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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: A new Bill Murray might be awards bait, MTV cancels a polarizing show, and Marvel is making so much money.

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A million years ago, back in the late 1990s, everyone started thinking that, hey, maybe Bill Murray should get an Oscar. He reemerged on the scene in Wes Anderson‘s Rushmore and then he did Cradle Will Rock and The Royal Tenenbaums and, of course, Lost In Translation. Everyone thought he might win for that, but then crusty old coffee-breath Sean Penn had to come along and win it for Mystic Stupid or whatever. Murray made another unsuccessful stab for awards glory with Broken Flowers but then, well, things puttered out a bit. Until now! Now here is the trailer for Hyde Park on Hudson, a pretty-looking period comedy/drama in which Murray plays Franklin Delano Roosevelt alongside Laura Linney and fancy British people. This just might do it! Plus he’s really doing a character here instead of all that deadpan sardonic stuff he’s been doing for, oh you know, decades now. This could either be a small misfire or it could be The King’s Speech. Who knows! We’re rooting for the latter, though. Maybe Laura Linney could finally get an Oscar too.

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Um, missed this news last night but it’s worth talking about now. MTV has canceled their Girls-esque (young people in Brooklyn talking funny and doin’ sex) show I Just Want My Pants Back. Which, on the one hand, is like yay because boy oh boy was that show annoying and thinking it was so cool all the time when it was really lame and stuff. But on the other hand, aw nuts because that sort of misguided strut made it pretty dang entertaining. Basically this news elicits both a chuckle and a little frown. Ack, to be cleaved in two so! Strange torment! At least Teen Wolf season 2 is coming along soon to soothe these jangled nerves. At least there’s that. [Deadline]

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Not sure if you guys heard this, but basically The Avengers is making a lot of scratch. A ton of dough. A heap of bones. So many clams. Just a great amount of money. How much money? $1.07 billion as of now, making it the 6th highest-grossing movie of all time, after just a few weeks of release. Pretty crazy. Meanwhile, Battleship, which is actually really fun, is projected to have a not-so-good $30-40 million opening. Not great news considering it cost a reported $200 million to make. Hey, Avengers, you sunk my— Well, you get it. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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The very busy Elizabeth Banks has just signed on to star in True Blood/Six Feet Under mastermind Alan Ball’s movie What’s the Matter With Margie. The film is about “a downtrodden office worker who after years of abuse finally snaps and resorts to murdering her tormenters.” So basically it’s Falling Down meets Office Space. Or it’s scary thing that has happened in the real world meets Alan Ball’s copy of Final Draft. Either way. [Deadline]

Australian dynamos Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska have both been cast as New Yorkers in Carol, an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel. Wasikowska will play a bored shopgirl looking for more fulfilling life, while Blanchett will play a sad rich lady in a bad marriage. Presumably they will somehow come together at some point and say “G’day, I mean, hello, how are you, care for a shrimp on the barb— I mean, American hot dog?” Because that’s always what Australian people sound like when they’re pretending to be American. Always. [Deadline]

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Liam Neeson is going to kick butt again, Gwyneth Paltrow is going to speak Spanish, and an old friend gets a good job.

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What would Liam Neeson do without a gun and a scowl? Those are his favorite things now that he’s decided to become an action star instead of a Serious Actor. I mean, he’s serious in his action movies, but not actorly serious. Anyway, he’s just signed on to grab another gun and put on another scowl in the cheerily named A Walk Among the Tombstones, about an ex-cop who is hired to track down a kidnapped woman and in the process uncovers a string of murders. One hopes/assumes that Maggie Grace will play the kidnapped woman and that the villains will be played wolves. They won’t be wolves, they’ll just be played by wolves. And, of course, the little boy from Love Actually (who is now 22, jesus christ) will cameo as a drummer. [Deadlline]

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Yay! Landry has made good. Or, rather, made Bad. Jessie Plemons of Friday Night Lights has secured a big role on the next season of Breaking Bad, arguably TV’s best show. He’ll play a nice, normal guy who maybe isn’t so nice and normal on the inside. Sounds intriguing! Apparently Plemons also scored a role in Paul Thomas Anderson‘s next movie, so seriously way to go Landry. In related news, Matt Saracen made me eggs this morning and then we just cuddled in bed for a while and it was a nice way to start the day. [TV Line]

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Uh oh. Angel-blessed dust mote Gwyneth Paltrow is looking to join Antonio Banderas in Guernica 33 Days, a movie about Picasso painting his famous war painting. From the article: “Paltrow speaks Spanish, having lived as an exchange student for a year in Spain at age 15.” Oh god, so she’s going to be speaking Spanish in this? Remember how that was on that Mario Batali show? Won’t it be exciting to watch a couple hours of this?? Maybe that video is her audition! Who knows! We don’t speak Spanish! It could be anything! [Variety]

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The CW has released teasers of its new shows, and whoooo boy. They’re not very good teasers? They’re just kind of muted clips that abruptly end. The most coherent one is for Beauty and the Beast, because yes The CW is opening that old chest again. Gone is Linda Hamilton and in is Kristin Kreuk, who has a way deeper voice than you expect? I know she was on Smallville for a million years, so I should have heard her voice at some point, but I hadn’t and I was expecting a little birdly squeak but instead it’s low and scratchy and, I dunno, kinda works! We barely glimpse whatever hunk The CW found to play the Beast, but you can bet he won’t be that beastly. Because they couldn’t do that. We’ve embedded that preview, the other two are at the link. [Deadline]

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And here is a trailer for The Words, a sort of fable-looking kind of thing about a frustrated author who passes a long-lost book off as his own and things begin to unravel. It has an interesting cast — Zoe Saldana, Dennis Quaid, Jeremy Irons among them — and the filming looks kinda cool, but I don’t know. Bradley Cooper, y’know? Bradley Cooper. It’s a problem.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Get ready to see all your old favorites hoofing it once more, Alexander Payne plots his next move, and we find the catchphrase of the summer.

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During today’s upfronts presentation, ABC confirmed the rumor that there will be a big “all stars” version of Dancing With the Stars this fall. Imagine that? An all-star cast assembled from a group of people who were not stars to begin with?? It will be truly amazing. Who would be in your all-stars lineup? I think I’d pick Mario Lopez, and… Um, Lisa Rinna, sure, she was on that show… And didn’t… Seinfeld? Something about Seinfeld feels familiar… And… that one… girl… who… Ashley? Was there anyone named Ashley? Joey Fatone was definitely on that show, but we are talking all-stars here, so we can’t use him… Oh, I know. Sanjaya. He’s a star dancer, right? He was on that show, with that girl who cried at him? I think that’s it. OK, that would be my dream all-star Dancing With the Stars cast: Mario Lopez, Lisa Rinna, Seinfeld, a girl named Ashley, not Joey Fatone, and Sanjaya. What’s yours?? [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Though he took detours with Sideways and The Descendants, Alexander Payne is a good Midwestern boy, and he is returning to his roots with his next film Nebraska, a black white road trip movie. And now he’s announced to the studio that he’d like his leads, playing a father and son, to be Bruce Dern and Will Forte. Hm. After George Clooney was in the last one, those probably weren’t the names the brass was hoping to hear. But they’re the names he said. Payne apparently really wanted Gene Hackman for the dad role, but Hackman didn’t want to come out of retirement. So, Bruce Dern it is. (Payne directed his daughter Laura in Citizen Ruth, after all.) Now all he has to do is get the studio, Paramount, to say yes. We can’t imagine they’ll be thrilled with these choices though. Perhaps prepare yourselves for Alexander Payne‘s Nebraska, starring Matthew Perry and Clint Eastwood. [Deadline]

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Aw nuts. Genius director Alfonso Cuarón’s new movie Gravity, a space drama with Sandra Bullock (seriously!), has been delayed yet again. Most recently scheduled for November, it will now open sometime in 2013. The movie is listed as in post-production on IMDb, so who knows what the reason could be. It was likely a studio issue. As it’s apparently only Sandra Bullock alone in space for most of the movie, maybe Warner Bros. got skittish and are trying to convince Cuarón to add Chris Hemsworth to the movie or something. Y’know, for marketing. While we of course respect Cuarón’s artistic vision, we kind of default have to agree with WB if that is in fact the case. [Collider, via Vulture]

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Dear sweet delicate daisy Amy Adams is in talks to star in a dark, scary story of sadness and murder. She might play the lead in a movie adaptation of Dark Places, the well-reviewed and well-selling novel from one-time Entertainment Weekly TV critic (and boy was she a good one) Gillian Flynn. Adams would play a girl who long ago testified against her brother in the murder of their family only to realize years later that he might not have done it. Sounds like a great project, but I don’t know. Will there be songs and sweetness and nice puppets? Will anyone giggle? What will Amy Adams do?? (Oh, she’ll just do like she did in Doubt? Oh, OK.) [Deadline]

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Here’s a new clip from Snow White and the Huntsman, and while it’s all rather interesting, clearly the best and most important part comes early on. Specifically, if someone could make me some sort of repeating audio gif type thing of Chris Hemsworth yelling “TROLL!!” I’d be much obliged. I think we have our summertime catchphrase, guysss…. “Troll!!” Get into it.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Two old talk show pals reunite, NBC is keeping people employed and Dunder Mifflin, and Charlize Theron sounds funny.

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A week from today, Conan O’Brien, who replaced David Letterman as host of NBC‘s Late Night almost twenty years ago, will appear on Letterman’s Late Show for the first time in 13 years. No idea what they’ll talk about — presumably Conan will plug some kind of something, his talk show at least — but it’s a likely bet that they’ll share fond stories of Jay Leno and NBC, laughing into nostalgic sighs about the good old days. Should be a great time! [The Hollywood Reporter]

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John Krasinksi, Jenna Fischer, and Ed Helms have all finalized deals to return to The Office for another season, though for Krasinski and Helms it could be a limited season, as they’re both working in movies a lot. (I guess, sadly, not so much for Fischer.) Obviously the show could not have really continued on without these three, so it’s a sigh of relief probably for both NBC and the remaining Office fan. NBC is renewing things fast and furious now — they just took care of 30 Rock and Parenthood — but The Office isn’t officially picked up. But it’s basically 100% gonna happen. [Deadline]

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NBC has also picked up the new series First Do No Harm, a modern Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale about a talented neurosurgeon who has a dangerous alter ego. Phylicia Rashad is on the show, but sadly, no, she is not playing the neurosurgeon who turns evil sometimes. (That’d be Steven Pasquale from Rescue Me.) The Peacock has also decided to go with the Revenge rip-off Notorious, about a police officer (Meagan Good) who goes undercover as a maid’s daughter to infiltrate the rich family she grew up in to solve a murder. So it’s basically last night’s Revenge. It sounds a lot like last night’s Revenge. Keep pumping out the dynamite, NBC! [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Guillermo del Toro is apparently going to co-direct a 3D stop-motion animation version of Pinocchio, so that will be fun. Can’t wait for Geppetto to have eyeballs growing out of his hands and for Jiminy Cricket to be some kind of demon from an H.P. Lovecraft novel. God, Pleasure Island is going to be terrifying. [Entertainment Weekly]

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There will soon be a new musical about Charlie Chaplin hoofin’ it on the White Way, as Chaplin arrives at the Barrymore in August. A musical about silent film poses some interesting thematic challenges, but if anyone can figure it out it’s the creative geniuses of Broadway. Hopefully they’ll employ the same solving technique that gave The Little Mermaid the Heely shoes. Actually just make everyone in Chaplin be on Heelies. Why not. [Playbill]

Fox has renewed its cartoon shows Family Guy and American Dad through 2014. There’s no word about The Cleveland Show, so there’s hope for humanity yet. [Entertainment Weekly]

Cameron Diaz has signed on to star in an action comedy called Agent: Century 21, about a real estate agent who accidentally gets sucked into a hilarious Mexican drug war. Sounds really funny! Can’t wait til the raucous scene when she’s running through Juarez in her cute heels squealing “Oh, a body! Oh no, a head! Ew, a pile of corpses of police officers and innocent people!” Should be really terrific. That whole situation is just great comedic fodder, especially for an appealing comedienne like Cameron Diaz. Hope the sequel takes place in Haiti. [Deadline]

This is a clip from the omgigod-you-guys-it’s-coming-soon Snow White and the Huntsman, and it is notable for two reasons: 1) Charlize Theron, who is great so forgive us, kiiiiiind of sounds like she has an “r’s” speech impediment with this accent, does she not? I mean, I’m sure she’ll be good in it, but “widowahh” sounds a leeeetle Elmer Fudd. And 2) Chris Hemsworth, huh? No, not that he’s an oaken dreamboat carved from some glorious Westeros godswood. (Though that is true.) Really he just kinda commands on screen, y’know? Gabe at Videogum said the other day that Chris Hemsworth “is the first dude I’ve seen in a movie in a long time where you are just like oh yeah, totally, no you should for sure be in movies.” And that is totally true. He is just a movie star! He really is. I think he is the new One. Big things, I suspect. Big, big things.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: ABC has an international hit in Pan Am, The CW officially invites Carrie Bradshaw to the party, and Alec Baldwin is a busy man.

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Remember Pan Am? It was that ABC series about 1960s stewardesses that premiered all the way back in the fall and then kinda disappeared? Well it just won what is basically Europe‘s biggest television award, the Rose d’Or, for best series. So… how about that! The award is given out in Michele Bachmann’s adopted home country of Switzerland, but the award is big across all of Europe. What does this mean for the show, which was never technically canceled? Apparently Sony, which produces the show, wants it to go on because it sells like gangbusters in Europe, but ABC hasn’t released it yet so its fate remains to be seen. All we do know is that this basically means that Christina Ricci is the new David Hasselhoff. Pre-floor hamburger, of course. [Deadline]

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Oh god, it begins. The CW has officially picked up the Sex and the City prequel The Carrie Diaries to series. So we’ll soon have more of Carrie Bradshaw traipsing around New York City, only this time she’ll be young and it will be the 1980s and the show will be on The CW and produced by Josh Schwartz, so. AnnaSophia Robb plays Carrie, while Eileen Atkins guests in the pilot as a young Samantha. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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This is nice little news: ABC has renewed its perfectly serviceable, sometimes audible-chuckle-worthy sitcom Happy Endings for a third season. It’s mostly nice news because I feel bad for Damon Wayans Jr., who couldn’t do New Girl even though he was in the pilot because he was tied up with Happy Endings. So if this show got canceled he’d be out in the rain while the guy who took his part yuks it up on New Girl. So this is working out for everyone, really. Now if only they’d bring New Girl‘s Schmidt back on to Happy Endings as the gay guy, the world would, in some small way, be a more at peace place. [Vulture]

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Terrific, America. The family of recently deceased singer Whitney Houston has just landed a Lifetime: Television For Lonely Looky-Loos reality series. It will be called The Houston Family Chronicles. Houston’s teenage daughter, Bobbi Kristina, will be one of the cast members. Awesome! That sounds like a great show to produce and watch. Congratulations to everyone involved in this wonderful, completely uncynical project. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Alec Baldwin has two movies in the works. One is another picture with Woody Allen set in San Franciso of all places, so what, might there actually be gay characters in a Woody Allen movie?? Who knows! Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett might be in that one too. The other movie is a comedy with Russell Brand about a harried dad who hires the world’s best nanny and it turns out to be Russell Brand. Sounds pretty zany. Or is it madcap? Wacky? Screwball? It’s hard to say. Anyway, enjoy the work, Mr. Baldwin. Remember when you were doing all those serious movies like Heaven’s Prisoners and The Juror? That was a weird time, huh? This is better. This is much, much better. [Deadline]

Here is a trailer, an actual trailer not just fake ads, for The Campaign, the election comedy starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis. It looks fun? As noted before, Ferrell is basically just doing a slight tweak of his George W. Bush thing, while Galifianakis is doing some kind of out to lunch business that I can’t quite identify. The biggest surprise of this trailer? The Dylan McDermott reveal. Because of course. When I think comedy, I immediately think Dylan McDermott.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: NBC decides to keep a beloved show around, VH1 renews a be-hated show, and Cameron Diaz smartens up.

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Oh good. NBC announced today that is has renewed its lurid crime procedural show Law Order: Special Victims Unit for a fourteenth season. That is great news! Despite the show being about horrible things like rape and child murder and Ice T, it is just so very entertaining and such a staple of a healthy TV diet. Can you imagine if there wasn’t a Law Order on the air? That would represent a new era of anarchy or something. SVU is the last holdout — LO: Los Angeles made a perfectly decent effort, but people just weren’t having it — so it kind of needed to stick around. Now please, NBC: let us know if Awake is canceled so we can start hoping for the Law Order return of one of its most crucial aspects, the beloved B.D. Wong. [Entertainment Weekly]

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From good TV news to f-ckin’ terrible TV news, we learn that VH1 has renewed its show about feral alley cats living on Staten Island, Mob Wives, for a third season. The third go-around will air early next year and will mostly be about the Mob Wives spitting acid at each other like the queen alien in Aliens. Then we’ll hear a series of loud bangs and the rest of the season will just be a fixed shot of them lying in a ditch by the side of the highway. Should be thrilling! [Deadline]

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Former American Roman Polanski has decided that his next feature film will be a movie called D, a sort of remake O told from Julia Stiles’ character’s perspective. Ha, nooo, it is not that very random joke premise. It is actually about the Dreyfus Affair, which is how NBC refers to Watching Ellie. SORRY. No it’s that old French treason scandal that was very knotty and complex and interesting and this will make a great movie if we can forget for a second that it’s directed by Roman Polanski. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Cameron Diaz is returning to drama (where we think she really belongs) for a supporting role in the Ridley Scott/Cormac McCarthy joint The Counselor. Good for her! This sounds like a solid choice. She’ll be acting opposite Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, Brad Pitt, and Penelope Cruz. She’ll be saying Cormac McCarthy’s words. And she’ll be under the guidance of Ridley Scott (who, OK, can be a bit hit or miss — also, did you know that he is 75??). Diaz is good when she’s not the lead and when she surrounds herself with smart people — isn’t she kind of the best thing about Being John Malkovich? It’s when everyone around her lazily figures they’ll feed off her glow so she’s stuck saying horrible lines about dating and guys while everyone else just groans and nods their heads that she gets in trouble. So good for this. Well-chosen, Cam’ron D. [Deadline]

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Oh dear. Rising British actor Luke Evans, who recently bought a lovely new home back in the closet, has signed on to act in the sixth Fast and the Furious movie. Luke, why? Why, Luke? Sure, he’s done worse — Immortals, The Three Musketeers, and The Raven come to mind — and the F F movies still make a billion dollars every time they come out, but it’s the sixth one, Luke m’boy. And you’re gonna be in the freakin’ Hobbit. Have some self-respect. Although, oh, right, that whole closet thing. Self-respect not an issue. Gotcha. OK. [The Hollywood Reporter]

America’s dad (he used to be America’s older brother) Tom Hanks might soon be making his Broadway debut in a Nora Ephron play. Tom Hanks and Nora Ephron, together in New York? Too perfect! The play is called Lucky Guy and is about tough Daily News journalist Mike McAlary, who died of cancer in 1998 at a too-young 41. So it will be exciting and sad and probably funny, a perfect thing for everyone’s beloved Hanks. Plus George C. Wolfe is directing the thing, so this is basically premium A-grade talent being assembled here. Come on, Hanksy. Hit it out of the park. Don’t go all Julia Roberts and totally biff it. (Come back and try again, Julia!) We believe in you, Hanx. [The New York Times]

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: PBS has another British hit, Lifetime renews a sexy series, and NBC makes some early orders.

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For those of you who thought that the Stateside success of the ITV/PBS co-rolled joint Downton Abbey — about an English country estate whose chief export is scandal — was just some weird hiccup or fluke, that we’d all soon be back to watching Rules of Engagement or other American entertainments, it seems you thought wrong. PBS has another big British hit on its hands, as the second season (or “series,” if you’re a limey/unmarried TV blogger) of Sherlock, a modern take on the great detective stories starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, premiered last night to a whopping 3.2 million viewers. And that number doesn’t even include people who watched rebroadcasts or tuned in on their DVRs. So that’s pretty big. I mean, that’s more than Mad Men, y’know? (Everything is more than Mad Men, though, since nobody watches Mad Men.) So look for PBS to continue facilitating a British invasion while also, maybe maybe maybe, developing new series of their own. How about something like C.S.I.: Northampton, or Palo Alto Five-O? Those could work! Or they could just do a show called British People Grimacing and Kissing and it would probably do better than True Blood. We’ll have to wait and see. [TV By the Numbers]

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Oh but don’t worry, not everything on American television is going classy-ish. Lifetime: Television For Half-Asleep Divorcees has gone and renewed its Jennifer Love Hewitt handjob series The Client List for a second season. So she’ll be giving out more handjobs and there will be more synth music and more candles and lots more embarrassment. For example: If you call your mom and she’s got a Sunday to herself and you ask her what she’s going to be doing and she says, “Oh you know, reading a little, watching some TV,” then that means she is reading Fifty Shades of Grey and later watching The Client List and you’re going to just have to deal with that knowledge. I’m sorry. [Los Angeles Times]

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James Cromwell has been added to the mental asylum-set second season of American Horror Story, as a creepy farmer who talks to pigs doctor who often spars with the institution’s owner, who will be played by Jessica Lange. So that will be fun! To see these two old willow trees go to battle every week until one or both of them dies gruesomely. No, they’re not playing a married couple, ladies and germs! Thanks, I’m here all week. Try the veal. [Deadline]

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NBC has *officially* picked up two series in advance of its upfronts presentation next week: The gay dudes get a surrogate baby comedy The New Normal (created by Ryan Murphy, featuring Ellen Barkin), which could be fun or could be a Ryan Murphy show. And the Anne Heche sitcom Save Me, about a woman walking around in a highway ditch calling herself an alien god. No, no, sorry, sorry, that joke is so old (but so funny… :/). It’s not about that, Anne. Sorry. It is about, “a woman who lets herself – and her marriage – go until she undergoes an ‘awakening’ that transforms her spiritually and physically into a desirable and outspoken woman who just might be channeling god.” Oh. Um. Huh. I. So… not sorry? [Deadline]

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Oooo wooooo!!! (Is that how you type a wolf sound?) Here is a preview for the second season of MTV’s distressingly addictive series Teen Wolf. The subtitle for this season could be “Everyone’s a Werewolf Now” because apparently everyone’s a werewolf now. They’re just all werewolves. Used to be the show was about one teen wolf, now it’s about a lot of teen wolves. Teen Wolves. Anyhoo, all your old friends are back, like Cute Guy and Pretty Girl and Pretty Guy and Cute Girl. Plus Michael Hogan from Battlestar Galactica and Seth Gilliam from The Wire, which isn’t depressing for them at all, to go from those great shows to the second season of Teen Wolf 2: We’re All Teen Wolves Now. Enjoy!

And here are two promos released last night for the upcoming Will Ferrell/Zach Galifianakis election parody movie The Campaign, and hmm. Don’t a lot of the jokes seem oddly broad and old and obvious? And, like, not that sharp? The movie is directed by Austin Powers‘ Jay Roach (who also did HBO campaign movies Recount and Game Change), and it stars Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, so it wasn’t going to be In the Loop exactly, but I dunno. Judging from these two ads, themselves fake ads, it seems like the humor is not terribly clever or anything. Why not just make a movie with Will Ferrell‘s Bush impersonation, rather than just slightly tweak it and then throw in Zach Galifianakis doing some silliness as a gonzo… what? Tea Partier? What kind of candidate is he supposed to be? It just doesn’t really make sense. Which is a shame, because fictional comedy movies about goofballs starring goofballs really have the power to genuinely change our political discourse. Oh well.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Jonah Hill takes another dramatic role, Kellan Lutz heads to the jungle, and Brad Bird wants to work with real people again.

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Jonah Hill has been cast in The Wolf of Wall Street, the Martin Scorsese-directed financial drama that has Leo DiCaps set up to star. So it’s another dramatic turn for the diversifying Oscar nominee (yeah, don’t forget that Jonah Hill is now an Oscar nominee, guys). In the movie, Hill will play DiCaprio’s friend who gets sucked into the crazy world of finance and greed and excess, and presumably gets spit out the other end in not too good shape. That’s usually how these stories work, isn’t it? And then in the end Hill is better off than DiCaprio and is like “You gotta get your life together, you gotta do it…” all weary and still kind of hurt but at least living a good honest life? You know, that kind of story. That’s what it sounds like. But who knows. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Haha, perrrfect. Kellan Lutz, a hardened column of Chicken McNuggets all held together by some sort of grease epoxy and then glazed and shellacked over and buffed and varnished, who is also an actor, has been cast as Tarzan in a new Tarzan movie. But don’t get too excited about the Twilight brood-hunk swingin’ on people’s vines in nothing but his delicates. This is going to be one of those awful motion-capture things, so we’ll be looking at a creepy uncanny valley-dwelling computer version of this meat popsicle instead of the real deal. But still, it’s pretty genius casting, don’t you think? [Deadline]

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Brad Bird has officially signed on to direct his second live action film after this winter’s big boffo bonanza Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol. (Tom Cruise is a hit again!). The movie is called 1952 and is from Disney and that’s basically all we know about it. It’s all very hush-hush. Well, we can guess that it will be some sort of sci-fi adventure, as it’s written by Lost‘s Damon Lindelof and Entertainment Weekly ‘s former dedicated, obsessive Lost recapper Jeff Jensen. So wait, all a guy has to do to write with Damon Lindelof is slavishly devote six years of one’s life to a show that he makes? If only I’d known it would be that easy! Hm. Hey J.J., is it too late to jump on board the Alcatraz train? Hm, right, yeah, probably is. Anyway, with a pedigree like this we’ve got hopes for this 1952, even though, yes, we know absolutely nothing about it. That’s kind of the fun part! [Entertainment Weekly]

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Here is a new trailer for the possibly doomed The Amazing Spider-Man and, uh, it is not good. Everything looks fake, the actors seem uncomfortable, and I just don’t believe any of it. I know that’s harsh, but that’s just what I see.

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And here is Justin Bieber‘s new video for his song “Girlfriend,” and, uh, it is not good. Everything looks fake, the actors seem uncomfortable, and I just don’t believe any of it. I know that’s harsh, but that’s just what I see.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Starz heads to the seas, The CW renews some fan favorites, and Jewel books a big acting gig.

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Starz has made the bold decision of ordering eight episodes of a show about pirates called Black Sails. Sounds exciting! It’s a Treasure Island prequel (OK…) produced by Michael Bay (oh no…) about a young John Silver and his pirate friend Flint and they live on an island together. Wait, are we sure this isn’t a here! show or something? “Ar, there be Dante’s Cove, Silver!” Whatever the show is about, it should be interesting. Obviously Starz has been trying to get in on the original programming game of late—they’ve at least one critically lauded show in Boss—but things haven’t quite taken off yet. Maybe this big swashbuckler will. After all, who wouldn’t want to watch a show about two young seamen living on a paradisiacal island together? [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Speaking of wonderful television, The CW has renewed three of their series for next season. The Vampire Diaries, 90210, and Supernatural will all return in the fall, which is good news mostly in that the fan fiction industry will be able to keep the lights on for another year. Sure if these shows hadn’t made it there would still be Once Upon a Time and of course True Blood, but they aren’t really enough to sustain one of this nation’s most important business sectors. So rave on, Twincesters! Scribble away, Elena/Jeremy ‘shippers (ew). And, uh, do whatever it is you do, person who writes 90210 fan fiction. The world is yours for a little while longer. [Entertainment Weekly]

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Esteemed poet and one-season Nashville Star host Jewel has been hired by Lifetime: Television for Crying Softly in the Afternoon to play June Carter Cash in an upcoming biopic. You’ll remember that that is the role that won Reese Witherspoon an Oscar, thus empowering her to do important films like This Means War and Four Christmases. So maybe the same thing could happen for Jewel! And in case you’re concerned about her acting ability, remember that she was in an Ang Lee movie once (Ride With the Devil) and also played herself on an episode of Men In Trees, so she should be fine. Think of it this way, if her acting is half as good as her poetry, well…it’ll be a Lifetime movie, won’t it. [Deadline]

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Feed me JGL, feed me! Joseph Gordon-Levitt is developing a remake of Little Shop of Horrors in which he hopes to star. It’s unclear whether it will be a musical, but we’d assume it would be? Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who’s writing the thing, was brought in to fix the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark script, so we know he can (sort of, at least) work in the musical genre. And we’ve seen JGL sing and dance on SNL and stuff, so it could happen. We say bring it on! Really, this is just a perfect part for Joseph, who has always reminded us of Rick Moranis. Yup, they’re practically twins. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Here is a trailer for End of Watch, a cop thriller written and directed by the guy who wrote Training Day. So this is sort of his wheelhouse, this L.A. cop stuff. We can’t wait to see Jake Gyllenhaal stomping around yelling something like, “Godzilla doesn’t even compare to me!!” or “Rodan is far inferior to me in most every way!” It’s going to be good. Plus America Ferrara is a policewoman! Goooo Betty!

And here is a trailer for the completely necessary The Expendables 2, which features even more grunting and glowering from a bunch of old men than the first movie. Lest you think that this is some winking parody kind of thing, it is most certainly not. Watch the first one. That thing is kinda deadly serious. Though, that said, there is something undeniably, innately fun about seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger back in action, and who can be mad at Bruce Willis for too long? But the best thing about this trailer is its macho insistence on using last names only when listing the actors, and so they’re forced to say “Hemsworth” about Liam Hemsworth as if he is really any sort of entity. Why is he in this movie anyway? Half-hearted attempt to get teen girl viewers? HEMSWORTH. That’ll bring ‘em running.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: HBO invites two shows back for next year, Teri Hatcher is slumming it, and E! gets an awkward new makeover.

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After three weeks on the air and about as much blog coverage as any television show since It’s Like, You Know (there was like one blog back then, so relatively speaking that show got covered on all the blogs), the new HBO show Girls has been renewed for a second season. Which is exciting! Supposedly in the second season we see the nuclear accident that will slowly turn the girls into Turtle, E, Vince, and Johnny, which will be really cool to see. HBO also renewed the seriously good show Veep for a second season based on the performance of two episodes. So, good decisions, HBO. Especially on the Girls thing. If that wasn’t renewed, half of the internet would be out of a job. (Actually, that wouldn’t be such a bad thing maybe.) [Entertainment Weekly]

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Eyyohhh dear. Now that Desperate Housewives has ended Teri Hatcher has a new gig and it’s… on ABC Family’s Jane By Design playing Jane’s mother for four episodes (and directing one!). So. Well, you know as they say, work’s work, and hell Andie MacDowell’s on that show, and she was a pretty big star at one point, so… Teri, girl, you’d better be boffing Nick Roux or the brother or something because otherwise yikes what are you doing. Surely there must be other work for a Desperate Housewife. There has to be. Hell, isn’t it time for a Lois Clark reunion? A stage musical of Tomorrow Never Dies? Something?? Put us on with your agents, Teri. We need to speak with them about this. [Deadline]

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It’s upfronts time and E! is announcing that it’s rebranding itself with a new slogan, “Pop of Culture” (what does that even mean?), and new shows. One of those shows is a comedy talk show à la Chelsea Handler hosted by her brunette spirit sister Whitney Cummings. Yes. The show will be called Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings and it will feature the Whitney actress (she will never be on a show without her name in it) riffing on various things having to do with pop culture, relationships, and celebrities. So we’ll see you in the fallout bunker. Wait, what? There’s more? Terrific. E! is also putting together some scripted series, because there’s every indication that they would do those well, including a modern update of The Wizard of Oz and a modern update of the Henry VIII/Anne Boleyn story called Anne of Hollywood. (Bizarrely, that one is produced by E.R.‘s John Wells.) Oh, also, hahaha, Kevin Jonas, the, um, less pulchritudinous Jonas let’s say, got a reality show called Married to Jonas about him being married to a lady. This is all to say that all the other television networks should just go away because clearly E! can take it from here. Out of the way everyone, here comes E!, barreling at us like some great doom. [The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Deadline]

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Apparently the next James Bond movie, Sam Mendes’ Skyfall, might be a more serious, emotional Bond than we’re used to, possibly because James is still sad that Vesper Lynd got killed (spoiler? No, no spoiler) in Casino Royale. Which is great. We want a sad James Bond almost as much as we want scripted shows about The Wizard of Oz and Kevin Jonas on the E! network. Which is to say quite a lot. [Vulture]

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Aw. American Idol winner Kris Allen tried to be all fun and whimsical by having an impromptu record-promoting concert on the Santa Monica Pier but then, in the middle of a song, the coppers came and shut him down. Seriously can anything ever good happen to an American Idol winner? I mean, post-Carrie? Nothing good has happened to a single one of them. It’s all gloom and embarrassment. Why have you cursed these youngsters so, Nigel Lythgoe? Why?? [The Hollywood Reporter]

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