Buzz News Roundup, 8/11

• The Office has been given the key post-Super Bowl time slot and will air a one-hour episode following the game, Entertainment Weekly reports.
• According to ComingSoon, Steve Buscemi and Romany Malco will star together in Saint John of Las Vegas, a loose adaptation of Dante's Inferno.
• Tori Spelling has no deal to appear on 90210 and her desired salary may be the sticking point, E! reports.
• Sara Gilbert is joining the cast of The Big Bang Theory after a successful guest-starring gig, Zap2it reports.
• Dennis Hopper will get his own exhibit in France where, apparently, he is highly revered, writes Variety.
• Clarke Peters and Wendell Pierce — aka Freamon and Bunk from The Wire — are joining Treme, David Simon's new HBO pilot about New Orleans, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
• Variety has the news that director Chris Columbus is readying a film about Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential run.
• 24 producer Carlos Coto and Brett Ratner are working on an action-comedy for Fox titled Wild Boys, which will follow "ex-soldiers turned suburban dads," ComingSoon reports.
• Matthew Bomer — aka Bryce Larkin from Chuck and Jay from Traveler — has been cast in the lead of a USA series called White Collar, writes The Hollywood Reporter.

Buzz News Roundup, 9/5

• Billboard warns us that we won't be able to escape the Barry Manilow this fall and winter, especially as he gets ready to release his jazzy holiday album.
• Variety has news about the Al Pacino-Robert DeNiro project Righteous Kill adding four more cast members, including John Leguizamo and Dan Futterman.
• Three of NBC's new fall pilots are now available for rent at Blockbuster, says the Futon Critic.
• Kelly Clarkson will, in fact, be resuming her tour, starting with a show at New York's Beacon Theater on October 14, the AP reports. Meanwhile, this year's "American Idol" tour isn't drawing crowds the way it was expected to, USA Today reports.
• ComingSoon reports that Ashley Judd will star in the drama Helen as a mother suffering from depression.
• "General Hospital" star Annie Wersching is joining the cast of "24," Zap2it reports.
• According to Billboard, Aerosmith will be returning to the recording studio in November.
• It's a "Roseanne" reunion for Sara Gilbert and her TV husband Johnny Galecki now that Gilbert has joined Galecki's CBS comedy "The Big Bang Theory," states Hollywood Reporter. Meanwhile, Jerry O'Connell's real-life wife, Rebecca Romijn, will guest-star on his new show, "Carpoolers," says the Futon Critic.
• Yet more Scarlett Johansson casting news, according to ComingSoon, this time she's in a diamond heist movie titled Brilliance.
• Atlas Shrugged, starring Angelina Jolie, finally has a director: Vadim Perelman, reports Variety.

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