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Tuned In+Television | February 28, 2012

Help Wanted: Now James Spader Leaving The Office

By James Poniewozik

Looks like there may be a good few positions open at Dunder-Mifflin come the ninth season of The Office next year. James Spader, brought in as a kinda-but-not-really replacement for Steve Carell at the beginning of this season, will not be back with the show next year.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | February 17, 2011

NBC Casts Wonder Woman, Prime Suspect. Good Actress = Good Show?

By James Poniewozik

I usually don’t bother reporting casting news on this blog, because I’d end up doing little else, but yesterday came reports that NBC had found actresses to re-create two iconic, if very different, classic-TV roles. In its remake of Prime Suspect, Maria Bello (A History of Violence) will reportedly take on the role of a [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | July 19, 2010

David Cross to Re-Join Arnett, Hurwitz on Running Wilde

By James Poniewozik

It’s an Arrested Development reunion! According to The Hollywood Reporter, David Cross (formerly Dr. Tobias Fünke on AD) has been signed as a regular on the new Fox sitcom Running Wilde, starring his old castmate Will Arnett and produced by AD creator Mitch Hurwitz. Let’s just rename it “Running Bluth” and call it a day. [...]

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Tuned In+August 21, 2009

HBO Pilot Fills More Thrones

By James Poniewozik

I don’t ordinarily do much coverage of pilots that haven’t yet been picked up to series—much less ones that haven’t even been shot yet—but there seems to be a lot of interest in Tuned Inland about HBO’s Game of Thrones, based on George R. R. Martin’s fantasy novels. The pilot starts shooting in October, and [...]

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Tuned In+July 20, 2009

HBO Fills More Thrones

By James Poniewozik

We might as well make this a prospective-HBO-series theme morning. Word is out of several new casting decisions for HBO’s pilot of A Game of Thrones, the pilot to be shot this fall for a potential fantasy series to be based on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. Sean Bean [...]