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The Weekly Round-Up for Feb. 28 to March 4

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

TELEVISION NEWS

The season finale of the ABC drama Detroit 1-8-7 has been moved to Sunday, March 20 at 10 PM. The next new episode will air March 8 at 10 PM followed by another new episode on March 15 and then the finale on March 20. Mark your calendars!

What is expected to be the final episode of the new NBC series The Cape – that was to air this past Monday night as part of double-header – will now air online only later this month. No more specifics have been provided, but check NBC.com for more details if you are a fan of the show.

Actress Diane Neal will return to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Casey Novak, who was disbarred for violating due process in a rape case. She will be back for one episode this spring.

The new ABC drama No Ordinary Family has had its episode order trimmed down to 20 episodes, meaning the season finale will air on April 5 at 8 PM (instead of in May). A new episode will air tomorrow night followed by two weeks of repeats with the finale 3 episodes to air starting on March 22.

Congrats to the winners of the Independent Spirit Awards, including Black Swan, Natalie Portman and The King’s Speech (among others) that were presented over the weekend. And, of course, congrats to all the Oscar winners from last night, including Christian, Bale, Inception, Toy Story 3, Alice in Wonderland and Melissa Leo (among others). Also, here is an “inappropriate” kudos to the ‘winners” of the Razzie Awards, including Jessica Alba, Jackson Rathbone and The Last Airbender (among others).

HBO will present a sneak peek of the first 15 minutes of the first episode of the new series Game of Thrones on Sunday, April 3 at 9 PM, which will be followed by the debut of part three of the HBO mini-series Mildred Pierce. Game of Thrones, based on the popular book series called “A Song of Ice and Fire” by George R.R. Martin, is set in a vast and violent fantasy kingdom. The ensemble cast includes Mark Addy, Sean Bean, Emilia Clarke, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Fairley, Lena Headey, Kit Harington and Aidan Gillen.

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actor Russell Hornsby (Lincoln Heights) and actress Bitsie Tulloch (Quarterlife) have joined the NBC drama pilot called Grimm, which is being described as a fantastical cop drama in which characters from Grimm’s Fairy Tales exist. The main story revolves around Nick (David Giuntoli), a cop who starts to see some humans for what they actually are — animals/beasts — and realizes it’s his destiny to protect society from them. Hornsby and Tulloch will play Bruce’s partner in crime and love interest, respectively.

Actor David Krumholtz (Numb3rs) will have a co-starring role in the NBC drama pilot Playboy, which is, of course, set at the Playboy Club in Chicago circa 1963. He will play the club’s general manager, a young Albert Brooks-esque bottom-line kind of guy. Also actor Jeff Hephner (Hellcats and The O.C.) has joined the cast, playing Nick Darlton, an attorney/fixer who used to work for the Bianchi crime family. The cast also includes Amber Heard (Zombieland), Jenna Dewan-Tatum (Step Up), Naturi Naughton (Fame) and Laura Benanti (Eli Stone) as Playboy bunnies.

Actor Tony Goldwyn has landed a role in the ABC drama pilot now called Damage Control (formerly known as In Crisis) about Olivia Price (Kerry Washington) who is a professional fixer and her dysfunctional staff. He will play Fitzgerald Grant an old friend of Price’s who is now the President of the United. Also, Grey’s Anatomy actor Jeff Perry (Lexie and Meredith’s dad) has joined the cast, but there are no specifics on his role.

Actress Frances O’Connor (Cashmere Mafia) will star in the ABC drama pilot called Hallelujah, which is about a tiny town in Tennessee that finds itself being torn apart by the forces of good and evil. She will play Ruth Turner, whose family welcomes Jared O’Neal (Jesse L. Martin), a mysterious stranger who arrives to restore faith to the town’s residents, into their home.

Don Johnson (Miami Vice) will play the title role in the NBC drama pilot called A Mann’s World that is about a straight Beverly Hills hairdresser in his 50s who is struggling to stay young and relevant in a place where looks are everything. Also singer-actress Caitlin Crosby (That 70’s Show and Malcolm in the Middle) will play Kelly in the pilot. The pilot will also stars Taylor Kinney.

Actress Frances Fisher (Eureka) has a role in the ABC drama pilot called Partners, which is about half-sisters – Mattie (Scottie Thompson) and Jess (Annie Wersching) – who work together as police detectives. She will play their incarcerated mother, Colleen Scott, who confessed to killing Mattie’s abusive father 20 years ago. Kenneth Mitchell, Larry Gilliard Jr. and Michael Beach also star in the project.

Actor Raza Jaffrey (MI-5) has been added to the cast of the NBC drama pilot Smash, which is about a show-within-a-show following a group of people who come together to put on a Marilyn Monroe-themed Broadway musical. He will play Dev the live-in boyfriend of the musical’s star, Karen (Katharine McPhee), who works in the mayor’s office. Debra Messing, Jack Davenport and Megan Hilty are among the other cast members.

Actor Danny Pino (Cold Case) is the first actor cast in the NBC pilot S.I.L.A., described as a complex drama in the style of Traffic and Syriana set in the world of crime, law enforcement and politics in sprawling modern-day Los Angeles.

Actress Lana Parrilla (Miami Medical) has joined the cast of the ABC drama pilot called Once Upon a Time that will be about a small town in Maine where the magic and mystery of Fairy Tales just may be real. She will play Regina the town’s mayor who also happens to be the Evil Queen of Fairy Tale Land. Also, actress Ginnifer Goodwin (Big Love) will play Snow White/Sister Mary Margaret Blanchard.

Actress Poppy Montgomery (Without a Trace) has landed the lead role in the CBS drama pilot called The Rememberer that is about Carrie Wells, an FBI agent who remembers everything, helping her career but making for turmoil in her personal life.

Oscar-nominee Janet McTeer (Tumbleweeds) is first to join the cast of the FOX drama pilot called Weekends at Bellevue that follows the weekend physician in charge of Bellevue’s psychiatric emergency room. She will play Diane Wallace, the hospital’s head of psychiatry. Also, actress Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under) will appear in the pilot, but no specifics are available on her role. And, actress Amber Stevens (Greek and soon to be seen in The Amazing Spider-Man) has joined the cast and will play a fresh faced psychiatry intern.

Actress Rachelle Lefevre (Off the Map and the first two Twilight movies) will play the female lead in the NBC drama pilot called The Crossing that is set in a Missouri town during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. The pilot centers on Jason (to be played by Martin Henderson, who, ironically, is Lefevre’s co-star in Off the Map), a Civil War soldier who crosses the country and settles into a complicated town where he is welcomed as its savior. She will play Anna, a war widow who watched helplessly as Union soldiers burned her husband and two little boys alive in their barn. Now living with her five-year-old daughter, Anna is smitten with Jason at first sight and embarks on a torrid affair with the troubled outsider, The casting for both of these actors is in second position to their current series, though.

Actress Katie Cassidy (Melrose Place and Gossip Girl) will star opposite James Wolk (Lone Star) in the ABC drama pilot called Georgetown, which centers on the young people behind the power brokers of Washington, DC. The main protagonist, Andrew Pierce (Wolk), is an effortlessly charming and brilliant Yale graduate and the youngest Presidential speech writer on record. Cassidy will play Nikki, a smart and quick-witted junior staffer in the White House Communications Office with connections to the First Lady. Also cast in the pilot is Daisy Betts (Persons Unknown) as Samantha, an idealistic young staffer for the Democratic President who shares a romantic history with Andrew.

Actor Steven Pasquale (Rescue Me) will star in the USA Network drama pilot called Over/Under that centers on Paul (Pasquale), a day trader with a massive gambling problem who is fired from his job six months after a bad trade costs his firm millions. Shut out of the job market, he and his wife move to Brooklyn. There, Paul finds an unlikely partner, expectant father Marino (Anthony Carrigan), to start a high-end bookie business.

Actress Leslie Bibb (Crossing Jordan and both Iron Man films) will play the lead in the ABC dramedy pilot called Good Christian Bitches that is based on the Kim Gatlin book. It centers on Amanda (Bibb), a recently divorced mother of two who moves back to the affluent neighborhood where she grew up to find herself in the whirling midst of gossip, Botox and fraud. She joins previously announced cast members Jennifer Aspen and Annie Potts.

Actress Jennifer Ehle (The King’s Speech) will star opposite Patrick Wilson in the as-yet untitled CBS drama pilot by Susannah Grant that centers on an ultra-competitive surgeon (Wilson) whose life is changed forever when his ex-wife (Ehle), a doctor running a free clinic, dies and begins teaching him what life is all about from the here-after.

Actor Stephen Tobolowsky (Heroes, Glee and Californication) has been cast in the CBS drama pilot called Hail Mary that centers on a single mom (Minnie Driver) who teams up with a hustler to solve crimes. Tobolowsky will play the part of Cox. Also, actor Enrique Murciano (Without a Trace) will star as Carlos Moreno, a detective with the Atlanta P.D. working the Major Crimes Division who went to high school with Mary Beth and has had a crush on her ever since. He winds up being Mary Beth’s de facto mentor in criminology, although he yearns for something more.

FX has announced they are producing a pilot for a proposed series based on the comic books series called Powers, a long-running saga about cops in a city teeming with superheroes. You can think of it like NYPD Blue meets Watchmen or Jack Kirby meets James Ellroy. Charles H. Eglee (formerly of The Shield and Dark Angel) and veteran TV director Michael Dinner will be involved in this project as will comic book scribe Brian Michael Bendis, who created Powers with artist Michael Avon Oeming, will work on the show as an executive producers. Melissa Rosenberg (the writer of the Twilight saga films) is adapting the comic.

Actress Abigail Spencer (Mad Men) has landed the female lead opposite Eric Roberts in the ABC drama pilot called Grace that focuses on a dysfunctional family drama set in the world of professional dance. It centers on Michael Grace (Roberts), a famous choreographer who tends to sleep with his dancers and has three daughters with different mothers. He is in danger of losing his studio until his daughter Sarah (Spencer), a former dancer-turned-lawyer, decides to buy her father’s studio and run it for him before he loses it. Newcomer Anabelle Acosta will play Eden, a beautiful and talented dancer who is the daughter Michael Grace never knew he had.

Actress Alex Breckenridge (Life Unexpected) will play one of the two leads in the CW pilot called Cooper & Stone that is about Jenna Cooper (Breckenridge) and Stone (still to be cast), two smart young female detectives on Chicago’s North Side who are best friends, equally adept at discussing fashion, music, pop culture as they are solving homicides.

Actress Sarah Paulson is to star in an as-yet untitled comedy pilot from Warner Bros. TV, about a relationship-challenged woman (Paulson) who, with the help of her co-workers, guides people through unexpected career transitions and downsizings.

Actress Angela Bassett (ER) has joined the ABC drama pilot called Identity that is set at the Identity Crimes Division, the FBI’s first cyber-crime unit mixed with traditional investigators. She will play Martha Adam, the head of the ICD. Also, actor Jay Paulson (Happy Town) is expected to play Jose Rodriguez, a junior member of the team. Orlando Jones also stars and Wentworth Miller is in talks to join the pilot.

Actress Jaime King (My Generation) has joined the cast of the CW drama pilot Hart of Dixie that is about Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson), a young big-city doctor who inherits a medical practice in the oddball town of BlueBell, Alabama. King will play Lemon Breeland, an overly effusive member of the Blue Belles, elite young ladies chosen to keep the town’s history alive.

Actress Elizabeth Hurley announced via Twitter that she will play the “evil villain” in the much-talked-about drama pilot Wonder Woman. Also actress Tracie Thoms (Cold Case) and Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride have also joined the cast. Thoms will play Etta Candy, the cheerful secretary for Diana Themyscira (Adrianne Palicki), Wonder Woman’s public identity. Meanwhile, Elwes will star as Henry Detmer, the acting CEO of Themyscira Industries who is deeply devoted to Diana.

Actor Aidan Quinn will appear alongside Maria Bello in the American version of the UK hit Prime Suspect, which is being rebooted as a pilot for NBC. He will play Lt. Kenny Rowe.

Actress Rebecca Mader (Lost) has landed a role in the ABC comedy pilot called Work It, which is about out-of-work car salesmen Lee and Angel (Amaury Nolasco) who realize that it is now a woman’s world and decide that in order to find work again and succeed they are going to have to dress as women to get jobs as pharmaceuticals reps. Mader will play a bitchy and pseudo-sophisticated drug sales rep with a know-everything attitude.

Battlestar Galactica alums James Callis and Tricia Helfer and Matt Long (The Deep End and Jack & Bobby) have joined the Ron Moore NBC drama pilot called 17th Precinct that already stars BSG alum Jamie Bamber, legendary actress Stockard Channing (The West Wing) and Eamonn Walker (Kings). The pilot is set in the fictional town of Excelsior where magic and supernatural elements rule over science and the story revolves around the cops at the local 17th Precinct. Helfer will play Morgana, a necromancer, the magical equivalent of a coroner, who is an expert at manipulating the potions, tools, herbs and spells of her trade. Details on the roles that Callis and Long will play have not been announced.

Actress Lucy Griffiths (the UK series Robin Hood) is the first cast member of the CW drama pilot called Awakening that is about two combative sisters who come of age amid the beginning of a zombie uprising. Griffiths is set to play Jenna Lestrade, the elder sister, a public defender in Manhattan who’s less comfortable with her zombie status than her younger sister, Jayce.

Actor Joe Anderson (Across the Universe) has joined the cat of the ABC drama pilot called The River, which is about the crew of a state-of-the-art research vessel on a quest to find a missing TV explorer in the Amazon. He will play Lincoln Cole, the aforementioned man’s son. Eloise Mumford (Lone Star) also stars. (The Futon Critic)

Actress and Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) has landed the lead in the J.J. Abrams/CBS drama pilot called Person of Interest. She will star alongside Lost alum Michael Emerson. The series is about an ex-CIA agent who is recruited by a crazy billionaire to help fight crime in New York City. Henson will play a female detective named Carter who will presumably team up with the as-yet uncast ex-CIA agent.

Roswell actor Nick Wechsler has joined the cast of the ABC drama pilot Revenge that centers on a young woman who is welcomed into a community filled with people who don’t know she’s only there to exact revenge on those who destroyed her family. The pilot also stars Ashley Madekwe (The Beautiful Life).

MADE FOR TV MOVIES NEWS

The made-for-TV movie called Truth Be Told, starring Candace Cameron Bure, David James Elliott and Ronny Cox will premiere on Saturday, April 16 on FOX. The project revolves around Annie Morgan (Bure), a marriage counselor who – fearing her single status will ruin her chance at a dream job hosting a radio advice program – conspires with an old college friend (Elliott), a recent widower with two teenagers, to pass as a married couple after her potential boss (Cox) invites them to spend the weekend at his New Mexico ranch. No airtime has been announced yet.

Mark Harmon (NCIS) will star in an in-development made-for-TV movie for USA Network based on the John Sandford “PREY” novels. This particular movie will be based on the 10th novel in the series called “Certain Prey” that pits popular antihero, Minneapolis Deputy Police Chief Lucas Davenport, against a duo unlike any he’s ever encountered; a lethal hit woman and a ferociously cunning killer determined to hunt him down.

CONDOLENCES

Director Gary Winick – the man behind Letters to Juliet, Bride Wars, Tadpole, 13 Going on 30, Pieces of April, Charlotte’s Web (among others) – passed away at the age of 49.

Legendary actress Jane Russell, who starred in the Howard Hughes film The Outlaw and the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Marilyn Munroe passed away yesterday at the age of 89.

ME: Rest in Peace, Mr. Winick and Ms. Russell. Condolences are extended to his family, friends and fans.

MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE…

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Diane Lane will play Martha Kent in the upcoming Superman movie that stars Henry Cavill (The Tudors) in the lead role.

Rhys Ifans and Chris Pratt (Parks and Recreation and Everwood) have joined the cast of the upcoming comedy movie called Five-Year Engagement that stars Jason Segel and Emily Blunt in a story about the highs and lows of a lengthy relationship. Alison Brie (Community) will play Blunt’s younger sister.

Actor Jimmi Simpson (Psych and the upcoming Breakout Kings) has joined the cast of the box office movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, playing Lincoln’s right-hand man.

Actress Kate Mara and actor Treat Williams will star in the independent crime thriller film called Blackbird that is to star Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde as a pair of sibling fugitives who cross paths with a young convict boxer (Charlie Hunnam). Williams and Mara will play a father-daughter duo whose storyline intertwines with the main plot. Kris Kristofferson and Sissy Spacek also star as the boxer’s parents.

It’s official! Actor James Franco will play the lead in the film Oz, The Great and Powerful, which is a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, telling the story of the origins of the Wizard and Oz’s infamous witches like Glinda the Good Witch of the North and Evanorah, the soon-to-be squashed Wicked Witch of the East.

It looks like film maker/director Tim Burton and actor Josh Brolin just might be teaming to do a new film adaptation the classic 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The story follows Quasimodo, a deformed and hunchbacked bell-ringer of the Norte Dame cathedral who tragically falls in love with a beautiful gypsy named Esmerelda.

Actress Malin Akerman (Watchmen) is negotiating to join the kidnapping thriller called Medallion that stars Nicolas Cage as a former master thief who has only a few hours to find his daughter when she is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a New York taxi cab. Akerman will play Cage’s former girlfriend and a former bank robber who agrees to help him save his daughter.

Singer-Actress Mandy Moore (Tangled) and actor Rodrigo Santoro (I Love You, Phillip Morris) are set to co-star in the film Falling Slowly that follows a couple whose apartment is haunted by a dark presence.

Katherine Heigl’s bounty hunter comedy called One for the Money has been pushed up a month from July 8 to June 3 where it will now open opposite X-Men: First Class.

British actress Eleanor Tomlinson (The Illusionist) is set to play the female lead in the upcoming box office movie called Jack the Giant Killer. She will play Isabella, a princess who runs away from her kingdom and is kidnapped by giants. Before being taken, she meets a farmer’s son named Jack (Nicholas Hoult) who later leads a mission into the land of the giants to save her. Stanley Tucci, Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy and John Kassir also star.

Looks like Disney may try to bring their tame boat ride Jungle Cruise into a feature film. Tim Allen and Tom Hanks have been tapped to lead roles. No other specifics seem to be available yet, though.

Dancer-turned singer/actress Julianne Hough (Burlesque and Dancing With the Stars) will join Tom Cruise (yes, you read that right) in the film adaptation of the Broadway hit musical Rock of Ages. Hough will play Sherri Christian, a girl from the Midwest who moves to Hollywood with dreams of becoming an actress. Tom Cruise has already signed on to play musician Stacee Jaxx. A nationwide search to fill the part of Drew Boley (Sherri’s love interest) is underway.

Catherine Zeta-Jones is in talks to join the cat of the upcoming film Lay the Favorite based on the Beth Raymer best-selling memoir called Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling. The story charts her rise from lowly Vegas cocktail waitress to one of the top sports gambling bookmakers. Rebecca Hall has been cast in the lead role while Zeta-Jones would play the wife of Raymer’s mentor, a cantankerous ex–New York bookmaker (Bruce Willis).

Julianne Moore and Olivia Thirlby have joined the cast of the upcoming movie Another Night based on the Nick Flynn memoir called Another Bullsh*t Night in Suck City. The story revolves around the author’s experiences as a case worker for the homeless and his relationship with his father. As a teenager, Flynn (Paul Dano) had received letters from his estranged father (Robert De Niro), a delusional con man and self-proclaimed poet. The memoir follows Flynn and his father, whose self-destructive behavior eventually drives him onto the streets and into the homeless shelter where Flynn works.

CASTING SCOOP

Actor Michael Zegan (Rescue Me) will appear as a young Benjamin “Benny” (late known as “Bugsy”) Siegel in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire when it returns for its second season.

Actor Enrique Murciano (Without a Trace) will appear in a multi-episode arc on NCIS as Ziva’s (Cote de Pablo) never-seen-before boyfriend CIA agent Ray Cruz.

Oscar winner Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God) will have a guest-starring role in the ABC Family Channel drama called Switched at Birth that is set to air in this summer. The show will tell the story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Matlin will portray Melody, the mother one of the girls in the show.

Actress Liz Vassey (CSI) will guest star in a spring episode of Castle, as a real estate broker who gets caught in the middle of New York’s pizza wars.

Three big names will be guest starring in upcoming episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit this spring, including John Stamos (ER and Glee), Terrence Howard (Law & Order: Los Angeles) and Lori Singer (Footloose). Stamos will appear as an adoption attorney with a secret passion. Singer will have the role of a new mother who is struggling with her increased responsibilities. Terrence Howard will be part of a crossover episode between “Law & Order: Los Angeles” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”

Scott Michael Foster (Greek) will appear in three episodes of the ABC Family Channel comedy Melissa & Joey. He will play George, a younger guy who catches Melissa’s (Melissa Joan Hart) fancy — and thus likely irks Joey (Joey Lawrence).

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

There is a lot of programming to keep track of each, so, the list below covers most of what you can expect this coming weekend and next week (including reairs, new episodes and made-for-TV movies):

Saturday, March 5:
Harry’s Law on NBC at 8 PM (Reair)
Law & Order: Los Angeles on NBC at 9 PM (Reair)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on NBC at 10 PM (Reair)
Being Human on BBC America at 8 PM (Reair)
Being Human on BBC America at 9 PM (NEW)

Sunday, March 6:
Desperate Housewives on ABC at 9 PM
Brothers & Sisters on ABC at 10:01 PM
CSI: Miami on CBS at 10 PM
Big Love on HBO at 9 and 10 PM
Big Love on HBO2 at 8 PM (Reair)
Breakout Kings on A&E at 10 PM (Debut)
Perfectly Prudence movie on Hallmark at 9 PM (Reair)
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy movie on Lifetime at7 PM (Reair)
Army Wives on Lifetime at 9 PM (Return)
The Tudors on Showtime at 9 and 10 PM (Reairs)

Monday, March 7:
Castle on ABC at 10:01 PM (Reair)
Hawaii Five-0 on CBS at 10 PM (Reair)
90210 on The CW at 8 PM (Reair)
Gossip Girl on The CW at 9 PM (Reair)
House on FOX at 8 PM
The Chicago Code on FOX at 9 PM
The Event on NBC at 8 PM (Two-Hour Return)
Harry’s Law on NBC at 10 PM
Pretty Little Liars on ABC Family at 8 and 10 PM (NEW and Reair)
Greek on ABC Family at 9 PM (Series Finale)
Being Human on Syfy at 8 PM (Reair)
Being Human on Syfy at 9 PM (NEW)
Stargate Universe on Syfy at 10 PM (Return)
He Loves Me movie on Lifetime at 9 PM (Debut)
Big Love on HBO at 10 PM (Reair)

Tuesday, March 8:
No Ordinary Family on ABC at 8 PM (Reair)
V on ABC at 9 PM
Detroit 1-8-7 on ABC at 10:01 PM
NCIS on CBS at 8 PM (Reair)
NCIS: Los Angeles on CBS at 9 PM (Reair)
The Good Wife on CBS at 10 PM (Reair)
One Tree Hill on The CW at 8 PM (Reair)
Hellcats on The CW at 9 PM (Reair)
Parenthood on NBC at 10 PM (Reair)
Southland on TNT at 10 PM
Lights Out on FX at 10 PM
White Collar on USA at 10 PM (Finale)

Wednesday, March 9:
Off the Map on ABC at 10 PM
Criminal Minds on CBS at 9 PM (Reair)
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior on CBS at 10 PM
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on NBC at 10 PM (Reair)
Being Erica on SOAPNet at 11 PM
Justified on FX at 10 PM
Big Love on HBO at 10 PM (Reair)
The Tudors on BBC America at 9 and 10 PM (Reairs)

Thursday, March 10:
Grey’s Anatomy on ABC at 10 PM (Reair)
CSI on CBS at 9 PM
The Mentalist on CBS at 10 PM
The Vampire Diaries on The CW at 8 PM (Reair)
Nikita on The CW at 9 PM (Reair)
Bones on FOX at 9 PM
Fairly Legal on USA Network at 10 PM
Big Love on HBO at 8 PM (Reair)

Friday, March 11:
The Defenders on CBS at 8 PM
CSI: NY on CBS at 9 PM
Blue Bloods on CBS at 10 PM
Smallville on The CW at 8 PM (Reair)
Supernatural on The CW at 9 PM (Reair)
Fringe on FOX at 9 PM
Law & Order: UK on BBC America at 9 and 10 PM
Merlin on Syfy at 10 PM
Big Love on HBO Signature at 9 PM (Reair)
Drop Dead Diva at 9 and 10 PM (Reairs)

NOTE: Please check your local listings for the correct air dates and times for all of the above.

Have a great weekend!

Using her favorite online handle, Rueben is an East Coast-bred gal who is now a permanent Californian and a lifelong tv-oholic. She watches at least 25 TV shows a week, goes to the movies as often as possible, listens to music every waking moment, reads every day and “plays” on the internet every chance she can. Some of her current favorite TV shows are Outlander, Sweet Magnolias, Wednesday, The Mandalorian, The Equalizer, Fire Country, Miss Scarlet, Hudson & Rex, SkyMed, The Rookie, Bridgerton, Cobra Kai, Virgin River, The Witcher, Leverage: Redemption and School Spirits. She is looking forward to the fall TV season, including the return of Outlander, Tracker and The Equalizer and the debuts of the new dramas Matlock, Murder In a Small Town, NCIS: Origins and Cross. Follow her on Bluesky @ruebensramblings.bsky.social or contact her at rueben@nicegirlstv.com. Please also check out Rueben's Ramblings website for even more entertainment news.