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WEEK IN SCI-FI This week on Girls Kick Ass: Shiri Appleby: the new Buffy? | Kirsten Dunst: volleying for privacy Angela Bassett guests on Alias Film actress Angela Bassett told Sci Fi Wire that she will make a rare TV appearance as a guest star in at least two episodes of Alias' fourth season, playing a superior to Sydney Bristow. "I got a call from J.J. Abrams," Bassett said in an interview while promoting her latest movie, Mr. 3000. "They were just very excited about the possibility of me coming aboard and doing a couple of guest appearances, doing an arc as a character who's a CIA field supervisor." Bassett added, "She's a big muckety-muck at the CIA and is Sydney's new boss. And you don't know if I'm giving her a hard time or if I'm on her side or what, because there's always that secret-agent, double-back, secret-spy, double-agent thing going on. I'd seen the show a few times. So I was familiar with the characters, and I was a big fan of the actors. I'd worked with Carl Lumbly and Victor Garber on How Stella Got Her Groove Back and I think Jennifer is quite extraordinary." Bassett said that she has already completed one episode and will return soon for another. She sounded optimistic that she won't meet the fate of so many other guest stars and end up either taking a bullet or falling from a building. "I hope not!" Bassett said, laughing. "In the first episode I'm a very competant person. She jabs at me, and I come back at her. I guess I could always take a bullet. You don't know." Abrams develops ABC sitcom for Oteri As if J.J. Abrams wasn't busy enough, what with the fourth season of Alias starting next January and new drama Lost launching next month, he's also teaming up with Saturday Night Live's Cheri Oteri to develop a comedy project for ABC and Touchstone Television. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the project will be based on an idea that Abrams dreamed up for Oteri, who has a holding deal with ABC specifically fort he Abrams project. The two are said to have hit it off instantly after their first informal meeting to discuss the prospect of developing a project together for Touchstone, where Abrams' Bad Robot Television banner is based. Sources say that the pair have also reached out to veteran comedy writer-producer Carol Leifer (Seinfeld) about collaborating on the project as well. Boreanaz in heist movie David Boreanaz and Henry Thomas, who played Elliott in E.T., are to star in a heist movie titled The Hard Easy. Their characters ends up going head-to-head when they plan to rob the same jewellery store on the same day. Boreanaz plays a city trader who needs some extra money to cover his losses, while Thomas plays a man who is in desperate need to pay off his gambling debts. Seth Green back in Greg The Bunny Short-lived Fox sitcom Greg The Bunny is returning to cable channel IFC for a half-hour special that may develop into a series. Former co-stars Seth Green and Sarah Silverman will also star. "Greg the Bunny was this tiny thing on IFC that became this huge series on Fox," said Alison Palmer Bourke, VP development and production of original specials and series at IFC. "We always kept up our relationship with the creators, so when the opportunity presented itself, we though, 'Why not?'" Greg co-creators Sean Baker, Spencer Chinoy and Dan Milano introduced the character on a New York public access show in 1999. The Fox series ran for seven episodes in 2002 before being cancelled. back to the top |
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