TV viewers -- or anyone for that matter -- haven't heard from Molly Shannon in a while. Though her IMDb profile has shown that she's been busy, the last time I saw her in anything was in a memorable guest role on Scrubs three years ago. Her absence was kind of surprising, given how funny she was on Saturday Night Live. But it looks like Shannon is on her way back, in an NBC comedy pilot called The Mastersons of Manhattan.The Hollywood Reporter, in an article that contains a ton of casting news, reports that Shannon will star with Natasha Richardson in the serialized soap. The two play socialite sisters, the younger of whom (Shannon) is on trial for murder. Yes, I did say earlier that it was a comedy, if you want to check.
The CW said "no" to the new Aquaman show, but go 
Heavy hitter Ving Rhames has signed
on for a co-starring role in the untitled Aquaman drama that The CW has in the works. Rhames will play McCaffery, a
mentor to A.C., aka Aquaman.
Chazz Palminteri, perhaps best-known for his role in The
Usual Suspects, is coming to series television. He just signed on to co-star in a new cop series on ABC, called
Drift. It's about a detective with insomnia. Palminteri plays the guy's boss. According to his 
Recently the Advertising Standard Authority in the UK forced the removal of some outdoor ads for USA's
Kojak series starring Ving Rhames in the title role. It seems that the word "Mothersucker," complete
with a lollipop in place of the "O," caused a few people to register complaints. I guess the word is a little
too close to another particular word. I suppose that's true, I'm just wondering what the actual meaning of
"Mothersucker" is. Is it the mother of all suckers? Like, the center of the sucker universe from which all
other suckers are born? Is Kojak a TV show about a man on a quest to find this holy lollipop? Because that's a
great idea for a show, and perhaps they should change the plot to make it about that.
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