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TV Casting: Tracee Ellis Ross in ABC’s ‘Black-ish’; Tone Bell in NBC’s ‘Bad Judge’, Lucien Laviscount in CW’s ‘Supernatural’ Spinoff

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Tracee Ellis Ross attends Miu Miu Women’s Tales 7th Edition – “Spark & Light” Screening – Arrivals at Diamond Horseshoe on February 11, 2014 in New York City “Girlfriends” vet  Tracee Ellis Ross  is set to star opposite  Anthony Anderson  in his untitled ABC pilot (formerly “Black-ish”). The project from ABC Studios,  Laurence Fishburne’s  Cinema Gypsy and Principato Young centers on an upper-middle-class black man (Anderson) who struggles to raise his children with some sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old-school father, and his own assimilated, color-blind kids. Tone Bell Tone Bell  (“Whitney”) has been set as a regular in “Bad Judge,” NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot starring and executive produced by Kate Walsh. The project centers on a hard-living, sexually unapologetic woman (Walsh) who plays with the law, and whose life on the edge is constantly in balance as...

If Injustice Makes You Squeamish Then Look Away Now

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Hannibal Lecter is a cannibal. Unfortunately Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) and the rest of the FBI did not get this particular memo during the first season of NBC’s Hannibal, which concluded with poor Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) being framed for murder by Dr. Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) and locked up in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.  "If injustice makes you squeamish  then look away now." Laurence Fishburne in  Hannibal.    (Photo: Brooke Palmer/Courtesy of NBC) Hannibal fans can now finally start counting down the days until season two begins.  “I can’t get you out of my head. ” That’s what FBI profiler Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) tells people-eating psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) in the season-two premiere of  Hannibal.  If TV shows could exist like people, I would say the same thing to this NBC series while backing away slowly:  I can’t get you out of my head.  At whic...

LAURENCE FISHBURNE IN TALKS FOR ‘HANNIBAL’ TV SHOW

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The cast for NBC 's upcoming  Hannibal  television series looks to be shaping up: talks have picked up and Laurence Fishburne ( The Matrix ) is close to signing a deal to play the character of Jack Crawford.  Fishburne's character, would be that of Jack Crawford, "the agent-in-charge at the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI who is tasked with tracking down a certain flesh-eating serial killer." Since NBC is shooting for an original with this adaptation, it's hoped that this role will see the return of his Morpheus glasses.  How bad-ass would Jack Crawford be? Hannibal wouldn't mess with him. Bam, plot twist. Along with Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy , this looks like a nice cast is forming for the show getting underway. David Slade ( Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night ) is set to direct the pilot episode and 13 one hour episodes are already purchased. Bryan Fuller produces while director David Slade is set to helm this story. The project is descr...