[Televisionary]

Looks like faces of the 2007-2008 season might look a little more recognizable than you thought. With the addition of some serious A-level talent attachments lately, Hollywood has officially moved into pilot casting, bringing more than a few familiar faces to a pilot near you, including Peter Krause, Brooke Shields, Miranda Otto, Kim Raver, Kevin McKidd, Mark Valley, and Adam Baldwin. At ABC, Peter Krause ( Six Feet Under , The Lost Room ) has signed onto drama pilot Dirty Sexy Money as the lead, a lawyer who takes on his father's client list, including an extremely wealthy and morally flexible family called the Darlings. Project comes from the newly minted ABC Television Studio (formerly known as Touchstone). With the attachment of Krause (in his first network role since Sports Night ), this one's just gotten bumped up onto my priority read list. Miranda Otto ( Lord of the Rings ) has joined the cast of the pilot for ABC's Cashmere Mafia from Sex and the City creator Da

Oh. My. God. If anyone was worried that Lost may have, er, lost its edge during its 13-week imposed hiatus , I hope that last night's episode ("Not in Portland"), the first of sixteen all new episodes in a row, allayed any fears on that matter. Instead, fans were given a swift resolution to the story arc about Jack, Kate, and Sawyer's captivity on the Other's itty-bitty Alcatraz (well, for Kate and Sawyer, anyway), as well as a captivating and engrossing kick-off to the real third season of Lost . (Let's consider what those first six episodes really were: the appetizer.) Once again, Lost teases its audience with a fantastic, fooled-you opening sequence in which misunderstood Other Juliet sits crying on the beach before walking through an extremely creepy, decrepit, light-flickering hallway (passing Ethan Rom--nice touch!--on the way) as she goes to see her cancer-riddled sister. While I (wrongly) assumed that, while obviously a flashback, this was taking pla

Well, not quite. But those funny guys and girls at G4's Attack of the Show have brought us a rather humorous look at what might be going on inside the Lost writer's room with Carlton and Damon. My favorite bits: theories as to why Hurley is still so overweight, why Kate gets captured so easily over and over again, and the veto over a storyline for Claire. It might be nearly a week until another new episode of Lost , but sit back and enjoy. For those of you too lazy to push play, the answer to the Hurley question above? It's because "he's eating members of the tail section." And how could you not love a viral video that dredges up the Eko-and-Locke are the same person theory despite Eko's death ("Dream sequence!"), not to mention the comical assumptions about the island that these "writers" work under each week?

Looks like Michael and Walt may not be headed back to the island, after all. Former Lost cast member Harold Perrineau has signed on to star in drama pilot Demons for CBS about a former priest and psychologist who becomes an exorcist. Perrineau is set to play the role of Mitch, a former Jesuit priest and friend of the lead Gus, the aforementioned exorcist (who has yet to be cast). The drama is from CBS Paramount Television and Barbara Hall ( Joan of Arcadia ), who is no stranger to religious themes in her dramas. Sources say that Perrineau was unable to reach an agreement for a return engagement to Lost, though a possible return for Michael was being discussed. (I think it's a definite shame as it means that that dangling plot thread about Michael and Walt leaving the island--right before the sky turned purple--will likely never be dealt with ever again. Sigh.) In other CBS casting news, Grant Show ( Dirt ) and Jack Davenport ( Pirates of the Carribean ) have been cast as the mal

Ah, Veronica and Logan. Will you two crazy kids ever get together enough to have some semblance of a normal relationship? Answer: Not anytime soon, unless they want to become another so cute they're boring TV couple. I love these two starcrossed lovers together but when they're blissfully happy in one another's company, something just doesn't feel right. The latest issue between the divine Ms. Mars and Logan? His "we were on a break" encounter with the loathsome Madison Sinclair, whom you might remember has played a pretty crucial role in the lifes of our favorite kids from Neptune. Let's see, she roofied Veronica on the night of her party (leading to her rape by Cassidy and her first time with Duncan), wrote SLUT in lipstick on Veronica's windshield (which she discovered whilst staggering home), and is the actual daughter of Mac's parents (the two were switched at birth, meaning that the new Mercedes with the Gotzmine license plate should be our b

Say it isn't true. After all this time (not to mention brilliantly funny webisodes), could Nobody's Watching actually be dead? Sadly, it looks like that's the case, despite the Peacock ordering a live episode of Nobody's Watching a few weeks ago and setting the stage for a March launch of the live format, which could have led to a series pickup. According to an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 's Tuned In Journal , an NBC source confirmed Nobody's Watchin g creator and executive producer Bill Lawrence's suspicious that the network wouldn't in fact go forward with the series or the live show, despite the TCA announcement last month. Lawrence says that contracts for Paul Campbell and Taran Killam--who play the fictional Will and Derek--expire at the end of the month; Lawrence ( Scrubs ) also said that he would cease making all webisodes/viral videos for the Nobody's Watching site . "If I kept doing it and nothing happens," he told t

Last night brought us the conclusion of the first half of Season Three of Travel Channel's series Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations as Tony, the enfant terrible and poison pen of the chef set, took a look into the underbelly of Los Angeles . Is it just me or did this season just fly by? I'm not sure if it was the scarcity of the episode count (reduced to one less this season after the events in Beirut ) or the fact that some installments (i.e., last week's Russia episode) seemed to have nothing to do with food whatsoever and couldn't hold my interest. But let's put that issue firmly in the past and look at last night's episode of No Reservations , which showed me a whole side of Los Angeles that, while I knew existed, I had never actually seen close up. Tony's mission was to investigate a side of Los Angeles that had nothing to do with Hollywood glamour or the film/TV industry, but to showcase a Los Angeles that had been carved out by people who do the real