as a loose template would have made that easier). But fans of the show should be pretty relieved,...

Exclusive: Glen Mazzara has closed a deal to join AMC's breakout hit The Walking Dead as a writing executive producer and No.2 to creator/ executive producer/ director Frank Darabont for the show’s upcoming second season. He is in the process of putting together a staff of about 5 writers. The move comes 3 months after the writing staff for The Walking Dead’s first season was disbanded, including then-No. 2 to Darabont, writing executive producer Charles “Chic” Eglee (most of the writers were let go, Eglee joined another project, FX's Powers). At the time, Durabont was exploring the idea of forgoing a writing staff altogether in favor of using freelancers. In the end, the show is reverting to the traditional writing staff model with a staff comparable or a little bigger in size to Season 1 whose order was for 6 episodes vs. 13 for Season 2. One of the 6 episodes of Walking Dead's first season...

Deadline is reporting that Glen Mazzara, formerly of The Shield, Crash and Hawthorne, has come aboard as the number two on The Walking Dead right behind Darabont. He is currently in the midst of putting together a writing staff of about five writers. No reason was given for the shift. The Walking Dead's second year will consist of 13 episodes, whereas season one had six.

The good folks over at Syfy have been kind enough to send us two exclusive clips from tonight’s eagerly awaited premiere of Alice, a 21st century take on Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland.

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Alice, which is airing on Syfy as a two part mini series is written and directed by Nick Willing (Tin Man) and features an all-star cast including Kathy Bates (Revolutionary Road), Tim Curry (Burke and Hare), Andrew Lee Potts (Primeval), Matt Frewer (A Town Called Eureka) and Caterina Scorsone (Crash).

Alice Hamilton’s (Scorsone) world is suddenly turned upside down when she finds herself on the other side of a looking glass in Wonderland, an outlandish city ruled by the devilish Queen of Hearts (Bates).

To maintain control of the land the queen uses the emotions of kidnapped humans to feed her citizens.

The BBC has released a lot of new information concerning the upcoming fourth series of Torchwood, which has been renamed from Torchwood: The New World to the new title of Torchwood: Miracle Day. Some of the information included could be seen as spoilers, so bear this in mind if you're trying to remain spoiler-free for the new season!

Along with new cast member Mekhi Phifer who will be acting as CIA operative Rex Matheson, John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness) and Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper) have been joined by Bill Pullman (Independence Day) portraying protagonist Oswald Danes, Arlene Tur (Crash) portraying Dr. Vera Juarez, and Alexa Havins portraying Agent Esther Drummond.

As indicated by the character descriptions released by the BBC, the events that bring Captain Jack back to Earth and draw Gwen Cooper back into the world of Torchwood surround a mysterious event that would become known as Miracle Day -- forcing the heroes,...

Some casting news came in from the Internet Movie Database today for Daniel Fridell's upcoming 3D (of course) remake of the overseas spooker Apartment 1303, and we've got the skinny for you right here.

As always, we're working to confirm this so take the following announcement as more of a rumor until we do, but it appears as if Mischa Barton (pictured below; Homecoming, Walled In, The Sixth Sense), Rebecca De Mornay (Mother's Day, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle), John Diehl (Stargate, Jurassic Park III), Julianne Michelle (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps), and Robert Blanche ("Crash," "Ghost Whisperer") have all been cast.

Dig on the synopsis for the original Japanese film below, and look for more soon!

Apartment 1303 is white, bright and airy with a sheer white curtain blowing from the wind off the balcony and is on the 13th floor of a large building. The view onto the sea is breathtaking,...

Apparently Daniel Fridell's 3-D remake of Apartment 1303 is already casting up. The untrustworthy IMDb reports that Mischa Barton (Homecoming, Walled In, The Sixth Sense), Rebecca De Mornay (Mother's Day, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle), John Diehl (Stargate, Jurassic Park III), Julianne Michelle (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps), and Robert Blanche ("Crash," "Ghost Whisperer") have all be cast, although this should be considered Rumor until otherwise reported. Penned by Kei Ohishi and Michele Taverna, the pic is a modern ghost story which turns a love/hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror. Some rentals are too good to be true.

Michael Ausiello from TVLine posted Torchwood info that Alexa Havins (All My Children) and Dichen Lachman (Dollshouse) has joined the BBC sci-fi cast. Alexa Havins is playing a CIA Watch Analyst called Esther Katusi, that has a lot of faith in human nature and a big crush on her colleague named Rex Matheson who's played by Mekhi Phifer. Dichen Lachman is guest starring in the first episode as a CIA agent. Other information: Phifer (as mentioned above) is playing Rex Matheson, who is said to have a “lethal sense of humor.” As well there will be Arlene Tur from Crash thats part of the cast too, and as some know actor Bill Pullman (Independence Day) has joined up as Oswald Jones that Ausiello describes as a “dangerously clever convicted murderer who escapes his lifelong prison sentence on a technicality and quickly becomes a media sensation.” BBC Official description: Gwen will...

Captain Jack is putting the finishing touches on his new Torchwood team.

Sources confirm to me exclusively that All My Children starlet (and upcoming Grey’s Anatomy guest star) Alexa Havins has joined the upcoming fourth season of the cult smash as a series regular.

Additionally, Dollhouse beauty Dichen Lachman has signed on to guest star in the premiere.

Related: Exclusive: Bill Pullman Joins Torchwood As Regular

Havins will play Esther Katusi, a CIA Watch Analyst who possesses an unshakable faith in human nature and a monster crush on colleague Rex (played by fellow T’wood rookie Mekhi Phifer). Greek...

*Here be some spoilers.

Director: Daniel Stamm.

Writers: Huck Botko, and Andrew Gurland.

The Last Exorcism is another one of those pseudo-documentaries, where the camerawork is poor and the lighting is even poorer. This title was well received in theatres back in August 2010 and now this Eli Roth (Hostel) produced film is available on DVD and Blu-Ray, as of January 4th. Christianity continues to influence film, despite Pagans taking the last scenes of this sometimes thrilling horror piece. Slow in the beginning and sometimes dripping in cheese, The Last Exorcism quickly builds steam with help from actors Patrick Fabian ("Crash") and Ashley Bell (The Day).

The plot breaks down as follows: Reverend Marcus Cotton (Fabian) loses faith in a higher being when he sees exorcisms in the paper going horribly wrong. He decides to scrap his own exorcism business, after the death of seemingly demonically possessed young boy. Vowing to...

Exclusive: Star Trek veteran Ira Steven Behr has joined Syfy's newly picked up series Alphas as executive producer/showrunner. Alphas, from BermanBraun, Universal Cable Prods. and writers Zak Penn and Michael Karnow, stars David Strathairn and follows a team of ordinary citizens who possess extraordinary and unusual mental skills. Behr will serve as an executive producer alongside Penn and BermanBraun's Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun and Gene Stein. The series' 90-minute pilot was directed by Lost director-producer Jack Bender. Behr has an extensive sci-fi background. He worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. On Deep Space Nine, he rose to executive producer/showrunner and wrote a total of 53 episodes, more than any other numbers. Behr also served as executive producer/showrunner on USA's sci-fi drama The 4400 as well as on the second season of Starz's series Crash, based on the Oscar-winning feature. Syfy...

The lastest in casting news for the upcoming fourth season of the BBC/Starz’s Torchwood is the addition of Mekhi Phifer (ER, Close Quarters, Lie To Me). Phifer scored the role of Rex Matheson that up-and-coming actor Enver Gjokaj (Dollhouse, Stone) and CW alum Chad Michael Murray (Lies In Plain Sight, One Tree Hill) had also been vying for.

Phifer’s character Rex is a “sharp-as-nails, funny-as-hell, tough-as-rawhide CIA agent who cares less about making a good impression than he does making a lasting one.” He joins the surviving members of the Torchwood crew, Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) and Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles) along with another new character of Ester yet to be cast.

Arlene Tur (Crash, Eat Pray Love), pictured above, has also been cast in a recurring role as surgeon, Vera Juarez.

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Mekhi Phifer is set to star opposite John Barrowman and Eve Myles in the upcoming fourth season of sci-fi drama Torchwood, the semi-rebooted but continuation of the British, Doctor Who spin-off that spent 3 seasons on the various BBC channels and re-broadcast in the states on BBC America. Torchwood: The New World, a new fourth season in series continuity, takes the show international, figuratively and literally. The Torchwood team will now battle alien baddies and mysteries abroad and not just in British Isles like the previous seasons. This series will also be broadcast on both, Starz and the BBC and was co-financed by the two networks. According to Russell T. Davies, series creator, it’s very much the next step. It’s not a new version, it’s not a reboot. They’re simply moving countries but the show is designed to welcome in a new audience that has never seen any Torchwood series previously.

It will officially be Season 4 of the BBC sci-fi/action-adventure show “Torchwood”, but for most American audiences, it’ll probably be their introduction to the show, which began life as a “Doctor Who” spin-off. Now word has Mekhi Phifer, late of Fox’s “Lie to Me”, joining John Barrowman and Eve Myles on the show as the American face to bring “Torchwood” to an all-new American audience. On the show, Phifer will play Rex Matheson, a CIA agent and “fast-tracked high-flyer with a lethal sense of humor who starts to feel his mortality when his life is put in danger.” Also joining the cast is Arlene Tur (“Crash”), who will have a recurring role. Pictured below, Tur will probably play Phifer’s partner on the show, but I could be wrong. “Torchwood” Season 4 will continue on the BBC, but will also be broadcast on the Starz cable network in the States.

“Lie to Me” and “ER” alum Mekhi Phifer joined the upcoming series of the sci-fi drama “Torchwood” being co-produced by the BBC and Starz and set to film in the U.S. for the first time. According to “Deadline,” Phifer joined the cast as CIA agent Rex Matheson, alongside co-stars John Barrowman as the time traveling con man Captain Jack Harkness and Eve Myles as Welsh police office Gwen Cooper. “Crash” actress Arlene Tur was earlier cast in a recurring role.

Exclusive: Mekhi Phifer is set to star opposite John Barrowman and Eve Myles in the upcoming fourth season of sci-fi drama Torchwood, which Starz is co-producing with the BBC for a run on both networks. Phifer joins original Torchwood stars Barrowman, who plays time agent/con man Captain Jack Harkness, and Myles, who plays ex-police officer Gwen Cooper. The Lie to Me alum will play the third lead, Rex Matheson, a CIA agent, a fast-tracked high-flyer with a lethal sense of humor who starts to feel his mortality when his life is put in danger. In addition to his co-starring turn on Fox's Lie to Me last season, Phifer, repped by Wme and Brookside, was a regular on NBC's ER. He also recently signed on for the Lifetime action film Close Quarters. Torchwood recently cast Crash actress Arlene Tur in a recurring role.

It’s seems a world ago that the BBC and Starz Entertainment announced the title of the long awaited fourth series of Doctor Who spinoff, Torchwood, but already pre-production seems to be getting well under way on the adult sci-fi show.

Torchwood: The New World is set to premiere sometime in 2011 – most likely the Summer – and the show promises to feature a more Americanised slant on the classic series. Along with the return of show regulars Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) and Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles) three new faces will be added to the team, C.I.A. agent Rex Matheson (a part rumoured to have recently been turned down by Lone Star actor, James Wolk), Agent Esther Katusi and the newest addition, surgeon Vera Juarez – who according to Deadline has recently been cast! According to recent reports from the site, Crash actress Arlene Tur will be joining the show as recurring character surgeon Juarez.

Hey gang! We've got a pretty epic contest for you today! We are giving away a Playstation 3 and the complete first season of Starz's Spartacus: Blood and Sand!

For those of you who have seen Spartacus, then you know what an great show it is. If you haven't seen it yet, well here's your chance to watch it... on a new Playstation 3.

The first prize is a Spartacus: Blood and Sand Season 1 on Blu-ray and Playstation 3 prize pack.

Two runner ups will receive only Spartacus: Blood and Sand season 1 on Blu-ray.

Here's what you need to do to enter!

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Make sure you are signed into Facebook or Twitter so we can contact the winners and let them know they won.

Second:

Tell us what your favorite scene is from any epic gladiator type movie or TV show, and why.

This will enter you in the contest, which will run...

Arlene Tur is to join the cast of the upcoming fourth series of Torchwood in a recurring role. Deadline reports that the actress will play surgeon Vera Juarez, a new character first announced late last month. Tur previously played police officer Bebe Arcel on Starz drama Crash and has also made guest appearances on Lie to Me and Grey's Anatomy. It was also reported in October that One Tree Hill veteran Chad Michael (more)...

John Barrowman and Eve Myles already are on board "Torchwood" when it returns for a fourth season next year on BBC and American premium cable channel Starz, but now so is Arlene Tur. The Miami-born actress best known for her role as Bebe Arcel in the short-lived "Crash" series -- based on the Oscar-winning movie -- has joined "Torchwood" as, well, we don't quite know who she'll be playing. What we do know is that it's a recurring role, and it's not the one of the CIA agent that IGN's Eric Goldman says actress Amber Stevens has been in talks for. Tur has no genre credits to her name, but she most recently played Armenia in the film "Eat Pray Love." She guested in the Fox series "Lie To Me" last year, and appeared in an episode of "Grey's Anatomy" in 2006, according to Internet Movie ...

Oh boy, do we have an amazing contest for you, dear readers!

Here at Geeks of Doom we're big fans of Spartacus: Blood and Sand (see our review), and we know a lot of our readers are too. That's why we're so very excited to be able to bring you this contest in conjunction with the recent release of Season 1 of the series on DVD and Blu-ray where we're giving away some prizes, including a Sony Playstation 3!

One (1) Grand Prize winner will receive:

- One (1) Sony Playstation 3

- One (1) Spartacus: Blood and Sand Season 1 Blu-ray

Two (2) runner-up winners will each receive:

- One (1) Spartacus: Blood and Sand Season 1 DVD

"Spartacus: Blood And Sand," the most highly anticipated original series in the history of Starz Entertainment, premiered on January 22, 2010 and was an instant hit with viewers and critics. The Miami Herald called it "compulsively watchable," while the Associated Press remarked that...

This is a perfect Sunday.

Harry Shum, Jr. has a huge spread for Yellow Magazine, a fashion and arts magazine for "young English-speaking and bilingual Asians in Houston." The full spread isn't online yet, but Gleehab has a preview. As long as we're on the subject of Glee, don't forget to tweet your reactions with the #kurtrules for our recap tomorrow. As to what you'll be tweeting about, here's Puck (Mark Salling) from tonight's episode explaining why he hasn't been in school recently.

Backstage at Glee, there are many spoilers about Gwyneth Paltrow's appearance in the Christmas episode, as well as Javier Bardeem's upcoming appearance. There are so many spoilers laced throughout the piece I'm afraid to say anything, except that with all these injuries, I hope they have a great health plan. And did you know they quit using the Long Beach school theater for performances and built a 500-seat replica?...

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Welcome to the weekly trailer awards, where we look at the new movie previews and tell you what's the Most, the Best, the Worst, and so forth. Please remember that if you do not watch all the new movie trailers as soon as they are released, you make Hollywood sad.

Best Motivation to Overcome One's Weaknesses: because Hitler is better at it than you are. In 'The King's Speech' (in theaters Nov. 26), the king of England has a terrible stammer, but he sees that Hitler is a pretty good speaker -- say what you will about him, the guy could dazzle a crowd -- and thinks, "Well, shoot, if Hitler can talk without stuttering...." And the rest is history. That's how a speech therapist defeated the Nazis.

Most Offensive Trailer for People Who Crash Funerals and Have Imaginary Friends: 'Restless' (in theaters Jan.

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Welcome to the weekly trailer awards, where we look at the new movie previews and tell you what's the Most, the Best, the Worst, and so forth. Please remember that if you do not watch all the new movie trailers as soon as they are released, you make Hollywood sad.

Best Motivation to Overcome One's Weaknesses: because Hitler is better at it than you are. In 'The King's Speech' (in theaters Nov. 26), the king of England has a terrible stammer, but he sees that Hitler is a pretty good speaker -- say what you will about him, the guy could dazzle a crowd -- and thinks, "Well, shoot, if Hitler can talk without stuttering...." And the rest is history. That's how a speech therapist defeated the Nazis.

Most Offensive Trailer for People Who Crash Funerals and Have Imaginary Friends: 'Restless' (in theaters Jan.

A new anthology is on its way that's attracting not only a lot of indie talent but also a segment from none other than Richard Stanley (Hardware) and Tom Savini. Interested? We thought you would be. Dig on the details and early artwork.

From the Press Release

Severin Films and France's Metaluna Productions today announced their international co-production of The Theatre Bizarre, a modern horror anthology inspired by the over-the-top shocks of Paris' early 20th century 'Theatre du Grand Guignol'. The feature will be comprised of six films by six cutting-edge genre directors enlisted from around the world and granted total creative freedom. The Theater Bizarre is executive produced by Daryl J. Tucker, and produced by Severin's Carl Daft, David Gregory and John Cregan, Metaluna's Fabrice Lambot, and Michael Ruggiero of Nightscape Entertainment. Production on Richard Stanley's (Hardware) segment 'The Mother Of Toads' began 10/10/10 in Montségur in the French Pyrenees.

HollywoodNews.com: TNT has written a prescription for a third season of the powerful medical drama “Hawthorne,” starring and executive-produced by Jada Pinkett Smith (“Collateral,” “The Matrix” trilogy). TNT has ordered 10 new episodes of the hit series, which is slated to return in 2011.

Created by Emmy® winner John Masius (“St. Elsewhere,” “Providence,” “Dead Like Me”), “Hawthorne” premiered in summer 2009 and ranked as one of ad-supported cable’s Top 5 new series of the year. In its second season in summer 2010, the series continued its success, averaging 3.7 million viewers and ranking as ad-supported cable’s #1 Tuesday program among women 25-54.

“With its memorable characters, powerful performances and moving storylines, ‘Hawthorne’ takes us on a dramatic journey through the world of a hospital on the brink of collapse,” said Michael Wright, executive vice president and head of programming for TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies (TCM). “This series has performed extremely well among...

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['The Closer' - 'Executive Order']

We've reached the mid-season finale of 'The Closer,' and if you had any question before tonight's show about the excellence of this past season, tonight's show delivered the answer: This episode was 'The Closer' at its best.

Two superb guest stars helped. Matthew Glave ('Crash') -- who's a dead ringer for Dominic West -- and Courtney B. Vance ('FlashForward'). In the case of Vance, his appearance may be the start of a recurring role because his character, Chief Tommy Delk of the Counter Terrorism Unit, turned out to be Brenda's competition for the new chief of police job.

While working a particularly tense and involved case with Delk, Brenda got to observe her competitor. Delk was more stealth-like than Brenda when it came to dealing with the Feds, and she couldn't help but admire his technique. That getting-more-with-honey approach is something she knows well.

Here’s a recent interview with producer Eli Roth, director Daniel Stamm, Ashley Bell and Patrick Fabian on the horror film “The Last Exorcism” by director Daniel Stamm (A Necessary Death) and starring Patrick Fabian (Big Love, Crash), Ashley Bell (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) and Jamie Alyson Caudle (Jonah Hex). Synopsis: When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in [...]...

Eli Roth was interviewed at the AMC 16 in Burbank CA on opening night of his new film “The Last Exorcism” by director Daniel Stamm (A Necessary Death) and starring Patrick Fabian (Big Love, Crash), Ashley Bell (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) and Jamie Alyson Caudle (Jonah Hex). Synopsis: When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy. Buckling [...]...

Eli Roth just tweeted that he will be appearing at the midnight showing at the AMC Burbank of the horror film “The Last Exorcism” by director Daniel Stamm (A Necessary Death) and starring Patrick Fabian (Big Love, Crash), Ashley Bell (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) and Jamie Alyson Caudle (Jonah Hex). If you’re lucky enough to be in the Burbank area make sure to head over and join him! Synopsis: When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, [...]...

Watch the critical acclaim TV spot for the horror film “The Last Exorcism” by director Daniel Stamm (A Necessary Death) and starring Patrick Fabian (Big Love, Crash), Ashley Bell (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) and Jamie Alyson Caudle (Jonah Hex). Synopsis: When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy. Buckling under the weight of his conscience after years [...]...

Here’s three brand new clips from the horror film “The Last Exorcism” by director Daniel Stamm (A Necessary Death) and starring Patrick Fabian (Big Love, Crash), Ashley Bell (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) and Jamie Alyson Caudle (Jonah Hex). Synopsis: When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy. Buckling under the weight of his conscience after years of [...]...

Watch a brand new movie trailer for the horror film “The Last Exorcism” by director Daniel Stamm (A Necessary Death) and starring Patrick Fabian (Big Love, Crash), Ashley Bell (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) and Jamie Alyson Caudle (Jonah Hex). Synopsis: When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy. Buckling under the weight of his conscience after years [...]...

Here’s the latest TV spot for the upcoming horror film “The Last Exorcism” by director Daniel Stamm (A Necessary Death) and starring Patrick Fabian (Big Love, Crash), Ashley Bell (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) and Jamie Alyson Caudle (Jonah Hex). Synopsis: When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy. Buckling under the weight of his conscience after years [...]...