TV News for "House of Cards," "Roswell," "Chicago Fire" And More

Chicago Fire on NBC, casting news

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Chicago Fire is getting a new cast member in the form of Kim Delaney! She's playing the mother of Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney). The show returns on March 1st.


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House of Cards on Netflix is getting new players: Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear are joining the cast of the upcoming sixth (and final) season

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J.J. Abrams has a new series coming to "TV," called Demimonde, to air on HBO. It's his first series that was entirely created by Abrams, since Alias, so it's all or nothing on J.J..

It focuses on a family whose mother gets into a bad car crash and falls into a coma. While mom is in this coma, the young daughter starts messing around with her mom's experiments that are down in the family's basement and finds herself get teleported to another world, where her father ends up following her. But they find themselves in a world facing a monstrous, oppressive force.

No cast or production or premiere date has been set yet... HBO just nabbed it up a few weeks ago.

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LA Confidential is getting the TV treatment from the network that is totally having a field day with reboots and what not, CBS.

They ordered a pilot order for this new old story that follows multiple detectives working to solve a murder in 1950s Hollywood.

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Objectified was renewed for a second season on Fox News Channel.

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The CW has ordered a pilot episode of a Roswell reboot, being written and executive produced by Carina Adly MacKenzie, who wrote episodes for The Originals.

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Suits has a new cast member showing up, Katherine Heigl, for the upcoming eighth season.

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In case you did not hear, the Super Bowl was the lowest rated SB game since 2010. And those ads, well, I tended to ignore them, since over the last few years, they more or less sucked.

Though, I did catch offline the "Alexa losing her voice ads," and they were pretty funny.

Considering the ads cost the advertisers some $10M per minute, you'd think they'd come up with funnier chit!

And to think, Netflix dropped a pretty penny on that surprise trialer for the horribly constructed Cloverfield Paradox, which, well, had like 10 seconds of Clover in it, at the end. Yes, I just spoiled it. Sorry.

Here's my review of The Cloverfield Paradox, if you're interested.

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Thursday Night Football is moving to Fox Next Season, leaving CBS and NBC.

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