Toronto-born actor Vinessa Antoine has been cast as the lead in the upcoming CBC-TV drama series Diggstown.
She’ll play a corporate lawyer who switches to a career in legal aid in Dartmouth, N.S., after her aunt commits suicide following a malicious prosecution.
Her character hails from North Preston, N.S., and the show will be shot in Halifax.
Creator Floyd Kane has said the show will feature “the first black Canadian lead of an hour-long drama on broadcast television in Canada.”
The series will also feature a team of lawyers who are described as “a curious band of do-gooders, cynics and scrappers.”
Antoine’s previous credits include several Off-Broadway plays and the shows General Hospital, NCIS, Being Erica and Heartland.
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NEW YORK — Yvette Nicole Brown is filling in for Chris Hardwick as host of The Walking Dead and Talking Dead while AMC Networks reviews sexual-assault allegations against Hardwick.
AMC announced Friday that Brown will be “interim guest host” of The Walking Dead Season 9 Preview Special on Aug. 5. Brown also will host Talking Dead on Aug. 12.
Brown starred in the NBC comedy Community and already was stepping in for Hardwick as moderator of Walking Dead panels next week at San Diego Comic-Con.
Hardwick has acknowledged that an online post by his ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra alleging she had been sexually assaulted and emotionally abused referred to him. He has denied the allegations but has said the couple’s three-year relationship was imperfect and included arguments.
Things in Hawkins, Indiana are totally, completely, 100 per cent fine. At least, for now.
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Netflix released a fun, retro teaser for the third season of supernatural sensation Stranger Things, in the form of an ’80s-style commercial for Hawkins’ new Starcourt Mall. The mall has everything, from Claire’s to Sam Goody to Walden Books to “Scoops Ahoy Ice Cream Parlor,” where Steve (Joe Keery) is now working, alongside a teen Netflix’s Twitter account identifies as Robin, played by Maya Hawke (who just happens to be Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman’s daughter).
We’re sure that everything at this fine mall will be completely normal and there will be no supernatural occurrences like Demogorgons in the dressing rooms at Chess King.
Netflix has not yet announced a première date for Stranger Things Season 3.
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You don’t usually think of the little lady in the minivan as a heinous felon, but CBS is devoting a new series to just that when it premieres Pink Collar Crimes July 28. Soccer moms, PTA members and the women pushing the shopping cart might be embezzling money or robbing banks in their spare time. The show will feature prosecutor Marcia Clark offering her sage analysis about these wayward women.
