• Mercedes Masohn
("Chuck" and "Three Rivers") will replace Saffron Burrows as the female
lead in the "Bones" spinoff "The Finder" as a Deputy US
Marshall.
• 65-year-old actress Goldie Hawn hasn't done a film in almost a decade, but she's making a comeback with the HBO half-hour comedy "The Viagra Diaries," which is based on Barbara Rose Brooker's
book. It centers on a woman who, after her husband has a "mid-life
crisis" at 65 and leaves her, struggles with being single for the first
time in 35 years.
• FX is getting
into the superhero genre, greenlighting "Powers," a new cop series
where the detectives hunt for superpowered criminals in a world where
that sort of thing is commonplace. Lucy Punch (Bad Teacher) and Jason
Patric (Lost Boys) are set to star.
• Post-"Rescue Me" Denis Leary
has signed on to develop and co-write a half-hour paramedics comedy for
the USA Network that will "chronicle the humorous antics and dramatic
conflicts of a team of paramedics."
•
Chris Vance ("Prison Break" and "Burn Notice") is set to star in
Cinemax's upcoming series "The Transporter," which will capitalize off
of Jason Statham's franchise and repurpose his debonair character
for the small screen.
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