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Christian Slater joining 'The Forgotten'?

Christian Slater is reportedly in talks to join ABC's new series The Forgotten.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Slater has been approached to take over Rupert Penry-Jones's role as the male lead.

The mystery series, which sees amateur detectives try to identify John and Jane Does, was recently picked up as part of ABC's 2009-10 schedule.

Shortly afterwards, Penry-Jones and Reiko Aylesworth dropped out of the project. Aylesworth's role is yet to be recast.

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Wentworth Miller to guest star in 'SVU'

Former Prison Break star Wentworth Miller has reportedly signed on for a guest appearance in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

The actor, who played Michael Schofield in the recently finished drama, is understood to have been cast as an NYPD officer in the 11th season premiere.

According to TV Guide Magazine, the British-born star will play a policeman called Nate Kendal who rescues a rape victim but will only discuss the case with Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni).

Miller's episode is scheduled to air on September 23.

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NBC schedules terrorist programme

NBC News has announced plans to air a programme which sees an elite team hunt war criminals.

The show, titled The Wanted, follows specialists in counter-terrorism, foreign intelligence, war crimes and investigative journalism profiling suspected international terrorists.

"We hope this programme sheds light on an overlooked story," said David Corvo, executive producer at NBC News. "It is surprising how many people with serious accusations against them are living openly and avoiding any sort of judicial process."

The show is scheduled to air on Monday, July 20 at 10pm.

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Alien Nation' resurrected for US TV

Sci-fi movie Alien Nation will return to television with Tim Minear attached to pen the series.

The Firefly and Angel scribe is developing a new take on the 1988 James Caan and Mandy Patinkin vehicle, in which a human cop partnered with another from outer space after aliens attempted to assimilate into human society.

The film was also made into a 1989 short-lived programme on the Fox Network, while the reboot will appear on the Sci Fi Channel.

"It's genre mixed with procedural mixed with funny and mixed with big, giant scary," Minear told Variety. "I love serialized stuff, but this is also a cop franchise. That Starsky and Hutch/Lethal Weapon buddy cop comedy is absent from TV right now."

He added: "Twenty years (after Alien Nation), TV as a whole has evolved, and you can explore issues and go deeper with subject matter than you ever could before. On cable, you can play with ambiguity. This is a place I want to be."

The new series will be set in the Pacific Northwest sometime in the 2020s, and will pick up 20 years after the aliens first landed on Earth.

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Jennifer Beals and Mekhi Phifer are returning to Lie To Me, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Phifer, who appeared in the last two episodes of the drama's first season, has been promoted to a series regular in his role as FBI agent Reynolds.

Beals, who guest-starred in the season finale as the ex-wife of Tim Roth's character Dr Cal Lightman, will recur.

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Please Get Well Soon, Maura Tierney!

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Maura Tierney needs an "eight-week medical evaluation" of some kind. (NBC: "We are unable to release further details and ask that you respect her privacy at this time.")

This means that Maura's upcoming NBC drama Parenthood, produced by Ron Howard and Jason Katims, and costarring Peter Krause and Mae Whitman, will be pushed to midseason. Mercy, the Michelle Trachtenberg series about nurses, will premiere in Parenthood's place.

But the TV of it all is obviously not the point. Maura Tierney is a visibly awesome woman we have loved since NewsRadio and all the way through ER, and whatever she's going through right now sounds awful.

Hopefully, this turns out to be nothing and Maura will be back to full capacity as soon as humanly possible.

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To hear Ashton Kutcher tell it, everything is copacetic with The Beautiful Life star Mischa Barton. Sure, she was recently hospitalized, and she wasn't at the Television Critics Association press tour this morning, and she's been plagued by "not! stable!" rumors since her O.C. days, but aplusk isn't letting anybody talk smack about his girl. Ashton told reporters, "[Mischa] was never unavailable for a day of work...Mischa's in New York working today."

Oh, and did we mention that Ashton also described Mischa, who plays supermodel Sonja Stone on the CW's upcoming fashionista series, as a grande dame of TV drama? Well, he didn't actually call her a dame, but close enough...

Ashton said, "The great thing about Mischa for this show is we have a lot of young cast. She's done it before. On The O.C. she was one of the leads in this big soap opera."


Because of all her experience, see, she'll be able to guide the younger castmembers through the trials and travails of television. (Never mind that costars Sara Paxton and Corbin Bleu have both been acting since preschool.) Per Ashton, "Navigation and guidance is important." See, Mischa's all old and experienced and grown-up and practically leading a ragtag gang of dwarves and hobbits in the war against Sauron.

Also, according to Ashton, you don't have to worry your pretty little heads that Mischa's part is being recast (or that in lieu of a straight recast there might be a new Sonja Stone-esque character coming to the fore): "[Mischa's role] is very prominent. She's one of our lead players."

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Friends writer-producer Marta Kauffman has started work developing The Time Traveler's Wife as a series for ABC.

The network has paired with Kauffman and Warner Brothers to adapt the recent film, starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana, from the original novel written by Audrey Niffenegger, The Wrap reports.

Kauffman is reported to have been keen on the project since the book was first published in 2003. The storyline will revolve around a man who has the ability to circumvent space and time due to a rare genetic disorder, and ends up married to an artist.

The Friends scribe will serve as both writer and executive producer on the proposed pilot, while no casting announcements have been made. It is unclear if Brad Pitt's Plan B production company, which worked on the movie version, will be involved with the project.

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It was announced earlier that screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin had wanted Pitt and then-wife Jennifer Aniston to headline the film adaptation.

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MTV has announced plans to develop a US version of teen drama Skins.

The series, which was created by Brian Elsley and his son Jamie Brittain, has enjoyed a three-season run in the UK, with a fourth series due to arrive early 2010 on E4.

MTV says that it will continue using teenagers to help write the scripts, with unknowns starring in the series. Elsley will reportedly write and executive produce the US version, which is expected to be set in Baltimore, Maryland.

"Skins is one of those rare shows that cuts through to its core audience with unusually authentic stories due to the unique writing and casting process that Bryan pioneered," said MTV's Liz Gateley.

"Having personally pursued the UK project for almost two years, I am beyond thrilled to bring it to MTV in the US. We intend to preserve the authenticity of the British version and are excited to collaborate with the original team to develop stories that will speak to American youth."

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Demi Moore has landed a role in new CW drama The Beautiful Life.

The show, co-created by Moore's husband Ashton Kutcher, focuses on a group of models living together in New York. The actress will play a ex-model based on Janice Dickinson.

A source told The Mail On Sunday: "Demi has turned down a lot of TV shows over the years, including Ugly Betty.

"But she completely trusts Ashton.

"The plan is for her to play a recurring guest role so that she can keep coming back."

The insider added: "It would be bad for her career if it doesn't do well."

Mischa Barton and Elle Macpherson have also been cast in the show.

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NBC has ordered a pilot for a new spy drama penned by JJ Abrams.

The show, which is being produced by Warner Bros. and Abrams' company Bad Robot, revolves around a husband and wife who work together in the espionage business.

The project has been the subject of a bidding war between NBC, CBS and ABC over the last week. ABC was the home of Abrams' similarly-themed drama Alias for five seasons.

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NBC has announced that it has cut its order of sci-fi thriller Day One, opting to air the show as a four-part miniseries, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The programme had originally been slated to broadcast as a 13-part series but it has been suggested that NBC made the changes as part of a cost-cutting measure.

It will still premiere following the coverage of the Winter Olympics but it is believed that the move will give NBC the chance to evaluate its performance before deciding whether to order a series.

Creator and executive producer Jesse Alexander said that two hours of the show have already been filmed and he is now preparing the final two hours to wrap up the storylines but leave it open for a possible series.

He added: "I've been in discussions with the network for some time about the best way to launch what I truly feel is an awesome television programme."

Day One focuses on the aftermath of a global catastrophe that tears down the world's infrastructures and how a group of people come together to figure out what happened.

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Former Crossing Jordan star Steve Valentine has reportedly proposed to his girlfriend in front of a live studio audience.

The actor, who played Dr Nigel Townsend in the series, popped the question to actress Inna Korobkina on the set of his new Disney XD series I'm In The Band.

Speaking to People, the star explained that he schemed with the cast and crew to stage a fake scene which saw him presenting Korobkina with an engagement ring.

"I was very emotional all day. Everyone cheered. Everyone was crying. It was a very lovely moment," he said.

He added that no date for the wedding has been set yet but joked that the couple "liked the idea of getting married in a winery".

I'm In The Band will premiere on Disney XD next year.

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David Letterman has admitted to having sexual relationships with female members of his staff, revealing that someone tried to extort $2 million from him over the affairs.

Speaking on his CBS talkshow yesterday, the star explained that he received a package from an individual threatening to expose the relationships if the money was not paid.

He forwarded the information to the Manhattan district attorney's office in New York and testified before a grand jury.

The blackmailer was arrested on Thursday after being handed a fake cheque as part of the investigation.

"I have had sex with women who work on this show. Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Perhaps it would, especially for the women," he told the audience.

"I feel like I need to protect these people - I need to certainly protect my family. I need to protect myself... I hope to protect my job."

The 62-year-old did not reveal when the relationships took place. He married his longtime girlfriend Regina Lasko earlier this year and the couple have a 5-year-old son together.

CBS has since confirmed that an employee who worked on 48 Hours has been charged with attempted grand larceny and suspended from his job.

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ABC Family has given the greenlight to a comedy pilot starring Melissa Joan Hart, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The former Sabrina The Teenage Witch star has been tapped to play Hailey, a "political dynasty wild child-turned politician" in the untitled show.

The plot revolves around Hailey taking in her teenage niece and young nephew when her sister is jailed.

Joey Lawrence has signed on to play a "manny" who moves in to help the family.

The network has also handed a pilot order to an untitled single-camera project from Boy Meets World creator Michael Jacobs, which will centre around parenting philosophies.

The show will focus on a young father who is made redundant and begins to develop a closer bond with his "underdog middle daughter", while his wife acts as a mentor to their older child.

Both pilots are scheduled to film later this year.

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• Parenthood: Lorelai Gilmore is back, baby! Reps confirm that Lauren Graham is officially joining NBC's midseason drama Parenthood in the Sarah Braverman role. The character was originally played by Maura Tierney, who left the series to focus on her breast-cancer treatments.
  
  
• The Vampire Diaries: What About Brian star Matthew Davis just signed on to The Vampire Diaries to play fan-fave character Alaric Saltzman.
  
  
• 24: Apparently 24 star Cherry Jones and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip star Sarah Paulson, aka one of the most adorable low-profile actor couples out there, have broken up. Sadness.
  

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ABC has handed a series order to crime drama The Gates, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The show, set in a gated suburban community, has reportedly been given a 13-episode order by the alphabet network.

Gates, which is written by Richard Hatem and Grant Scharbo, focuses on a city cop who is promoted to chief of police in a small town community. He later discovers that the residents may be harbouring dark secrets.

Production on the show is slated to begin early next year, with South America being considered as a location.

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Heroes' star to produce new CW drama

Hayden Panettiere has signed up to executive produce a new medical drama for The CW.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, HMS, which centres on a group of bright students at Harvard Medical School, has a young Grey's Anatomy vibe to it.

The project, from Warner Bros. TV, marks the producing debut for the 20-year-old Heroes actress.

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