TV Bites: Kevin Bacon Turns Down a Prehistoric Date with Steven Spielberg
· For reasons unknown, Kevin Bacon has declined a lucrative offer to star in Steven Spielberg's mega-budget dinosaur series Terra Nova. The Fox series centers on a futuristic family who travels back 150 million years to the time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Friday Night Lights star Kyle Chandler has also turned down a leading role on the series. 24's Brannon Braga will act as showrunner while scribes Craig Silverstein and Kelly Marcel will join Spielberg and Peter Chernin in exec producer capacities. [The Wrap]
Lie to Me loses its showrunner, NBC preps to pick-up Jerry Bruckheimer, and more TV Bites after the jump.
· Showrunner Shawn Ryan has told Fox that he will not be returning to Lie to Me even if the network renews the crime drama for another season. [THR]
· Allegedly, NBC will give a series order to Jerry Bruckheimer's procedural drama Chase today. [Deadline]
· CBS is poised to renew its supernatural series Medium for another season. [Deadline]
· Mary Lynn Rajskub has scored her first post-24 role on USA Network's Royal Pains, as the stepdaughter of Newberg (Christine Ebersole). [EW]
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1. Dinosaurs roamed the Earth 150 years ago? You learn something new from typos everyday. Anyway, I didn't know Bacon was in a position to turn down any gig after Madoff made off with his money.
2. I took a close look at him when he made that statement and his left eyebrow twitched by half a millimeter, so I don't believe him.
3. So Chase has been caught?
4. And the creepy thing is, Patricia Arquette had a dream about it last night!
5. See Kevin, Mary Lynn knows to take the first job you can get your hands on.
Somebody fixed the typo and added the word "million." :p
loved him in wild things! http://bit.ly/b0dsi6