Nina Dobrev At Teen Choice Awards

CBS is combining the current programming departments of the network and sibling studio CBS TV Studios. CBS veteran Glenn Geller, most recently SVP and head of current programming for CBS TV Studios, has been promoted to EVP Current Programming for the CBS Network TV Entertainment Group, overseeing the newly consolidated division reporting to both CBS TV Studios president David Stapf and CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler. David Brownfield, who has headed CBS Entertainment’s current programming department since the 2004 reorganization following the CBS-Paramount merger when he succeeded Stapf, is segueing to producing. He is staying in the CBS fold, signing a development deal with CBS TV Studios. Before joining CBS, Brownfield was a co-producer and writer on the ABC comedy Boy Meets World. “The timing is right to make this move,” said Tassler and Stapf. “David has wanted to return to writing and producing television, and the majority of our series are now produced in-house. It makes sense creatively and operationally to have one streamlined current operation to support our shows.” The consolidation does make sense as the majority of CBS TV Studios’ output is for CBS. Additionally, the studio has three series on the CW and King & Maxwell on TNT. Geller has been with CBS since ... Read More »

The casting directors for Disney‘s new Star Wars movie — April Webster and Alyssa Weisberg in the U.S. and Nina Gold in the UK — have sent casting breakdowns to agents. It provides the first real clues about what’s happening in the next movie in the franchise, which Michael Arndt is writing and JJ Abrams is directing. Abrams said recently that he expects production to start on Star Wars — Episode VII at the beginning of 2014. Kudos to Bleeding Cool for scooping this list, saying these are lead roles and that casting is officially underway in the UK, where the movie will lens. Here’s the list of characters in play sent around, so have fun trying to figure out who’s who: A young man aged between 20 and 25, witty and smart, fit but not classically handsome, Man in late twenties, also fit, but this one is handsome and confident. Late teenage girl, independent, good sense of humour, also… physically fit . Second young female, also late teens, tough, smart and physically fit. Man in his forties, obviously physically fit, this one is a military type. A man of around thirty or so, this one is an intellectual type. Finally, a guy aged around seventy, strong opinions and tough.