The week in Clack – Kreuk on Chuck and Sarah as Cersei

by Brett Love

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The new season is just around the corner, but the wheels of development keep turning in the background. There was a lot of news this week about new pilots, mid-season shows, and casting for some of our favorites. Some of that is hit and miss, depending on your preferences. For example, I’m not exactly thrilled with the Party Down casting news. On the other hand, anything that puts more Rachelle Lefevre on our TVs is always okay by me.

Mad Men continues to toil in relative obscurity, but those few fans it has are very loyal, and they should be happy to learn that AMC has ordered up another season of the show.
HBO has ordered a pilot from Mike White and Laura Dern called Enlightened. A self destructive woman has a spiritual awakening and becomes determined to live an enlightened life, which creates havoc at home and work. It sounds nothing like The C Word, which sounded nothing like United States Of Tara.
FOX, on the other hand, is going a little more traditional. They have ordered 13 episodes of Jack and Dan. It sounds more interesting if I also tell you that the show was created by Matt Nix, creator and executive producer of Burn Notice. It’s a buddy cop show that Nix calls an action comedy.

Jane Lynch is busy with Glee, which means they need a new funnywoman over at Party Down. They’ve chosen Megan Mullally to fill the spot, as a middle-aged divorcee that has moved to Hollywood so her 13-year-old daughter can become an actress.
Lena Headey has been added to the cast of HBO’s Game Of Thrones. She’ll be playing Cersei Lannister, and that works for me. Bonus, when the time comes, and it will, she can lay the smack down on GRRM for missing deadlines.
Apparently MTV has ordered a pilot for a TV series based on Teen Wolf. WTF? They describe their “fresh take” as having “more of an American Werewolf In Paris feel to it.” I’ll buy that, assuming they mean that like American Werewolf In Paris it will be a subpar imitation of the original that is mostly ignored.
I don’t think this is a True Blood spoiler, but Mehcad Brooks (Eggs) has signed on to ABC’s mid-season drama The Deep End. The fact that nobody is even talking about The Deep End yet suggests he’ll have plenty of free time when True Blood starts filming again. But I am kind of rooting for the show, for the simple fact that it has Tina Majorino, Clancy Brown, and Rachelle Lefevre (Life On A Stick!) in it.
We’re still months and months away from the return of Chuck, but news is trickling in. It turns out that Smallville‘s Kristin Kreuk has signed on for multiple episodes as Hannah, a girl that gets in the way of the Chuck/Sarah for a couple episodes Chuck has feelings for.
Chuck, Gossip Girl, and developing a CBS comedy just aren’t enough work for Josh Schwartz, so now he is producing a pilot for ABC. This one is about a divorce lawyer that decides never to get married after witnessing what her clients go through. Phew. For a minute there I thought we might run out of new lawyer show ideas.
What will it mean for Grey’s Anatomy now that both Ellen Pompeo and Katherine Heigl will be taking time off this season? Pompeo will be on maternity leave, and Heigl is leaving to make a movie. It’s just the opening Dr. Langston and his new wardrobe have been looking for.
I’ve seen a lot of stories about Showtime’s new reality show, The Real L Word: Los Angeles, but most of them ignore one simple thing. They keep referring to the show as some kind of answer to Bravo’s Real Housewives series. And they keep ignoring the fact that it sounds a whole lot more like Logo’s Gimme Sugar. Props to shewired for making the connection.
Can you believe that One Tree Hill is entering its 7th season? You can read all about the premiere episode, and watch the first four minutes of it below.