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Warning: The following contains spoilers for Tuesday’s iZombie.

iZombie answered a burning mystery during Tuesday’s episode when Blaine confessed to Peyton that he regained his memories after taking the second cure and has been faking his amnesia.

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“You’ve made a fool of me,” she responded, noting that her friends could have been human for months.

But let’s focus on the present: Major is human now, with his memories fully intact, and Liv wants to join him in being non-undead. Unfortunately, someone stole the rest of Ravi’s cure,...

Warning: The following contains spoilers for Tuesday’s iZombie.

Turns out Clive’s circle of zombie friends is bigger than he thought.

During iZombie‘s Season 3 premiere on Tuesday, the detective’s visit to Fillmore Graves HQ led to a startling discovery: Wally, the little boy who used to live in his apartment building, is a member of the undead. But the happy reunion took a dark turn near the episode’s end when the child and his mother Anna were killed by zombie conspiracy nuts (who just so happened to be right).

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With the second season of iZombie having concluded nearly a year ago, we’ve had to satisfy our collective hunger with whatever bits of information came down the pipeline in the time since – and, believe me, there wasn’t much to go on. Well, we finally did get a brief promo a few weeks back, so that was something.

Now, with season 3 just within arm’s reach, the network has put out a hearty trailer that should make everyone happy. Not only does it give us a generous look at what’s to come, but it also teases what kind of brains Liv and Major will consume, no doubt bringing countless laughs along with.

From the footage provided, it’s hard to pin down what grey matter Liv has been feasting on, aside from maybe a club DJ, but it’s Major that left me in stitches. Seeing him inherit...

Following the release of his new remix of September’s “Cry For You” over the weekend, 3Lau shared that he had a big announcement waiting in the wings. Now, the news is finally in, and the producer and DJ has revealed an upcoming world tour that will see him making stops throughout Asia and North America.

The Las Vegas based producer took to social media to announce the upcoming 3Lau Haus World Tour, which is slated to kick off in Thailand on August 11. The tour will feature a number of top notch special guests as well, including Illenium, Jenaux, Prince Fox, Elephante, Grandtheft, Cheat Codes and more.

With a stacked list of guest acts and stops in some of the biggest cities in the Us and Asia, 3Lau clearly has some exciting things planned for us. As such, make sure to grab your tickets here, as this is one tour...

Given that it was the first to wrap its season, it makes perfect sense that Warner Home Entertainment would unleash the complete second season of the CW’s iZombie on disc ahead of the superheroes coming in August. The 4-disc DVD set is coming on Tuesday while Warner Archive will be simultaneously releasing iZombie the Complete First Season and iZombie the Complete Second Season on Blu-ray.

The series is loosely based on the Chris Roberson and Michael Allred Vertigo series and is a quiet success, garnering solid ratings and reviews but without the sturm and drang of its fellow DC properties. In the hands of executive producers Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars) and Diane Ruggiero-Wright (The Ex List), they keep the mood light, the characters quirky, and the plots engaging.

While the short first season set everything up and explored what it means to be Olivia “Liv” Moore (Rose McIver), required...

iZombie wrapped up its second season tonight with back-to-back episodes. I already offered some overall thoughts on the season after last week's outing, so let's get specific on the finale, coming up just as soon as I'm a squad leader of my Call of Duty World League challenge team... We know from the Meat Cute massacre in the season 1 finale that this show can do impressive zombie action when it's of a mind to. But the carnage at the Max Rager party was much bigger and more elaborate than I'd have expected. If it wasn't as technically impressive as the Walking Dead version would have been, it was so much fun, and so character-focused — whether Clive declining to be scratched, Liv being forced to kill the Romero'ed Drake (who only wound up that way because he was the good guy Liv always believed him to be), or Major finally getting...

I haven't checked in on iZombie in a while, so let's talk about last night's episode — and season 2 as a whole as we wait for next week's finale — coming up just as soon as I clear cases like Frank Drebin but get treated like Nordberg... "Reflections of the Way Liv Used to Be" was the first iZombie episode I can recall to not use the full (and excellent) opening credits sequence, which is a move shows make when an hour is particularly busy. Given all the stories the show has been spinning this year about Max Rager, Major's side career turning zombies into popsicles, the war for Seattle drug supremacy, Ravi working on a cure, etc., not to mention how much time the Brain of the Week mystery eats up, it's a wonder the show doesn't have to shave down those credits every week to fit everything in. If I'm being honest,...

That ’70s dad is joining that ’40s show.

Kurtwood Smith has booked a recurring role on Season 2 of ABC’s Marvel’s Agent Carter, as Vernon Masters, a veteran of the War Department with a keen understanding of how to work the system.

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“We had the pleasure of working with Kurtwood on both Resurrection and Chaos, and were well aware of what a commanding presence he is,” Agent Carter EPs Tara Butters, Chris Dingess and Michele Fazekas told Marvel.com. “So when we were developing the character of Vernon Masters,...

The team behind Marvel’s Agent Carter is hard at work – well, when they’re not busy doing this – making the next season of the show, which stars Hayley Atwell. A new batch of actors for the latest season was announced recently, but a big character stalwart will also show up, in the form of Kurtwood Smith.A veteran of many films and TV series (such as the original, and still the best, RoboCop), Smith will be playing Vernon Masters, a veteran of the War Department with a keen understanding of how to work the system. Whether he turns out to be friend or foe for Peggy Carter remains to be seen.“We had the pleasure of working with Kurtwood on both Resurrection and Chaos, and were well aware of what a commanding presence he is,” said Executive Producers Tara Butters, Chris Dingess and Michele Fazekas in a statement. “So...

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Question: How much Grace will we see on Good Wife now that Makenzie Vega isn’t a regular? —Joyce

Ausiello: Quite a bit, actually. “You’re going to see exactly as much of Grace as you would any other season,” insists exec producer Michelle King. “She will be as involved in Alicia’s life as any teenager of her age would be.” Fellow Ep Robert King adds that Grace may even be more of a fixture this season...

This may be the season Harvey finally gets his head on straight.

Suits has tapped Christina Cole (The Assets, Chaos) to join the Season 5 cast as Dr. Paula Agard, a Harvard educated psychiatrist specializing in high end corporate consulting who becomes the perfect match for Harvey.

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Look for the two to play a game of cat and mouse throughout the season, although it’s unclear if Cole’s shrink will become Harvey’s personal therapist.

Cole — whose credits also include...

Microsoft's debut games console, the Xbox, made a big impact on gaming, but not all of its games got the attention they deserved...

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The new generation console war may turning towads a two horse race, with Nintendo playing catch up, but wind back a few years, and Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo were all hard at it, competing for your money and loyalty. The PlayStation 2 would go on to win the war of its generation, but Microsoft's Xbox was a tough competitor, giving the company a secure foothold, which it would later take advantage of in the next generation with the Xbox 360's dominance.

The original Xbox had a host of great games, many of which have gone on to become successful franchises, with no better example than Halo, but not all of its good games gained the attention they deserved, even if sequels managed to appear in later years.

Syfy has announced that the great game/series crossover Defiance is set to return to production in Toronto next week for Season 2. Along with that announcement comes the first information about new and returning cast and production, starting with James Murray as Mayor Pottinger. Ooo. He was the dishy Stephen from when-it-was-great Season 1 and 2 of Primeval.

But wait, there’s more – “Grant Bowler returns as Nolan, along with … Stephanie Leonidas as Irisa Nolan, Tony Curran as Datak Tarr…” Okay, we saw Nolan revive, which explains how he can return, but Irisa, what the heck did she turn into? Apparently still Irisa, so that’s good news. And excellent, Tony Curran will be back as Datak, so… how will he get out of the blood-covered mess he was in?

For the latest information about what will be going on in our favorite post-terra-formed-over version of St. Louis when we return to it next June,...

James Murray is set to rule over Defiance.

The British actor, who appeared on CBS' Chaos in 2011, will be a series regular on Season 2 of this Syfy drama, Deadline reports, coming on board as Niles Pottinger, a native of England who is appointed provisional mayor by the Earth Republic.

Pottinger is described by network insiders as "shrewd, polished and charming."

He's also a cut-throat pragmatist, chock full of information and secrets and unafraid to punish anyone who defies him. Look for Niles to set his romantic sights on Julie Benz's ex-mayor, Amanda Rosewater.

Defiance Season 2 will be comprised of 13 episodes and premiere in June 2014.

British actor James Murray, whose TV credits include Primeval, Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire (as Ralph Longshaft) and CBS’ short-lived Chaos, is joining Syfy’s Defiance in the new series regular role of Niles Pottinger, our sister site Deadline reports.

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Hailing from the UK (which was devastated during the Pale Wars), Niles is appointed Defiance’s provisional mayor by E-Rep — probably because Datak has either gone on the lam after killing the military conglom’s Colonel Marsh, or because he gets caught.

Niles is described as...

2013 is only halfway done, but there’s a fair chance that, in a television context, it might well be looked back upon as the year any and all accepted rules of “quality television” became utterly meaningless and the promise of great things arrived in all shapes and sizes, from all directions. Consider Netflix’s House of Cards and the resurrected Arrested Development: existing properties, incredible casts, and a novel delivery method to boot. Consider HBO’s increasingly epic and brutal Game of Thrones and the way it’s managed to capture the zeitgeist despite firmly belonging to a long-derided genre. Consider the continued reign of FX’s animated spy comedy Archer, complete with the best rapid-fire humor on TV. Consider Mad Men, still relevant as it heads into its final season. Consider the wildly popular The Walking Dead and the long-form horror that is sure to follow in its wake.

I was a big fan of ABC‘s Zero Hour when I previewed the pilot last summer, and was disappointed that they were holding it until midseason. When they finally did air it, they had made a few changes with a few scenes, but it was still the cool Indiana Jones-feeling, Nazi hating, twisty fun mysterious show I remembered, complete with creepy baby.

Of course I was horribly disappointed when ABC canceled the series after airing just three episodes, but over-the-moon happy when they announced that they would air all 13 episodes this summer.

Well that happy day is now finally nearly upon us, as Zero Hour returns Saturday at 8/7c with a two-hour premiere. But… it isn’t the pilot. In fact, they are picking up where they left off, and will be airing episodes four and five on Saturday. If you didn’t see the first three episodes when...

This is terrific news for all who join me in bemoaning the far-too-soon cancellation of supernatural Nazi clock creepy baby puzzler Zero Hour. We were told that the remainder of the episodes would air, and now, happily, that schedule has been set. The news was somewhat giddily tweeted by the Zero Hour writers themselves, or at least whomever has their Twitter password:

Airing update! ABC’s showing all 13 eps of Zero Hour starting Sat. June 15th at 8pm! Set your DVR’s and clear your summer schedules! Whohoo!

— ZeroHourWriters (@ZHWriters) March 27, 2013

That is to say Sat’s @ 8Pm on ABC Starting on 6/15 not all 13 eps on 6/15…you knew that. Nevermind. Is this thing on? Did you hear some…

— ZeroHourWriters (@ZHWriters) March 27, 2013

Okay, so episode 1 airs on Saturday, June 15 at 8/7c *noting*. Back in March when the cancellation news became public, the writers posted this almost more exciting news:

Great news!

Christina Cole (CBS’ Chaos) has been cast as the female lead opposite Jason Lee and Derek Luke in Second Sight, CBS‘ drama pilot from Michael Cuesta and Carol Mendelsohn. Based on the British series, Second Sight is a gothic psychological thriller about Tanner (Lee), the lead detective with the New Orleans Police Department who is hiding the fact that he has an ocular disorder that causes him to have horrifying hallucinations. Cole, repped by ICM Partners, plays Gemma, one of Tanner’s detectives. Kerry Bishe (Argo) has joined AMC‘s drama pilot Halt & Catch Fire, written by Chris Cantwell and Chris Rogers. Set in the early 1980s, Halt & Catch Fire dramatizes the personal computing boom through the eyes of a visionary, Joe (Lee Pace); an engineer, Gordon (Scoot McNairy); and a prodigy, Cameron (Mackenzie Davis), whose innovations directly confront the corporate behemoths of the time. Bishe plays Donna, Gordon’s...

Tonight is the night we finally get to officially welcome Zero Hour into our homes. Whether you were lucky like me and got a very early sneak peek, or if you checked out the preview that ABC has made available online, or if tonight will be your first view, make sure to check out tonight’s season premiere. There are plenty of “Ooo!” moments, a creepy Nazi conspiracy theory, and Anthony Edwards, so definitely give this one a try.

Here’s one more quick reminder, that includes some intriguing new footage:

Trailer: Zero Hour – Treasure Map

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Zero Hour

As the publisher of a paranormal enthusiast magazine, Modern Skeptic, Hank Galliston has spent his career following clues, debunking myths and solving conspiracies. A confessed paranormal junkie, his motto is “logic is the compass.” But when his beautiful wife, Laila (Jacinda Barrett), is abducted from her antique clock shop,...

We very much approve of the new-ish network practice of posting a series premiere online before the premiere, especially for good intrigue/supernatural/serial/DaVinci Code-like shows like Zero Hour. Plus Nazis, Anthony Edwards, and old clocks! I was able to check it out last summer and loved it, and hope you’ll love it too. Watch it, make sure to watch it through the very end (trust me), and talk it up with your friends. We need good shows like this to do well.

First, a very cool poster and a reminder of what the show’s about:

Anthony Edwards Returns To Series Television As Hank Galliston, The Man In The Middle Of A Conspiracy For The Ages, As He Races Around The World To Find His Wife And Save Humanity, On The Premiere Of “Zero Hour,” February 14 On ABC Three-Time Emmy Award-Winner Charles S. Dutton Guest Stars as...

Taking a small break from his proposed "Hercules" film with wrestler Dwayne Johnson, Brett Ratner is trying his hand at science-fiction television again, this time working on a new project for ABC that could get a series order without even making a pilot. ABC has agreed to a script-to-series deal for "Tomorrow," about a time-traveling FBI agent in a project created by Katherine Lindberg and Ted Cyr. Ratner's most recent television directorial work was with the short-lived "Chaos" for CBS last year. He also directed the pilot for Fox's "Prison Break." He is, of course, probably best known for his Rush Hour movies with Jackie Chan, as well as directing the not-so-popular "X-Men: The Last Stand" in 2006. He created some controversy in 2011 when he was set to produce the Oscars in 2012, ...

Conspiracies! Nazis! Creepy eyes! Cool old clocks! Even more than 666 Park Avenue – and we hope this isn’t a sign – we loved the pilot for ABC’s Zero Hour when we previewed it over the summer. We are So Hoping that they haven’t changed it, and that it will be really, really popular. We can’t make you like and watch it, but we might like you even better if you do.

So mark your calendars for the premiere day of our newest love, as Zero Hour makes its first appearance on Thursday, February 14 at 8/7c. Cynics will say that 8pm on Valentine’s Day is perfect for geeks and conspiracy theory nuts because they have no love lives, but we know better. What could be more romantic for geek and conspiracy theory nut couples than a new show to watch and dissect? Sounds like a little slice o’ heaven to us.

Dylan Baker has joined the cast of upcoming ABC drama Zero Hour. The thriller stars ER's Anthony Edwards as a journalist who finds himself caught up in a global conspiracy when his wife is kidnapped. Carmen Ejogo (Chaos) will play an FBI agent on the series, with Baker now cast as her superior, FBI Section Chief Terrence Fisk, according to TV Guide. The 52-year-old actor has appeared on such shows as The Good Wife, Damages, Smash and Political Animals, while his film credits include Sam Raimi's (more)...

You’ve seen the commercials. You’ve heard the hype. Now there’s only one thing you want to know: Which of the new fall shows are worth watching and which should be avoided at all costs? In this continuing series, we give you the scoop on some of the most highly-anticipated shows of the season, with today’s subject being ABC’s Nashville.

The Boilerplate: Since these pilot presentations may go through numerous rewrites and casting changes prior to premiere, this by no means should be considered an official review. Rather a preview of what one can expect come Fall.

The Plot: A legendary queen of country (Connie Britton) music struggles to maintain her place in the spotlight while dealing with an ambitious rising pop-country vixen (Hayden Panettiere) who wants to knock her off the throne.

The Cast: Nashville stars Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights, American Horror Story) as Rayna,...

Listen, going to the movies rules, but sometimes, you just want to sit on the couch with giant bag of [insert favorite snack food here] and watch TV. And considering the insane of great stuff these days on the small screen, it doesn't take much convincing to stay home. So here's a brief round up of some TV bits and bobs. First up, Brett Ratner will make his first post-shrimpgate move by directing a pilot for Fox. The currently untitled show is basically a rip off of "Hanna," centering on a 17 year-old girl who is recruited to become a CIA operative and falls under the guardianship of a mysterious surrogate father/profressional mentor. Really, Fox? Anyway, it was written by Karyn Usher who also has penned and produced "Bones" and "Prison Break." Fox is hoping the roll of the dice with Ratner works as the last two pilots he directed for the network -- "Prison Break...

Brett Ratner is set to direct and executive produce Fox ‘s spy drama pilot written by Karyn Usher (The Playboy Club). The procedural thriller centers on the orphaned 17-year-old daughter of a CIA operative who is recruited to become an operative herself. She encounters a mysterious rogue agent/assassin who serves as both her surrogate father and professional mentor in the spy world. The project hails from 20th Century Fox TV and Marty Adelstein and Shawn Levy’s studio-based 21 Laps/Adelstein Prods. Usher, Adelstein, Becky Clements and Levy will executive produce with Ratner. The pilot gig stems from the new overall deal Ratner signed with 20th TV in August. Of the previous pilots CAA-repped Ratner has directed for 20th TV, where he has been based for the past 8 years, two, Prison Break and Chaos, went to series.

Exclusive: In its first pilot pickup in more than an year, Syfy has given the green light to Rewind, an action thriller from feature writer Justin Marks, BermanBraun and Universal Cable Prods. Rewind, which has received an order for a two-hour pilot, revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. Marks wrote the script and will executive produce the pilot with veteran showrunner Tom Spezialy (Chaos), Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun and Gene Stein. This marks Syfy’s first original pilot order since the 2010 duo of Alphas and Three Inches, one of which, Alphas, went to series and has been renewed for a second season. Like Rewind, Alphas hails from BermanBraun and Ucp. “We couldn’t be happier to be back in business with BermanBraun,...

Interview conducted by Tom Stockman January 9th, 2012

Though disarming in appearance, actor Kurtwood Smith.s two best-known big-screen roles are memorable villains. He was the psychotic Clarence in Robocop in 1988 and played a very different scoundrel the next year in Dead Poet Society where he was the unforgettable Mr. Perry, the overbearing bully father of aspiring actor Neil (played by Robert Sean Leonard) who meets a tragic end. He played a comedy variation on that role as the conservative, tough-loving dad on the TV sitcom That .70.s Show from 1998 to 2006. Smith’s other credits include Flashpoint, Rambo III, To Die For, Deep Impact, and roles on both Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He can currently be seen on the TV series Chaos. The Disney classic Dead Poet Society has been digitally restored and presented for the first time in Blu-ray High Definition this week,...

Patrick Heusinger (Royal Pains) and James Murray (Chaos) are set to star in the NBC drama Beautiful People, which sounds remarkably like a TV version of (Will Smith’s version of) I, Robot. Directed by Stephen Hopkins and written by Michael McDonald,the show – which so far has a pilot order – is, according to Deadline:

..set in the near future in a society where humans co-exist with mechanical androids that look like people but are treated like second-class citizens. It centers on the very wealthy Lydia whose late husband founded the firm that makes Mechanicals. Murray will play her son, a handsome and very successful attorney who’s lived a rich and privileged life but makes a name for himself by publicly suggesting that Mechanicals might have civil rights — a notion that’s largely scoffed at. Heusinger will play a family man employed as a servant in Lydia’s home...

The members of Flashpoint’s Strategic Response Unit will keep on reporting for duty, now that the cop drama’s new home, Ion Television, has picked up the Toronto-produced series for another season.

Season 5, to consist of 13 episodes, begins production next month.

Originally acquired by and aired in the U.S. on CBS, Flashpoint moved to Ion’s slate in October 2011 after the network acquired all Season 1-3 episodes from along with 11 Season 4 originals. On Dec. 27, the drama delivered its Ion highs in total viewers (2.1 million) and in some key demos.

Ready for more of today’s TV dish? Well…...

James Murray and Patrick Heusinger have signed up to star in NBC pilot Beautiful People. The drama project, from Cougar Town scribe Michael McDonald, is set in a future world in which humans co-exist with life-like androids. Primeval star Murray will play a successful attorney who campaigns for the civil rights of the 'Mechanicals', according to Deadline. The British actor recently appeared in short-lived CBS comedy-drama Chaos and has also featured in episodes of Marple and Monarch of the Glen. Royal Pains actor Heusinger will play a Mechanical posing as a human in the Beautiful (more)...

Exclusive: James Murray (Chaos) and Patrick Heusinger (Royal Pains) are set to co-star in the NBC drama pilot Beautiful People. The project, written by Michael McDonald, is set in the near future in a society where humans co-exist with mechanical androids that look like people but are treated like second-class citizens. It centers on the very wealthy Lydia whose late husband founded the firm that makes Mechanicals. Murray will play her son, a handsome and very successful attorney who’s lived a rich and privileged life but makes a name for himself by publicly suggesting that Mechanicals might have civil rights — a notion that’s largely scoffed at. Heusinger will play a family man employed as a servant in Lydia’s home who is in fact a Mechanical, but after one of his daughters is killed in a car accident, he proves to be “defective” as he’s plagued with...

The Academy Of Motion Pictures & Arts Sciences just made official what Deadline reported first: that Hollywood A-lister Brian Grazer will produce the 84th Academy Awards with TV veteran Don Mischer. And there’s more news on this fast-breaking story: As much as the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences hoped that Eddie Murphy would reconsider his exit as host, insiders tell me that Imagine Entertainment co-founder Brian Grazer has moved on this afternoon. ”We are not going back to him. No way,” they say. Grazer, co-founder of Imagine Entertainment with Ron Howard, first told Hollywood around 1 Pm that he committed to the gig. The Academy now owes Brian big-time for stepping into the breach left when Brett Ratner exited because of the scandal which the director created around himself. Immediately, Grazer began calling around town looking for an Oscar host and speed-dialed the top agencies checking availabilities for big talent.

Thirtysomething creators Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, who recently returned to television with an overall deal at 20th Century Fox TV, have sold their first project under that pact, an adaptation of Richard Murphy’s novel Confessions Of A Contractor, which has landed a script commitment plus penalty at Fox, with Chaos creator Tom Spezialy writing. Additionally, Fox has bought a comedy penned by Wedding Crashers co-writer Steve Faber. Confessions of a Contractor is described as a soap about the combustible mix that results when you blend desire, jealousy, and home renovation. Spezialy, Herskovitz and Zwick will executive produce. This 20th TV’s second stab at developing a TV series based on Murphy’s novel. During the 2008-09 season, a drama written by Murphy and executive produced by Shawn Ryan was set up at CBS. Steve Faber’s comedy, tentatively titled Merry Go Round, will be written by Faber, who...

This Saturday night’s Syfy original movie Morlocks puts a new spin on the subterranean subhumanoids from the dark future of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. Even after watching these snippets I’m still not sure what exactly they are, but they sure don’t look like the albino apemen we’re accustomed to.

“Stargate: Atlantis” co-star David Hewlett, last seen as the douchebag neighbor in Rise of the Planet of the Apes has to contend with an uprising of future mutants after an experimental time machine opens a window in the future allowing the mutated Morlocks into our world to wreak havoc.

Christina Cole (“Chaos”), and Robert Picardo (47% of all Syfy original movies) also star in this UFO Films production directed by Matt Codd (Super Eruption).

Morlocks premieres this Saturday night on Syfy at 9/8 Central.

The first clip is the 30 second TV spot. The second clip appears to show...

Shark Night 3D DIrected by: David R. Ellis Written by: Will Hayes and Jesse Studenberg Starring: Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Joel David Moore, Katharine McPhee, Alyssa Diaz, Chris Zylka, Donal Logue, Sinqua Walls, Joshua Leonard and Chris Carmack I’m such a sucker for a creature feature. Alligators, snakes, bears, piranhas and wild boars, I watch them all. But I have a soft spot for sharks. I’ll watch anything with a shark in it. Deep Blue Sea is a particular treat for me when I catch it on cable. I was really hoping Shark Night 3D would be in the vein of last summer’s insanely fun Piranha 3D, but it was not to be. Even I have a threshold for dopey stories, and this one tried my patience. It’s not particularly fun, and there isn’t enough gore to satisfy gore hounds (no doubt due to the...

We told you recently about the extreme horror aspect (one critic has deemed it the Scariest TV Show Ever) of the highly anticipated American Horror Story set to premiere on FX on October 5. We also showed you the first three very-David-Lynch TV spots. Ahs has now gifted us with more of those TV spots, which we have learned are called “clues”, as well as a longer, wonderfully creepy and classy wordless introduction to the cast, which they’ve titled “Family Portrait”:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Excellent.

Two more cast members not featured in that Family Portrait have been recently added to the fun. TVLine broke the news that Eric Close (Chaos, Without a Trace) has been brought in to play Hugo, “a charming cad with matinee idol looks who appears in a series of circa ’80s flashbacks.” And according to EOnline, Lily Rabe (The Good Wife,...

Eric Close has signed up for a recurring role on American Horror Story. The Without a Trace actor will play the charming Hugo in the forthcoming FX drama, according to TV Line. The series, created by Glee's Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, will introduce Hugo through a series of flashbacks set in the 1980s. Close played Martin Fitzgerald on Without a Trace from 2002 to 2009 and recently starred in short-lived CBS drama Chaos. He also played series regular roles on NBC sci-fi drama Dark Skies, (more)...

American Horror Story has added another big TV name to its ranks.

Without a Trace alum Eric Close is joining the cast of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s upcoming FX thriller in a recurring role, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Close will play Hugo, a charming cad with matinee idol looks who appears in a series of circa ’80s flashbacks. (I’ll go out on a limb and speculate that Hugo once resided in the house of horrors at the center of the spookfest.)

The twisty Horror Story, which is slated to premiere on Wednesday, Oct. 5, boasts an all-star ensemble that includes Connie Britton,...

Exclusive: Director-producer Brett Ratner has closed a new overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television where he has been based for the past 7 years. He is being joined by former NBC development executive-turned-producer Chris Conti, who will serve as president of Ratner's Rat TV. "It's impossible not to love Brett," 20th TV chairman Dana Walden said. "He is a great entertainer, has such love for the business and has the most commercial sense of any creative person I've ever worked with." She praised Ratner for directing the pilot for the Fox drama Prison Break, which "helped reestablish what the 20th Century Fox TV brand is around the world." But for the past 7 years, Ratner has directed only one other 20th TV pilot that has gone to series, CBS' short-lived CIA dramedy Chaos. He has developed and produced a total of 3 series, Prison Break, Chaos and ABC's Women's Murder Club. That...

This weekend you’ll get to see David Hewlett on the big screen contending with a mutant ape uprising. This September on the small screen you’ll get to see him contend with a different mutant uprising when Morlocks get loose in our time.

You’re probably familiar with the Morlocks from H.G. Wells’ classic The Time Machine: a species of ape-like troglodytes that live underground in the futuristic world visited by Wells’ time traveler. The new Syfy original movie Morlocks dares to ask what if the light-sensitive cannibals traveled back in time to terrorize us.

An experimental time machine opens a window into the future, and mutated monsters (the Morlocks) use it to come back to the present and go on a murderous rampage.

David Hewlett (“Stargate Atlantis”), Christina Cole (“Chaos”), and Robert Picardo (45% of all Syfy original movies) star in this UFO Films production directed by Matt Codd...

Coming to your screen this week: No less than 13 premieres, three finales, and a bunch of happy actors hearing their names announced as Emmy nominees. As but a supplement to the awesome features and original reporting TVLine has coming your way, here are 37 programs to keep on your radar.

Monday, July 11

8/7c Eureka (Syfy) | Season 4.5 arrives with Jack, Allison et al dealing with the current-day consequences of their their trip to 1947.

8 pm Mlb Home Run Derby (Espn) | For those who don’t get to watch Orioles pitchers take the mound on a regular basis.

9 pm The Closer (TNT) | The seventh and final season is here,...

A bunch of updates today.

First, there are two things to check out on TV this Saturday.

Hiro Kanagawa, Alessandro Juliani and Dmitry Chepovetsky guest star on Chaos, in episode "Eaten by Wolves," which airs tomorrow at 8 Et/Pt on the CBS network. The press release for the episode is here.

Red Faction: Origins, directed by Michael Nankin and starring Robert Patrick, Kate Vernon and Sgu's Brian J. Smith airs at 9 pm on Syfy. Bear McCreary produced the score by Jonathan Ortega. Worthplaying.com has an interview with Kate Vernon, who tweeted the other day that the film might get picked up to series. The trailer is embedded below.

Fort McCoy with Eric Stoltz will next be screened at the Stony Brook Film Festival in New York on July 22, possibly with daddy Graystone in attendance. Details at Stallercenter.com.

The trailer for Gun Hill Road with Esai Morales has premiered exclusively on Apple.

Photo Courtesy of Jeffrey Weissman

Actor Jeffrey Weissman got his big break auditioning for, but not being cast in War Games. Instead he caught the attention of a big agent and was soon cast in the Twilight Zone movie in the, "Nightmare at 30,000 Feet" story, with John Lithgow. He did small parts in Johnny Dangerously, Crackers with Sean Penn and Donald Sutherland and a few guest star spots on TV series like Dallas and Scarecrow and Mrs. King before landing a co-starring role opposite Clint Eastwood in Pale Rider. In a recent interview he told us, "It was a gas being on location with Clint. He was a real gentleman and did everything first class. It was a nice event."

After that came Back to the Future II. He played George McFly, Marty’s father, in the two sequels. He recalled what struck him most about making the film was the set decoration.

Reaper creators/executive producers Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters have signed a two-year overall deal with CBS TV Studios. Under the seven-figure deal, which begins June 1, the two will serve as full-time consulting producers on the studio's CBS cop drama Hawaii Five-0, which is all but picked up for next season. Additionally, they will develop new projects for the studio. This marks a return to the crime procedural genre for Fazekas and Butters who spent five seasons on NBC's Law & Order: Svu, rising to co-executive producers and earning two WGA Award nominations. Fazekas and Butters are coming off a two-year overall deal at 20th TV where they created and exec produced last year's ABC pilot Cutthroat and consulted on Dollhouse, Chaos and Terra Nova. Before that, the duo was based at ABC Studios where they created and exec produced Reaper and served as showrunners on the CW dramedy for its two-season run.

Every year, about this time, we always here about which television series may or may not be coming back for another season. Some of them are freshman series and some are veteran shows with proven tack record. TV Guide has put together a list of shows that are skating on thin ice and may be headed for the chopping block. Their list consists of 25 shows, but I've pulled out a few that some of us geeks and fans may be upset to see go. Chaos (CBS) Starring Eric Close, James Murray, Kurtwood Smith, Freddie Rodriguez, Tim Blake Nelson Despite its great and watchable cast, this series never took hold with fans. It's "lighter" tone is both good and bad in that it offers up something different for the CBS core audience, but that is also the problem for this series. Chuck (NBC) Starring Zachery Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Adam Baldwin, Ryan McPartlin,...

Today: Are South Park’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone the next Rodgers and Hammerstein?

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Q: I read an article on Slate.com praising the musical genius of South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, who I enjoy as well. Some of the comparisons are great, like Satan's "Up There" to Ariel's "Part of Your World.” Basically, they equate the two as a modern Rodgers and Hammerstein duo. I don't know much about theater or Broadway productions, but I'd figure you (and most of Ae) would. Could the guys who created a talking and singing piece of poo be on the same scale as Rodgers and Hammerstein? -- Daniel, Baltimore

Trey Parker (left) and Matt Stone

A: The article doesn’t actually equate them with Rodgers and Hammerstein,...

Right on schedule, CBS has decided to ditch their new Friday night TV series, Chaos, after just a few weeks on the air. The show stumbled in the ratings right from the start and never recovered. It's no longer on the air but is it cancelled?

A dramatic comedy, Chaos follows a small group of CIA misfit spies who make up the Clandestine Administration and Oversight Services (Caos). In addition to taking on threats to national security, they also must take on redtape and typical government bureaucracy. The TV series stars Freddy Rodriguez, Eric Close, James Murray, Tim Blake Nelson, Carmen Ejogo, Christina Cole, and Kurtwood Smith.

As detailed here, Chaos debuted to a horrible 1.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 6.53 million viewers. That was quite a bit lower than the season average of Medium, a series that CBS cancelled because of poor...

CBS has yanked its spy series “Chaos” from its schedule after just three episodes, the network announced on Tuesday. The series, which stars Freddy Rodriguez and Eric Close, has experienced a steady decline in ratings since its debut earlier this month, slipping from 6.2 million total viewers on its premiere to 5.5 million. According to CBS, the series will go into hiatus effective immediately. The police drama “Flashpoint” will take over the show’s Fridays-at-8 timeslot on May 6. Between now and then, the network will air a repeat of “CSI: NY” this...