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Former Person of Interest star Michael Emerson is returning to CBS as a lead opposite Katja Herbers and Mike Colter in the network’s drama pilot Evil, from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King and CBS TV Studios. Written and executive produced by the Kings and directed by Robert King, Evil is a series about…

Lost star Michael Emerson will star in the Italian TV adaptation of Umberto Eco's crime novel The Name of the Rose. Emerson, who is currently starring in the CW's superhero series Arrow and Amazon's Mozart In The Jungle, will play The Abbot, an ambiguous, greedy, oversensitive and irritable prince of the Abbey…

Person of Interest and Lost alum Michael Emerson has been cast in a recurring role on Season 4 of the Golden Globe-winning Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle. Emerson plays Morton Norton, an eccentric collector of classical music ephemera and curiosities who prefers the past to the present. He spends his days alone in…

Michael Emerson is heading to Starling City. During the Comic-Con presentation of the CW/DC series Arrow, it was announced that the Lost and Person of Interest alum is set to recur in the upcoming sixth season, which also will see the return of David Nykl, who plays Anatoly Knyazev, the friend/nemesis of Oliver Queen…

For the fifth year in a row the Person Of Interest team were at New York Comic Con for a discussion of the upcoming season. Included in the discussion was a teaser showcasing how The Machine’s image recognition system works or, in this case, kind of doesn’t work, instead swapping out members of the team for one…

What Moscow rejects, Manhattan embraces: Moisés Kaufman’s celebrated 1997 docuplay Gross Indecency: The Three Trials Of Oscar Wilde, recently canceled by the Kremlin during pre-production, will be presented in October by a star-driven cast as a fundraiser in New York. Emmy-winner Michael Emerson (Lost, Person Of Intere…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Emerson, best known for playing Ben Linus on Lost, has joined the cast of Woody Allen’s next film. Emerson will shoot while on hiatus from his new series Person Of Interest. He joins Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Bobby Cannavale and Bradley Cooper in the untitled picture that Allen will shoot in the…

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage. At today's TCA panel for Person of Interest, a new CBS crime thriller series from the producing team of J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Jonathan Nolan, David Semel and Greg Semel, star Taraji P. Henson said she took the role in the series because "you can't go wrong…

EXCLUSIVE: Lost alum Michael Emerson is set as a lead in Jonah Nolan’s CBS drama  pilot Person of Interest, which is being executive produced by Lost co-creator/exec producer J.J. Abrams. The project, from Warner Bros. TV and Abrams’ Bad Robot, is a crime drama centered on an ex-CIA agent, presumed dead, who teams up…

What do you know — the Lost castaways have found new primetime land. A fresh hourlong project starring Lost alums Michael Emerson and Terry O’Quinn and executive produced by Lost co-creator/exec producer JJ Abrams has landed at NBC with a big put pilot commitment. Lost‘s home network, ABC, did bid aggressively on the…

Lost is making a stylish exit with 12 Emmy nominations for its sixth and final season, including best drama series, best lead drama actor (Matthew Fox), supporting actors (Terry O’Quinn, Michael Emerson) as well as writing (Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse) and directing (Jack Bender), both for the much-talked-about…