Kevin Bacon is rebooting the 1990 cult classic film, "Tremors," as a new TV series, according to Entertainment Weekly. He will also reprise his starring role as Valentine McKee and serve as an executive producer.
Universal Cable Productions and Blumhouse Productions are developing the revival series about giant killer worms killing people in a small, isolated Nevada town. Andrew Miller will write the script, which is being shopped around to various networks.
The 1990 movie spawned four direct-to-video sequels and the 13-episode TV show, "Tremors: The Series," which aired on SciFi Channel in 2003.
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HBO Sets Premiere Date for 'Sesame Street'
HBO will premiere the 46th season of "Sesame Street" on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016 at 9 a.m., its first season premiere not on PBS. The premium cable channel has made a few changes to the educational children's program including:
- Episodes will air for a "dynamic 30 minutes," down from one hour, to help kids focus their attention and engage with each story.
- Every segment of each episode will be tied to a preschool-relevant theme like "bedtime, boo-boos and animals."
- The theme song and show open will get a new "upbeat" update. The set will also receive an update and Elmo, Big Bird and friends are moving into new homes.
- Cookie Monster has a new segment called, "Smart Cookies," that will teach self-control and critical thinking skills.
- The neighborhood will also welcome a new character, Nina, who is a young, bilingual, Hispanic woman that works at the laundromat and bike store.
ABC Family Delays Premieres for "The Fosters" and "Recovery Road"
ABC Family has pushed back by a week the premiere date for "The Fosters" and "Recovery Road" to Monday, Jan. 25, starting at 8 p.m. The previously announced winter premiere dates for new and returning shows remain the same.
Netflix Releases First Trailer for "Degrassi: Next Class"
The Canadian teen soap opera finds new life on Netflix with its latest iteration, "Degrassi: Next Class." Watch the first trailer for the new series below:
Casting News:
GRANDFATHERED: Josh Peck will welcome his former "Drake & Josh" co-star Drake Bell in an upcoming episode of the freshman Fox comedy, according to ETOnline.
Bell will play Kirk, a flashy tech entrepreneur whom Gerald (Peck) and Vanessa (Christina Milian) are desperate to meet up with to pitch their new app. But once Gerald and Vanessa come face-to-face with the loaded entrepreneur, they're not sure he's the best man to do business with.
ARROW: Tom Amandes, a veteran of many Greg Berlanti productions, will guest star on the mega-producer's CW series, "Arrow," as The Calculator, according to TVLine.
Amandes will star in two episodes beginning in episode 12, "Unchained." The Calculator, aka Noah Kuttler, is a criminal mastermind and technical genius whom "uses his advanced skills in computer science and internet manipulation to blackmail Roy (Colton Haynes) out of retirement to do his bidding, which leads to an epic battle with Team Arrow."
QUANTICO: The midseason premiere of the ABC freshman drama will introduce three new characters. TVLine reported their names and descriptions:
- Lenny Platt will play Drew Perales, "a hot former NFL player who left the game to fight a class-action lawsuit against his former employers." He's also very confident and charming.
- Jay Armstrong Johnson is Will Olsen, "brilliant and brusque working class kid made good." He has a doctorate from Harvard and job experience at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, but "absolutely zero social skills and/or empathy."
- Li Jun Li joins as Iris Chang, "an enterprising Chinese national whose folks are rich and whose start-ups do very well (she sold two to Google while a student at the University of Southern California)."
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: The Kickstarter-funded revival series has cast Felicia Day ("Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog") as new character, Kinga, daughter of Dr. Clayton Forrester. Creator Joel Hodgson made the announcement on the Kickstarter campaign website.
