News Briefs : Legend Of Korra is Back, Return Premiere dates and Renewals

... Legend of Korra fans, the news you've patiently waited OVER A YEAR for has arrived: Nickelodeon has finally announced a premiere date for Book 2, which is subtitled Spirits: Friday, September 13 at 7pm.

Shows airing this week 30th June - 6th of July 2013

This Sunday sees the return of America's favorite serial-killer Dexter for an eight and final season, Sunday also sees the premiere of Showtime's new show Ray Donovan about a Hollywood fixer (have seen the premiere, good show that drags a bit, but still good nonetheless.) who may need fixing up, as his professional life clashes with his personal life. Monday sees the premiere of the scripted reality show, Siberia (Pilot review is already up).
This week also sees a lot of shows going on break, Royal Pains, Burn Notice, Graceland, Magic City and Soul Man, Continuum is still on its break but  they'll all be returning next week.

==== Sunday - Copper Season 2 Episode 2, Crossing Lines Season 1 Episode 2, Dexter Season 8 Premiere, True Blood Season 6 Episode 3, Falling Skies Season 3 Episode 5, The Killing Season 3 Episode 6, The White Queen Season 1 Episode 3, Ray Donovan Series Premiere and Whodunnit Season 1 Episode 2.

==== Monday - Longmire Season 2 Episode 6, Defiance Season 1 Episode 11, Warehouse 13 Season 4 Episode 19, Teen Wolf Season 3 Episode 5, King & Maxwell Season 1 Episode 4, Under The Dome Season 1 Episode 2 and Siberia Series Premiere.

==== Tuesday - Perception Season 2 Episode 2, Pretty Little Liars Season 4 Episode 4, Rizzoli & Isles Season 4 Episode 2 and Twisted Season 1 Episode 4.

==== Wednesday - Necessary Roughness Season 3 Episode 4 and Franklin & Bash Season 3 Episode 4.

Next week sees the return of HBO's Newsroom and the debut of 3 new shows, NBC's Camp, FX's The Bridge and Netflix's Orange Is The New Black (all episodes will be available at once for subscribers).

Leave comments on the shows and episodes you are most excited to see..

News Brief: Awkward Loses Its Showrunner, Shows to be at Comic–Con and New Casting News

... MTV's Awkward showrunner and creator Lauren Iungerich is departing after the currently on-hiatus third season wraps up. MTV is likely ordering a fourth season, dependent on who they find to replace Iungerich. But Iungerich's very funny and talented voice was all over the series, and the loss of her will be, like, totally obvs.

... FX is developing a TV version of the book Mohicans, which served as the source material for the film The Last of the Mohicans. The idea would be to make it a miniseries that follows the development of America as seen through the eyes of the characters from the books.

... The CW is developing an adaptation of the Venezuelan telenovela Jane the Virgin, and you have to listen to this awesome description. Jane, a respectable, religious goody-goody, gets accidentally artificially inseminated through a series of hilarious circumstances!
... Simon Cowell is launching Afghanistan's Got Talent.

... History Channel's The Bible miniseries has sold more than 1 million units of its Blu-ray and DVD editions.
... Captain Planet might become a movie. Let our powers combine.

CASTING NEWS

... Elementary's Sherlock Holmes has an older brother, and we'll all get to meet him in Season 2. Rhys Ifans (The Amazing Spider-Man's the Lizard, Human Nature) will play Mycroft Holmes and I'm pretty convinced that he could actually be Jonny Lee Miller's real-life brother. Mycroft will appear in the premiere episode, where the two brothers will confront their recent falling-out after Sherlock heads to London.

... In today's The Leftovers news, the show has added The Secret Circle's Chris Zylka. In the Damon Lindelof drama about those left behind after the Rapture, Zylka will play a college dropout who settles under the wing of a guru.

... TLC's Who Do You Think You Are?, which is being revived by TLC after cancellation by NBC, has announced the celebs who will let Lisa Kudrow poke around their families' pasts and talk about them on TV (minus the "your great granddad was a Nazi sympathizer" part). Here they are: Christina Applegate, Kelly Clarkson, Cindy Crawford, Zooey Deschanel, Chelsea Handler, Chris O'Donnell, Jim Parsons, and Trisha Yearwood. Who Do You Think You Are? debuts July 23 on TLC.

... 1980s dreamboat Andrew McCarthy will guest-star on CBS's summer drama Unforgettable. He'll play a rich dude who enlists Carrie's help to get his kidnapped young daughter back.

... First Andrew McCarthy, now Sendhil Ramamurthy!?!?!? A day after casting the Pretty in Pink star, CBS's summer series Unforgettable has booked Ramamurthy (Heroes) for a guest role. In the second season's second episode, he'll play a criminal who's employed by a mystery man.

... Last Resort's Scott Speedman will star in Ryan Murphy's HBO pilot Open. The drama is described as an exploration of modern sexuality. Speedman will play a hunky sports executive, and chances are very high that you will get to watch him have sex. Let's see if he's learned anything since Felicity!

... Maggie Gyllenhaal will star in Sundance Channel's 2014 miniseries The Honourable Woman. She'll play a lady who inherits her dad's arms-smuggling business but uses its resources to install data cable networks between Israel and the West Bank and then earns a position in the U.K.'s House of Parliament.

COMIC-CON
... The X-Files will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a panel at this year's Comic-Con. Series creator Chris Carter and writers David Amann, Vince Gilligan (who now has his own nifty show), Howard Gordon, Darin Morgan, Glen Morgan, John Shiban, and Jim Wong will be on hand for the Thursday, July 18 panel. Gillian Anderson has also confirmed an appearance, but there's been no word from David Duchovny. He's got to show up, right?

... CBS Television Studios has announced the shows its bringing to Comic-Con: Under the Dome, Intelligence, Star-Crossed, and Beauty and the Beast.

... Falling Skies will be at Comic-Con, too.

RELATIONSHIPS NEWS
... Pretty Little Liars' Lucy Hale and Revolution's Graham Rogers (Danny!) are dating!
... Justified's (and The Following's, I guess) Natalie Zea got engaged! Congratulations to Zea.

REQUIRED READING
... James Gandolfini's funeral was held this week in New York. The procession, including a eulogy from The Sopranos creator David Chase, was surreal and truly touching.

News Brief: New Series Debuting and Casting news

 
Since most of all the new pilots have been accepted or discarded last month, there have been little/slow new information to provide. Aso we have Some news which came out last week and New Series premiered last week worth checking out.

.... "Graceland”, about agents from different law agencies living together in a house. Created by Jeff Eastin, who created ”White Collar” for USA network as well.
Graceland is the name of an impeccably decorated beachfront home where the FBI, the DEA, and U.S. Customs house a handful of their best agents, Real World-style, so that they can work together to catch the bad guys. Starring Daniel Sunjata (Rescue Me) and Aaron Tveit's (Les Miserables).They're joined by Vanessa Ferlito (24, CSI: New York), Brandon Jay McLaren (Falling Skies, The Killing), Manny Montana (Chicago Code), and Serinda Swan (Breakout Kings).

.... "In The Flesh”– this show puts a unique twist on the zombie genre by bringing the undead back from the undead, so to speak.
In the world where "In the Flesh" takes place, the dead rose from their graves, ate human brains, got better, were rehabilitated through treatment and counseling, and then rejoined society, where they now live—with the help makeup and colored contact lenses—as if they'd simply had a bad case of the chicken pox (the show refers to their condition as "Partially Deceased Syndrome"—PDS). But at the same time, untreated zombies roam freely and cause serious problems. Sounds pretty cool, right?

CATELYN STARK NEWS
... ”Game of Thrones' Michelle Fairley, who had quite a bit to do in last week's epic episode, has booked a recurring role on the upcoming third season of ”Suits". She'll play a British oil entrepreneur who hires Harvey to defend her against a lawsuit. Look for her debut in the Season 3 premiere on July 16.
... Justin Theroux ("Parks and Recreation", the movie Wanderlust) landed what may be the cushiest new acting gig of next year, taking the lead in HBO's pilot ”The Leftovers". The show comes from Lost's Damon Lindelof and follows those who remain behind after the Rapture takes the virtuous away..

... "Defiance" will welcome guest-star Brian J. Smith (Stargate Universe) as astronaut Gordon McLintock. The character was put into an induced coma after a space station accident in 2013, and will have his mind blown when he wakes up to see that Earth has changed, Oh, and all the aliens and stuff. 

BUSINESS TIME
... NBC's ”Revolution" ended its first season last night with a slight ratings uptick, racking up a 2.0 in the adult demo. It finishes as the second-best rated new series after Fox's "The Following".

... MTV's "Teen Wolf" returned for Season 3 last week, and brought back a whole lot more viewers. The premiere was the series' most-watched episode to date, averaging 2.4 million viewers.