TV Bits: ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Californication,’ ‘The Office,’ ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Smash’

Posted on Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 by Germain Lussier

Controversy, casting and consensual exits are all in this edition of TV Bits. After the jump read about the following:

• See a photo of how the George W. Bush head from Game of Thrones was fixed.
• Rocker Marilyn Manson joins Showtime’s Californification.
• Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson will have an arc on the Broadway drama Smash.
• Fanboys director Kyle Newman will join wife Jaime King to voice a character on Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
• Steve Carell told the Los Angeles Times why Michael Scott won’t return to The Office.
• Elizabeth Moss suggests a possible spoiler about her Mad Men character.

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Mark Duplass, Dianne Wiest and Sam Shepard Cast in Lawrence Kasdan’s ‘Darling Companion’

Posted on Friday, September 24th, 2010 by Russ Fischer

Though he’s been announced as attached to a few projects over the past couple years, Lawrence Kasdan hasn’t written or directed a produced film since Dreamcatcher in 2003. (He has done script work, like the polish on the script for the action version of Paradise Lost that Alex Proyas just signed to direct.)

But now Kasdan will direct Darling Companion from a script he wrote with Meg Kasdan, and he’s just added Mark Duplass, Dianne Wiest and Sam Shepard to the cast. Read More »

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