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In the gripping new episode of “Tell Me How I Died,” titled “Vanished,” viewers are drawn into the mysterious disappearance of a Georgia college student following his shift at the local pharmacy. Airing on Friday, September 6, 2024, at 10:01 Pm on A&e, this episode delves into the heart of a troubling case that raises questions about hate crimes and abduction.

As the police launch their investigation, the tension mounts, with family and friends desperate for answers. The narrative takes a compelling turn when Dr. Jamie Downs steps in, determined to uncover the truth. Her investigation reveals evidence that shifts the focus of the case in a shocking new direction, leaving viewers on the edge of their seats.

This episode highlights the challenges faced by law enforcement and the emotional toll on those affected by such a profound loss. With each twist and turn, “Vanished” promises to keep audiences engaged as they explore the complexities of crime,...

The first question from TV journalists at today’s TCA panel on NBC’s new series, Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector, was, well, what’s up with that title?

The series, which made its debut Friday, is based on Jeffrey Deaver’s Bone Collector book series. The first book in that series was also the basis of the 1999 feature film The Bone Collector starring Denzel Washington as quadriplegic Detective Lincoln Rhymes.

The new TV series was first announced as Lincoln, then acquired the lengthy new title, which does not exactly lend itself to headlines and social media. However, the show’s executive producers pointed out that people tended to confuse the name first with the President, second with the car. In addition, Ep Barry O’Brien said the new title leaves the door open to expand the story across multiple platforms. And, “We found that a more dynamic, fuller...

One woman narrowly missed the grips of the Baseline Killer, a notorious Arizona serial killer on the prowl in the mid-2000s. Another man was aboard the American Airlines Flight 63 when Richard Reid, the “shoe bomber,” was apprehended. Then there’s the guy who had a recurring nightmare about an evil babysitter — a dream that could very well be a memory. These are all stories explored in Tenderfoot TV’s and Cadence 13’s podcast Radio Rental, created by Payne Lindsey and hosted by Rainn Wilson under the name Terry Carnation.

NBC is developing a series adaptation of the 1980s film “St. Elmo’s Fire.”

The series is described as a modern adaptation of the film that showcases a group of close friends struggling with career, commitment and the responsibilities of adulthood. Released in 1985, the film starred many members of the so-called Brat Pack, including Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Rob Lowe, and Demi Moore. Joel Schumacher directed and co-wrote the script with Carl Kurlander.

Josh Berman is attached to write and executive produce, with Chris King also executive producing. Sony Pictures Television and Osprey Productions will produce. Berman most recently co-created the ABC series “Notorious” and previously created the series “Drop Dead Diva,” “Vanished,” and “Killer Instinct.” He also co-created “The Mob Doctor.” His other credits include “CSI,” “Bones,” and “The Blacklist.”

News of the series development comes as the broadcast networks have largely moved away from ordering remakes...

Tenderfoot TV, the company behind the hit Atlanta Monster and Up and Vanished podcasts, is looking to take advantage of the boom in the audio genre and is plotting a slew of music and sports-set true crime podcasts as well as IP that can be translated for television.

The company, which is run by Donald Albright and Payne Lindsey, has had more than 380M downloads for its podcasts and co-produced a TV adaptation of Up and Vanished for Oxygen with Ben Silverman’s Propagate Content. Its latest podcast, To Live and Die in La with The Dirt author and Rolling Stone writer Neil Strauss, is set to conclude May 16.

Albright told Deadline how the company started and outlined the pair’s plans to scale up their nascent media business.

Tenderfoot TV started with Up and Vanished, a podcast that followed the case of the mysterious disappearance of Tara Grinstead, a...

It would be an understatement to say that 2018 was a good year for true-crime podcasting — in fact, there’s a bit of a glut in the crime market these days. The soaring popularity of shows like My Favorite Murder, Casefile and Up and Vanished has fired up the imaginations of thousands of podcasting newbies around the world who are, apparently, eager to dissect cold cases. Do we really need another podcast from a group of girlfriends discussing crime scenes while chugging Merlot? Sure, sure we do.

To help ease the...

Exclusive: All3Media’s digital unit Little Dot Studios is looking to develop long-form documentaries from its online channel Real Stories with the hire of Paul Woolf, co-creator of Netflix’s Amazing Interiors.

Woolf joins the business as Head of U.S. Unscripted Development and will be based on the East Coast. He joins from British producer Barcroft Productions, where he was Head of Development and co-created the Netflix uncripted property show.

Real Stories, which generates 1 million views a day, is available via YouTube, Facebook Watch, Amazon and Roku and hosts more than 700 documentaries. Last year, it began commissioning original documentaries for the service including Vanished, which lead to police reopening the case of a missing schoolgirl, and Sorry I Shot You, which followed Dean Stanbury who after serving his prison sentence looks to apologize to the police officer he wounded.

Woolf has now been tasked with turning some of...

HBO's hit TV series The Deuce examines the lives of sex workers in New York City amid porn's controversial rise to popularity in the 1970s. It's an amazing drama with a phenomenal cast including James Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Carr, and many more (Method Man included). We've been anxiously awaiting season two's debut, and now that it's finally here, we can again dive deep into the show's heated plot points and enjoy the firecracker cast. With a new look on the show, one cast member in particular has been catching our attention.

Abby Parker stepped on the scene in season one as a trailblazing, vivacious college student who becomes Vincent Martino's (Franco) latest romantic interest. In the second season, we've jumped ahead to when Parker is about 26 years old. We think Margarita Levieva plays the character perfectly, so we couldn't help but wonder where else this actress has left her mark.

ABC just premiered its latest twist on the cop procedural format — a pretty fun show starring Jack Cutmore-Scott as Cameron Black, a stage magician who decides to use his talents to help the FBI solve crimes while also investigating a mystery of his own.

A magician doing illusions to solve crime is a fresh twist on the genre, Cutmore-Scott is a charming lead, the supporting cast is fantastic, and the magic seen in the pilot is really cool. But what’s this show titled? “Deception.”

That’s right, “Deception” — not to be mistaken for the 1946 film starring Bette Davis and Claude Reine, the 2008 film starring Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman, the 2013 NBC series about a lady detective investigating her childhood best friend’s murder, or countless other low-budget films over the years. “Deception” is a one-word title so generic and bland that by the end of this sentence, you’ll...

Netflix has released a list of all of the movies and TV shows that are coming to Netflix in the month of October along with the release dates of them. They've got some good stuff coming including some Netflix originals that I'm excited about seeing including Stranger Things Season 2, Mindhunters, 1922 and more.

Look over al the titles and let us know which titles you're looking forward to seeing. I also provided a lit of everything that's leaving Netflix next month.

Available October 1

88 Minutes

A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song

Before Midnight

Blood Diamond

Boogie Nights

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Cleverman: Season 2

Death Sentence

Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

Eagle vs. Shark

Eyes Wide Shut

Generation Iron 2

Ghost Patrol

I Love You, Man

Ice Guardians

Lockup: Disturbing the Peace: Collection 1

Made of Honor

Miss Congeniality

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous...

Having survived some (really) wild adventures at Warehouse 13, Joanne Kelly will next brave (very) wild animals on CBS’ Zoo.

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TVLine has learned exclusively that the actress has landed the recurring Season 2 role of Allison, the Deputy Secretary of Defense who is actively seeking a solution to the animal crisis… and who shares a surprising history with Mitch (played by Billy Burke).

An adaptation of the James Patterson novel, Zoo was renewed back in October after emerging as last summer’s most watched scripted series (averaging 6.4 million...

Onetime NYPD Blue lawman Esai Morales will again wield a shield on Blue Bloods.

RelatedFall TV: Your Handy Calendar of 120+ Season and Series Premiere Dates

TVLine has learned that the actor — who most recently was seen as The Brink‘s Potus and joins From Dusk Till Dawn tonight as a crime lord — will guest-star in a late fall episode of the CBS procedural as Delgado, a charismatic NYPD sergeant who has a plan to increase the accuracy of police statistics by seeking the opinions of city youth, and thus earns a promotion from commish Frank Reagan.

The fly in the ointment?...

"American Crime," premiering March 5 on ABC, is being touted as an innovative series for spending an entire season focusing on a single murder case, taking a wide-ranging look at the victims, the accused, and their extended families as a way of taking a broader look at the dynamics of a whole community. Of course, this isn't the first time it's been tried, but it could mark the first time that the approach actually works on network TV.

"American Crime" has secured a high-powered cast, including Timothy Hutton and Felicity Huffman. Nonetheless, after this season is over, the show will move on to a new case next year, with a new cast -- should the show prove a success and earn a renewal.

If that sounds a lot like HBO's "True Detective," that's not an accident. As the old joke goes, imitation is the sincerest form of television. In fact, series...

Over the last 15 years, Gale Harold has had recurring roles on shows as diverse as Defiance, Hellcats, Desperate Housewives, The Secret Circle and Vanished, and well-received turns on stage in Suddenly Last Summer and Orpheus Descending, but of course, it’s his role as the ultimate TV bad boy icon Brian Kinney on Queer As Folk for which he’s most well known.

Brian was the guy you loved to hate … or hated to love, and of all the gay characters ever seen on TV, he may be the most polarizing. But what can’t be argued with is what Gale brought to the role, a combination of charisma, danger, sex appeal, and ultimately … heart.

Today is Gale’s 45th birthday, so let’s take a look back at the career of the man who brought us one of TV’s most unforgettable bastards.

The post Birthday Gallery: Gale Harold Turns 45 appeared first on thebacklot.

Exclusive: Josh Berman tenure at Sony Pictures Television will be crossing the decade mark with a fourth consecutive overall deal. Under the new, three-year pact, Berman continues as executive producer and showrunner of Sony TV’s Lifetime series Dead Drop Diva. He created the dramedy, now in its sixth and final season, under his first overall pact at the studio. He also will continue to develop projects for network and cable. Berman began his career as a junior writer on the first season of CBS’ CSI. He remained on the long-running procedural for six years, rising to executive producer. He went on to create the Fox drama Vanished and spent four years on the network’s veteran procedural Bones. While at Sony TV, Berman, repped by CAA and attorney Ken Richman, also co-created and executive produced the Fox drama Mob Doctor.

Genre aficionados, this one's for you. A number of darker-hued TV pilot projects added to their cast lists on Thursday, beginning with ABC's "Gothica," a monster-movie soap that's tapped Christopher Egan ("Kings," "Vanished") and Tom Ellis ("Merlin," "EastEnders") to play literary spooks Dorian Gray and Victor Frankenstein, respectively. Set in contemporary times, the Matt Lopez-penned supernatural pilot will see the former character reimagined as a sexy playboy who helps lead heroine Grace Van Helsing discover who killed her family, while the latter character will be depicted as a brilliant and, yes, handsome doctor (and ex-boyfriend of Grace) who's desperately searching for...

Ming-Na Wen is joining the cast of Joss Whedon’s ABC pilot Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D.

She’ll play Agent Melinda May, an ace flier and weapons expert, our sister site Deadline reports.

The character — a kinda damaged but immensely soulful former soldier — sounds like a modified version of the Agent Althea Rice role we first learned about earlier in October.

Related | ABC Orders S.H.I.E.L.D. Pilot From Joss Whedon

The forthcoming pilot is based on a peacekeeping group that appeared in various Marvel comics and in the summer blockbuster film The Avengers, which Whedon wrote and directed. The title’s acronym...

Exclusive: Josh Berman has signed a new two-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television. This is Berman’s third consecutive overall pact at Sony. The first two yielded two series, Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva, which Berman created and executive produces/showruns, and Fox’s upcoming drama The Mob Doctor, which he co-created with Rob Wright and also exec produces/runs. Berman just sold a new project to CBS, a single-camera comedy written by The Big C creator Darlene Hunt, based on an Atlantic Monthly’s cover story by Kate Bolick All The Single Ladies. Berman started his career as a junior writer on the first season of CBS’ CSI. He remained on the long-running procedural for six years, rising to executive producer. He went on to create the Fox drama Vanished and spent four years on the network’s veteran procedural Bones, which will now serve as a lead-in for Mob Doctor.

All right, you buncha undercooked couch potatoes, limber up your DVR and pretend like you don’t need any friends, it’s time for more junk TV.

Sleeper hit Burn Notice has its sixth season premiere tonight, and I’m betting the suits over at the USA Network haven’t been this pleased since they dug Silk Stalkings out of CBS’s garbage. Series creator Matt Nix had a chat with the good folks over at TVLine and he explains that this will be a very different season. Which, yes, every series creator says before a premiere, but I think Nix actually means it this time. As you may (or may not) recall, the end of last season found the sweet(?) and precious(!) Fiona in the slammer after she turned herself in for blowing up the consulate. This canny move totally threw a monkey wrench in Anson’s plans (Jere Burns,...

Exclusive: Veteran Bones writer-producer Carla Kettner has signed an overall deal with Sony Pictures TV. Under the two-year pact, she will join the studio’s new Fox drama series The Mob Doctor as an executive producer and will develop new projects. On Mob Doctor, a fast-paced medical drama starring Jordana Spiro as a brilliant young female cardiothoracic surgeon juggling her promising medical career with her lifelong debt as a doctor to Chicago’s Southside mob, Kettner will serve as an executive producer alongside creators Josh Berman and Rob Wright and director Michael Dinner. Wme-repped Kettner spent the last five years on the Fox dramedy Bones, rising to an executive producer this past season. Mob Doctor reunites her with Berman. Kettner served as co-executive producer/exec producer on Berman’s two previous series for Fox, Killer Instinct and Vanished, and the two also worked together on Bones. Additionally, Kettner co-wrote with...

Will Emily Thorne make trouble for Emily Thorne? Will Otto ultimately be the Sons’ undoing? What slice of sweet scoop does a Criminal Minds star have to share? Read on for those answers, plus other teases from TV’s hottest shows.

Revenge | As you likely surmised from promos, the real Emily Thorne (played by Vanished alum Margarita Levieva) is going to be sticking around, apparently while wearing barely-there swimwear. Given her rap sheet (including the way she took Frank out of the equation), don’t be surprised is this gal is trouble with a capital T. “I would say she...

Talk about your star potential! These 10 men are best known for their TV work, but we'd happily pay money to see them at the multiplex. Admittedly, this is a subjective list, and we may have left off many of your favorite TV actors. So if you find yourself disagreeing with our selections, we invite you to share your own list of 10 in the comments!

Kevin Alejandro

Anyone who is a fan of Kevin Alejandro knows that he certainly can play a death scene. The actor has had recurring or guest starring roles on over two dozen TV series, and a disproportionate number of those appearances have ended with the death of his character. Alejandro was Justin Suarez' protective tough guy dad Santos on Ugly Betty – Shot and killed in a random convenience store robbery. He was Det. Nate Moretta on Southland – Caught in a gang riot and beaten to death.

ABC’s Revenge is adding an intriguing new character: A stripper with a torrid past.

Adventureland actress Margarita Levieva has landed the recurring role, which gets underway in the seventh episode of the season. She’ll play Amanda, a temptress who resembles a less-polished version of the show’s out-for-retribution heroine Emily Thorne (Emily Van Camp). Levieva previously starred in the Fox series Vanished and was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in New York.

Revenge gets underway on Wednesday at 10 p.m.

Thanks to his star-making role on Queer As Folk, actor Gale Harold knows a thing or two about playing the bad boy. Just don’t tell him that.

“Brian Kinney wasn’t an a**hole, I just think he didn’t care about toeing the line. He wanted to be himself, he simply wasn’t willing to take a back seat or entertain anyone else’s idea of right and wrong and he didn’t hesitate to let that be known,” explained Harold when asked during the recent Television Critics Association Press Tour about his penchant for playing the character fans love to hate. “So I don’t think he was a bad guy at all. In fact, he was a very very heroic character that took care of himself and lived to be what he thought what he wanted to be.”

Luckily for Harold, it’s that kind of...

Smallville actress Cassidy Freeman continues her run as a naughty gal, this time in Playboy Club. The new NBC pilot is set to premier September 19th and will air Mondays at 10/9 central. The series is set in the 1960s at the legendary Playboy Club in Chicago. Amber Heard is acting as one of the club’s bunnies. Numb3rs actor David Krumholtz will also star along side Eddie Cibrian (Vanished, Ugly Betty), who looks a little Mad Men here; dashing that is. According to the official series website, Playboy Club comes from Academy Award-winning Executive Producer Brian Grazer, Executive Producer Chad Hodge (Tru Calling), and Director Alan Taylor (Mad Men, Hey, look at that!) and will be “provocative” and explore “a time and place that challenged the social mores” and “an icon changed American culture”. I think they mean the playboy bunny, folks.

Amber Heard’s Bunny Suit for NBC’s...

The executive producers behind Drop Dead Diva and Rescue Me have teamed up to work on a new show. Josh Berman and Peter Tolan have started developing the project for ABC, The Hollywood Reporter says. The drama is expected to focus on a female FBI employee who is partnered with a homicide detective as part of a scheme to improve the relationship between the Bureau and the police. However, the pair used to be engaged and have not been in contact since their wedding day, when the detective revealed that he is gay. Berman, who is currently working on Drop Dead Diva, wrote the script for the project. His other credits include Bones, CSI and Vanished. Meanwhile, Tolan has signed up as an executive producer but is not expected to be involved in the writing of the project. Tolan recently finished his job on (more)...

On this date in...

1921: Future soap opera director/producer Gloria Monty was born. She died on March 30, 2006.

2002: On As The World Turns, Barbara showed up at Hal and Emily's wedding with a court order allowing her to take Will.

Celebrating a birthday today are:

Ronald Guttman (ex-Alexander, All My Children) - 59

Bruce Greenwood (ex-Pierce, Knots Landing) - 55

Peter Krause (Adam, Parenthood; ex-Nick, Dirty Sexy Money; ex-Nate, Six Feet Under) - 46

Rebecca Gayheart (ex-Hannah, Loving; ex-Judy, Vanished; ex-Natasha, Nip/Tuck; ex-Toni, Beverly Hills, 90210)- 40

Taylor Stanley (Zoey, The Bay; ex-Remy, Another World) - 36

Nick Zurzolo (ex-Gabe, As The World Turns) - 21

Editor's Note: If you would like to submit a piece of soap opera history for this daily column, please email it to [email protected].

Another version of "All Quiet on the Western Front" is finally gearing up in the pre-production sector as Mimi Leder ("Deep Impact," "Pay It Forward") signs on to direct the film. This will be the second movie that she's directed for the big screen within the past couple of years, the last one before these two being the 2000 feature "Pay It Forward." She's been working behind the scenes in television, directing several shows including "Luck," "ER" and "Vanished.""All Quiet on the Western Front" is based off the novel written by Erich Maria Remarque. Previously it's been turned into the widely popular 1930 film that ended up winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. Principal photography for this version of "All Quiet" will begin in late 2012.Leder talks more about taking on this film:"Even though the original film was made in 1930 at the advent of the talkies, I was moved...

THR’s Live Feed is reporting that ABC’s new police procedural drama Poe, which features Edgar Allan Poe as it’s detective protagonist and follows the legendary horror writer as he uses unconventional methods to investigate dark mysteries in 1840’s Boston, has got three new cast members – including its lead!

Christopher Egan (Kings, Vanished) will play the part of Poe and he’ll be joined by Tabrett Bethell (Legend of the Seeker) and Kevin McNally, who interestingly appears in The Raven which stars John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe. The pilot comes from Kyle Xy scribe Chris Hollier and is directed by Alex Graves. Shooting begins on March 14th in Toronto.

Quoth the raven, "I'm a hot piece of ass".

If there's one role that's perfect for not exactly pretty actors, it's Edgar Allan Poe. The famed Victorian-era author of the macabre wasn't ugly by any means, but his high brows, odd-shaped head and eye bags along with his distinct personality means it's a role that seems tailor made for a good character actor rather than a handsome leading man.

That's why one bit of casting over the weekend is rather strange. 26-year-old Australian Chris Egan ("Resident Evil: Extinction," "Letters to Juliet") has been cast as the writer in ABC's "Poe", crime procedural which paints Poe as the world’s very first detective who uses unconventional methods to investigate dark mysteries in 1840s Boston.

Egan is a decidedly odd choice for the part. The blond actor, who could've stepped out of an Abercrombie catalogue, got his start as a teenager on...

Two Aussie actors and a Brit have joined the previously announced Leslie Odom, Jr., in ABC's "Poe", which has Alex Graves handling the directorial reins for its first episode.

Penned by Chris Hollier for Warner Bros. TV and Lin Pictures, "Poe" is a new crime procedural TV series that will follow Edgar Allan Poe, the world's very first detective, as he uses unconventional methods to investigate dark mysteries in 1840s Boston.

Per The Hollywood Reporter's Live Feed the Aussies are Tabrett Bethell (pictured below, left), whose previous TV credits include "Legend of the Seeker", as Sarah and Christopher Egan (pictured below, right), who appeared in "Kings", "Vanished", and "Everwood" and will play the part of Poe. They'll be accompanied by the UK's Kevin McNally (who coincidentally appears in The Raven with John Cusack as Poe), who portrays Kyle Kilpatrick.

Shooting begins March 14th in Toronto so look for more soon.

Sydney, Australia native Christopher Egan cut his chops in a regular role on the long running hit soap opera Home and Away when he was just 16. He moved to La and it wasn.t long before he was hit there too. Egan appeared in the TV series Empire, Pretty/Handsome, and Vanished, and the films Alpha Male, Resident Evil: Extinction and Crush. But he left the TV series Kings when he was offered the leading man role in Letters to Juliet, a romantic tale starring Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave. Bonus . they shot the film througout Italy.s most romantic region, Tuscany. Egan was one of a small handful of actors under consideration to star in Mission Impossible...

Syfy has sent out some video previews of next week's episode of Warehouse 13 for readers of CinemaSpy. The episode, titled 'Merge with Caution,' premieres on Syfy on August 24th at 9/8C and features a guest appearance by WWE star Cody Rhodes. You can see the episode preview and a 20-second promotional clip focused on Rhodes by clicking the Video tabs above.

Syfy will begin airing the wrestling series WWE Smackdown in a few weeks. Rhodes' appearance in Warehouse 13 is presumably an attempt at cross promotion.

Warehouse 13 stars Eddie McClintock (Bones, Desperate Housewives) and Joanne Kelly (Vanished, Jeremiah) as Secret Service agents Pete Lattimer and Myka Bering. Lattimer and Bering have been transferred to Warehouse 13, a massive, top-secret storage facility in South Dakota which houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government.

The cast of Syfy's...

Brian Geraghty, Josh Peck and Margarita Levieva have signed to star in "ATM," a thriller from the Safran Co. and Gold Circle Films. David Brooks is directing from a script by "Buried" scribe Chris Sparling.

The companies are hoping to evoke Hitchcockian vibes with their tale of three co-workers who make a late-night visit to an Atm and end up in a desperate fight for their lives when they become trapped by an unknown man.

Geraghty, Peck and Levieva play the co-workers.

A late-September start in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is being eyed.

Peter Safran, who also produced Sparling's "Buried," is producing along with Paul Brooks ("The Haunting in Connecticut"). Dan Clifton is executive producing.

Geraghty starred opposite Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie in "The Hurt Locker." He also recently starred in Kyle Patrick Alvarez's indie drama "Easier With Practice" and toplined Kirsten Dunst's short film, "Bastard," which premiered at...

Christopher Egan has a tough job in his new film "Letters to Juliet": convincing audiences that Amanda Seyfried's Sophie would dump her fiancé, played by international heartthrob Gael García Bernal, for Egan's character, the uptight Brit Charlie. "That was a little intimidating," Egan admits with a laugh. "I was wondering how they would make it convincing." In the film, Sophie is visiting Italy and comes across a wall where women leave letters to the teenage heroine of Shakespeare's tragedy. When she discovers a letter from 50 years ago, she is prompted to write the author, who shows up in the form of Claire, played by Vanessa Redgrave. Claire is accompanied by her stuffy but loving grandson Charlie (Egan), and the trio begins a road trip to find Claire's lost love. Egan began acting at a young age in his native Australia; he and his three brothers appeared in several commercials.

The cast and crew of steampunk web series Riese will be hosting a panel at the upcoming London McM Expo, the event's organisers have announced.

SyFy recently acquired the Us rights to the popular sci-fi fantasy series for syfy.com and potential TV development, following the channel's success with Sanctuary, another former web show.

Riese last month scooped Best Cinematography in a Web Series at the Streamys, the online Oscars.

It centres on a traveller called Riese who is hunted by religious assassins from a group called The Sect as she treks across the dying lands of Eleysia with her wolf Fenrir.

The London McM Expo panel will feature show creators Ryan Copple and Kaleena Kiff, as well as stars Christine Chantelain (Riese) and Sharon Taylor (Amara).

Christine has appeared recently in Fringe, Supernatural and Sanctuary, while Sharon plays Amelia Banks in Stargate Atlantis and Faora in Smallville.

The Riese...

It's changeover time in the television schedules, which means that we have premieres to look forward to and season finales that will tease us for months to come.

In the case of Syfy, the top of the anticipation list includes the second season premiere of Sanctuary and the series premiere of Sgu: Stargate Universe (I've seen it and it's not your father's Stargate, but it's pretty cool). There are also season-ending episodes of Syfy's record breaking hit Warehouse 13 and Eureka and we have video previews of both. Click the Video tabs above to get a taste of what's to come.

Eureka is an offbeat, science fiction comedy-drama that is centered on the residents of a small town in the Pacific Northwest. Shrouded in secrecy, the picturesque hamlet is actually a community of geniuses assembled by the government to conduct top-secret research. What they've unwittingly created is a place where anything imaginable can happen…...

Syfy's hit series Warehouse 13 continues on Tuesday, September 8, with an episode titled 'Breakdown'. If you want a sneak preview, courtesy of our friends at Syfy, check the Video tab above.

Warehouse 13 stars Eddie McClintock (Bones, Desperate Housewives) and Joanne Kelly (Vanished, Jeremiah) as Secret Service agents Pete Lattimer and Myka Bering. Lattimer and Bering have been transferred to Warehouse 13, a massive, top-secret storage facility in South Dakota which houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government.

The cast of Syfy's Original Series also includes Saul Rubinek (Nero Wolf, Frasier) and Allison Scagliotti (Drake & Josh). Rubinek's Artie Nielsen charges the agents with chasing down reports of supernatural and paranormal activity in pursuit of new objects to cache at the Warehouse. Scagliotti is Claudia Donovan, a brilliant young techno wiz who gets in on the action after breaking in to the facility.

Syfy's hit series Warehouse 13 continues on Tuesday, September 8, with an episode titled 'Breakdown'. If you want a sneak preview, courtesy of our friends at Syfy, check the Video tab above.

Warehouse 13 stars Eddie McClintock (Bones, Desperate Housewives) and Joanne Kelly (Vanished, Jeremiah) as Secret Service agents Pete Lattimer and Myka Bering. Lattimer and Bering have been transferred to Warehouse 13, a massive, top-secret storage facility in South Dakota which houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government.

The cast of Syfy's Original Series also includes Saul Rubinek (Nero Wolf, Frasier) and Allison Scagliotti (Drake & Josh). Rubinek's Artie Nielsen charges the agents with chasing down reports of supernatural and paranormal activity in pursuit of new objects to cache at the Warehouse. Scagliotti is Claudia Donovan, a brilliant young techno wiz who gets in on the action after breaking in to the facility.

Penelope Ann Miller, late of Fox's Vanished and a bunch of other stuff, is joining TNT's forthcoming midlife crisis drama Men of a Certain Age as the ex-wife of Ray Romano's neurotic party-supply store owner, sources confirm to me exclusively. Miller is committed to appearing in at least five episodes of Men, which bows in December and stars Andre Braugher, Scott Bakula, and Romano as a group of friends getting old approaching midlife together.

An aspiring New York actor named Chad Lindsey will be starring together with Mischa Barton on "The Beautiful Life: Tbl". On the CW show, which will be premiered on September 16, he will portray a photographer. However, there has been no word on which episodes Chad is going to appear.

Chad Lindsey has guest starred on several TV series, including "How I Met Your Mother", "Lovespring International", and "Vanished". Besides, in March the 33-year-old star was seen appearing in some Broadway plays, Radar Online reports.

"The Beautiful Life: Tbl" is drama series which centers on the life of a high-fashion model. She appears glamorous and sexy, but as every new model learns, there is a world of insecurity and cut-throat competition behind the beautiful facade. Mischa Barton, Corbin Bleu, Ben Hollingsworth, Ashley Madekwe, Elle MacPherson, and Sara Paxton have been appointed to star on the show.

With its October premiere date approaching, new info is starting to emerge about Stargate Universe, the Syfy channel's latest Stargate spinoff. Here's the official description of the show:

Sgu follows a band of soldiers, scientists and civilians, who must fend for themselves as they are forced through a Stargate when their hidden base comes under attack. The desperate survivors emerge aboard an ancient ship, which is locked on an unknown course and unable to return to Earth. 

Faced with meeting the most basic needs of food, water and air, the group must unlock the secrets of the ship's Stargate to survive.  The danger, adventure and hope they find on board the Destiny will reveal the heroes and villains among them.

Yes, it sounds a lot like Star Trek Voyager, but since I liked that series, I'm not complaining (yet).

In April we reported that the series would include a leading lesbian character named Camille,...

Syfy's Warehouse 13 (Tuesdays at 9 pm/Et) has only scratched the surface of the very tippy-tip of the iceberg when it comes to the cavernous closet's far-out contents.

Series star Eddie McClintock says in his TVGuide.com video Q&A that in the weeks to come, special agents Pete Lassiter and Myka Bering (played by Vanished's Joanne Kelly) will behold the supernatural properties of such items as Studio 54's original disco ball, the mirror that inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, and... well, you'll have to cue up the video to see which piece of famed facial hair has "a whole 'nother thing" going on.

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Syfy's Warehouse 13 (Tuesdays at 9 pm/Et) has only scratched the surface of the very tippy-tip of the iceberg when it comes to the cavernous closet's far-out contents.

Series star Eddie McClintock says in his TVGuide.com video Q&A that in the weeks to come, special agents Pete Lassiter and Myka Bering (played by Vanished's Joanne Kelly) will behold the supernatural properties of such items as Studio 54's original disco ball, the mirror that inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, and... well, you'll have to cue up the video to see which piece of famed facial hair has "a whole 'nother thing" going on.

Other topics covered in McClintock's on-camera sit-down include ...

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Warehouse 13, the new Syfy series, is formulaic, but the paranormal-tinged adventure pulls it off with some crafty writing and clever casting.

It's a high-concept premise that borrows from such precursors as Friday the 13th: The Series, The X-Files and Eureka: in the rural reaches of South Dakota is a massive warehouse where all manner of strange and wonderful artifacts are safely stored, and the U.S. Secret Service is tasked with protecting them.

According to the man who head's up Warehouse 13, Artie Nielsen, these artifacts "channel a tangential energy. . . . Somehow, matter that is in here has just enough energy to move other matter."

For Artie, this energy is no different than gravity or magnetism, forces we live with but don't really comprehend.

Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer are two Secret Service agents who find themselves — to their chagrin — assigned to Warehouse 13, where things that can't be explained are locked up.

“Imagination, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.” - Ambrose Bierce Sci Fi--or Syfy as it will be known then--will next month launch its newest drama, Warehouse 13, which stars Joanne Kelly (Vanished), Eddie McClintock (Bones), and Saul Rubinek (Leverage). As executive producer Jack Kenny describes it, Warehouse 13 is an "action adventure proceduromedy." Kelly plays Myka Bering, an analytical secret service agent whose cool head keeps her above the fray, while McClintock is Agent Pete Lattimer, who's more used to using brawn over brains to get out of scrapes. Both are transferred rather unexpectedly to their new assignment: Warehouse 13, a top-secret government warehouse in the middle of South Dakota that houses arcane and dangerous artifacts. Brainy logic meets brawny cocksure attitude. (Or as McClintock succinctly put it, "That’s why Joanne and I are so like suited for our characters because it’s true.

In July, Sci Fi Channel, which by then will be called by its new moniker, Syfy, debuts a new series, Warehouse 13. Starring Joanne Kelly (Vanished, Jeremiah), Eddie McClintock (Bones, Desperate Housewives), and Saul Rubinek (Frasier, Leverage), the paranormal themed show is set in South Dakota, where the U.S. government maintains a warehouse that houses “strange artifacts, mysterious relics, fantastical objects and supernatural souvenirs”.

Kelly and McClintock are two Secret Service agents who, after saving the life of a president, are transferred to the South Dakota facility, where they meet the caretaker, Artie Nielsen, played by Rubinek.

McClintock’s Pete Lattimer sees the assignment as a reward, but Kelly’s Myka Bering can’t help but feel like she’s being punished. Regardless, their new responsibility is to chase down new objects that belong in the warehouse.

Warehouse 13 is lensed largely on location in and around Toronto. The...

After triumphing for two years in a row, Jake Gyllenhaal is not the winner of our third annual AfterElton.com Hot 100 poll (see the results for 2007 here and 2008 here). So which out man did take the top spot? If you’re the kind of person who always burns their mouth biting into that piping hot chocolate chip cookie, you can just cheat and go here to learn who came in first place.

Here at AfterElton.com, we’re thrilled to announce an out gay man topped this year’s list – especially this particular man as most of us voted for him as well. In fact, out gay men snagged nearly 20% of the spots, including the top three. To be sure, we’ve nothing against our straight male crushes, but it says something great about 2009 that there are so many out men to choose from.

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Following on the heels of Stargate Sg-1 and Stargate Atlantis, the latest Stargate series — Stargate Universe, or Sgu — will include the franchise's first lesbian cast member: political attaché Camille Wray, played by veteran Chinese-American actress Ming-Na Wen (pictured, right).

The franchise began with the 1994 feature film Stargate, and has since spawned three live-action series, an animated series (Stargate Infinity), video games (Stargate Worlds), novels, and comics.

The Stargate universe is one in which soldiers and scientists from contemporary Earth interact with alien races possessing far superior technology via a top-secret Stargate (pictured below) that utilizes wormholes to quickly transport people and objects to cosmic locations far away.

Here's the official description of the new series from Sci Fi channel's press release about the series in February:

Edgier and younger in tone, Sgu will take the franchise in a dynamic new direction, appealing to longtime Stargate fans and first-time viewers alike.

Today's celebrity birthdays: Alan Arkin, Amy Smart, Bianca Kajilich, Catherine Keener, Diana Ross, James Caan, Keira Knightley, Kenny Chesney, Leeza Gibbons, Martin Short, Natalia Livingston, Steven Tyler, and T.R. Knight. Check 'em out... Alan Arkin has certainly had a memorable career, playing the "Wellness Guide" in America's Sweethearts to Grace's father in Will & Grace. More recently he has starred in Rendition, Sunshine Cleaning, Get Smart, Marley & Me, and he's currently working on Get Smart 2! Alan was born in 1934 and turns 75 today! Amy Smart is best known for playing Eve in Crank and Crank: High Voltage. She was also Kayleigh in The Butterfly Effect, playing opposite Ashton Kutcher. She played the role of Nurse Betty in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! She was born in 1976 and turns 33 today! Bianca Kajilich has become a staple in television shows, starting her career on Boston Public and then moving on to Dawson's Creek.