Gabriel Mann joins 'Mysteries of Laura'

Former Revenge star, Gabriel Mann joins the cast of Mysteries of Laura.

There are no complete detail of who he will be playing but from indications, looks like he'll be pairing up with Laura (Debra Messing), Jake (Josh Lucas) and Meredith (Janina Gavankar).

When "Laura" was renewed, it was reported that season two will be focusing more on Laura's life on the force than jiggling work and her crazy family.
 
"The Mysteries of Laura" premieres Wednesday, September 23rd at 8/7c on NBC.

Heroes: Reborn TCA press tour

On Thuesday, the cast and producers of Heroes: Reborn got to answer questions and give some details of the new season at the TCA press tour. Here's some pin-points:

•  The premiere will be a two-hour event on Thursday, Sept. 24th at 8/7c
• Creator Tim Kring, talked about how certain actors were not available and replied that when others return it happens simply when  ideas come up in the writers room.
• Kring says that he wanted to make something that was easy for brand new viewer to watch for the first time and had always thought that this show could repopulate.
• Kring's vision for the series was that he 'was always most interested in the origin stories."
• Sadly but Kring has confirmed that Claire Bennet died a year before the events of Heroes Reborn.
• King says that he feels that Heroes was hurt when it was hurt by the longer seasons and promises that there will be a beginning, middle and an end with the 13 episodes.
• There's a potential for more seasons.
• Kring is confident that they can find other stories to tell with new and recurring characters.
• Zachary Levi says "We've been given a really cool world to play characters that are ambiguous."
• Kring says that they're treating this season like it's the 10th season as in like other seasons happened in-between the time the show left the air.
• Masi Oka and Sendhil Ramamurthy will both appear in "a couple of episodes" of the season and that they'll help advance the story.
• Hiro can time travel and Kring says coyly hat will come in handy.
• Jack Coleman is the only original Heroes character who appears in every episode of Heroes Reborn.

Blindspot at TCA press tour

On Thursday, NBC buzzed new drama series "Blindspot" answered questions and discuss about the upcoming new series at the TCA press tour. Here are some pin-point:

• The series premiere is Monday, September 21 at 10/9c.
• Jamie Alexander says she has a fighting background and was a wrestler growing up that help her with her character's combat skills.
• It took 7.5 hours to apply the full-body tattoos, that lasted for several days.
• Alexander has nine tattoos of her own.
• Executive Producer Martin Gero says that the series is "a character drama first and foremost" and adds that "It's a procedural for people who don't like procedurals."
• Gero admits that there are similarities between Blindspot and Blacklist "but that's not a bad thing."
• Gero says that Jamie Alexander's character has many, many years worth of stories tattooed on her body. Adding that "She had 9 to 10 years of stories on her body. Her legs are for the spin-off."
• At the end of every episode, they're going to throw a hook in for the next episode.
• "Each episode is a puzzle piece."
• Executive Prodcers Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter noted that they want to deliver satisfying stories each week while it still building the mythology.
• There will be answers to why her memory was wiped.
• Berlanti says that the audience will be satisfied at the end of the ride.
• The night that they filmed the pilot, when Alexander crawls naked out of the bag, the temperature was six degrees in Time Square and that she was really shaking. Plus there was not a single visual effect in that opening sequence, they closed down Time Square.
• "She's got a secret. That's all I'm gonna say," said Marlanne Jean-Baptiste on her character.
• Berlanti says that on working on several shows, he works with people who have a clear vision and that Martin has such a clear vision for Blindspot and that his involvement is day-to-day.
• And mentions that there are "secret tattoos" that haven't been revealed yet.

Chicago Med TCA press tour

On Thursday, NBC's new drama series "Chicago Med" answered questions and discuss about the new spinoff series. Here are some pin-points.

• The premiere date has been moved back a week to Tuesday, Nov. 17th at 9/8c. That filming the new season will start in mid-September.
• Dick Wolf says that they aim for a "Ripped from the Headlines" storyline each week that'll get you one piece of medical information that you don't know. Other medical stories besides Ebola.
• As for crossovers, Wolf says that they "are incredible ratings engines for us." But can't be commonplace. 
• Colin Donnell was questioned if he's worried about being killed off after dying in the last two shows he was in. He replied with a no. 
• Wolfs mentions the support of the city and the people have been incredible, "Now these are the hometown shows." Also saying that people are polite in Chicago and don't bother the actors like they would in other cities. 
• Andrew Dettmann, the showrunner for Chicago Med, says that the series will be a fast-paced show but they're also taking cases and following them through so you won't know what the diagnosis is right away.
• There will be a three crossovers: two will be between Chicago Fire, Chicago Med and Chicago PD and the third one will be the jumbo four episode crossover between Fire, Med, PD and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

NBC's TCA Press Tour

On Thursday, NBC presented their TCA press tour. Here's some key announcements from the Executive Panel:

• Heroes Reborn will air a 2 hour premiere event on September 24th from 8pm to 10pm and that there will be no repeats airing during the series 13 episode run.
• That moves The Blacklist season premiere a week back to October 1st. 
• NBC has given a straight to series order to Mike Schur project called "A Good Place." Which it centers on a woman wrestling with what it means to be good. 
• NBC locked on to another Tina Fey/Robert Carlock untitled comedy project that will be written by Emmy Award winner Tracey Wigfield (30 Rock).
• Celebrity Apprentice will be back for the 2016-2017 season with a new host that Robert Greenblatt said that they're looking for a host that has a big personality and "make some noise." And also that it's very unlikely that Donald Trump will ever comeback to the show as host.
• NBC has acquired broadcasting rights to "How the Grinch Stole Christmas this holiday season.
• Jimmy Fallon is staying for six more years as the host of The Tonight Show. 
• Rhianna will be a key adviser on this upcoming season of The Voice.

Laurie Holden Leaves Chicago Med

It seems that one doc has check out of Chicago Med early.

Laurie Holden, who's played ER surgeon Dr. Hannahn Tramble in last April's backdoor pilot in Chcago Fire, has parted ways with NBC's upcoming Fire spin-off.

"It was LAurie's decision to pto out of the series," said a spokesperson for the show to TVLine. "We are sorry to see her go. We are currently casting addtional new roles which we hope to have confirmed very soon."

Holden, who starred in The Walking Dead and Dumb and Dumber To, also issues the following statement:

"I am so grateful to Dick Wolf, my fellow cast memebers, NBC and the entire Chicago Med team for their understanding. Sometimes we must make tough choices and, for family reasons, not doing Chicago Med is one of those for me at this time. I know the show is going to be a huge success and I'll be watching."

Chicago Med's current stars are S. Epatha Merkerson (Law & Order), Yaya DaCosta (Ugly Betty), Nick Gehlfuss (Shameless), Oliver Platt (Fargo & The Big C), Colin Donnell (Arrow) and Brian Tee (Grimm).

You can catch the premiere of Chicago Med Tuesday, Nov. 10th at 9/8c on NBC.

To Freak or Not To Freak: Playing House "Cashmere Burka"

This week's episode Emma's mother writes a play but when the pressure is on thanks to Maggie's helpful and both Emma and Maggie have to left up her spirits.

Jane Kaczmearek guest stars as Emma's mother, Gwen, and she wrote a play and has Maggie reading it. Maggie thinking that its good and gets Gwen worked up to make the play happen.

Emma not really caring to do it, does it and plays the lead role. I will say that the funniest part is when everyone is rehearsing the play and Mark is the stage designer and Gwen tells him so many task to do to make the stage to what she wants.

Heck, I couldn't get the word "hairy oyster" out of my head.

When Maggie and Gwen have dinner, Gwen's "good friend" stops by and talks to her. Maggie mentions that Gwen wrote a play and that'll be perform. Gwen freaks out and takes things on her control from firing Emma and then firing Maggie.

After a talk, Maggie and Emma go to the play and find Gwen locked in the bathroom. After a one on one talk, Gwen is calm down and the play was performed in one setting.

The play seemed to be a hit and when Gwen's friend comes up, Gwen tells her that she appreciated that she had come and soon she leaves freaking out.

Also Emma bumps into Dan, who turns out to be a Rabbi, but their relationship grows. When they meet on premiere night, they had an awkward greeting.

I enjoyed this episode very much. I thought there was plenty of humor especially when Mark was freaking out and the outfits he was wearing was weird.

Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch "Playing House" Tuesday night at 10/9c on USA Network.