Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Fringe, Star Trek, Transformers, M:I3) will be exec producing an updated version of Hawaii Five-O for CBS.
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Ben Schwartz has joined the cast of NBC’s Undercovers as a CIA agent, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Schwartz, joins Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Boris Kodjoe and Gerald McRaney on the cast of JJ. Abrams pilot:
Schwartz will play a young CIA agent who is wildly respectful of Steve’s career as an agent.
Schwartz, a sketch performer for the Upright Citizens Brigade, was a member of the team that won an Emmy for writing Hugh Jackman’s opening number at the Oscars last year.
As an actor, he recently wrapped the feature comedy “The Other Guys.”
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JJ. Abrams search for his leading lady in Undercovers is over. British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw will star opposite Boris Kodjoe in NBC’s new husband and wife spy drama. Here’s more on Mbatha-Raw, via THR:
Mbatha-Raw, a graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, broke through during the summer when she was cast as Ophelia opposite Jude Law in the Donmar Warehouse production of “Hamlet,” which had successful runs in London’s West End and on Broadway.
The daughter of a South African doctor and an English nurse, Mbatha-Raw hasn’t appeared on American TV but has done arcs on several popular British series including “Spooks” and “Doctor Who.”
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It’s no surprise really, but NBC prime time president Angela Bromstad revealed that JJ. Abrams new series, “Undercovers“, wont be another “Alias“. Speaking at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour, she confirmed that Undercovers will be “lighter” in tone and be a more stand-alone closed-ended weekly procedural.
Head past the jump for more.
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The final season of LOST is less than a month away -- here’s the official Italian promo (above). Head past the jump to see the official UK, German, Australian and Finnish LOST promos and trailers, and a new Hurley/Mr. Clucks teaser!
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ABC have put together another one of their excellent (and snarky) LOST in 8 minutes 15 seconds catch-up videos . This time it’s for seasons 1 through to 5. You can find the original seasons 1 to 3 video here.
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You may have seen the magazine scan versions around the Internet but above are the official “LOST Supper” promotional photos for the final season of ABC’s LOST.
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The official Undercovers website – www.undercoversweb.com, has been updated, slightly. The landing page now contains two rotating images of a news broadcast reporting the disappearance of the show’s lead characters, Samantha and Steven Bloom (portrayed by Boris Kodjoe). This is obviously aimed at setting the Undercovers premise and gives us some idea as to how Samantha and Steven came to be retired spies, or possibly how they came back into the spy game. Whether or not this will grow into an alternate reality game of sorts remains to be seen.
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Zoe Saldana, who played Uhura in JJ. Abrams Star Trek reboot, recently spoke to MTV while promoting Avatar and gave a tiny update on the Trek sequel:
“I spoke to J.J. and Bryan Burk, his producing partner at Bad Robot, and they are still in the middle of building the script with Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci, and we’ll probably be going into pre-production around this time next year.”
Meanwhile, the movie has been revealed as the most pirated movie of 2009, with well over 10 million downloads, making its box office success all the more remarkable.
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NBC’s Undercovers now has an official website and twitter account to help promote the show online. Undercoversweb.com is just a splash page right now but expect it to be updated with news, sneak peaks and promotional material in 2010. Head past the jump for more.
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