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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week: TELEVISION Starz has canceled the drama Camelot after airing only one season. DEVELOPMENT NEWS Actress Jennifer Finnigan has been cast in the female lead of the USA Network pilot called Wild that is about people behaving badly at night in Las Vegas and two very different lawyers, Will Garratt (Ben …

Here is your box office news for the week of June 27 to July 1: Actor Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian) is in talks to star in the fantasy film The Seventh Son based on the noel by Joseph Delaney, which tells the story of a teen who learns about wizardry from a forbidding spook. Actors Lily …

Season 4 of HBO’s huge hit series, True Blood, premiered last weekend and we felt it was just the right time to add Nelsan Ellis to our Nice Boys list. Nelsan plays Lafayette Reynolds on the show, and he’s such a marvelous actor with so much talent that even True Blood‘s creator, Alan Ball, couldn’t let him go. True Blood …

Raven Symone returns to television tonight in ABC Family’s new comedy State of Georgia and she’s ready and hopeful of providing more laughs. It’s been so much fun watching Raven grow from that cute little girl, Olivia, on The Cosby Show, to the lovely and talented young lady she is today. I should say multi-talented because Raven is not only …

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on Writers and Producers Amy and Wendy Engelberg, who are also sisters. They got their start in 1995 writing for the short-lived comedy Maybe This Time that starred Craig Ferguson, Marie Osmond and Betty White. The following year they became writers and executive story editors for the TV adaptation of the box …

Rizzoli & Isles: The Complete First Season Tough & smart. Edgy & humorous. Rizzoli & Isles. Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander star as combative, working-class Boston detective Jane Rizzoli and cool, cerebral medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles in an exciting police procedural with a compelling point of view, based on the bestselling novels by Tess Gerritsen. The two women have …

True Blood returned for a fourth season last night on HBO, and there’s a new craziness in Bon Temps. Her name is Marnie (Fiona Shaw) and she’s the leader of a new coven that has moved into town. At first glance, Marnie is kind of a timid eccentric bag lady. But when she meets with her coven, suddenly weird and …

Here is what you can look forward to seeing on the major and cable channels throughout July, including all the new shows that are debuting, the returning summer shows that are coming back and the new made-for-TV movies: July 3 – Join PBS for the airing of the final movie Poirot XI at 9 PM MOVIE SYNOPSIS: David Suchet returns …

Here is your box office news for the week of June 20 to June 24: Actress Evangeline Lilly (Lost) has joined the much anticipated two-part prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy The Hobbit that is being directed by Peter Jackson. She will take on the part of a new character – the woodland elf Tauriel. Meanwhile actor Barry …

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week: TELEVISION NEWS Actor Thomas Gibson has signed a new deal to return Criminal Minds for the show’s seventh season. Actor Jensen Ackles will take to the director’s chair once again on Supernatural when it returns for its seventh season this fall. It will be the first episode the cast films, …