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The Big 5 deciding what they expect us to watch this fall. By Brandon Wolfe Pilot season has commenced as the networks have begun their first round of pickups. NBC has ordered the dramas The Player , Chicago Med , Blindspot and Heartbreaker to series. Also in contention are Warrior , Game of Silence , The Curse of the Fuentes Women and Love Is a Four Letter Word . The network is really pinning its rebirth hopes on drama rather than comedy, the genre upon which it built an empire in the ‘80s and ‘90s. The crop given the go-ahead today will join fellow dramas Shades of Blue , Emerald City and pointless reboot/event series Heroes: Reborn in the fall. On the comedy front, NBC has a number of prospects, including Superstore , Strange Calls , People Are Talking , a pointless small-screen reboot of Problem Child , How We Live and Cuckoo . Already ordered are Telenovela starring Eva Longoria and, yet one more pointless reboot, Coach . Fox will be adding its television adapt...

The truth is that six new episodes will soon be out there. By Brandon Wolfe Looks like those rumors have panned out: The X-Files is indeed returning to television. The iconic ‘90s sci-fi series will be returning to Fox as a six-episode event series a whopping 13 years after it bowed out. Stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will reprise their roles as FBI agents Mulder and Scully and series creator/executive producer Chris Carter will also be returning. Production on the event series will gear up this summer, but the air date and plot have yet to be revealed. “I think of it as a 13-year commercial break,” said Carter. “The good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger, a perfect time to tell these six stories.” It’s actually been just seven years since Mulder and Scully last resurfaced, in 2008’s critical and commercial big-screen failure, The X-Files: I Want to Believe . That sequel seemed to be the death knell for the franchise as we knew it, but thi...

NBC’s upcoming 13-episode miniseries that reboots the popular 2006 superhero drama series. Heroes Reborn , from Heroes creator Tim Kring, will replicate the basic elements of the show’s first season in which ordinary people were waking up to the fact that they had extraordinary abilities, though the producers are keeping details on the plot under wraps. But I have learned that Coleman will reprise his character as Noah Bennett aka HRG, or the Man in the Horn-Rimmed Glasses, a nickname given to him by fans before the character’s real name was revealed. HRG, a former agent with the Company and father to cheerleader Claire Bennett (Hayden Panettiere), started off as a recurring but quickly became a fan favorite, with Coleman promoted to regular midway through Season 1. At the NBC upfront last month, NBC Chairman Bob Greenblatt indicated that “some of the familiar faces from the show are bound to drop in” on Heroes Reborn. I hear that a handful of the original stars have been appro...

Zachary Levi has signed on to star in NBC’s Heroes Reborn , EW has confirmed. A relaunch of the original superhero drama, which ran from 2006 to 2010, the 13-episode event series will feature a brand new story, though Jack Coleman is slated to reprise his role as Noah Bennett, a.k.a. HRG. “We’re still keeping Zac’s role under wraps because everything is shrouded in mystery for this miniseries, but we’re very excited he’s been cast,” NBC boss Bob Greenblatt told reporters at the Television Critics Associations winter TV previews, noting that more castings will be announced over the next few weeks. Added Levi: “One of my first, and fondest, memories of joining the NBC family in 2007 was having the pleasure of getting to know Tim Kring, and the cast of Heroes. I was a fan of their collective work and always thought it was such a fantastic and fun world they got to play in. With Heroes: Reborn, I’m honored to have the opportunity to bring more of that world to life, and excited to...

HRG is back! Jack Coleman has become the first Heroes co-star to sign on for Heroes Reborn , NBC’s upcoming 13-episode miniseries that reboots the popular 2006 superhero drama series. Heroes Reborn , from Heroes creator Tim Kring, will replicate the basic elements of the show’s first season in which ordinary people were waking up to the fact that they had extraordinary abilities, though the producers are keeping details on the plot under wraps. But I have learned that Coleman will reprise his character as Noah Bennett aka HRG, or the Man in the Horn-Rimmed Glasses, a nickname given to him by fans before the character’s real name was revealed. HRG, a former agent with the Company and father to cheerleader Claire Bennett ( Hayden Panettiere ), started off as a recurring but quickly became a fan favorite, with Coleman promoted to regular midway through Season 1. At the NBC upfront last month, NBC Chairman Bob Greenblatt indicated that “some of the familiar faces from the show are...

In our opening podcast, we explain why the Hell we've started this thing, breakdown some movie news, then move into a review of the film 3 Days to Kill . Thanks to everyone for your support, and we'll see you at one of our screenings. Finally, please like us on Facebook and check us out on Twitter! In our opening podcast, we explain why the Hell we've started this thing, breakdown some movie news, then move into a review of the film  3 Days to Kill . Thanks to everyone for your support, and we'll see you at one of our screenings. Finally, please like us on Facebook  and check us out on Twitter ! TAGS: SandwichJohnFilms, SandwichJFilms, Movies, Television, Rants, Raves, Fantastic Four, Marvel, Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Sherlock, Cumberbatch, Freeman, Godzilla, Heroes, Robocop, Jack Ryan, Movie Reviews, Lego, About Last Night, Kevin Hart, Rebecca Hall Check out this episode!

I was a huge fan of the show Heroes until it fell off course in season 4. But this is some exciting new for true fans of the original series. NEW EVENT MINISERIES ‘ HEROES REBORN ’ COMES TO NBC IN 2015 Tim Kring to Executive Produce 13 New Episodes of Groundbreaking Series ‘Heroes’ NBC is bringing back its conquering “Heroes.” An iconic series that still commands a rabid fan base, “ Heroes ” will return to the network in 2015 as an event miniseries with original creator and executive producer Tim Kring at the helm, it was announced today by NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke. NBC has ordered 13 episodes for a new stand-alone story arc entitled “ Heroes Reborn ,” with all details of storylines and characters being kept under wraps. “The enormous impact ‘Heroes’ had on the television landscape when it first launched in 2006 was eye-opening,” said NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke. “Shows with that kind of resonance don’t come around often and we thought ...

The Vampire Diaries actress Dawn Olivieri , who played Andie on the CW drama for five episodes, has booked a role in the independent film Missionary . Olivieri , who can next be seen in the upcoming Showtime comedy House of Lies opposite Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell , will play Katherine in the project, which is written and produced by Scott Poiley and Bruce Wood. Anthoyn DiBlasi will direct the film. Poiley, Wood and DiBlasi worked together on Cassadaga, which stars Kevin Alejandro. Missionary revolves around a young missionary from the Church of Jesus Christ who has skewed God's instructions in his efforts to win the affections of a married woman he feels should be his wife and soulmate for eternity. Olivieri's character is a beautiful, thirtysomething blue-collar mother who has an 11-year-old son. Katherine, separated from her husband, meets the missionary and becomes emotionally vulnerable. Their relationship turns dangerous when she discovers the man is unstable. ...

A sneak peek at Kiefer Sutherland's upcoming midseason drama, Touch , has surfaced. The Fox series, from Heroes creator Tim Kring , revolves around a single father ( Sutherland ), whose mute 11-year-old son communicates through numbers. The project was picked up late last month for 13 episodes and reunites the former 24 star with Fox. The network will launch the drama in the spring. Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Undercovers) and Danny Glover co-star. The nearly three-minute trailer explains all viewers can be expecting from Sutherland and company. "Your son sees everything in the past, the present, the future," Glover says to Sutherland in the video. "He sees how it's all connected." Here's Fox's official synopsis of Touch, set to premiere in Spring 2012: At the center of Touch is Martin Bohm (Sutherland), a widower and single father, haunted by an inability to connect to his mute 11-year-old son, Jake (David Mazouz). After multiple failed attem...

Sylar is back! In his first TV gig since his star-making turn as the archvillain on Heroes , Zachary Quinto is in negotiations for a major arc on Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s spooky new FX drama series American Horror Story . Additionally, the show is prepping a big two-part Halloween episode whose conclusion will air on Halloween night. American Horror Story , which stars Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton and Jessica Lange , is described as a psychosexual thriller. It centers on therapist Ben Harmon ( McDermott ) and his wife Vivien ( Britton ) who, dealing with the aftermath of Ben’s adultery, move along with their kids into a new house that seems to know all about their fears and plays on them. Quinto , who will appear in at least four episodes, will play Chad, the gay former owner of the house who becomes friends with Vivien. Quinto will make his debut in a big two-part Halloween episode, which Murphy and Falchuk are working on. The first part will air in the series’ regula...

Danny Glover has been cast in Touch , Fox’s likely midseason drama starring Kiefer Sutherland , sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter . From Heroes creator Tim Kring , the drama pilot revolves around a father ( Sutherland ) and his autistic and mute son ( David Mazouz ) who can predict events before they happen. As first reported by TV Line, Glover will play Arthur DeWitt , a professor who works with gifted children. The drama marks Kring’s first series since Heroes and Sutherland’s first since 24 . Production on Touch will begin soon now that Sutherland has completed his run on Broadway in the revival of Jason Miller’s That Championship Season. Kring penned the script and is executive producing with Sutherland, Katherine Pope and Peter Chernin for 20th Television and Chernin Entertainment. Glover’s most recent TV credits include episodes of Human Target, My Name Is Earl and an arc on Brothers & Sisters. Please Leave A Comment-

The former " Heroes " star will collaborate with writer Alex Sabeti on " The Correctors ," a time-travel, Inception-esque project. Masi Oka is teaming up with writer Alex Sabeti (Art of Cool) on an Inception-esque pilot script for Syfy. The Correctors follows two agents of the Exceptions Bureau who are dispatched to a parallel universe where they inhabit the bodies of their identical selves in order to stop events from occurring. The time-travel elements and changing the course of history were key in the plot of NBC’s now-defunct Heroes, where Oka played a Hiro Nakamura, who could bend the space-time continuum. Sabeti and Oka developed the story and Sabeti will write the script with Masi executive producing and possibly starring. Osa has had a recurring role on CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 this season. Syfy has become a player in ad-supported cable’s scripted arena. Last January’s bow of Being Human was the net’s most successful winter scripted series since Bat...

Here are two paragraphs from this Yahoo news story : The quake was nearly 8,000 times stronger than one that struck New Zealand late last month, devastating the city of Christchurch. “The energy radiated by this quake is nearly equal to one month’s worth of energy consumption” in the United States, U.S. Geological Survey Scientist Brian Atwater told The Associated Press. All of the news and social networking outlets are flooded with information about the magnitude 8.9 earthquake in Japan. A significant part of my twitter community is involved in comic book, TV, entertainment websites and movie superheroes. It's almost too easy to imagine Superman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman racing to Japan to put out oil refinery fires, stabilize "at risk" nuclear reactors, and evacuate the thousands of injured victims. This tragedy hits home with me the most. My mother is 100% Japanese born and raised, and so am I . We have many family relatives living in Japan and ...

The former " 24 " star closes a deal to star in and executive produce the Fox drama pilot " Touch ," from " Heroes " creator Tim Kring . Kiefer Sutherland , who starred for eight seasons on Fox's 24, is officially reuniting with the network. He has closed a deal to star in and executive produce the Fox drama pilot Touch, from Heroes creator Tim Kring. Touch centers on a father (Sutherland) who discovers that his autistic, mute son can predict events before they happen. Because of Sutherland's duties on Broadway where he currently stars in a revival of the Jason Miller's That Championship Season, Touch is expected start production in late May-early June after Sutherland fulfills his commitment to the play, now in previews. That would make Touch a contender for midseason where 24 was a long-time staple. Kring wrote Touch, his first pilot script since Heroes. Please Leave A Comment- Source- THR

Marvel Launches Television Department Having becoming a feature film force, spawning blockbuster franchises such as "Spider-Man" and "Iron Man," Marvel Entertainment is setting its sights on television. The comic book company is encroaching even further into Hollywood, with the launch of its newly created small screen division. The television wing will be overseen by Jeph Loeb , the Emmy-nominated writer of NBC's recently canceled "Heroes," the company announced on Monday. As executive vice president, head of television, Loeb will work to translate Marvel’s characters and stories to television in both live-action and animation form. In addition, Loeb will oversee the development and distribution of live-action, animated and direct-to-DVD series. Loeb also has extensive experience on the pen and ink side of comics, winning an Eisner-award for his work with Marvel and writing such popular characters as Captain America and Batman. Not only was ...

Hayden Panettiere Confirmed For Scream 4 Dimension Films has confirmed that Hayden Panettiere ("Heroes") and Rory Culkin will star in Scream 4 as well. They join original "Scream" cast members Neve Campbell, David Arquette, and Courteney Cox Arquette, as well as newcomer to the franchise, Emma Roberts. To be directed by Wes Craven from a Kevin Williamson script, the anticipated follow-up starts shooting in June for a release in theaters on April 15, 2011. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Comingsoon

Ashley Greene And Hayden Panettiere Offered Roles In Scream 4 Lake Bell is in negotiations to join the franchise, and offers are out to “Twilight” actress Ashley Greene, “Heroes” star Hayden Panettiere and Rory Culkin (“Twelve”) for key starring roles. “Scream 4” reunites Wes Craven with Kevin Williamson, who kicked off a horror- movie revival with his “Scream” script in 1996. The story brings back original cast members Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox, though the new flick is seen as a passing of the baton to a new generation of slasher victims, with Williamson already under contract to write a fifth installment. If deals are concluded, Greene would play Campbell’s cousin Jill, essentially the heroine of the movie, and Panettiere would play her best friend, a nerdy film geek. Culkin would play a potential love interest for Jill. Bell is negotiating to play a police officer who knew Sidney (Campbell) from high school. Casting is proceeding slowly because Crave...

NBC's "Heroes" Most-Pirated TV Show Of 2009 Last year, pirates were obsessed with good vs. evil, making NBC's "Heroes" the most-pirated TV show of 2009. This year, the buzz is that the show may be on the verge of cancellation thanks to dwindling ratings (it averages about 6 million viewers a week, down from nearly 14 million when the show first premiered in 2006). But "Heroes' continues to be a juggernaut in online piracy. According to Torrentfreak, "Heroes" was downloaded 6.58 million times in 2009, topping the year's most-pirated list. The only other show in the top 10 that boasts fewer weekly viewers than total illegal sharers is Showtime's "Dexter," with about 2.3 million viewers and 2.78 million pirated downloads. (And Showtime is a pay cable service, of course.) Here's the full list: 1. "Heroes" (NBC) 2. "Lost" (ABC) 3. "Prison Break" (Fox) 4. "Dexter" (Showtime) 5. ...

2009 People’s Choice Awards Nominees It's your award show, so get out and Vote for you Favorite Actor, Actress, Movies and etc. As you can guess Twilight has a huge presence on the People's Choice and my bet is that they will clean up during the show. These are just some of the highlights, to look at the entire list please visit People's Choice Awards So vote here - TV comedy: -Desperate Housewives -How I Met Your Mother -The Big Bang Theory -The Office -Two and a Half Men TV drama: -CSI: Crime Scene Investigation -Grey’s Anatomy -House -Lost -NCIS TV comedy: -Desperate Housewives -How I Met Your Mother -The Big Bang Theory -The Office -Two and a Half Men TV dramatic actress: -Anna Paquin -Blake Lively -Jennifer Love Hewitt -Katherine Heigl -Mariska Hargitay TV obsession: -Dexter -Gossip Girl -The Hills -The Secret Life of the American Teenager -True Blood TV sci-fi/fantasy: -Heroes -Lost -Supernatural -The Vampire Diaries -True Blood Movie actor: -Brad Pitt -Hugh Jackman -...