--- J.J. Abrams' production company Bad Robot is in the process of acquiring the rights to Stephen King's novel 11/22/63 with the idea of adapting it for television. In the book, an English teacher travels back in time to to 1958 to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald.
--- AMC's "The Walking Dead" is tapping "The Wire" for another casting addition. Lawrence Gilliard, Jr., who played D'Angelo Barksdale in the HBO series, will play Bob Stookie in the zombie drama. The character will be quite different from the Bob Stookey in the comics, as Gilliard is much younger. "The Walking Dead" previously cast The Wire vet Chad Coleman as Tyreese.
--- FX has cast Corey Stoll as the lead in its upcoming vampire pilot "The Strain". Stoll played the substance-abusing and adulterous senator Peter Russo in the Netflix's "House of Cards". In "The Strain", he'll play a head of the CDC during a viral outbreak that smells like vampirism. Guillermo del Toro is on board as a director, writer, and producer, and Lost's Carlton Cuse is lined up as producer and showrunner if it goes to series.
... NBC made a few more scheduling decisions for its summer, with the highlight being a Sunday, June 23 launch for its new drama "Crossing Lines". The series stars William Fichter and Donald Sutherland as members of the International Criminal Court, a group that chases down international crooks who operate over multiple borders.
... AMC has ordered a pilot for "Line of Sight", a sci-fi thriller from "Brotherhood" creator Blake Masters. In "Line of Sight", a National Transportation Safety Board investigator survives a plane crash, and then his head nearly explodes from all the conspiracies that are involved in the accident.
OFFICE CLOSURE UPDATE
--- We now have some details on The Office series finale, so turn away if you want to avoid spoilers! Go ahead! Turn away! Set months after the end of the documentary project, the episode will feature a wedding that brings back past and present Dunder-Mifflin workers, including guest-stars Mindy Kaling, BJ Novak, Rachael Harris, Dakota Johnson, Joan Cusack, Ed Begley Jr., Malcolm Barrett, Matt Jones (Badger!), Andy Buckley, Mike Schur, and Bobby Ray Shafer. Steve Carell reportedly won't be there, but he's gotta be in this, right? The one-hour finale airs May 16. [THR]
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