Bruce Miller Joins Syfy Series Alphas As New Showrunner

EXCLUSIVE: Syfy’s drama Alphas is heading into Season 2 with a new showrunner. Bruce Miller has joined the series starring David Strathairn as executive producer/showrunner. He replaces Ira Steven Behr, who is departing after running the series in its first season. Alphas, from BermanBraun, Universal Cable Prods. and co-creators Zak Penn and Michael Karnow, follows a team ofordinary citizens who possess extraordinary and unusual mental skills. It was renewed for a second season earlier this month. Miller will serve as an executive producer on the show alongside Penn and BermanBrauns Gail Berman,Lloyd Braunand Gene Stein. Karnow serves as co-executive producer. The gig extends Miller’s relationship with Syfy. He most recently served as an executive producer/showrunner on the network’s series Eureka, which wrapped production on its fifth and final season last month. ICM-repped Miller’s series credits also includes ER, Medium and 4400.

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Such a Drag! Helpful tips for TV and Movie Mix-Dressing

Robin Williams This midseason, ABC will debut the brand new comedy Arrange It about two men who - stop us if you have heard that one before - must be women to pay the bills. Yes, the series will borrow a couple of pages from the mix-dressing predecessor Bosom Pals, however the 1980 Tom Hanks-Peter Scolari buddy comedy is hardly the only real Television show or movie to pressure charge character to go for a walk on the other side from the gender line. Fall TV: Obtain the lowdown about this season's must-see new shows Be it for any noble cause (Mrs. Doubtfire's male alter-ego wanted to determine his kids, OK?!) or for entertainment (the way you doin' Mayor Giuliani Mrs. Silvestri), dressing a guy up inside a skirt and heels does not need to be this type of drag. Oh, and who states males reach have the gender-bending fun? A couple of ladies will also get in the loop. Browse the listing of the most popular TV and movie mix-night stands.

VIDEO: Stephen King Reads from His Vampires vs. Psychic Sequel to The Shining

Accepting an award last weekend at George Mason University, novelist Stephen King treated the audience to a reading of a passage from Dr. Sleep, his still-in-progress follow-up to The Shining. Remember little Danny Torrance, running from his deranged father (Jack Nicholson) in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film version? Well, Danny’s all grown up now, using his gift to help people die peacefully. And there are vampires, because why not? Release information hasn’t yet been divulged for the sequel, which King is still writing, but this much is known: Danny is now an adult, and comes into contact with “a traveling group of vampires called The Tribe.” Not sold yet? Give a listen to King reading an excerpt from his manuscript: “How many times have you found yourself behind a lumbering R.V., eating exhaust and waiting patiently for your chance to pass?” Well guess what — those were vampires!! Chime in below and sound off — is this like anything you ever imagined a Shining sequel would be? Stephen King Brings ‘Shining’ Sequel ‘Dr. Sleep’ to Life at Book Festival[THR]

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'Mud' banks trio of thesps

Mike Shepard, Michael Shannon and Sarah Paulson have became a member of the cast of Shaun Nichols' coming-of-age drama "Dirt," the author-director's first pic after "Take Shelter," joining the formerly introduced Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Tye Sheridan. Shooting started Monday in Arkansas. Ray McKinnon, Joe Don Baker and Paul Sparks also have became a member of the cast. Sarah Eco-friendly is creating, together with Everest Entertainment topper Lisa Maria Falcone and FilmNation's Aaron Ryder. Glen Basner is professional creating for FilmNation, that is selling "Dirt" worldwide. FilmNation and CAA are handling U.S. sales. "Dirt" centers about 2 14-year-old boys who encounter a mysterious fugitive hiding on a tropical within the Mississippi. Intrigued, they enter a pact to assist him evade capture and reunite using the passion for his existence. Shepard will have a reclusive character and Shannon will portray the uncle of among the boys while Paulson and McKinnon will have the mother and father from the other. Shannon starred in "Take Shelter" and labored together on Nichols' debut feature "Shotgun Tales." Everest Entertainment created "127 Hrs" and "Mutually Beneficial.Inch FilmNation handled worldwide sales for "Take Shelter" and lately completed "House in the Finish from the Street" and "The Raven." Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Exclusive Video: Guillermo del Toro on Making Mimic an 'A-Movie'

Years before Guillermo del Toro made a name for himself with dark box office hits like Blade II, Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy, Miramax gave the director a $30 million budget to film the insect horror film Mimic. At the time of its 1997 release, del Toro distanced himself from the studio-manipulated sci-fi flick — about a killer strain of bugs created by a well-meaning entomologist (Mira Sorvino) — but on September 27, Lionsgate releases a director’s cut Blu-ray of which del Toro finally approves. Ahead, find an exclusive clip from one of the Blu-ray’s new features in which the director discusses how he made Mimic an ‘A-Movie.’ The Mimic director’s cut, available tomorrow, will include seven minutes of restored footage as well as bonus materials created especially for its release including an audio commentary, a video prologue from the director and three featurettes. Find it on Amazon or your favorite digital retailer.

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Exclusive: Julian Gilbey Goes Offworld

Directing sci-fi for Lloyd LevinNo-one ever seems quite sure whether the British film industry is experiencing a golden age or a bad case of the Mondays, but one thing's for sure: it's churning out some serious talent. The likes of Duncan Jones, Rupert Wyatt and Gareth Edwards have impressed the bigwigs of Tinseltown sufficiently to be handed the keys to the kingdom and the next wave of British filmmaking talent - Julian Gilbey, Ben Wheatley et al - seems poised to follow in their footsteps. Gilbey's chase thriller A Lonely Place To Die has been glimpsed by the right eyeballs: producer Lloyd Levin's to be exact. Levin has signed him up to direct Offworld, a sci-fi chock full of the kind of extra-terrestrials that'd give Dutch, Mac and the rest of the Predator crew pause for serious thought. It's a kind of an intergalactic Naked Prey, Levin told Empire, a pedal-to-the-metal safari movie set on an alien planet. There's lots of nasty creatures - some even on the good guys' side. Levin has worked with directors of the calibre of Guillermo Del Toro, Paul Greengrass and Paul Thomas Anderson, so Gilbey should be in safe hands for his Hollywood debut. So why Gilbey? A Lonely Place To Die is a movie after my own heart, Levin explained. I loved how physical and visceral it was. . While Gilbey has previously partnered up with his brother, Will, to script his Scottish-set thriller and crime movies Rise Of The Footsoldier and Rollin' With The Nines, American screenwriter David Leslie Johnson will be the man behind the typewriter on Offworld. When it comes to bringing nasties to life, Johnson has rhesus-splashed previous: he's wrote Orphan and is currently working on season two of The Walking Dead. Watch this space for more as get it.

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Carrie Bradshaw Headed To The CW

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Carrie Bradshaw could be back on the small screen! According to multiple reports, The CW has bought The Carrie Diaries project a Sex and The City prequel based on Candace Bushnells book about Carries time in high school. The show is being developed by Gossip Girl producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage and according to Entertainment Weekly, the series could end up on the air by next fall. Deadline reported that Warner Bros. TV, which owns the rights to the The Carrie Diaries, is working out a deal that would allow the series to use characters and elements from the hit HBO series. Samantha Jones is featured in Bushnells book, but Miranda Hobbes and Charlotte York along with the rest of Carries circle of friends are not. As of now, HBO series creator Darren Star and star Sarah Jessica Parker are not attached to the project. A rep for The CW declined to comment when contacted by Access Hollywood. Last month, Michael Patrick King, co-executive producer of the Sex and The City television series and writer of both movies, voiced his feelings about a prequel. Im not working on any Sex and The City prequel at all, King said during a Television Critics Association panel to promote his new CBS show, 2 Broke Girls, in August. My Carrie Bradshaw started at 33, and I took her to 43. So I have no I didnt even want to know who Carrie Bradshaws parents were because I thought she just existed in Manhattan, he said. So for me, the idea of going backwards and making her less evolved, because the whole Sex and The City was about going from 33 to growth, so for me the idea of going backwards is something that I dont even imagine doing. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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SAG to honor Mary Tyler Moore

MooreMary Tyler Moore will receive The Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, the 43rd recipient of the kudo. SAG made the announcement Thursday. The award will be presented on Jan. 29 at the 18thn annual SAG Awards in Los Angeles. ''Mary Tyler Moore won our hearts as Laura Petrie and Mary Richards, our respect as her production company became synonymous with quality television, our awe as she tackled difficult subject matter in film and on Broadway, and our admiration she turned her public recognition into a catalyst to draw attention to critical and deeply personal health and social issues,'' said SAG president Ken Howard. ''She truly embodies the spirit behind SAG's Life Achievement Award, and we are honored to proclaim her as its 48th recipient.''She won two Emmys for ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'' and four for ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show,'' produced at her production company MTM with her then husband Grant Tinker. In its seven-year run, the latter skein won 29 Emmys.Moore and Tinker's MTM Enterprises produced ''The Bob Newhart Show'', ''Newhart, ''WKRP in Cincinnati,'' ''Hill Street Blues'' ''The White Shadow'' (starring Howard) and ''St. Elsewhere.'' Characters from ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' became the focus for several spin-offs in the 1970s: ''Rhoda,'' starring Valerie Harper; ''Phyllis,'' starring Cloris Leachman; and ''Lou Grant,'' starring Ed Asner.Moore also starred in the 1978 CBS telefilm ''First You Cry,'' ''Heartsounds,'' ''Gore Vidal's Lincoln,'' and ''Stolen Babies,'' for which she won her seventh Emmy.In 1980 Moore was nominated for an Oscar for ''Ordinary People.'' Other feature films include ''Thoroughly Modern Miller,'' ''Six Weeks,'' ''Flirting with Disaster'' and ''Against The Current.''Moore has penned two autobiographies -- ''After All,'' published in 1995, and ''Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes.'' Moore donated all her profits from ''Growing Up Again'' to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and has been the JDRF's International Chairman since 1984. Moore received the 1984 Women in Film Crystal Award, was presented with the American Screenwriters Association first David Angell Humanitarian Award in 2002 and in 2009 was honored with the National Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

GSN professional Goode moves into creating deal

GSN senior programming veep Kelly Goode has quit her publish in support of a 2-year development and creating cope with the cabler. "Kelly's tenure here continues to be very effective, marked by a massive expansion in GSN's original programming slate," GSN prexy and Boss David Goldhill stated. "The very first time within the network's history, original programming rules our primetime schedule." Goldhill stated that Goode would help in the quest for her successor as GSN programming topper. "I anticipate ongoing my relationship with GSN and am very happy with all we have accomplished here," Goode stated. "Our programming strategy throughout the final 3 years has truly offered to broaden and transform GSN's brand, and that i realize that like a producer I'll have the ability to still lead towards the growth and inventive vision from the network within the next few years.Inch Goode continues to be credited with getting attention-getting talent to GSN original series, with names including Jerry Springer, Came Carey, Wendy Williams, Sherri Shepherd, Bill Engvall, Barbara Ann Inaba and Norm Macdonald. "Kelly and her team allow us and created a number of our most effective and longest running series, including 'The Newlywed Game' and 'Baggage,' " Goldhill stated. "I'm very grateful for those that they has accomplished here and anticipate focusing on future projects together." Formerly, Goode was senior programming Vice president at Lifetime and programming veep at CBS Prods. She also offered like a comedy development professional at CBS Entertainment and was mind of TV production at John Singleton's New Deal Prods. Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com

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Healthy Hollywood: Wellness Wednesday Fashions Night Out 101

By Terri MacLeodNEW YORK, N.Y. -- Get ready to dust off your credit cards open up your wallets - and shop until you drop. Fashions Night Out is Thursday and women everywhere will celebrate their favorite four letter word (shop) with after hour access to their favorite stores. Style-related events are happening in cities nationwide. In New York, there are a number of celebrity appearances, such as Natasha Bedingfield at Ann Taylor, Kate Walsh at Sephora, and Hayden Panettiere at Stuart Weitzman. Yet, before you slip on your most fashionable outfit and hit the town Healthy Hollywood has a little advice on surviving the shopping gridlock with your sanity and hairstyle intact. It has become one of the busiest nights in New York, so its pretty hard getting around town, states celebrity hairstylist Ric Pipino of New Yorks Pipino 57. So, to help NYs fashion elite and us regular gals get in a stress-free state of mind, Ric is throwing a Fashions Night Out prep party from 10 AM to 8 PM on September 8. His salon, Pipino 57, is offering a 20% discount on all their hair styling services, blowouts, manicures, spray tanning, mini facials and more. Its a not a bad idea to take a moment and de-compress before you head out the door and start to navigate Fashions Night Out. Your sanity will thank you! While a little me time helps you begin the night in the right state of mind, Ric also says a hairstyle with staying power is a must. After all, who wants to bother with their hair once theyve set out on their fashion adventure? Ric suggests adding texture into your hair by using a non-greasy hair product, like Lift Me by Revolution In Cut. Then it is always good to give your hair some curl with either a curling iron or heated rollers, reveals Ric, who also adds, This step makes it easier for your hair to last the entire day and evening. Start with clean hair pulled back into a sexy French twist and then as the evening moves on, you can take your hair down for a mid-evening party. Finally, pull your hair back into a tight bun for any late night events. Also, if you have room in your purse, take along a small can of hair spray, hairpins, and a hair tie to pull your hair back just in case any hair emergencies happen to arise you will be prepared! For more information on Fashions Night Out prep party, head to www.pipino.com. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.