Ryan Phillippe
Ryan Phillippe has landed the leading role in CBS' untitled pilot from Greg Berlanti.
Formerly known as Golden Boy, the one-hour drama chronicles one cop's meteoric rise from officer to detective to Police Commissioner. The Crash and Cruel Intentions actor, who will next appear on Damages, will play...
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Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle realizes he's best known for dramatic roles in such films as Crash, Hotel Rwanda and Traffic. But he finds it odd that so many viewers aren't expecting to see him flex his comedic muscles from him in his new series House of Lies.
"I do it all the time around my friends," he tells TVGuide.com with a laugh. "It's not a...
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Ryan Phillippe
Ryan Phillippe has signed on for the fifth and final season of Damages, TVLine.com reports.
Phillippe will play...
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Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle has been tapped to star in the pilot House of Lies, a half-hour dark comedy based on the novel of the same name, the network announced Monday.
Based on Martin Kihn's tell-all House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Tell You the Time, the project will star the 46-year-old Oscar-nominated actor as...
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Blue Bloods
Jennifer Esposito has been promoted to series regular on Blue Bloods, CBS announced Thursday.
Esposito, 37, joined the show in October as Detective Jackie Curatola, the new partner of Donnie Wahlberg's Danny Reagan, who had...
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Signy Coleman
How did the most angelic woman in soap history give birth to a monster? We might get an answer when Signy Coleman appears on The Young and the Restless August 13 and 16 as blind heroine Hope Wilson. The character, who died in 2008, will return in flashbacks and a dream sequence that will shed some light on her son, Adam, and why he turned into such a conniving psychopath. Since we last saw Coleman, she's been crazy-busy...
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Tom Sizemore by Mark Sullivan/WireImage.com
Tom Sizemore is set to Crash onto TV screens.The troubled actor, who spent the past year in prison for violating a methamphetamine conviction, has nabbed a recurring role on Starz's upcoming series Crash, The Hollywood Reporter reports.Sizemore will portray "unorthodox" Detective Adrian Cooper who stirs up trouble during a police-shooting investigation on the show, which is based on the Oscar-winning film.Already cast in the project, which will feature a new set of intersecting characters, are Dennis Hopper, Clare Carey (Jericho), Jocko Sims (CSI), Ross McCall (CSI: NY) D.B. Sweeney (Jericho), Nick Tarabay (The Sopranos) and Michael Fairman.Crash will be the first original series for Starz. — Joyce Eng
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Dennis Hopper by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images
It’s one of the more intriguing ideas for the fall season: turning the Oscar-winning movie Crash into a weekly series, which the pay-cable movie network Starz hopes will put them on the map the way Mad Men did for AMC a year ago. (It’s scheduled to premiere Oct. 17.) But don’t go in expecting a sequel. The characters are all new, although as in the movie, they’ll reflect the racial and class tensions of Los Angeles as their lives intersect in unexpected and sometimes random ways.“I didn’t feel the need to go back to that movie and say, OK, what happens on the next day,” says executive producer Glen Mazzara (The Shield), who was hired to reinvent the movie into a series. “I knew instinctually what that movie felt like. … So it really comes out of the emotion that I felt when I watched that film. It really was just a feel of that film I was going for.”A brief clip reel was all that Starz was able to show critics, but the producers (inc...
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D.B. Sweeney by Araya Diaz/ WireImage.com
D.B. Sweeney (Jericho, The Cutting Edge), Nick Tarabay (The Sopranos) and Michael Fairman have joined the cast of Crash, the Starz channel's TV adaptation of the Best Picture Oscar winner. Previously, Dennis Hopper was announced to head the ensemble. Sweeney will play Peter Emory, a successful pre-bust real estate developer, Tarabay a police lieutenant having an affair with a fellow officer, and Fairman an overbearing father. — Matt Mitovich
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