KIM RAVER, PETER FACINELLI, BEN RAPPAPORT TO LEAD 'ZOOBIQUITY' MEDICAL SERIES! DISNEY TO ADAPT 'CHRONICLES OF PRYDAIN' EPIC SAGA! GAVIN STENHOUSE JOINS STOCKARD CHANNING IN 'ME & MEAN MARGARET' SITCOM

 'ZOOBIQUITY' TV SERIES

KIM RAVER, PETER FACINELLI, BEN RAPPAPORT LEAD THE CAST

Here's an upcoming new television series rounding up a rather impressive and charismatic cast with a unique twist in the plot! Just hunking up the already gorgeous and beautiful ensemble of actors in ZOOBI- QUITY series lead by stunning Kim Raver and seductive Peter Facinelli, is dashing Ben Rappaport! 

CROSS SPECIES MEDICINE  
Fox's light medical series, coming from BONES producers, based on the best selling book by Dr. Barbara Natterson Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers, will follow the unlikely pairing of Dr. Kara Martins (Marsha Thomason), a successful, driven cardiologist as she risks career suicide by teaming with Dr. Lucas Cort (Peter Facinelli), a brilliant, socially challenged veterinarian who relates better to animals than people. They try to put aside their competitive natures to cure the incurable using a unique blend of cross species medicine that’s never been tried before.

Kim Raver will play Dr. Julia Fowler, the chief of medicine at Chicago Hospital, the part originally male in the book. Ben Rappaport will play Dr. Henry Lowe, a cardiology resident. Ambitious and always concerned with doing the right thing for his career, he surprisingly bends hospital rules. 

DISNEY TO ADAPT

'CHRONICLES OF PRYDAIN' 
In the news coming from Disney, beside the info that the work on the FROZEN 2 script is well under way, 'Variety' reports that they have acquired movie rights on CHRONICLES OF PRYDAIN fantasy novels from Lloyd Alexander which, two decades ago, were the basis of their BLACK CAULDRON animated movie. The saga follows young Taran from youth to maturity, an assistant pig keeper who dreams of being a grand hero. Set in the magical land of Prydain, which resembles ancient Wales the story sees him engaged in a series of battles with Annuvin, the Land of Death. Other key characters are the young princess Eilonwy, the bard Fflewddur Fflam and a wild creature named Gurgi.

'ME & MEAN MARGARET'

GAVIN STENHOUSE TO LEAD STOCKARD CHANNING SITCOM

In other television news, NBC has finally found a young man who will star opposite legendary Stockard Channing in the pilot for their new multi camera sitcom ME AND MEAN MARGARET! Handsome ALLEGIANCE star Gavin Stenhouse will lead  an unlikely buddy comedy that follows Margaret (Channing), a fiercely candid and often offensive legendary actress, and Ben (Stenhouse), the ambitious 27 year-old lawyer forced to babysit her. Naturally conciliatory but not a doormat (entirely), Ben is a nice, responsible lawyer who accepts his latest assignment as the legal conservator/ babysitter for the notoriously mean and mischievous former actress Margaret Manley (Channing), but quickly realizes it’s more than he bargained for. He’s forced to go way outside his comfort zone and think on his feet — and in the process, learns a thing or two from her about standing up for himself.

CATE BLANCHETT TO DIRECT 'STATELESS' IMMIGRATION TV SERIES! GAVIN STENHOUSE IS SCOTT FITZGERALD IN 'ZELDA' TV SERIES WITH CHRISTINA RICCI. JENNIFER ANNISTON, KATE HUDSON, JASON SUDEIKIS IN 'MOTHER'S DAY' ENSEMBLE MOVIE

 CATE BLANCHETT TO HELM

'STATELESS' TELEVISION SERIES

As Deadline reports today our most favourite actress of all times, gorgeous and ultra talented Oscar winner and Australian thespian Cate Blanchett is to start directing for the small screens. She will helm STATELESS immigration TV series based on shocking real events around the tragic story of Cornelia Rau, a young German Australian woman who escaped a frightening cult only to be trapped in a bizarre labyrinth of Australian psychiatric and legal systems. Cate Blanchett has directed a number of plays in Australia together with her husband and is also planning to direct a movie. She will play a lesbian lady in period set movie CAROL this December, then a news anchor in TRUTH next to Topher Grace and Robert Redford, and in 2017 she will lend her voice to snake Kaa in the live action version of JUNGLE BOOK with Christian Bale and Benedict Cumberbatch.

 'ZELDA' AMAZON SERIES

GAVIN STENHOUSE IS SCOTT FITZGERALD WITH CHRISTINA RICCI AS HIS WIFE
In other television news, Amazon has found their lead actor for period set series pilot ZELDA in young Gavin Stenhouse who will play F. Scott Fitzgerald next to Christina Ricci who is playing the title role of his insane wife. The series will focus on the wife of the famous writer of THE GREAT GATSBY. She was an embodiment of the 1920s lifestyle that revolved around drinking, jazz and defying traditional culture! She was also a writer, working on essays for magazines, short stories and she penned her own novel "Save Me the Waltz." Because of her schizophrenia and mental instability she spent last years of her life in mental hospitals and she died burnt alive when one of them caught fire while she was locked in it.

 'MOTHER'S DAY' MOVIE

WITH JENNIFER ANISTON, KATE HUDSON, JASON SUDEIKIS

Meanwhile, as it is now a custom at least once each year, we are getting a romantic star studded omnibus movie in 2016 as well! As 'Deadline' writes today, Open Road Films has picked up American rights to Garry Marshall’s MOTHER'S DAY, the latest in the director’s holiday movie series which includes NEW YEAR'S EVE and VALENTINE'S DAY. The film, which has an ensemble cast including Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Jason Sudeikis, Julia Roberts, follows the lives of several mothers leading up to the title holiday! The movie will be released at the end of next April. We might expect new names in the cast announced soon since shooting begins next month in Atlanta.