‘Witches Of East End’ Season 2 Spoilers: Sarah Lancaster Added As Dash’s Love Interest; Who Is Raven Moreau?

Ready for some drama, “Witches of East End” fans? Because rumor has it that trouble will be flying straight into the laps of our favorite witches when the hit Lifetime series introduces a new character to the plot of Season 2.

Sarah Lancaster, who you may remember as Ellie Bartowski from the five-season show “Chuck,” will be taking on a game-changer of a role during the sophomore season as Raven Moreau. Raven will make her East End debut in hopes of completing “life-long secret mission,” TVLine reported. Curious as what it could be? Well, we have a feeling it’s not to sit down and chat with the Beauchamps over tea.

The last time we saw a raven in “WOEE” was on Freya’s wedding day. Penelope had cast a dark spell that took form of a black bird. The animal then came smashing into the Beauchamp home as a warning that danger was lurking nearby. Since then fans have correlated ravens with being bad omens. But could all that change when Raven Moreau struts her way into East End?

Lancaster’s character had been described as “smart, confident and in control” – not to mention love-stricken. Reports suggest she’ll be fluffing up her feathers when one of the Gardiner boys catches her eye. We’re looking at you, Dash! We can’t wait to see Freya’s reaction when she hears the news that yet another outsider has snatched up a man she’s loved. Maybe ravens are bad omens after all…

But according to promo photos from episode 4, “Brothers Grimoire,” Freya has more important things on her mind than who's flirting with her ex-fiancé. Pictures from next week’s episode show Freya and Joanna snooping around a creepy dungeon. Eventually the duo come across a bloodied and battered Victor. For those who don't remember, Victor was captured by an unknown entity on his way to see Frederick at the end of episode 3.

Who would want Victor as a captive? Well, ironic enough, the woman we think is responsible for Victor’s torment looks quite similar to the actress cast to portray Ms. Moreau. What do you think?

How much trouble do you think Raven Moreau will be stirring up in Season 2? Sound off with your predictions in the comments section below and don’t forget to tune into episode 4 of “Witches of East End” when the series returns Sunday, July 27 at 9 p.m. EDT. Source

Lifetime's hit supernatural drama "Witches of East End" Season 2 Spoilers: Who will Killian spare his time between Freya and Eva?

American supernatural drama "Witches of East End" has explosive revelations in the upcoming episodes of its second season.

The July 13th episode which aired last Sunday began with Ingrid Beauchamp lying outside. When Joanna and Freya rushed to her, she said she had the best sleep and she's craving for for tacos. (That's a great way to start the episode, making the viewers hungry for Mexican delight)

Meanwhile, Freya discovers that she has a twin brother - Frederick. Yes, Frederick is her sibling; where he was found staying with his grandfather (who cursed the Beauchamps) after the war in Asgard. She has always wanted to have a twin brother. Later on, they found out the power they can do together and that the Beauchamps are royalties in Asgard - a reality Ingrid doesn't believe.

Later during the latest episode, he has swallowed Wendy's earring and spit it out. What do you think he has done with the earring? We speculate that he has put a spell or curse on it. Any thoughts on this?

Ingrid, however, went to the library and there she was shocked due to the context of a book she was reading. Dr. Foster tried to stop her from reading further, but she casted a spell on him. With what she has discovered, what could be the next story arc that'll circulate on her?

On the other hand, Killian shall have a dilemma on choosing between Freya and Eva.  Freya books a flight to find her soul mate bringing Killian back to East End. Despite Freya and his honeymoon, do you think he has time for Eva? There's no other way to find out but wait for the next episode.

"Witches of East End" Season 2 airs every Sunday at 9:00 pm EST on Lifetime. Source

'The Originals' Season 2 premiere date: Filming on hiatus, Mikael and Esther return, new cast expected

Can't get enough of the Mikaelson vampire drama? Don't fret because the cast and crew are gearing up for an awesome second season.

The release date for "The Originals" season 2 has been confirmed and it will be moved to a different time and date. Joseph Morgan, who plays Klaus, announced via Twitter "Our season 2 premiere date is MONDAY 6th October 8/7c #theOriginals #CWfallpremieres Who's ready? ;)"

Who's taking over "The Originals" old time slot? It's "Flash," the "Arrow" spin-off. "Flash" will premiere on October 7 and hopefully, the time slot will do just as well for the new CW series.

Meanwhile, the people behind the show have been working so hard since season 1, so the executive producer of the show decided to have a break. In April, Julie Plec tweeted that "Meanwhile The Originals still has 6 days and 3 season 2 eps to shoot before we get a break. Hence my impending death-slash-mental breakdown." Right now, filming is on hiatus.

Moving on to the season 2 spoilers. According to Den of Geek, there will be two new characters who will join the vampire-werewolf-witch drama in New Orleans. One is Kaleb, played by Daniel Sherman of "Teen Wolf," and the other is Lenore, played by Sonja Sohn from "The Wire." Both are witches. Rumor has it that Lenore may be the ultimate villain for the 2nd season.

The other villains in contention for being the ultimate "baddie" of season 2 are Mikael and Esther Mikaelson. In an interview with TV Line, Morgan shared "They're not very happy with us. We're responsible for killing both of them. So I imagine they'll be seeking revenge."

What about werewolf drama? The werewolves will still be prominent in the new season. Leading the way is hybrid Hayley who will be in a very dark place in season 2. She was forced to let the child live with Rebekah. Hayley will do everything to protect her child.

Seems exciting enough for you? It's going to be a short wait, and a worthwhile one at that. Source

Networks launch host of new summer TV shows

It used to be that summer was the time to turn off the TV set and relax at the beach. That was before you could take your screen to the beach in the same pocket you take your sunscreen.

The idea of an "unplugged cottage" where distant signals are pulled in off rabbit ears is a thing of the past. Now cottages are places where people binge-watch the latest Netflix or online offering as well as stream network fare.

As a result, broadcasters and other content providers have packed this summer with many distractions. Some got an early start in June, including last summer's hit, "Under the Dome" (Mondays on Global), perennial summer leader "Big Brother" (Wednesdays and Thursdays on CBS and Global) and Jerry Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," now streaming on Crackle.

There are 50 premieres and finales in the month of July alone on network and cable, including the final seconds of Jack Bauer's latest opus, "24: Live Another Day" (July 14). Here are more than a dozen other shows worth staying in for this month and next:

1. "The Amazing Race Canada" (premiering Tuesday at 9 p.m. on CTV). Last summer's biggest hit drew 3.5 million viewers a week, an astounding total for a Canadian series. It's back with beer-swilling Olympian Jon Montgomery as host. Among this summer's 11 teams are former National Ballet of Canada principal dancer Rex Harrington and his partner with the famous name, Bob Hope, as well as two members of Canada's National Women's Hockey Team, Natalie Spooner and Meaghan Mikkelson. Rumours Season 2 would extend outside Canada's borders proved false, but seven provinces and one territory are visited. "Gas for life" from Petro-Canada plus $250,000 is at stake.

2. "Extant" (Wednesday, CBS, Global). Oscar winner Halle Berry stars in this 13-part sci-fi series as an astronaut who returns to Earth inexplicably pregnant after a year in space. Goran Visnjic ("ER") plays her Earth hubby, who naturally feels she has some 'splainin' to do. Steven Spielberg helped put this baby in orbit.

3. "The Strain" (July 13, FX Canada, FX). Super creepy thriller from Guillermo del Toro ("Hellboy") promises to make the vampires on all other TV shows look like Teletubbies. A worm-like virus infects a planeload of passengers and spreads from there. Shot in Toronto, with Corey Stoll, David Bradley, Kevin Durrand, Natalie Brown and Sean Astin among the ensemble.

4. "Ray Donovan" (July 13, Showtime, TMN/Movie Central). Liev Schreiber stars as the ultimate L.A. fixer, but Golden Globe Award winner Jon Voight, 75, continues to steal this series as Donovan's bad dad, Mickey. Look for guest star turns in Season 2 from Hank Azaria, Sherilyn Fenn and Ann-Margret.

5. "Masters of Sex" (July 13, Showtime, TMN/Movie Central). Ready for more "Sex"? Pioneering sex therapists Masters and Johnson (Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan) are back, with Caitlin FitzGerald and Betsy Brandt among the Season 2 patients.

6. "Majumder Manor" (July 21, W). Comedian Shaun Majumder ("This Hour Has 22 Minutes") continues on his quixotic quest to turn his picturesque hometown of Burlington, N.L., into a tourist destination. Along for the ride is gal pal Shelby, with the season culminating in the couple's wedding. But will the guest accommodations in remote Burlington be ready in time?

7. "The Killing" (Aug. 1, Netflix). The entire six-episode fourth season drops Aug. 1 on Netflix, allowing fans to say goodbye to this B.C.-based series which originated on AMC.

8. "Outlander" (Aug. 9, Showcase, Starz). A married combat nurse from 1945 (played by Caitriona Balfe) is mysteriously swept back to 1743, where she's forced to marry a rugged Scottish warrior (Sam Heughan). Hoot mon! Big-budget, international co-pro shot in Scotland and based on the bestselling, historical sci-fi novels of Diana Gabaldon.

9. Summer is when the U.S. networks look down their bench for Canadian shows to fill slots. "Motive" (Wednesday) and "Rookie Blue" (Thursday) return to ABC, with "Working the Engels" (Thursday) needing a breakout run on NBC to overcome a slow start on Global. Canadian comedies "Seed" and "Backpackers" both premiere on The CW July 14. Source

The Secret Life of Students; The Honourable Woman – TV review

Television - non-sport TV that is – suddenly got good again. I'll come to The Honourable Woman later because there's a blog on our website about that, too. But first, and arguably more interesting, The Secret Life of Students (Channel 4), which is basically Fresh Meat, only real.

We're following three freshers (Josie, Lauren and Aiden) as they embark on the beginning of the rest of their lives. Well, Leicester Uni. Not just following them but following them closely enough to look over their shoulders into their phones. Every text, picture, video, tweet, status update, emoticon and smiley face to each other, to their old mates back home, parents, Facebook friends, Twitter followers, the world – it just pops up all over the TV screen. "Think there was another guy moving in as I was"; "oh 'ello, a peng juan?"; "no not a peng juan yet lol awks" etc.

Sounds like a nightmare? Well maybe, but it's the nightmare of the real world; if you don't like it, go and join the Amish or something. And it's clever; groundbreaking even. Not just because what's happening on the screen of a person's phone today is a big part of their life, so any view that ignores that is not showing the whole picture, or even the half of it, probably. But also because of what Lauren says: that it can be a more intimate, honest part of their lives. She uses Twitter to express things she doesn't in person. "I think everyone does it, kind of puts feelings in a way that I don't think anyone puts them anywhere else." Oh, and for an old grandad (no, not literally) like me, watching, it's a handy way of picking up some youth-speak. I like to think of myself as a bit of a peng juan as it happens, lolllllllll x

It is dead funny. Of course it is. It's about teenagers falling awkwardly into adulthood and into bed with each other, and just over … all the stuff of Fresh Meat. It's about doing vodka, via a tampon, up the bum. Andneknominations (another new one on me, it seems to involve biting the head off a raw herring, then washing it down with a cocktail of beer and more vodka and menopause pills). It's about Nazi-themed drinking games, and about non-drinking Lauren, whose greatest inspiration is Anne Frank, wisely not wanting to take part. ("Do you just hate Hitler?" asks a concerned friend). And more hilarious lines, mainly from Josie, like, "I'm a slag and should have a lock on my vagina," and "[scream] I want children, I don't want chlamydia."

But as well as the screams and the lols and the neknominations, it's about three young people growing up, and all the angsts and worries (so many worries, about what other people think of them, how they look, which STD they've got today) that go with the territory. Even cocky (also without the y) Aiden, the winker (also with an a) has insecurities, albeit modern ones, about how many Facebook friends and Twitter followers he has. Anyway, it's brilliant modern television. Unless you're the parent of a child starting university in the autumn. In which case it's deeply worrying, I imagine.

Also excellent, though in a different way, is The Honourable Woman(BBC2), Hugo Blick's political thriller. A Zionist arms dealer is fatally bread-tonged in the neck at a London restaurant in front of his (remarkably unfazed) daughter and son. Nearly three decades on and they – she (played mesmerically and so convincingly Englishly by Maggie Gyllenhaal) – are key figures working for cooperation and peace in the Middle East.

Or not. At this early stage it's hard to know who wants what or works for whom. A Palestinian businessman meanwhile hangs himself – or is hanged – from a flagpole. And a lugubrious MI6 man (lovely performance by Stephen Rea) takes an old-fashioned lift down and embarks on one last case, this one, whatever this case is. He (Sir Hugh Hayden-Hoyle) has a hint of George Smiley about him. In fact, the backdrop may be a warmer and more current conflict, but it's all quite le Carré-esque. Tinker Tailor Soldier [the] Mossad, or maybe Hamas. This is a shadowy world of secrets, lies, betrayal, vengeance – political, personal, all tangled up together. Under a sheen of diplomacy, generations of hatred and mistrust run deep. An angry violin, and the wailings of Thom Yorke, only add to the tense unease. "Knight to B6" Sir Hugh tells his opponent and counterpart at the world's most secretive, and beautiful (and possibly ridiculous) chess club.

It's certainly theatrical. Virtually every line delivered seems weighed down by Bafta expectation. And I'm sure they'll come, because even if it is a teeny bit pompous, potentially infuriating, certainly baffling, it's also beautiful and beautifully crafted and performed, and irresistibly compelling. I'm in. Source

7 potentially awesome shows canceled before they premiered

You know how sometimes you go to Chipotle and you’re midway through having the guy build your burrito—then you realize you’ve made a terrible mistake? Maybe you should have gone for the chicken instead of the beef, or a wheat tortilla instead of flour, or perhaps you finally decide you don’t even like Chipotle in the first place. This also happens to TV executives when ordering shows.

Sometimes, even after slogging through months of development, script revisions, a pilot order, a series order, and even announcing a premiere date, executives will still stop and go: Wait, we don’t really want to air that, do we? Except instead of regretting an $8 burrito, such reversals cost millions, hugely affect the careers of dozens of people, and deny viewers a project they were publicly led to believe they’d eventually get to watch.

That’s what happened yesterday, when Fox axed its Egyptian drama seriesHieroglyph (which had been scheduled to premiere at midseason). In honor of those dead pharaohs, below we present Hieroglyph and six more examples of promising-sounding shows that were officially greenlit but axed before they premiered (not to be confused with mere pilots that are routinely not ordered to series). We’re not saying these shows would have been good — most likely they were executed poorly and tested terribly, or they almost certainly would have made it onto the air. (After all, enough truly bad shows get on the schedule.) Yet on paper, at least, each could have been something great:

1. Day One (NBC, 2010):

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Ordered as a series, then scaled back to a miniseries, then never aired. This alien invasion title might have had better luck if developed after AMC’s The Walking Deadbecame a mega-hit that made every network want apocalypse now. Day One also had the sort of premise that broadcast networks have a tough time sustaining week after week, as NBC discovered after moving forward with the vaguely similar Revolution. Still, this trailer is way, way better than the ones for most new shows (the pilot was directed by Alex Graves, now known for his work on HBO’s Game of Thrones):

Ordered as a series, then scaled back to a miniseries, then never aired. This alien invasion title might have had better luck if developed after AMC’s The Walking Deadbecame a mega-hit that made every network want apocalypse now. Day One also had the sort of premise that broadcast networks have a tough time sustaining week after week, as NBC discovered after moving forward with the vaguely similar Revolution. Still, this trailer is way, way better than the ones for most new shows (the pilot was directed by Alex Graves, now known for his work on HBO’s Game of Thrones): See More