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Buzz News Roundup, 8/11

BuzzSugar — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:30:51 -0700

The Office has been given the key post-Super Bowl time slot and will air a one-hour episode following the game, Entertainment Weekly reports.
According to ComingSoon, Steve Buscemi and Romany Malco will star together in Saint John of Las Vegas, a loose adaptation of Dante's Inferno.
Tori Spelling has no deal to appear on 90210 and her desired salary may be the sticking point, E! reports.
Sara Gilbert is joining the cast of The Big Bang Theory after a successful guest-starring gig, Zap2it reports.
Dennis Hopper will get his own exhibit in France where, apparently, he is highly revered, writes Variety.
Clarke Peters and Wendell Pierce - aka Freamon and Bunk from The Wire - are joining Treme, David Simon's new HBO pilot about New Orleans, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
Variety has the news that director Chris Columbus is readying a film about Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential run.
24 producer Carlos Coto and Brett Ratner are working on an action-comedy for Fox titled Wild Boys, which will follow "ex-soldiers turned suburban dads," ComingSoon reports.
Matthew Bomer - aka Bryce Larkin from Chuck and Jay from Traveler - has been cast in the lead of a USA series called White Collar, writes The Hollywood Reporter.

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Buzz News Roundup, 9/5

BuzzSugar — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:29:46 -0700

Billboard warns us that we won't be able to escape the Barry Manilow this fall and winter, especially as he gets ready to release his jazzy holiday album.
Variety has news about the Al Pacino-Robert DeNiro project Righteous Kill adding four more cast members, including John Leguizamo and Dan Futterman.
Three of NBC's new fall pilots are now available for rent at Blockbuster, says the Futon Critic.
Kelly Clarkson will, in fact, be resuming her tour, starting with a show at New York's Beacon Theater on October 14, the AP reports. Meanwhile, this year's "American Idol" tour isn't drawing crowds the way it was expected to, USA Today reports.
ComingSoon reports that Ashley Judd will star in the drama Helen as a mother suffering from depression.
"General Hospital" star Annie Wersching is joining the cast of "24," Zap2it reports.
According to Billboard, Aerosmith will be returning to the recording studio in November.
It's a "Roseanne" reunion for Sara Gilbert and her TV husband Johnny Galecki now that Gilbert has joined Galecki's CBS comedy "The Big Bang Theory," states Hollywood Reporter. Meanwhile, Jerry O'Connell's real-life wife, Rebecca Romijn, will guest-star on his new show, "Carpoolers," says the Futon Critic.
Yet more Scarlett Johansson casting news, according to ComingSoon, this time she's in a diamond heist movie titled Brilliance.
Atlas Shrugged, starring Angelina Jolie, finally has a director: Vadim Perelman, reports Variety.

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Recast "Roseanne" and Win a Prize!

BuzzSugar — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:32:09 -0700

Every Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt!

For this week's challenge, let's take a look at "Roseanne," a TV family that got much closer than most to portraying real life. If you could recast this lovable, working class family with new actors, who would you choose to play snarky Roseanne and her crew of kids? What about Roseanne's husband Dan and her sister Jackie?

Leave your entry in the comment section below, and I'll pick one winner to feature Tuesday, August 7, complete with a "new" cast photo. To see a list of characters to recast and a photo of the BuzzSugar t-shirt, read more

Characters to recast:
Roseanne (Roseanne Barr)
Dan (John Goodman)
D.J. (Michael Fishman)
Darlene (Sara Gilbert)
Becky (Alicia Goranson/Sarah Chalke)
Jackie (Laurie Metcalf)

The BuzzSugar t-shirt

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