Idris Elba: Luther S3, Pacific Rim

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: May 18, 2013

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• New Luther Photo Released As BBC Announce He’ll Be Back This Summer. Posting the snap on its Facebook page, the BBC wrote: “Hey Luther fans! BBC One has just confirmed that LUTHER IS COMING THIS SUMMER!! As soon as we have the exact dates we promise you’ll be the first to know.” The third season, which will air a year after the second one, sees his return with two conflicting crimes to investigate and a ruthless ex-copper determined to bring him down. This series will also see the return of murderer Alice Morgan, Luther’s unlikely friend and sometime accomplice, played by Ruth Wilson, who disappeared at the end of the first series.

• Pacific Rim Official Trailer 2013 (HD)

• Gillian Anderson’s new thriller The Fall drew 3.5 million viewers with its May 13 premier. The psychological thriller is BBC Two’s highest-rated program since 2005. As reported by Hollywood Reporter, the five episode season follows the story of a police detective and the serial killer that she is tasked with capturing. Gillian Anderson plays detective Stella Gibson, with the Metropolitan Police. Gibson struggles with her own demons as she hunts down the killer.

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• Thomas Jane as Rick Grimes? It might have happened if “The Walking Dead” creator Frank Darabont had had his way. At a special Q&A following a Hero Complex Film Festival screening of “The Mist,” Darabont, addressing a question from an audience member, spoke briefly about the thematic similarities between two pairs of projects on his resume — the Stephen King adaptations “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Green Mile,” and his 2007 horror film, which follows a group of people trapped in a shopping market after a mist envelopes their town and charts their personal devolution as they face terrible, heartbreaking choices, and the hit AMC zombie series he launched in 2010. He also pointed out that he initially had wanted the star of “The Mist,” actor Thomas Jane, to play lawman Rick Grimes, the part that eventually went to actor Andrew Lincoln.

• A big asteroid will cruise by Earth at the end of the month, making its closest approach to our planet for at least the next two centuries.The May 31 flyby of asteroid 1998 QE2, which is about 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers) long, poses no threat to Earth. The space rock will come within 3.6 million miles (5.8 million km) of our planet.

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Finales, snurching and geek wars!

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: May 17, 2013

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• Motive “The One Who Got Away”, Episode 13. Angie’s past comes back to haunt her while investigating the murder of a teenage boy.

• Kristin Lehman says dark, intense season finale of ‘Motive’ like a departure for series. “I felt like it was a departure. They really went big in the dark end of things in the finale and I’m intrigued to find out how people respond to it,” Lehman, who plays Angie, tells CTV.ca. The episode titled “The One Who Got Away,” which airs tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CTV, has Angie and Det. Oscar Vega (Louis Ferreira) investigating the murder of a teenage boy. But when the investigation hits close to home for Angie, she will have to use everything in her arsenal to right the wrongs of the past and catch the killer.

• Lance Henriksen’s appearance on “Hannibal”: “Hannibal” Episode 1.09 – “TROU NORMAND” (airs 5/23/13) A SERIAL KILLER’S MACABRE TROPHY RAISES QUESTIONS AND CLUES TO MOTIVES AS WELL AS SECRETS – The BAU team hunts a serial killer who digs up his victims, creating a totem pole of their bodies as a macabre trophy. When Nick Boyle’s (Mark Rendall) body is found, Jack (Laurence Fishburne) and Alana (Caroline Dhavernas) question Abigail (Kacey Rohl) about his death. The resurrection of Nick’s body enlightens Will (Hugh Dancy) to some of Abigail’s secrets, and Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen) convinces Will to keep some of his own. Attempting to assert independence, Abigail agrees to write a book with Freddy Lounds (Lara Jean Chorostecki) and in the process reveals her biggest secret to Hannibal. Lance Henriksen co-stars.

• X-Files Star Gillian Anderson Stole Her Own Tombstone. Admitted that she used to take mementos from her time on The X-Files, and has a decent collection of props and keepsakes. “Yes. I stole many things,” she joked. “I have – what do I have? – a Lazarus Bowl. The most amazing thing that i have is Scully’s Tombstone. I have Scully’s Tombstone. I have little things from many episodes, and eventually, a good portion of them will probably be auctioned off for charity.” She also said that if the studio elects to make a third X-Files movie, she’ll be on board, and shared some of her thoughts on dealing with obsessive X-Philes. “I have decided to do a year’s worth of Comic-Cons in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the X-Files,” which debuted in 1993, Anderson said. “And it’s the first time that I’m spending this type of one-on-one time with fans. And it’s been so wonderful to be able to also thank the fans for having been fans for such a long time, and to meet one-on-one some of the people who kept us on the air for so long. And one of the things that I’m finding the coolest ever is people who bring their kids – teenagers – who have been introduced to the show, now that they’re old enough to be introduced to my own favorite series. And they get to watch it again but with their 12 year olds, and re-experience it, so that we’re getting a whole new generational fanbase. And I just can’t tell you how excited that makes me.”

• Star Wars and Doctor Who fans in bust-up at sci-fi convention. Police were called in when a long-running dispute between the two groups spilled over into the dark side at a sci-fi convention. It kicked off when angry organiser Richard Walker, of the Norwich Star Wars club, saw Jim Poole, 44, of rival Norwich Sci Fi Club filming the family event with two fellow Time Lord fans, one dressed as David Tennant. Mr Walker, 63, said: “The person on the door had not not recognised them. I put my hand on Mr Poole’s arm to escort him off the premises and he said I had assaulted him.” More than a dozen people then became involved in a bitter row at the University of East Anglia, where 1,000 sci-fi fans had gathered, many dressed as Stormtroopers. Police arrived and put one Who fan in a car before calming things down. They decided there was no assault.

• To an insecure geek guy, a genuine geek woman’s existence is saying “you have no excuse.” And boy are we invested in those excuses.

• Supernatural to move to a new night in the fall. It will air on Tuesday night, after Vampire Diaries spin-off The Originals.

• SPOILERS: Turns out Metatron is a lying bastard. He doesn’t want to close the gates of Heaven. Instead, as payback for ruining the paradise God gave the angels and forcing him out, he wants to expel all of them and send them to Earth. Naomi finds this out after kidnapping the scribe and, after a season of treachery and threats, makes a pretty impassioned plea to Cas. She even promises to accept him back into the fold if he’ll stop this plot. But when he visits upstairs, he finds that Naomi has been killed by Metatron, and the angel has big plans for Cas, as well. He strips him of his essence and tells him to live his life, get married and have a family. Then when he dies and his soul comes to Heaven, he wants to hear the story. As Cas is sent back down to Earth as a human(!), Dean is trying to heed Naomi’s other warning: That Sam will make “the ultimate sacrifice” and die if he completes the trials. While the elder Winchester has been helping his angel buddy, Sam’s been trying to cure the King of Hell.

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Riddick poster, trailer!

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: May 16, 2013

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• Vin Diesel Stares Us Down In New Poster For RIDDICK

• Riddick – Debut trailer

• Stephen King ‘Zombie’ Film ‘Cell’ To Be Directed by ‘Paranormal Activity 2′ Helmer. We have an updated film of his first published novel, Carrie, in theaters later this year, the TV mini-series version of his epic Under The Dome coming in June, and a possible prequel to the Stanley Kubrick’s classic The Shining, with King’s own sequel novel, Doctor Sleep, on its way this fall. Now, on the heels of the report that J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is in talks to adapt the recent time-travel novel 11/22/63 for television, King’s more straight-forward zombie-thriller Cell has found a director in Paranormal Activity 2 helmer Tod Williams. The director news comes from Shock Til You Drop - John Cusack will star as Clay Riddell, who in the book is a struggling artist about to celebrate the sale of his first graphic novel by re-connecting with his semi-estranged wife and son. He becomes stranded in Boston when a mysterious signal is broadcast across the entire globe’s mobile communications network, instantly re-programming turning anyone listening violent, mindless, and homicidal.

• ‘Supernatural’ Showrunner Hints at Bobby’s Return in Season 9 – Should He Come Back? When it comes to bringing Bobby – or anyone else – back from the dead, it’s showrunner Jeremy Carver who makes that decision. Luckily, we had a chance to speak with him about all things Heaven and Hell. Here’s how he decides who to bring back: I never think, ‘Oh wow, who can I bring back?’ I always think of it in the sense of, ‘Oh wow, who would be right for this particular story.’ You know, we were saying all season, ‘You never know what’s going to happen to Bobby,’ and I think we’ve found a – I can’t believe I’m going to say this word – believable way to bring him back from Hell. I think now that Bobby is presumably in Heaven that it certainly does open up the question of whether or not we might see him again.’

• Life-giving chemicals found in 1.5 billion-year-old water in Canada: Scientists said Wednesday they had found life-giving chemicals in water at least 1.5 billion years old, which they are now combing for signs of microscopic organisms surviving from a prehistoric age. The water, isolated in pockets deep underground for billions of years, is now pouring out of boreholes from a mine 2.4 kilometres (1.5 miles) beneath Ontario, Canada, they wrote in the journal Nature. “This water could be some of the oldest on the planet and may even contain life,” the team said in a statement. Not only that — the similarity between the rocks that trapped the fluid and those found on Mars raised hopes that similar life-sustaining water could be buried deep inside the Red Planet, they said.

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Vince Gilligan and Misha Collins on misogyny

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: May 15, 2013

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• ‘Breaking Bad’ Creator Vince Gilligan Calls Skyler White Haters Misogynists, ‘Plain And Simple’: Man, I don’t see it that way at all. We’ve been at events and had all our actors up onstage, and people ask Anna Gunn, “Why is your character such a bitch?” And with the risk of painting with too broad a brush, I think the people who have these issues with the wives being too bitchy on Breaking Bad are misogynists, plain and simple. I like Skyler a little less now that she’s succumbed to Walt’s machinations, but in the early days she was the voice of morality on the show. She was the one telling him, “You can’t cook crystal meth.” She’s got a tough job being married to this asshole. And this, by the way, is why I should avoid the Internet at all costs. People are griping about Skyler White being too much of a killjoy to her meth-cooking, murdering husband? She’s telling him not to be a murderer and a guy who cooks drugs for kids. How could you have a problem with that? [Via Vulture]

• Misha Collins: ‘Supernatural is gratuitously misogynistic’. The actor, who has played Castiel on the CW series since 2008 and will return as a regular next season, admitted that the show’s treatment of female characters has at times made him “cringe”. “I’m frankly surprised by the show,” Collins said during a Q&A session at a New Jersey-based Supernatural convention this weekend. “Sorry, people who write the show and everybody who works on it and everything, but there’s stupid things on the show that they shouldn’t do. Like, why do they have to say ‘bitch’ and kill all the women? You know? Because there are certain small ways in which the show is sort of gratuitously misogynistic when it doesn’t need to be. When I read the scripts, I cringe sometimes. Yeah, there’s a million other things you could say, you don’t need to do this. Or, um, you have killed every other female character who had more than a two-episode arc. Do you have to take this one?”

• Gillian Anderson’s ‘The Fall’ opens to 3.5m viewers on BBC Two.

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X-Files and the red speedo of doom, Hell on Wheels S3

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: May 14, 2013

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I’m about to watch the first episode of ‘The Fall’ right after I get offline. Very interested… but first, while we’re on X-Files actors, why not talk about that red speedo?…

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• ‘X-Files’ Reunion: David Duchovny Reveals Who Made Him Wear a Speedo. Chris Carter, Vince Gilligan and Jeff Bell are among those who hadn’t seen each other since the Fox show ended 11 years ago. For a few of the writers gathered, this was the first time they had seen one another since Chris Carter’s conspiracy-laden sci-fi drama — which, at its height, was abducting nearly 20 million viewers a week — finished its Emmy-winning run 11 years ago. Heck, the last time Vince Gilligan saw David Duchovny — who also wrote and directed a handful of episodes in addition to starring as FBI agent Fox Mulder — was at the wrap party. But the show has remained with them, as they’ve gone on to become some of the most respected showrunners in Hollywood. As Gilligan confides, “Everything we do on Breaking Bad, we learned on The X-Files.” And though the TV landscape has changed drastically, they collectively agree that not much would need to be tweaked to put The X-Files on the air today. Duchovny used the reunion as an opportunity to identify those who crafted some of Mulder’s more uncomfortable scenes. “Who wrote the episode where I had to appear in a Speedo?” he asks the nine writers assembled. Carter sheepishly raises his hand. When Jeff Bell asks whether that was worse than the episode featuring chicken wire and oil, Duchovny laughs. “Oh God, that was horrible,” he says. “Who was that?” Again, Carter raises his hand.

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• First Look at Hell on Wheels Season 3.

• What Kevin Spacey’s Reasons For Doing ‘House Of Cards’ With Netflix Say About The Future of TV: “What was great that they were the only network that said ‘You don’t have to do a pilot,’” he said. “Because David Fincher and I really didn’t want to do a pilot, because when you do a pilot, you’re kind of obligated to spend 45 minutes establishing all of the characters. And we didn’t want to do that. We just wanted to get on with telling a story, and tell a story over a long period of time. And they said ‘We believe in you, we believe in David, we love this series from Britain. How many do you want to do?’ And we were like, ‘Um, two seasons?’ And they were like ‘Okay!’ It was a risk on their part, but they’ve been great partners.” What’s striking about Spacey’s description of the development process with Netflix isn’t just that he and Fincher were excused from shooting a narratively conventional pilot that pushed back storytelling in favor of character development, but that Netflix, unlike other networks, was able to make decisions quickly, and to offer Spacey and Fincher significant commitments up-front.

• Really doesn’t like pickles: Police in Massachusetts said a woman allegedly attacked a sandwich shop worker with her fists and jars of pickles due to the number of pickles on her sandwich. Police said Tina Drouin, 49, ordered a steak-and-cheese sandwich at the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs eatery at the Quincy subway station Saturday and complained about how it was being prepared and said there were “too many pickles” on it, CNN reported Monday. Drouin demanded a refund and allegedly became violent when the worker would not return her money. She allegedly punched the other woman in the face and shoved two large jars of pickles at her, causing the worker to fall to the ground.

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Space Oddity to start things off

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: May 13, 2013

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• Space Oddity – Chris Hadfield. A revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.

Chris Hadfield OOnt MSC CD (born 29 August 1959) is a Canadian astronaut who was the first Canadian to walk in space. A former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, Hadfield has flown two space shuttle missions, STS-74 in 1995 and STS-100 in 2001, and served as capsule communicator for both Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) expeditions. On 19 December 2012, Hadfield launched in the Soyuz TMA-07M flight for a long duration stay on board the ISS as part of Expedition 35. He arrived at the station on 21 December, as scheduled,[1] and became the first Canadian to command the ISS when the crew of Expedition 34 departed.[2] [link]

• The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus Now Has a Uterus

• Gillian Anderson As Stella In ‘The Fall’ – She Says ”X-Files’ Scully Was ‘Quite Square’. ‘The Fall’ is the latest crime drama to come to our screen, a five-parter starting tonight on BBC2, starring Gillian Anderson as a senior detective drafted to Northern Ireland to investigate the murder of a young lady. Anderson has revealed that her character Stella Gibbons, a hardened officer who has no qualms about inviting strangers she likes the look of back to her room for casual sex, made her realise how child-like her breakthrough ‘X-Files’ character was in comparison. Anderson confessed: “When I’ve been asked about the differences between the two of them, suddenly it occurred to me that Scully was quite square. “She was quite prudish and always behaved correctly and wouldn’t necessarily be wearing lace panties. “In comparison Stella is quite comfortable with herself, comfortable in her skin, is a lot more feminine than Scully ever was.” Anderson has revealed she always sees her ‘X-Files’ character Dana Scully as a child playing at being a detective. She admitted: “For a long time, Scully felt quite childlike, and part of that was because I was a child when I started to play her and audiences got to see me grow up and grow into her. But whenever I see her, she seems like a 12-year-old pretending to be an agent.”

• Vin Diesel: ‘I Have Big Shoes To Fill Playing Kojak’. Speaking on Britain’s The Jonathan Ross Show on Saturday night (11May13), he says, “I am doing the role. (I have) huge shoes (to fill)… it was shot in my neighbourhood growing up, in the village, downtown New York so I would see Telly Savalas when I was a kid coming into my building and he had no idea that someday I would portray him, portray Kojak.”

• Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD First Promo (HD). Clark Gregg reprises his role of Agent Phil Coulson from Marvel’s feature films as he assembles a small, highly select group of Agents from the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. Together they investigate the new, the strange, and the unknown across the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary. Coulson’s team consists of Agent Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), highly trained in combat and espionage, Agent Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) expert pilot and martial artist, Agent Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker); brilliant engineer and Agent Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) genius bio-chemist. Joining them on their journey into mystery is new recruit and computer hacker Skye (Chloe Bennet). From Executive Producers Joss Whedon (“Marvel’s The Avengers,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”); Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen, “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” pilot co-writers (“Dollhouse,” “Dr.Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog”); Jeffrey Bell (“Angel,” “Alias”); and Jeph Loeb (“Smallville”) comes Marvel’s first TV series. “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” is produced by ABC Studios and Marvel Television.

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• ‘Doctor Who’ season 7 finale preview: The one place he must never go: It’s all been building up to this—the “Doctor Who” season 7 finale, titled, “The Name of the Doctor”—and on Saturday, May 11, BBC America released a promo for the episode that will reveal something we’ve been waiting for. The past seven episodes have been building up to the big finale, with teases about the mystery surrounding Clara and the Doctor’s name. So far, the Doctor has met and lost Clara twice, making her the Impossible Girl.

• Man breaks in to backyard in search of “‘Breaking Bad’ set key”. It’s another bizarre arrest involving the hit TV series “Breaking Bad,” but this time, the suspect who’s charged isn’t accused of stealing a script, rather, he’s accused of looking for a way to get on the set and ended up digging at a family’s home.

• Rain From Stars: Claudia Black filmed an independent movie titled “Rain from Stars” in 2009 where she played a character named Donna. Canadian director Stephen Wallis finished post production in 2011. Finally we got some interesting news about this movie and we can announce the release date and the official trailer. People will see the movie on May 24, 2013 but only in USA. Unfortunately there won’t be an international release at this moment.

• Claudia Black about Rain from Stars 2010: A short mix from two Claudia Black’s interviews about movie “Rain From Stars 2010″ and slide-show from the backstage. Claudia Black had played character Donna in movie “Rain From Stars 2010″ 31 (October 2010).

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Another Motive reunion, and galleries

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: May 11, 2013

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• MotiveTV @MotiveTV: Patrick Gilmore, previously worked with @TheLuigi_F on #StargateUniverse & @kristinlehman1 on #TheKilling @PatrickGilmore #MOTIVE

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• Motive 1×12 Ruthless – Flynn and Vega investigate the murder of an executive assistant and discover an unexpected link between the killer and the victim… a link that threatens to expose an even more deadly secret.

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• Motive 1×11 Brute Force – In a case where every suspect seems to have a motive, Flynn and Vega discover that every family has its secrets, and that brotherly love can exact a heavy toll.

• Motive Season Finale – While investigating the murder of a teenage boy, Angie’s past comes back to haunt her. Don’t miss the thrilling season finale!

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• The Walking Dead Season 4 First Look Photo: Rick’s Made a New ‘Friend’

• Vin Diesel talks ‘Fast & Furious 6,’ ‘Riddick’… and the status of his Hannibal trilogy (!). Vin Diesel is about to have a good summer. His most famous character — soulful auto-outlaw Dominic Toretto — is returning to screens in Fast & Furious 6, which marks the long-running franchise’s return to the summer blockbuster season. It’s opening on Memorial Day, and Universal is bullish on its box office prospects. (Fast & Furious 7 is already slated for a 2014 release.) Universal is distributing another Diesel movie this summer, featuring the actor’s other iconic character: Riddick arrives in theaters in September, 13 years after Pitch Black unexpectedly started the sci-fi franchise and nine years after the so-so box office for The Chronicles of Riddick appeared to end it. “Nine years ago, the studio said: ‘You will never make this movie again. There will never be another Riddick,’” says Diesel now. In between then and now, though, Diesel became a social-media phenomenon and an action-hero comeback kid… and he still has his sights set on his long-in-the-works passion project about a certain Carthaginian General. For our Fast & Furious 6 cover story, we talked to Diesel about Fast, Riddick, Facebook, and Hannibal the Conqueror.

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Tesla museum! Motive in the UK

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: May 10, 2013

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• Universal Channel has picked up UK rights to US crime drama Motive. The detective series, which stars Kristin Lehman (The Killing) and Louis Ferreira (Stargate Universe), was an original for Canadian broadcaster CTV and was subsequently picked up by US broadcast net ABC. The Universal cable channel will be the first broadcaster in the UK to show the series. The channel, which is part of NBCUniversal, has bought it from NBCUniversal International Television Distribution.

• Lauren Holly On ‘Motive,’ Moving To Canada And Playing A Medical Examiner. Her latest project is “Motive,” the innovative crime drama premiering after the Super Bowl on CTV (it was also just picked up by ABC for U.S. play in the summer). She plays medical examiner Dr. Betty Rogers, and is always on the (crime) scene with witty remarks and snide asides. HuffPost TV Canada spoke with Holly about gross makeup on set, the unusual show structure of “Motive” and Canadian TV production as a whole.

• Hannibal 1×08 “Fromage” – The BAU investigates a murder in which the killer exposes the victim’s vocal cords to literally play them like a cello. Meanwhile, Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen) discovers that the killer, Tobias, (Demore Barnes) murdered the victim as an attempt to gain Hannibal’s attention but then makes an attempt to take Lecter’s life. Will (Hugh Dancy) is driven to distraction by strange noises in his head and turns to Alana, in a romantic way, seeking peace and stability. Hannibal describes his relationship with Will to his therapist, Dr. Bedilia Du Maurier (Gillian Anderson). Vladmimir Cubrt, Dan Fogler, guest.

• The Walking Dead” has returned to Coweta County [Georgia]. Filming for Season Four of the AMC television series began Monday, said Mike Riley, location manager. Riley appeared before the Coweta County Board of Commissioners at Tuesday’s commission meeting. “I’m glad to be back in Coweta County for Season Four,” said Riley. Filming will last through November.

• Norman Reedus: ‘Walking Dead’ fans will freak out when season 4, episode 1 airs. While the actor could not reveal any spoilers, he did tweet that the first episode is huge.

• ‘The Following’: Season 2 & 3 Are Already Planned – Is that a Good Thing? The Following will return in 2014 on Fox.

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Motive gets a second season!

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: May 9, 2013

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• TheLuigi_F Louis Ferreira: Love me some Chaplin:) pic.twitter.com/rdjVLsPKil

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• CTV orders second season of hit drama Motive:

In advance of its upcoming Upfront Presentation, CTV announced today its latest pick-up for the 2013/2014 broadcast season with a second season order of its original drama series “Motive” (@MotiveTV).

The #1 new Canadian series of the year, CTV has ordered an additional 13 episodes for the series’ second season from Vancouver-based Foundation Features and Lark Productions. Production is set to begin this summer. The announcement comes with just one episode remaining before “Motive’s” first-season finale next Thursday, May 16 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CTV and CTV Mobile.

…On this week’s all-new episode of “Motive” entitled “Ruthless” (Thursday, May 9 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CTV), an executive assistant is found dead in a hotel room during a corporate retreat. In their search, Flynn (Kristin Lehman) and Vega (Louis Ferreira) come across a suspect who clearly had the means and opportunity. But, as far as the motive goes, Flynn’s stumped until she discovers an unexpected link between the killer and the victim.

It all leads up to “Motive’s” dramatic season finale “The One That Got Away” (Thursday, May 16 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CTV), that sees Angie’s (Kristin Lehman) home life about to change forever as she comes to grips with her son Manny (Cameron Bright) heading off to college.

Although, there’s little time to reflect on her new empty-nester status when a brutal crime focuses her attention on another young man. Navigating a maze of red herrings and investigative dead ends, it takes all of Angie’s experience and training to right the wrongs of the past as she races against time to catch a killer before he kills again.

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• Here’s a first look at Hugh Jackman as Logan on the set of the upcoming comic book movie “X-Men: Days of Future Past” by director Bryan Singer

• Surprise Cameo: With Hugh Jackman up in Montreal shooting X-Men: Days of Future Past, reshoots for The Wolverine have also been taking place. If the following is to be believed, it sounds as if they’ve shot an after-credits scene with a surprise cameo setting up the “inbetweequel”. JoBlo reveals that additional scenes for The Wolverine were being filmed in Montreal on Sunday and it appears as if Professor X will be making a cameo appearance in the X-Men: The Last Stand sequel. Their sources tell them that it took place at an airport and sounds, “like it appears at the end of the movie, possibly when Wolverine returns from Japan.” Considering the fact that Xavier dies in the Brett Ratner helmed movie, how exactly Patrick Stewart appears in both this and X-Men: Days of Future Past is unclear, although a popular guess is that he will simply use his psychic powers to make the comatose body he inhabited appear to others as his former self.

• Supernatural 8×23 “Sacrifice” Season Finale sneak peek (1) WHAT MUST SAM, DEAN AND CASTIEL SACRIFICE TO FOREVER SEAL HELL? — With Crowley (guest star Mark Sheppard) poised to undo all the good they’ve ever done as hunters, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) find themselves cornered. But with Kevin’s (guest star Osric Chau) help, the Winchester brothers bound into one last play against The Demon King. Metatron (guest star Curtis Armstrong) initiates a plan with Castiel (Misha Collins) to take on Naomi (guest star Amanda Tapping) and the bureaucracy of Heaven. Alaina Huffman and Kim Rhodes also guest star. Phil Sgriccia directed the episode written by Jeremy Carver (#823).

• Supernatural 8×23 “Sacrifice” Season Finale sneak peek (2)

• Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston and his wife were among the honorees Tuesday night at the Hope Awards in Washington, D.C. The event is presented annually by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in recognition of individuals and organizations that contribute to the fight to protect children from victimization. The event was held one day after Cleveland police announced that three women who’d disappeared a decade ago were rescued from a home. Cranston called it a “remarkable” coincidence, adding, “That’s exactly what we’re celebrating: hope. And the message to all the parents out there who are still missing children is that there is hope. Don’t lose that hope.”

• Charles Ramsey is an American hero, not a ‘hilarious’ meme. Charles Ramsey is a true American hero who happens to be a funny and engaging storyteller. He deserves national attention, but not in the form of being the next auto-tuned “star” on social media. After breaking down the door of a neighbor to help a distressed woman he didn’t know, Ramsey ended up helping to facilitate the rescue of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight who had been missing in Cleveland for a decade. Berry’s young daughter was also rescued. Ramsey has been hailed as a hero by almost everyone, but more often than not coverage of the story has focused on his appearance and/or manner of speaking instead of his heroic acts or the courage and strength of the women involved. As for the reward that was offered by the FBI, Ramsey told Anderson Cooper he’d rather see that money go to the women he helped rescue. Now, that’s a stand-up guy.

• Amanda Tapping on coping with miscarriage. “I just feel like it’s one of those taboo subjects that women don’t feel comfortable talking about, and there were times where I felt downright embarrassed. Truth be told, I still do,” says Tapping in an interview with WE in the courtyard of a North Vancouver café. “You just don’t know how to articulate it because you’re struggling so much, and you feel guilty, like ‘I must have done something wrong, and that’s why I’ve lost this baby.’” “As hard as it is to talk about it, as scary as it is to talk about it, we have to talk about it, because how else are we going to support each other if we don’t have those conversations? As soon as you give a voice to it, then it ceases to have as much power over you. I don’t know if would I have the courage to do this if you hadn’t asked, but I do realize how important the dialogue is.”

• Stanley Park named world’s second most beautiful city park.

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The good: Motive and Vin Diesel. The bad: Body policing and rape culture

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: May 8, 2013

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• Motive: A look inside the writers room for #MOTIVE #InspirationBoard #Brainstorming #LovePost-it-Notes

• Jason Statham is officially joining Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson in Fast and Furious 7. Michelle Rodriguez recently told DesdeHollywood about the casting, saying “Jason Statham, Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, when you see these guys in a room you know they belong together [...] You can see in their eyes that they have gone through a lot [...] I applaud Universal for getting him on-board!”

• Lionsgate has announced that pre-sales for Vin Diesel’s action-horror The Last Witch Hunter will begin at this month’s Cannes Film Festival, with shooting aiming to start in February 2014. Screen Daily reports that Vin Diesel will star as “the immortal witch hunter Kaulder, who must team up with a Catholic priest and a benign witch to thwart an attempt by his foe Belial from possessing an all-powerful talisman.” Breck Eisner (The Crazies) will direct.

Body Policing

• Chris Christie’s surgery has been blowing up my feed reader since it came out. You’ll note that I haven’t linked to it. I don’t intend to, for that matter. He had the surgery in private, under an assumed name, presumably because it was NONE OF OUR EFFING BUSINESS. The body-policing on this issue has been deplorable. Christie’s politics are up for shredding. His body is none of our business and certainly none of mine. Maybe you should be asking why it is any of yours?

Rape culture

• US President Barack Obama sharply warned Tuesday there would be “no tolerance” for the “outrage” of sexual violence in the military, and said those guilty of such crimes had betrayed their uniform. Obama said he stood squarely behind victims of sexual assault in the military and called on the Pentagon to up its game, after the head of the US Air Force’s rape prevention program was charged with sexual battery. “Sexual assault is an outrage. It is a crime. That’s true for society at large, and if it’s happening inside our military, then whoever carries it out is betraying the uniform that they’re wearing,” Obama said. “We’re not going to tolerate this stuff. There will be accountability.” “If we find out somebody’s engaging in this stuff, they have got to be held accountable, prosecuted, stripped of their positions, court-martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged — period. “It’s not acceptable,” Obama said at a White House news conference.

• “Just don’t rape people” was apparently too hard to say: There are no instructions in the brochure advising service members to not commit sexual assault. Each suggestion listed puts the responsibility for avoiding assault or rape on victims.

• Charles Ramsey, Cleveland’s Hero. In a matter of hours, a dishwasher in Cleveland went from a good neighbor to an international hero. Abigail Haglage rounds up what we know so far about the honorable Charles Ramsey.

• For whatever reason, Charles Ramsey did not look the other way. He believed what he was seeing was domestic violence, which is understandable, since that’s exponentially more likely than a weird kidnapping scheme, and what 99.9% of us would also assume. He could have put his head down and said it wasn’t his business, but he didn’t. Maybe he was just in a particularly fearless state of mind. Maybe he’s just a more morally centered person than most of us. I don’t know. But I do know this: Because of him, these women are safe. And even if it had been just an “ordinary” domestic violence situation, his intervention would have still likely resulted in preventing further or more drastic violence, at least on that day.

• At a time when the country is celebrating the bravery of three kidnapping victims and the heroism of their rescuer, unexpected public ire has fallen on the 911 operator who received Amanda Berry’s heart-wrenching plea for help — particularly for not remaining on the line with her until the police arrived.

• Rush Limbaugh Blames Voting For Obama For Cleveland Kidnappings. Limbaugh said, “Three women missing nine plus years, found alive, all were teenagers when they disappeared. Does anybody know yet why? Has the story advanced yet? Three brothers..their brothers, Three brothers, but not related to the three women have been arrested in Cleveland, which voted Obama. Not that that has anything to do with anything. One of who has a baby. Double welfare benefits if one of the women has a baby. No, I don’t know. Fascinating that the same thing happened on Hawaii 5-0, and I guarantee you people watch it. It happened on TV. It is for real.” Rush Limbaugh’s mind has been consumed by Obama hatred, and he will use anything to infect millions with his plague of hate for this president. Nothing is off limits. Not even the nightmarish ordeal of three women in Cleveland, Ohio. There is no such thing as a low too low for Rush Limbaugh.

• “Girls Gone Wild” guy facing prison for assaulting a woman, slamming her head into the floor. Imagine that – a guy who degrades and objectifies women is an asshole. Who could have seen that coming?

• Not going to help: A Republican-controlled committee in the North Carolina General Assembly approved a bill on Tuesday that would require teenagers to present a notarized parental consent form in order to access sexually transmitted disease testing and treatment, mental health counseling, pregnancy care or substance abuse treatment. Teenagers without a parent or guardian would be required to stand before a judge and request a judicial bypass in order to obtain those health services. Opponents of the bill argue that it would strongly discourage teenagers from treating their sexually transmitted infections and mental health issues because they might be afraid of discussing the problems with their parents, or they might be intimidated by the process of having to go to a local notary bank or realtor in order to notarize the parental consent form. Even worse, a teenager may live in a household that is abusive or contributing to the problem in the first place.

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