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Tuesday’s “Brian Cox joins Gotham, Homeland up and The Walking Dead sets a ratings record” news

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Review: Missing (ABC) 1×1

16 March 2012 Rob Buckley 12 Comments

Missing (ABC)

In the US: Thursdays, 8/7c, ABC

Spies are back. In a sense, they never really went away, but with several spy show pilots lined up for the fall, Covert Affairs now a regular on the USA Network and Homeland clearly the best new show of last fall, it seems like we’re ready to have secret agents back in our lives now, particularly with ABC’s Missing being thrust onto our screens just to fill in the gaps.

The big new trend in spy shows, though, as that list shows, is female spies. Covert Affairs stars Piper Perabo, Homeland revolves around Claire Danes, The Asset‘s lead is Ali Larter and Missing has Ashley Judd doing a Jason Bourne all over Europe (yes, they actually have come all the way to Europe to film this).

I say doing a Jason Bourne but Missing is really a sort of hybrid between The Bourne Identity and Taken, with former CIA operative Judd beating up Eurotrash to rescue her son, who’s been kidnapped by who knows who? While it never quite hits the heights of either movie, it’s actually a pretty good stab at doing both on the small screen.

Apart from the chase on Vespers. That was just silly. Here’s a trailer – yes, that is Sean Bean. Yes, there are a lot of spoilers for later episodes.

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Thursday’s “Ben Browder on Doctor Who, no more Primeval and Aidan Quinn is Elementary’s Gregson” news

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  • The Vampire Diaries‘ Sara Canning and Eureka‘s Niall Matter starring in Primeval: New World

US TV

  • Tuesday’s ratings: Breaking In slightly up from where it was, Cougar Town gains a few viewers, The River flat
  • The Forgotten‘s Rochelle Aytes and Jes Macallan to star in Mistresses
  • Showtime adapting You Kill Me
  • Happy Days‘ Marion Ross to guest on Up All Night [minor spoilers]
  • Silk Stalkings‘ Eob Estes to guest on Necessary Roughness

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Wednesday’s “The Avengers’ new name, Smash up, Steven Volk’s Wired and a new Victor Garber show” news

29 February 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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  • Tony Shalhoub and Bar Paly join Michael Bay’s Pain and Gain
  • Kristen Wiig joins action comedy
  • Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, Cameron Diaz, Beyonce and Andy Samberg to star in Ryan Murphy’s One Hit Wonders
  • The Avengers retitled Avengers Assembled for the UK

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  • Glee‘s Max Adler joins Last Resort
  • Victor Garber to star in Notorious, Charlie’s Angels Rachael Taylor joins 666 Park Avenue
  • Missi Pyle to co-star in Prodigy Bully
  • Suzy Nakkamura joins Go On, Linus Roache joins ABC’s Roland Emmerich project
  • Hollyoaks‘s Barry Sloane to star in Gotham
  • TV Land fast-tracking sitcom about twin brothers, one gay, one straight
  • My Boys‘ Jordana Spiro to star in Josh Berman medical drama
  • Cougar Town‘s Josh Hopkins joins Lady Friends, plus other pilot casting
  • The Descendants‘ Nat Faxon to star is Ned Fox is My Fanny
  • Misfits producers working on sci-fi show Wired by Steven Volk and a paranormal show, The Dead Beat, from John Jackson for BBC America
  • Sucker Punch‘s Jamie Chung joins The Asset

Tuesday’s “Lucy Liu is Watson, F Murray Abraham in Beauty and the Beast and Alan Ball to leave True Blood” news

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