TVLine Items: SMG’s New Pilot, Shameless Star Revisits SVU and More
Buffy the Vampire Slayer vet Sarah Michelle Gellar is tapping back into her teenage angst roots. The actress has been cast in Amazon Prime’s YA comedy pilot Hot Pink, created by Elisabeth Holm (Obvious Child), our sister site Variety reports.
The project is loosely based on Elana K. Arnold’s book What Girls Are Made Of, in which the main character, teenager Nina Faye, was raised to believe that there’s no such thing as unconditional love, so she does anything for her boyfriend to prove her worthiness. But after he breaks up with her, Nina is lost and sets out to find out what the conditions of love really are. No details about Gellar’s role are currently available.
Gellar’s other TV credits include The Crazy Ones and All My Children. She is also attached to the limited series Sometimes I Lie and the dramedy Other People’s Houses, both of which are in development at Fox.
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* Shameless‘ Ethan Cutkosky will return to Law & Order: SVU this season, TVLine has confirmed. He’ll play Henry Mesner, the character he originated in a Season 14 episode. Back then, Henry was a young boy whose abuse of his sister led him to be diagnosed as a psychopath and sent to a juvenile treatment facility. In the Season 22 episode, titled “Post-Graduate Psychopath,” Henry — who is now 18 — is asking to be released.
* The 64th Annual Grammy Awards will air live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Monday, Jan. 31, 2022 at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT on CBS (and streaming live and on demand on Paramount+).
* Jack Reynor (Strange Angel) will star opposite Chloë Grace Moretz in the Amazon Prime series The Peripheral, an adaptation of William Gibson’s novel from Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, Variety reports.
* Parents of preschoolers can now purchase tickets to PAW Patrol Live! At Home, an interactive streaming event that promises to have families “singing, dancing and cheering along with the beloved PAW Patrol as they once again save the day.” Guests can choose from three showtimes, on either Saturday, April 24 or Sunday, April 25: 7 am PT/10 am ET, 9 am PT/12 pm ET, or 2 pm PT/5 pm ET.
Which of today’s TVLine Items pique your interest?
I’m not ready for SMG to be playing “the mom” in things (if that is indeed her role in Hot Pink). I just really hope one of these projects she’s involved in sees the light of day, I miss SMG on screen!
Given all that has come out about the environment backstage on BTVS, and SMG’s strong statements about how she does NOT wish to have future ties to Buffy, and the fact that this show has absolutely zero in common with Buffy other than SMG having a role, I find this clickbait headline to be quite repulsive.
Surely you can find something else to say about the show and its cast.
HUH?
The quote from SMG was “While I am proud to have my name associated with Buffy Summers, I don’t want to be forever associated with the name Joss Whedon,”.
Omg…not to be a jerk but if there had not been a caption under the photo, I would have not recognized SMG or it would have taken a while for it to register.
Same. I had no idea until I realized the article was about Buffy.
I was hoping Noel Fisher was returning to SVU as Stuckey
Would love to finally see SMG on tv again! Any update on the fox projects? Have they just been delayed because of the pandemic?
Maybe her role will be like Amy Poehler’s in moxie? Not the YA lead but still a good part and a joy for the audience.
“Gellar’s other TV credits include The Crazy Ones and All My Children. She is also attached to the limited series Sometimes I Lie and the dramedy Other People’s Houses, both of which are in development at Fox.”
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Seriously?