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Paula Patton (Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol) will be spending her summer on ABC as the star of the supernatural-esque thriller Somewhere Between, our sister site Deadline reports.

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Based on a Korean format, the 10-episode summer series — from writer Stephen Tolkin (Legend of the Seeker) — follows a news producer (Patton) who knows exactly when, where and how her daughter Serena will be murdered. The catch? She’s clueless about why and who the killer is, and nothing she does seems to change Serena’s unmovable fate.

Somewhere Between reunites Patton with ABC,...

Miguel Ferrer lost a battle with cancer today. He was 61.

Ferrer, who has starred on NCIS: Los Angeles as Owen Granger since 2012, was also set to reprise his role of FBI Agent Albert Rosenfeld on the upcoming Showtime revival of Twin Peaks.

Ferrer's first credited role was on an episode of Magnum, Pi in 1981 as Ensign Robert 'Bobby' Wickes, Usn.

From there, he had small parts not only in many films, but also more television shows, including CHiPs, Cagney and Lacey, Hill Street Blues Tj Hooker., Trapper John, Mc and Miami Vice.

It was in 1990 when Ferrer became Twin Peaks Agent Rosenfeld, and over the next two years took the lead in three other series, including Shannon's Deal, Broken Badges and On the Air.

Various television and film roles followed, but nothing has yet compared to Dr. Garrett Macy, a character he played opposite of Jill Hennessey on Crossing Jordan...

TV’s erstwhile Profiler is now hanging her hat at Longmire.

TVLine has confirmed that Ally Walker will be appearing on the Western crime thriller during Season 4, which will be released on Netflix sometime this fall.

Details on Walker’s role and episode count were not made available.

RelatedIt’s Official: Longmire Gets Season 4 Pickup from Netflix

Longmire was cancelled by the A&E cable network in late August, weeks after Season 3 closed, then was plucked from the ashes by Netflix in November.

Per a Netflix press release, the 10-episode Season 4 “picks up moments after Season 3’s exciting finale. Walt...

Update: Filming on Tomorrowland started today. Even though the movie stems from Disney's Tomorrowland, the movie is not being shot in Anaheim, CA or Orlando, Fl -- it's being shot in Vancouver, Canada. The official storyline from Disney is:

"Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomorrowland."

The film helmed by The Incredibles and Ratatouille director Brad Bird will star George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie, Raffey Cassidy and Thomas Robinson. Tomorrowland is scheduled to be released Dec. 12, 2014.

July 18, 2013 - Britt Robertson ("Under the Dome," "Avalon High") will star in Tomorrowland, which is about a girl with an unconventional understanding of technology who goes on a journey to reclaim her future.

Update: Britt Robertson ("Under the Dome," "Avalon High") will star in Tomorrowland, which is about a girl with an unconventional understanding of technology who goes on a journey to reclaim her future. Heady! Hugh Laurie (Arthur Christmas, 101 Dalmations), Raffey Cassidy (she played Young Snow White in Snow White and the Huntsman) and Thomas Robinson ("The Protector") also star alongside George Clooney.

Robertson is one of the stars of October comedy Delivery Man but we still love her from CW's "Life Unexpected."

Jan. 28, 2013 - Well, now we're getting closer to the mystery behind Disney's 1952. The Brad Bird-helmed alien movie starring George Clooney is getting a title switch to... Tomorrowland. Of course, Disneyland's Tomorrowland is the futuristic section of the theme park which houses Space Mountain, the Astro Orbiter and ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter. Leading us down one path just to reveal something unexpected? Well played, Damon Lidelof. We wouldn't expect anything less.

Kill Me Three Times

Simon Pegg has joined Kriv Stenders' thriller "Kill Me Three Times" for Hopscotch & eOne. Shooting begins mid-September in Western Australia.

The story is set in a sun-drenched Australian town where a young woman is the link between murder, blackmail and revenge. [Source: Screen Daily]

Joe's Mountain

Helen Hunt is in talks to join Chuck Rose's "Joe’s Mountain" for Breakthrough Entertainment. Henry Boger produces and shooting begins in Canada later this year.

The story follows a former ladies man (Kris Kristofferson) who goes on a road trip with a beautiful young woman and her dying son in search of a healing lake. [Source: Screen Daily]

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Set photos have confirmed that Garry Shandling looks to be reprising his Senator Stern character from "Iron Man 2" in the upcoming "Captain America" sequel.

Shandling shot his scenes as part of the production's three day shoot in Washington D.

Toronto – Hours before the TV premiere Monday night of Seed, the Canadian sperm donor sitcom he carries in the lead role, Adam Korson feels as much relief as opening-night jitters. “Here we are, this is us, the comedy is out there,” says Korson, who guest starred on 2 Broke Girls and The Protector in Los Angeles before returning to Canada to play a romantic rogue ill-prepared for fatherhood in the City comedy. Korson and fellow Canadian jokers have good reason to get suddenly serious. Canadian comedy has a powerful brand, with homegrown talent like Jim Carrey,

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Exclusive: Dan McDermott and Lorenzo di Bonaventura’s Di Bonaventura Television has sold another drama project. Patron Saints, which will be written by Jeffrey Bell (Spartacus), is described as a mystery thriller about a covert group who help people in lost, desperate and impossible circumstances. Bell, McDermott and di Bonaventura are executive producing for ABC Studios where di Bonaventura TV is based. This marks the third major sale for CAA-repped di Bonaventura TV this season. The company landed a put pilot at NBC for a Cleopatra drama written by Michael Seitzman and has Founding Fathers set up at ABC with Rich D’Ovidio writing. Bell, repped by CAA and Cliff Gilbert-Lurie, began his TV career on The X-Files. He went on to serve as executive producer/showrunner on such series as Angel, Alias, Day Break and Harper’s Island. He also was co-creator and showrunner of the Lifetime series The Protector,...

Exclusive: Miguel Ferrer is joining the cast of CBS’ NCIS: La in a recurring role. He will play NCIS Assistant Director Allan Granger, a high-ranking federal agency supervisor. Rocky Carroll has played NCIS Director Leon Vance on both NCIS and spinoff NCIS: La. Ferrer has been keeping very busy this year. The Crossing Jordan alum, repped by Innovative and manager Leslie Allan-Rice, was a regular on Lifetime’s drama The Protector. He is currently recurring on ABC’s Desperate Housewives and will segue into the gig on NCIS: La.

Lifetime has decided to cancel their Sunday night drama, The Protector, after one season on the air. The decision doesn't come as a surprise since the writing has been on the wall for awhile. While the Ally Walker series has some devoted fans, the ratings just weren't high enough for a second season.

The Protector follows Gloria Sheppard (Walker), a single mother and detective in the Lapd Robbery-Homicide Division. A recent divorcee and single mother, Gloria has to perform her duties as a homicide detective while taking care of her young sons, Nick (Sage Ryan) and Leo (Thomas Robinson). They all move in with her brother, Davey Sheppard (Chris Payne Gilbert), and he helps her raise the boys. At work, Gloria works on some of Los Angeles' most high profile crimes with her partner, Detective Michelle Dulcett (Tisha Campbell-Martin). They work alongside officer Ramon "Romeo" Rush (Terrell Tilford),...

Start your weekend with a buffet of bite-sized TV news:

- Anderson Cooper will try to restrain himself from a giggling fit next week when he interviews actor Gerard Depardieu on his new daytime show "Anderson." The interview is scheduled to air Tuesday (Sept. 13); we're curious to see how Depardieu reacts as well. [EW]

- Pam (Jenna Fischer) is getting a buddy on "The Office." The show has cast Lindsey Broad ("'Til Death") as a character named Kathy, a friend of Pam's from outside the Dunder Mifflin-verse. She'll appear in one episode this fall and has the potential to become a recurring character. [TVLine]

- Reba McEntire could be headed back to television with a comedy pilot set up at ABC. She'll star in and executive produce a project called "Malibu Country," about a long-married woman who divorces her cheating, spendthrift musician husband and moves the family to their sole reamining asset,...

New photos from Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, set photos of Ben Affleck and Alan Arkin in 70's outfits shooting Argo, and props for Rob Zombie's Lords of Salem.

Posters for Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, One for the Money, The Rum Diary, Goon, Finding Joe, Margin Call, The Sitter, Machine Gun Preacher, In Time, A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

Duncan Jones explains his methodology behind all the time jumping in "Source Code" via a doodle sketch he has tweeted.

"Ben & Jerry's ice cream is introducing the new flavour "Schweddy Balls", named after the famed Alec Baldwin NPR-spoofing "Saturday Night Live" skit. The flavour is "vanilla ice cream with a hint of rum and is loaded with fudge covered rum balls and milk chocolate malt balls"…" (full details)

"A June 7th 2013 release has been scheduled for M. Night Shyamalan‘s “One Thousand A.E.” starring Will and Jaden Smith.

Though it premiered to a decent 1.9 million viewers in its first-season premiere back in June, Lifetime Ally Walker drama "The Protector" subsequently slid in the Nielsen ratings - to the tune of less than 1 million viewers in its most recent episode (in a new Monday time slot). The fledgling series (which we gave a less-than-favorable review to) has now been cancelled by the female-skewing network, though they have pledged to air the remaining few first-season episodes before pulling the plug later this month. The drama, which focuses on a female Lapd detective (Walker) balancing work and life as a single mother, was...

Sad news for the (very) few folks who tuned into Lifetime’s The Protector this summer: The cabler has decided not to order a second season.

The Protector, which starred Sons of Anarchy‘s Ally Walker as a single mom juggling her personal life and her career as a Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective, debuted to soft numbers back in June — particularly given its strong Army Wives lead-in – and failed to garner an audience to call its own.

Tisha Campbell-Martin (Martin) and Miguel Ferrer (Crossing Jordan) co-starred on the cop drama.

Our sister site Deadline first reported the cancellation news.

Exclusive: Lifetime will not be ordering a second season of The Protector, the freshman drama starring Ally Walker as single mother Gloria Shepherd, who juggles her demanding personal and professional lives raising two children while working as a  Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective. The Protector got off to a soft start in June, drawing 1.9 million viewers for its premiere and holding onto 50% of its Army Wives lead-in. It never picked up steam. The Protector was one of two new drama series Lifetime launched this summer. The second, Against the Wall, is still airing its freshman season.

Arye Gross has signed up for a guest role in the fourth season of Fringe. The Castle star will appear in the fifth episode of the new run, according to TV Guide. Gross will play a middle-aged scientist who crosses paths with Olivia (Anna Torv) and Walter (John Noble) during the course of their latest investigation. The actor has previously featured in episodes of The Mentalist, Leverage and CSI: NY. He will also play a guest role in new Lifetime crime drama The Protector. Other stars confirmed to appear in the new season (more)...

Teri Hatcher’s Susan is going back to art school in Desperate Housewives’ eighth and final season, and may have bitten off more than she can chew. According to TVLine, Susan’s teacher, Andre Zeller, is a well known but “temperamental contemporary artist,” which is the obnoxious way of saying he’s a giant a-hole. He’s a very demanding teacher, you know the type; nothing you ever do will live up to their expectations because you will never be as good as they are. Oh and heaven help you if you actually are better. I had a gym teacher who was once beaten in a push up contest by one of the students. He got so mad when he lost that he made us all do laps around the gym.

The actor they have playing this hard ass teacher is Miguel Ferrer. Andre will be a recurring character while Susan attends the local college,...

Miguel Ferrer has signed up to appear in Desperate Housewives. The actor has taken on the recurring role of Andre Zeller, TV Line reports. Andre will make his entrance when Susan (Teri Hatcher) decides to return to art school. Andre, who is a respected but temperamental artist, becomes Susan's teacher but they do not get along. A source explained: "He clashes with Susan when she goes back to art school." Ferrer is currently working on the Lifetime drama The Protector and has previously had roles in shows such as Bionic (more)...

Sink your teeth into several bites of TV news, including morsels from "90210," "The Simpsons" and more.

NBC's midseason drama "The Firm" has recruited Tricia Helfer ("Battlestar Galactica") for a recurring part. She'll be playing a character named Alex Clark, a senior partner in the law firm that hires Mitch McDeere (Josh Lucas) after he's been in witness protection for the better part of a decade. [@trutriciahelfer/TVLine]

"Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston will lend his voice to an episode of "The Simpsons" in the coming season. He'll play a Hollywood spy named Stradivarius Cain (awesome) who helps Homer -- who's suffered a head injury and is hallucinating the character -- become irresistible to Marge. [EW]

The final season of "Desperate Housewives" has added a pair of recurring guest stars: Andrea Parker ("Less Than Perfect," "The Pretender") will play Tom's (Doug Savant) new girlfriend (Jessica Hecht had initially been in talks for the role), and Miguel Ferrer ("The Protector,...

Andrea Parker (Less Than Perfect) and Miguel Ferrer have been cast in recurring roles on the final season of ABC's Desperate Housewives. Parker will play Jane, a love interest for newly separated Tom Scavo (Doug Savant). Jessica Hecht had been in final negotiations for the role, but I hear the deal unexpectedly fell through at the last minute. Apa-repped Parker, who starts on Tuesday, most recently shot a recurring role in the USA pilot Common Law. Crossing Jordan veteran Ferrer will play Andre Zeller, a renowned and temperamental contemporary artist who is teaching a course at the local college where one of his students is part-time illustrator Susan (Teri Hatcher). Ferrer currently stars in the Lifetime procedural The Protector.

First, Desperate Housewives cast a love interest for Tom.

Now, the series has tracked down a new nemesis for Susan.

Miguel Ferrer, a regular on Crossing Jordan and featured these days on Lifetime's The Protector, will appear on the final season of this ABC hit as Andre Zeller, a contemporary artist/local college teaser, who does not get along with a certain student.

“He clashes with Susan when she goes back to art school,” an insider tells TV Line.

No word yet on when Ferrer debuts, but Desperate Housewives is back on September 25.

Renowned TV badass Miguel Ferrer is taking his special brand of intensity to Wisteria Lane.

The Crossing Jordan vet (who’s currently starring in the Lifetime procedural The Protector) is joining the final season of Desperate Housewives in the recurring role of Andre Zeller, a renowned and temperamental contemporary artist who is teaching a course at the local college.

Desperate Housewives Scoop: How Will It End?!

Mr. Zeller is very demanding of his students, one of whom is part-time illustrator Susan (Teri Hatcher). “He clashes with Susan when she goes back to art school,” reveals a Housewives insider of Ferrer’s character.

In our final part of our roundup of this summer’s television scores, we’ll take a look at the shows on TNT, Syfy, HBO and Lifetime. Also check out Part 1 and Part 2 of the series for the composers on all the other major network and cable shows of the summer.

TNT:

The most successful new show of the summer on TNT is the sci-fi series Falling Skies. The project starring Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Drew Roy, Sarah Carter and Maxim Knight is produced by Steven Spielberg and centers on an alien invasion of Earth and the resistance formed by the survivor. Also producing are Graham Yost (Justified) and Robert Rodat (writer of Saving Private Ryan). Noah Sorota is scoring the show. Check out our announcement from earlier this year here and visit Tracksounds for an audio interview with the composer. The two-hour season finale is airing tonight on TNT.

Vivica Fox and Jeffrey Nordling are joining Lifetime’s The Protector in key roles, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Fox, who guest starred on the network’s Drop Dead Diva last year, will play Captain Lisa Novak, the ex-wife of Miguel Ferrer’s Lieutenant Felix Valdez. Her introduction in Episode 12 stirs things up at the precinct for Ally Walker’s single mom/homicide detective Gloria and the rest of the team.

But there’s some joy on the horizon for Gloria: Nordling is set to recur as a love interest for the character.

Nordling most recently appeared on In Plain Sight and Body of Proof,...

Gabriel Mann is the composer of the upcoming CW drama Ringer. The show stars Sarah Michelle Gellar (in her first TV show since Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as a woman on the run, who assumes her twin sister’s identity, only to discover that her sister’s life is just as complicated and dangerous as the one she’s trying to escape. Nestor Carbonell (Lost), Ioann Gruffudd (Fantastic Four), Kristoffer Polaha (Mad Men) and Tara Summers (Boston Legal) are co-starring. Pam Veasey (CSI: NY), Peter Traugott (Samantha Who?) and Richard Shephard (The Matador, The Hunting Party) are executive producing the drama. Shephard also directed the project’s pilot. The CW has scheduled the show to premiere on September 13. Ringer will be airing every Tuesday night. Check out an extended trailer for the series below and visit the CW’s official Ringer website for more information about the show.

Mann who...

Patty Duke has signed up for a recurring role in new Lifetime crime drama The Protector. The Touched by an Angel star will play the mother of homicide detective Gloria Sheppard (Ally Walker), according to TV Line. The character will make her first appearance in the season's seventh episode, expected to air in late July. Duke first rose to fame as a child star, winning an Academy Award aged 15 for her performance in 1962 film The Miracle Worker. She subsequently starred in (more)...

Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke is joining Lifetime’s rookie drama The Protector as the mother of Ally Walker’s titular homicide detective, sources confirm to TVLine exclusively.

Duke will kick off her recurring role in this season’s seventh episode.

The Protector got off to a slow start in the ratings on Sunday, drawing a measly 1.9 million viewers.

Were you one of them?...

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It's hard being a working mom, especially when you're both a single mom and a police detective, as we discovered on the Series Premiere of 'The Protector' (Sun., 10Pm Et on Life).

Gloria Sheppard (Ally Walker) is a divorced L.A. Homicide Detective who, with her two kids, has recently moved in with her brother. Gloria has a lot on her plate right now, and between juggling the demands of motherhood with solving serious crimes and catching the bad guys, she's a little busy.

However, Gloria's neighbors think she's got time to investigate a local crime spree, so they send over Katie Silvers to ask for help. As Gloria puts out the trash, a worried Katie reveals that "there have been several thefts in the neighborhood ... and some of us on the block thought you might be able to help."

What's been stolen?...

Tisha Campbell-Martin knows that casual TV watchers remember her from her many roles on half-hour comedies — perhaps, most notably, her role as the wife of Damon Wayans on My Wife and Kids, a character she played for five years.

But tonight, Campbell-Martin joins Ally Walker (Sons of Anarchy) in The Protector, a new Lifetime series that follows a detective team.

Entertainment Weekly: What can you tell me about the The Protector?

Tisha Campbell-martin: For one, Ally Walker is amazing to work with. She’s been doing Sons of Anarchy and Profiler but now she’s back with this. For me,...

Skid Row featured in Emmy-nominated Bold And The Beautiful

It was a rare intersection of the extremes of glitz and grit in this sprawling city — both the nation's entertainment Mecca and its homeless capital, and quite a departure in both style and substance for the 24-year-old CBS melodrama.

"We're what you could call a camp romance novel," said actress Susan Flannery, whose character experiences an epiphany in the episodes. "We don't do big social issues."

The episodes have earned nine Daytime Emmy nominations, including writing, directing, acting and outstanding drama series. The award ceremony will be held June 19 in Las Vegas.

Two of the episodes, which resemble documentaries filmed at a Skid Row park and a shelter, are a particular measure of pride for the cast, crew and executive producer-head writer Bradley Bell.

"It was unlike anything we'd done in 24 years," Bell said. "We were all transformed by this. We...

After two and a half seasons of playing ruthless Atf Agent June Stahl on Sons of Anarchy, Ally Walker says she was ready to do something a little lighter. Enter the new Lifetime series, The Protector.

Summer TV Preview: Check out the must-see new shows

"I'm not a sociopath," Walker jokes with TVGuide.com of her latest character, homicide detective Gloria Sheppard. "That's always a plus."

Homicidal tendencies excluded, this role does feel a bit familiar for Walker, who also starred for three seasons as an FBI consultant on NBC's crime drama Profiler. "I just have that cop gene going on," Walker says with a laugh...

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After two and a half seasons of playing ruthless Atf Agent June Stahl on Sons of Anarchy, Ally Walker says she was ready to do something a little lighter. Enter the new Lifetime series, The Protector.

Summer TV Preview: Check out the must-see new shows

"I'm not a sociopath," Walker jokes with TVGuide.com of her latest character, homicide detective Gloria Sheppard. "That's always a plus."

Homicidal tendencies excluded, this role does feel a bit familiar for Walker, who also starred for three seasons as an FBI consultant on NBC's crime drama Profiler. "I just have that cop gene going on," Walker says with a laugh...

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Tisha Campbell-Martin is a veteran of sitcoms like 'Martin' and 'My Wife and Kids,' but she's happy to be getting back to her acting roots in drama on the new Lifetime show 'The Protector.' She spoke about the chemistry between herself and star Ally Walker Friday on 'Access Hollywood Live' (weekdays, syndicated on NBC). Walker plays a single mother and Lapd detective, and Campbell-Martin plays her partner.

Campbell-Martin acknowledged that while audiences might think of her as a comic actress, she got her start in more serious roles. "That is what I started out doing, was a lot of drama and musical theatre," she said, "So this is going back to my roots. But you know I'm going to slip some comedy in there."

As far as the chemistry goes, Kit Hoover called 'The Protector' a "bromance for women." Billy Bush...

Coming to your screen this week: Eight premieres, three finales, a trio of award shows, and a Bones encore that changed the game (before the game truly got changed). As but a supplement to the awesome features and original reporting TVLine has coming your way, here are 34 programs to keep on your radar.

Monday, June 6

8 pm MasterChef (Fox) | Season 2 premiere: One hundred amateur cooks hit L.A. with the dream of becoming chefs. I type this as I prepare a banana with peanut butter for dinner.

8 pm My Yard Goes Disney (Hgtv) | Series premiere: Landscapers give back yards elaborate Disney themes.

Lifetime announced today that is has ordered Against the Wall and Exit 19, two procedurals that’ll star Miguel Ferrer, Treat Williams and Kathy Baker. Against the Wall follows a Chicago police detective Abby Kowalski (Rachael Carpani) who causes a rift when she joins the department’s Internal Affairs division. Williams and Baker star as Abby’s parents.

Exit 19 centers on a divorced mom (Ally Walker), who juggles her personal and professional life as a Lapd homicide detective while raising two boys. The drama co-stars Ferrer and Tisha Campbell-Martin.

Both dramas received 13-episode orders and should launch later this year.