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No word yet from NBC whether Timeless is going to get a third season, but ratings results from last night’s cliffhanger-extreme Season 2 finale do not bode for the time-travel drama starring Matt Lanter, Abigail Spencer and Malcolm Barrett.

Having come off a cancellation and then a fan-generated renewal last year, Timeless went large Sunday with the two-hour ending to its 10-episode Season 2. That worked week-to-week, at least, but not year-to-year. While up 20% among adults 18-49 over its one-hour May 6 “The Day Reagan Was Shot” episode, and the best the series created by Eric Kripke and Shawn Ryan has done since mid-March, Timeless took a 33% tumble from its Season 1 finale of February 20, 2017,

As NBC saw a 14-minute delay in the start of its East Coast primetime Sunday due to golf overrun, the 9-111 Pm scheduled double dose of Timeless might have been an overreach, as the Season 1 fianle was only an hour.

If you're a history buff like I am, or if you're just interested in learning more about U.S. Presidents of the past, you're gonna want to watch this new series that The History Channel is developing. It's called The Commanders, and it's an anthology series that "will dramatize the biggest moments in American history and those that served as commander-in-chief."

The limited series is said to range from four to ten hours long and it will focus on presidents including Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson. According to THR, History Channel is also internally developing projects on George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Dwight Eisenhower.

The stories that the network plans on telling come from a collection of books that they have optioned including The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton by Peter Baker, Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris, Thomas Jefferson...

Primeridian Entertainment has hired Cyrus Nowrasteh to write and direct a film on Soviet dissident and Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Producing will be Primeridian’s Arcadiy Golubovich and Tim O’Hair, who’ll provide equity financing for their first feature under the banner. They’ve optioned D.M. Thomas’ Orwell Prize-winning biography Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century In His Life. Nowrasteh, who last helmed The Stoning Of Soriah M and whose TV work includes The Day Reagan Was Shot and the controversial Path to 9/11, will write the script with wife Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh. They just adapted Anne Rice’s Christ The Lord. “It’s a privilege to tell the courageous story of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,” said the director. “Millions suffered and died in the Soviet labor camps. As a survivor, he resolved to tell the world about it. The power of his pen, despite the suppression of his work and...

Showtime announced today that Richard Dreyfuss (Mr. Holland’s Opus) will guest star in at least four episodes of Weeds, which returns Aug. 16. Dreyfuss will play an unexpected character from Nancy Botwin’s (Mary-Louise Parker) past. The role marks a reunion of sorts for Dreyfuss and Showtime: He last appeared as Alexander Haig in the pay network’s The Day Reagan Was Shot.

In 2001, Dreyfuss starred in the CBS drama The Education of Max Bickford. Six years later, he appeared in the Sci-Fi original miniseries Tin Man.

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Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss has landed a guest arc on the upcoming season of Showtime's 'Weeds.'

According to a network press release, Dreyfuss will appear in at least four episodes of the comedy series, playing an "an unexpected character from Nancy Botwin's (Mary-Louise Parker) past."

Dreyfuss, who won his Oscar for the 1977 film 'The Goodbye Girl,' joins an already jam-packed season of guest stars, which includes Linda Hamilton, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Alanis Morissette and Jennifer Jason Leigh. He was last seen on Showtime in the 2002 docudrama 'The Day Reagan Was Shot.'

'Weeds' season 6 premieres Mon., Aug. 16 at 10Pm.

 

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Chicago – Actor Richard Dreyfuss is comfortable. This was on display as he was eating ice cream while talking about his career and life, just before an appearance at the brand new Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville, Ill.

Dreyfuss made a huge splash in the 1970s starring in the triptych of classic films: “American Graffiti,” “Jaws,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” He won his Best Actor Oscar – the youngest actor in Academy Award history to do so at the time – playing Elliott Garfield in the comedy, “The Goodbye Girl.”

Oscar-winning Actor Richard Dreyfuss in a Candid ‘Close Encounter’ at the Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville, Illinois, September 19th, 2009

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com He continued with great films throughout his career, including roles in “Down and Out in Beverly Hills,” “What About Bob?,” another Best Actor nomination for “Mr Holland’s Opus” and “W” as Vice President Dick Cheney.

• Lionsgate Films jumped at the opportunity to get the distribution rights to Oliver Stone new presidential drama/biopic W., set for release in October - a proper time for the nation to reflect on the past eight (either contentious and frustrating or appropriate and rational, depending where on the political spectrum one lies) years of Bush influence. While still scouting for a juggernaut to play our rigid and expressionless veep Dick Cheney, Stone cast Josh Brolin ("No Country for Old Men") as Bush and Elizabeth Banks as sweet and innocent gal-next door Laura Bush, née Welch. With "W", Stone completes an unofficial presidential trilogy, with "JFK" in 1991 and "Nixon" in 1995 (maybe even a foursome with 2001's TV feat "The Day Reagan Was Shot"). Stone is no stranger to controversy and greets it like an old friend. "Platoon", "Wall Street", "Born on the Fourth of July", "The Doors"; Stone never

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ANAHEIM -- Despite a flood of hype surrounding its controversial movie The Reagans, Showtime saw a small stream of viewers for its Sunday premiere. Sold by CBS to Showtime last month amid criticism of its depiction of the Reagans, the three-hour movie drew just 1.2 million total viewers, according to sources; Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, a theatrical release that aired in the same slot the previous year, drew 500,000 viewers in comparison. In Showtime homes, Reagans registered a 3.7 household rating/5 share. Showtime, which traditionally declines to release ratings numbers, would not confirm these figures. The premium channel did, however, indicate that Reagans more than doubled its primetime average and was its highest-rated original film in two years. Reagans tied another Reagan-themed movie, The Day Reagan Was Shot, which aired in December 2001.