News Briefs : A "Rambo" series? 50 Cent produces series now too? New casting news

... Sylvester Stallone is in talks to join a potential TV series based on his hit movie franchise Rambo. The project, is still in the early stages, but Stallone would work with the show on a creative level and could potentially reprise his iconic role. I don't really want to be the person to say this, but isn't it about time we stopped with the remakes, and the sequels, and the adaptations? Have we seriously run out of all the good ideas already? After the failure of Beverly Hills Cop to get a series order, am not holding my breath on this

... Rashida Jones, who is departing Parks and Recreation midway through Season 6, is developing a dramedy for The CW with her sister, Kidada Jones. The series, titled Ladyballs, revolves around two friends who have been estranged for a while, but are reunited when they realize they've been dating the same guy. So they decide to humiliate him on the internet instead of just argue-singing about it, and when the video goes viral, they make the truly American decision to turn the idea into a business.  

... How's this for efficiency? A future episode of the headline-ripping Law & Order: SVU will combine the Trayvon Martin case AND the Paula Deen scandal in a single hour! Cybill Shepherd will play a celebrity chef who shoots a teenager because she thinks he's a rapist.

CASTING NEWS

... Keith Carradine (Dexter, Deadwood) will be heading to Fox's The Following next season in a recurring role. We don't know much about the role he'll play except that he's a trusted friend of Kevin Bacon's Ryan Hardy.
... Abu Nazir is going to terrorize Oliver Queen! Navid Negahban, who played the big bad in the first two seasons of Homeland, will guest-star on The CW's Arrow as bad guy Al-Owal in the fifth episode of the upcoming season.

... Bryan Fuller's Syfy pilot High Moon has booked Jonathan Tucker (Brotherhood) for a recurring role. The series follows colonies on the moon where residents dig up resources and find new life forms. Tucker will play a Russian miner. Also recently cast in the 90-minute pilot: Dana Davis (10 Things I Hate About You) and Peter Macon (Supernatural).


... Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black's critical darling, will guest-star on NBC's Parks and Recreation as a love interest for Aziz Ansari's Tom Haverford. She'll appear in the fifth and sixth episodes of Season 6.

... It's a big day for Orphan Black actors, because Dylan Bruce has joined Lifetime's new Flowers in the Attic adaptation alongside Kiernan Shipka and Heather Graham. He'll play Bartholomew “Bart” Winslow, the husband of Graham's Corinne.

... Omari Hardwick (Dark Blue, Breakout Kings) has landed the lead in Starz's new original series Power, about a Manhattan nightclub owner who caters to the city's elite in a number of ways. In addition to running his after-hours establishment, Hardwick's character, James "Ghost" St. Patrick, also leads the most lucrative drug network in New York. Oh, and the best part? The series is from executive producer Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson.

... Chuck fans, listen up: Morgan Grimes is finally returning to your TV sets. Joshua Gomez, who played the terribly endearing best friend of Chuck Bartowski on NBC's fan-favorite series, is guest-starring on the sixth season of Castle as a murder suspect who claims to have traveled from the future to prevent a cataclysmic event.

... Stephen O’Reilly and Kimiko Glenn have been cast in Season 2 of Orange Is the New Black. O'Reilly will play Christopher, the fiancé of Lorna (Yael Stone) who was discussed throughout Season 1 but never seen, and Glenn will play someone named Brooke Soso.

... Jerry Springer will guest-star on the second season of ABC's The Neighbors, which sounds about right.

SO CRAZY IT MUST BE TRUE NEWS!

 ... Okay it's not that crazy. But the Belize Tourism Board has offered free Belize vacations to several Breaking Bad cast members in the wake of Saul Goodman using the phrase "send him on a trip to Belize" as a euphemism for murder. And then one Reddit user whipped up that beautiful postcard you see above.

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