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Peacock is stacking up the cast of MacGruber, the eight-episode action comedy series based on Will Forte's recurring MacGyver parody sketch on Saturday Night Live and its 2010 cult movie offshoot. Sam Elliott, Laurence Fishburne and Mickey Rourke have joined the series, from Universal Television, joining Forte, Kristen…

Ozark Season 3 standout Tom Pelphrey has been tapped to star as the infamous conman and fugitive Jason Derek Brown in American Murderer, opposite Tony-winner Idina Menzel, Ryan Phillippe and Jacki Weaver. Matthew Gentile wrote the script and is directing the indie, which is shooting in Salt Lake City. The pic, which…

Spoiler alert: The story includes details about the series premiere of ABC’s Big Sky. From the get-go, ABC’s new mystery drama Big Sky, marking David E. Kelley’s return to broadcast TV, has been marketed as a three-hander, with posters featuring Katheryn Winnick, Kylie Bunbury and Ryan Phillippe as the show’s three…

NBCUniversal’s streaming platform Peacock continues to build up its original comedy slate with a straight-to-series series order to MacGruber, starring, co-written and executive produced by Will Forte. The action comedy, which stems from Forte’s recurring MacGyver parody sketch on Saturday Night Live, was part of…

Ryan Phillippe has been tapped for a major role in The Big Sky, ABC's straight-to-series drama created and executive produced by David E. Kelley. The project, based on The Highway, the first book in C.J. Box's Cassie Dewell series of novels, hails from A+E Studios, which will produce in association with 20th Century…

Former Shooter star Ryan Phillippe has been tapped as the lead in CBS' drama pilot Alive (fka Frankenstein). Katrina Law (The Oath) and Aaron Staton (Mad Men) are set as co-leads in the project, a modern interpretation of the classic Frankenstein tale in a cop procedural setting. Written/executive produced by Jason…

Just days after Shooter star Ryan Phillippe announced on social media that he has fully recovered from the serious off-set injury that cut short Season 2 of the popular USA Network drama, the network has renewed the series for a third season. I hear Season 3 will consist of 13 episodes, up from the 10-episode Season 1…

EXCLUSIVE: The current second season of USA Network’s drama series Shooter will consist of eight episodes instead of the originally ordered ten. The trim stems from the off-set injury suffered by series star Ryan Phillippe who broke his leg on July 16. At the time, Shooter was in the midst of filming the ninth episode…

Shooter star Ryan Phillippe broke his leg Sunday in an off-set accident that happened while his USA drama series is still in production on its upcoming second season that premiere tomorrow night, July 18. “I didn’t injure myself doing a stunt or anywhere near the set of Shooter,” Phillippe wrote in a series of tweets…

Jerry Ferrara, Jesse Bradford and Todd Lowe will join USA Network’s Ryan Phillippe-starrer Shooter as recurring characters, the network said today. Beverly D'Angelo will be back when the show returns for its second season July 18. Ferrara (Entourage) will play Kirk Zehnder, a former marine who always detects a…

When USA’s drama series Shooter was originally supposed to premiere in late July 2016, Hillary Clinton was comfortably leading Donald Trump in the polls by 10 points, and, boosted by a strong Democratic National Convention, was cruising toward becoming the first female US President. After two delays following the…

Ryan Phillippe and Elisabeth Röhm have joined the cast of Broad Green Pictures' Wish Upon the drama directed by John Leonetti that also stars Joey King and Shannon Purser. Written by Barbara Marshall, the film follows 16-year-old misfit Clare (King) who finds a magic box that promises a chance at the life she's always…