Describing it as "huge Game of Thrones news," Entertainment Weekly reported that Emmy-winning British actor Ian McShane (Deadwood, Ray Donovan) will be on board for season six in a role that "has a relatively small amount of screen-time during the season, yet his character is of key importance."
EW also said that legendary Swedish actor Max von Sydow, whose credits range from many Ingmar Bergman films to Minority Report and the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens, "will play the Three-Eyed Raven, the mystical tutor of Bran Stark, who was briefly seen in the season 4 finale (where the character was portrayed by a different actor)."
While Game of Thrones would not offer any details regarding McShane's character, "Thrones is preparing to dive headlong into narrative territory not yet revealed in author George R.R. Martin's novels," EW wrote, adding that last week, HBO's programming president Michael Lombardo "revealed that the network plans at least eight seasons of the show, a bump from the oft-reported seven season plan."
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The CW network "is taking on a literary classic" by putting in development "a hyper-stylized, gritty adaptation" of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Deadline.com reported, noting that the drama is from writer Alexis Jolly, NCIS co-star Michael Weatherly and CBS TV Studios.
Written by Jolly, the project features Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy banding together "in order to survive the dystopic streets of Philadelphia and unravel a conspiracy that stretches far beyond anything they have ever imagined--all while trying not to kill each other in the process," Deadline.com wrote.
