Friday, February 21, 2014

NEWS: Bob Barker To Guest Star on THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL; Sherry Stringfield Joins UNDER THE DOME; Primetime Emmy Changes

Former THE PRICE IS RIGHT host Bob Barker to guest star on THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
Barker will guest star on B&B on Wednesday, April 30 and Thursday, May 1. Barker will take part in a storyline that involves Hope (Kim Matula) and Liam (Scott Clifton) and deals with animal rescue. Barker will be taping next week on the B&B soundstage, as well as at an animal shelter in Los Angeles.

Sherry Stringfield Tapped for "Pivotal Role" in UNDER THE DOME
Stringfield (GUIDING LIGHT, ER) will play Pauline, a mysterious woman who may be connected to the origins of the dome. Other details about her character are being closely guarded, but you can connect the dots.

EMMYS: TV Academy Splits Best Miniseries & TV Movie, Reality Program & Voice-Over Categories, Expands Combined Longform Fields To 6 Nominees, Sets Scenario For 7 Best Drama & Comedy Series Nominees
As expected, the Television Academy’s Board of Governors voted to split the merged best TV movie and miniseries category intemmystatueo two, reverting to the long tradition of separate top longform Primetime Emmy categories, which was ended by the TV Academy vote in 2011 to merge the two fields because of the dwindling number of miniseries entries. Ironically, as the decision was made, miniseries already had started their resurgence.

The TV Academy also voted to split the Outstanding Reality Program Category into Outstanding Structured Reality Program (i.e. ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, MYTHBUSTERS, etc.) and Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program (i.e. PAWN STARS, DUCK DYNASTY, etc.) because of “a general industry uptrend in two different types of narrative reality programming.” They will join the Reality Competition Program category.

HOUSE OF CARDS finds avid audience in China
It's little surprise that a show devoted to political machinations would resonate in a country with a long history of back-stabbing leadership purges and inner-party struggle. Many in the Chinese public perceive their leaders as brazenly unscrupulous, with the only goal in governance to consolidate power and wealth.

But another reason the show may be a success here, some China experts in the United States fear, is because its unflattering portrayal of U.S. politics affirms Chinese government propaganda about American hypocrisy and bullying. In the show, actor Kevin Spacey plays Underwood, a congressional leader who is rejected for a Cabinet appointment, then claws his way to revenge and higher office.

Nathaniel Buzolic and Lucien Laviscount join SUPERNATURAL: TRIBES
TRIBES is being described as a sweeping drama about the various mafia-esque monster families that unknowingly-to-humans “run” the underbelly of Chicago and who are being tracked by a newly-minted Hunter who’s trying to stop them and rid Chicago of anything or anyone supernatural.

Buzolic will play David Hayden, a shapeshifter from one of the ruling monster families who’s been living as a human, having given up the monster life years ago. Laviscount will portray Ennis Roth, a resolute police academy trainee whose fiancĂ©e is killed in the crossfire of the monster war. The tragedy leads him to the truth about what lurks in the shadows and becomes a monster-hunter himself.

Kip Pardue joins Showtime's RAY DONOVAN
Pardue will play FBI agent Volchek, who works for Hank Azaria's James Cochran -- the ambitious head honcho of the Los Angeles FBI.

Milo Ventimiglia & Barry Sloane To Star In ABC Drama Pilot THE VISITORS
Sloane received the blessing of REVENGE producers to do a pilot this season. The fate of his character, Aiden, is being kept under wraps.

Stephen Bishop Upped To Regular On BET's BEING MARY JANE
Bishop plays David, a man Mary Jane brings back into her life to work things out.

MODERN FAMILY fan charged with indecent assault for groping Sarah Hyland
The fan allegedly grabbed Hyland's breast following a MODERN FAMILY after-party in Sydney.

Hulk Hogan to make wrestling comeback with WWE at age 60
Hogan, , who has six WWE Championships under his oversized belt, is expected to make his long-awaited debut on MONDAY NIGHT RAW next week after breaking from the WWE in 2007.




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