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Dexter star David Zayas is replacing Timothy Busfield in an upcoming Law & Order: Special Victims Unit guest role. NBC pulled the episode from its schedule last month following Busfield's arrest on child sexual abuse charges in New Mexico. Busfield an Emmy-winner known for TV and film roles like Thirtysomething, First Kid, and The West Wing was released from jail but is awaiting trial. Zayas was recast in the part and re-shot Busfield's scenes.

The upcoming Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show revealed its full cast today, and it is a who's who of who wants to crossdress. Along with the previously announced Luke Evans as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once) will return to Broadway for the first time since starring in 2016's SpongeBob Squarepants: The Musical to play Janet. Her bland husband, Brad, will be played by Tony nominee Andrew Durand (Dead Outlaw).

The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, of all places, has the exclusive first look at Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Barry Keoghan, and Joseph Quinn in character as The Beatles in Sam Mendes' upcoming four-part biopic. Postcards featuring the actors as the Fab Four were hidden around LIPA, and students were encouraged to find them and tag the school's Instagram account. If you're wondering the connection, LIPA was co-founded by Paul McCartney.

"We are looking for passionate, driven entrepreneurs who are ready to take their business to the next level with an investment," Zemrak tells us. "There's no single mold with 'Shark Tank.' That's what's so great. What matters most is that you believe in your product, you know why it exists and you're ready to grow."

As it goes, her eventual co-star Hugh Jackman saw Hudson performing and chatting on "CBS Sunday Morning" in 2024, where the actress and Oscar nominee was promoting her soon-to-be-released solo album, "Glorious." Jackman, who was already on board to star as Mike Sardina in Craig Brewer's fact-based film, was so taken by Hudson's energy (and singing!) that he immediately texted Brewer that he had found their Claire.

The first thing longtime Star Trek fans will likely notice about the new series, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, is that the cast is big. Not only are we getting a new crew of cadets - which, by the second episode, includes six regular characters - but also a whole host of supporting cadets, as well as the teachers and Starfleet officers that populate the USS Athena and Starfleet on Earth. And none of that includes guest characters, most notably, Paul Giamatti's new villain, Nus Braka.

While 10 actors have been confirmed, most of the roles remain mysterious. We do know that Sophie Turner is playing Lara Croft and Sigourney Weaver is playing someone named Wallace. Weaver herself volunteered this information in a media interview, but Prime Video has not confirmed it. Wallace may be a new character created for the show. The Tomb Raider TV show is set to begin filming this month.

Tom Daley is at home ranting about the flabbergasted Kate Garraway. That means just one thing: the roundtable room is empty, and Claudia Winkleman is waiting for a new batch of players. As The Traitors arrives back on the BBC for season four today (1 January), a whole new group of strangers will be hoping to trick, lie and scheme their way to glory. Or, if they're Faithfuls, they'll just be praying they don't get murdered in their sleep.

The original Enterprise crew is nearly complete. When Strange New Worlds drops its final season in 2027, the classic crew will be complete. In a just-confirmed press release, Paramount+ has revealed that the characters of Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy and Hikaru Sulu, originated by DeForest Kelley and George Takei in Star Trek: The Original Series, will appear in the very last episode of Strange New Worlds Season 5.

And, thanks to some surprising casting, one comics-famous Supe villain, Brainiac, will be appropriately creepy as hell. Actor Lars Eidinger has been confirmed to be playing Brainiac in the 2027 Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow. But who is this actor? And will this casting finally make Brainiac cool?

Going into the woods can evoke scary thoughts of wild animals and creepy people, but not so for the magical forest displayed in SF Playhouse's stunning production of Into the Woods. Beautifully designed by Heather Kenyon, these woods feature lush trees and foliage with one tall tree rotating to become Rapunzel's tower. Bill English cleverly directs his impressive cast with just the right amount of sarcasm, humor and tender moments. His slightly over-the-top look at storybook characters gone awry

Oscar-nominated actor Sigourney Weaver has confirmed the reports that she will appear in the upcoming live-action Tomb Raider series on Prime Video. Speaking to Deadline, Weaver said she is "very excited" to join the cast and work with writer-producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge on the project. "The scripts are incredible and very funny, very charming, very witty, as we've come to expect from Ms. Waller-Bridge," she said. "I've always been a huge fan of hers. So I am delighted."

this is the first actual proper major Sondheim revival to be staged in this country since the great man's passing. And the main thing worth saying about 1986's Into the Woods is that it's the work of a genius at the peak of his powers: a clever send up of fairytales that pushes familiar stories into absurd, existential, eventually very moving territory. It's both playful and profound, mischievous and sincere, cleverly meta but also a ripping yarn.

On The Red Carpet caught up with Rodriguez on board the Disney Destiny cruise ship. Rodriguez reacted to the Season 2 news, "I'm so excited to see where these characters go. We left off on a huge cliffhanger at the end of season one, so I think myself and everybody who loved and watched the show are very anxious to see what happens next."

Scarlett Johansson might have escaped the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but she's been collecting an Infinity Gauntlet's worth of other franchises ever since. In addition to her recent starring role in Jurassic World Rebirth as well as an upcoming role in Mike Flanagan's The Exorcist, Johansson is now in final talks to join the cast of Matt Reeves' The Batman II opposite Robert Pattinson.

A single dad, played by Mark Ruffalo, is driving his 7- and 9-year-old children, Hal and Harper, home from school. It's been five years since his wife's suicide, and he's finally emerging from the fog of grief and trying to be a present father. "So, who fills up your bucket at school?" he reads awkwardly from a list of questions printed off the internet. "Well, I didn't play with a bucket today ..." an earnestly confused Hal responds. Harper rolls her eyes in silence.

I wouldn't say that anyone who is going to play Harry has to [call me], adding: I wrote to Dominic and I sent him a letter and he sent me a very sweet note back.

We finally got a sneak peak, albeit an unofficial one, of the upcoming Legend of Zelda movie. Over the weekend, footage of the film's production in New Zealand leaked on social media. It's a short clip, and nothing can be heard over the sound of the wind, but they hint that the princess' Sheikah bodyguard Impa will have a role to play in the live-action adaptation.