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- Lost co-star Terry O’Quinn is returning to ABC with a lead role in Marc Cherry’s drama pilot Hallelujah. He will play the show’s main villain Del, a charming yet wholly corrupt local millionaire who virtually owns the town. Source
- The four-time Oscar nominee Julianne Moore will play Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor in Game Change, an HBO original film based on the best-selling book of the same name and depicting John McCain’s 2008 run for the White House. Source
- Smallville’s Kristin Kreuk will guest-star in the pilot as Susan Longstreet, the wife of Jamie Bamber‘s crime scene expert in Ronald D. Moore’s 17th Precinct pilot for NBC. Source
- Law & Order alum Jeremy Sisto is making a switch to comedy with a starring role in ABC’s comedy pilot Suburgatory. The pilot, from creator Emily Kapnek, centers on Tessa (Jane Levy), a teenage girl who is moved by her dad George (Sisto) from Manhattan, where she grew up, to her version of hell: the suburbs. Source
- CBS announced that it has ordered 23rd and 24th editions of Survivor for the 2011-2012 season. Also Jeff Probst has signed a new pact that will keep him on as host and executive producer for both installments. Source
- Brothers & Sisters and Everwood alum Emily VanCamp is returning to ABC as the star of a potential new primetime drama, Revenge. It’s described as a contemporary re-imagening of The Count of Monte Cristo from a female perspective and centers on Emily Thorn (VanCamp), a mysterious young woman who comes to the Hamptons to exact revenge on the people who destroyed her family. Source
- Grammy winner (and Mr. J. Lo) Marc Anthony is joining TNT’s drama series HawthoRNe as a series regular. Anthony was on the show as a guest star for a couple episodes last season, playing Det. Nick Renata. Source
- Hank Azaria has been tapped to star in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Free Agents.The project, based on the UK series of the same name, explores the attraction between on-the-rebound PR execs Alex (Azaria) and Helen (TBD). Source
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