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Family Guy will have a Star Trek: TNG reunion next month (March 29).
The Next Generation crew, comprised of Patrick Stewart, Levar Burton, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, Wil Wheaton, Denise Crosby, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes, will lend their voices to the FOX show.

This reminds me a lot of Futurama‘s Where No Fan Has Gone Before albeit with a newer crew.

Meanwhile, we continue on our pilot news with The CW greenlighting the Melrose Place pilot, penned by Smallville‘s Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer and directed by Davis Guggenheim, who has previously directed episodes for, wait for it, 24, The Unit and Deadwood.
The first actor cast is Greek‘s Michael Rady.

Speaking of, no surprises there, but The CW renewed six of its shows, including 90210, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, Supernatural and Smallville.

ABC’s Ab Fab pilot also has some news, with Back To You‘s James Burrows set to direct the premiere episode (as well as NBC’s 100 Questions for Charlotte Payne‘s pilot), and The Unit‘s Zosia Mamet set to play Eddie’s teen daughter. Barbershop‘s Toni Trucks will also join the cast as Eddie’s assistant.

Lipstick Jungle‘s Lindsay Price joins Jaime Ray Newman on The Witches of Eastwick to play one of the three lead witches.

Numb3rs‘ Lou Diamond Phillips, Push‘s Ming-Na, Smallville‘s Elyse Levesque and Alaina Huffman will in the meantime star in Sci Fi’s Stargate Universe, slated to premiere in October.

Can you feel the rush?

UPDATE: I just learned that Pirates of the Caribbean‘s Gore Berbinski is set to direct a Universal live-action movie based on Hasbro’s Clue board game.
Oh please God, not again.

Oscar thoughts (2009)

“Duh” came to mind several times last night during the Oscars.
Can you honestly name one major surprise victory?

And although I loved Slumdog Millionaire, I still feel as if the movie is way over-rated.
Danny Boyle is also a great director but compared to the other nominees he didn’t deserve the award.
Still, I was happy that Simon Beaufoy did win best adapted screenplay.

Lots of lobying over Penelope Cruz too it seems.

On an other note, I didn’t know Arvin Clone had won an Oscar.
Am I that uncultivated or just that young?

I cringed when Zack Efron & Vanessa Hudgens sang with Beyoncé & Hugh Jackman.
Did we really need them?

Speaking of, Jackman rocked the night with his two main musical numbers.

Happy also to see Guillaume Canet (and of course Marion Cotillard) in the house (and in the second row!).

Well, at least the evening was more fun than the the last Emmys.

Crème de la crème

A few new stuff announced in the last couple of days.

First up, some HBO stuff.
The cable net has renewed The United States of Tara for a second season.

Continuing on pilot season, Boardwalk Empire keeps on casting peeps, with the addition of Aleksa Palladino, Brotherhood‘s Paul Sparks, Pride and Glory‘s Shea Whigham and Anthony Laciura.
David Simon’s new HBO drama, Treme, has also another casting announcement, with Rob Brown joining the cast (in addition to The Wire‘s Clarke Peters).

Let’s not forget our usual “adaptations”, with this time ABC offering us the remake of a recent ITV show named No Heroics about the “normal lives” of lame superheroes. The pilot was co-wrote by Desperate Housewives‘ Jeff Greenstein and the original creator of the show, Drew Pearce.

Over at NBC, we have Community, written by The Sarah Silverman Program‘s Dan Harmon, about a loser joining community college just for kicks.

FX has also its fair share of greenlighting, with two new pilots.

First, Lights Out, centered around a former heavyweight boxing champion with pugilistic dementia (a disorder slowly leading to complete memory loss) struggling to support his family, including his wife, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon. The boxer is also forced to become a debt enforcer.
The pilot was co-written by The Bucket List‘s Justin Zackham and Phillip Noyce and the show described as more family-centered à la Sopranos than The Shield.
And, no, it’s not gonna be re-named The Boxer.

There’s also another pilot in town, a yet-unamed show based on Elmore Leonard’s Fire in the Hole and adapted to screen by Raines/Boomtown‘s creator, Graham Yost, about Raylan Givens’ life as a Kentucky U.S. Marshal with his ex-wife, dying father, and cases. The pilot will be shot by Sons of Anarchy/The Beast‘s Michael Dinner.

And last but far from least, two new major cast announcements regarding some FOX pilots:
Fringe‘s Mark Valley will be playing the male lead in Human Target.
Crossing Jordan‘s Kathryn Hahn will play Eddie in the Absolutely Fabulous remake next to Kristen Johnston’s Patsy.