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'Psych,' 'FNL' Actors Join 'Fear Itself'!

Post by: Sal


Source: Zap2it

NBC is keeping its summer series "Fear Itself" in the media-conglomerate family, casting stars from several of its shows in the horror/suspense anthology.

Jesse Plemons ("Friday Night Lights"), "Psych" stars James Roday and Maggie Lawson and "Eureka's" Colin Ferguson will all appear in the series, which premieres Thursday, June 5. Wendell Pierce of "The Wire" and Clifton Collins Jr. ("Thief," "Capote") have also signed onto the show.

"Fear Itself" has also lined up directors John Dahl ("The Last Seduction," "You Kill Me"), Rupert Wainwright ("The Fog") and Larry Fessenden ("Wendigo") to helm episodes of the series.

Plemons will appear in an episode called "The Sacrifice," in which four on-the-lam criminals take refuge in an abandoned fort. The building soon reveals a host of secrets, including three sirens who live there. Jeffrey Pierce ("The Nine,"), Mircea Monroe ("Drive"), Stephen Martines ("General Hospital") and Rachel Miner ("Californication") also star in the episode.

"In Sickness and in Health" stars Lawson as a new bride who receives a note on her wedding day claiming that her husband-to-be (Roday) is a serial killer. Ferguson will star in "Family Man," about a guy who switches bodies with a murderer (Collins) after a near-death experience. Pierce will play a veterinarian who gets bitten by a strange animal and starts to see life differently in "Something with Bite."

Dahl will direct a Jekyll-and-Hyde story called "Chance." Fessenden is set to helm an episode about a man possessed by a monster, and Wainwright will direct about a group of girls who try to resurrect a dead classmate.



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Sal

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'Superman,' 'Heroes' Stars Face 'Fear Itself'!

Review by: Sal


Source: Zap2It


NBC's upcoming series "Fear Itself" will feature Superman and one of "Mad Men's" women, and the directors of "American Psycho," "Re-Animator" and three of the "Saw" movies are on board as well.

The show, a suspense and horror anthology a la Showtime's "Masters of Horror" (and hailing from some of the same producers), is slated to premiere later this year. Its 13-episode run will feature installments directed by the likes of Stuart Gordon ("Re-Animator"), Mary Harron ("American Psycho"), John Landis ("An American Werewolf in London") and Ernest Dickerson ("The Wire," "Heroes").

"We've teamed up with some of the most illustrious writers, actors and directors to create a distinctive, scare-filled series that will push the boundaries of this classic genre," says Teri Weinberg, executive vice president of NBC Entertainment. "'Fear Itself' will deliver memorable and horrifying moments that will keep fans on the edge of their seats."

Among the actors signed to the show are Brandon Routh ("Superman Returns") and Shiri Appleby ("Charlie Wilson's War") as a young couple who moves to an eerily idyllic subdivision; Elisabeth Moss ("Mad Men") as a rookie cop who's baby-sitting a serial killer in her precinct's cell; and Eric Roberts ("Heroes") and Cynthia Watros ("Lost") in an episode about a private eye staking out a haunted house.

Dan Knauf ("Supernatural"), Steve Niles ("30 Days of Night"), Victor Salva ("Jeepers Creepers") and Mick Garris ("Masters of Horror") are among the writers penning episodes of the series.

Garris, an exec producer of "Masters of Horror," is performing the same duties on "Fear Itself," along with Keith Addis and Andrew Deane.


Take care,

Sal