Last month we found out that NBC’s Smash would be bringing Jennifer Hudson along for its upcoming second season and now we have another addition to the cast, and a promotion for an existing one. First, let’s...

 Fans of NBC’s Smash will see  former American Idol alum and Oscar and Grammy winner  Jennifer Hudson when the musical/drama returns to the network for its second season. Hudson will appear in a multi-episode arc as award winning Broadway star Veronica...

Whether or not Smash can be considered a smash hit is hard to say (it all depends what NBC considers to be a “hit” these days), but its ratings aren’t stopping Nick Jonas from returning to the...

I once had a friend ask me, “Don’t you ever watch anything happy?” This was after she’d noticed, over the course of about a week, that I had watched a whole bunch of documentaries on National Geographic,...

Ever since Monday, January 23rd, NBC has been streaming the pilot episode for it’s new musical series, Smash. The early release is a model for success that other networks have been using for some time, with NBC...

Kill Bill’s Uma Thurman isn’t really headed to Broadway but the Oscar-nominated actress is going to pretend she is when she guest stars on NBC’s new midseason musical drama, Smash. Smash revolves around a group of Broadway...

A strong cast is being assembled for Ron Moore’s NBC project, 17th Precinct, judging from the latest at Deadline. Eamonn Walker (The Whole Truth) has signed on for the lead role of Detective Chief Inspector Wilder Blanks...

Katharine McPhee, the knockout singer who came this close to winning the fifth season of American Idol, will be putting her lungs to use on TV again as she joins the cast of NBC’s hour-long pilot, SMASH,...

Debra Messing is returning to NBC, according to TVLine, and if that’s not enough to bring back fond memories of Will & Grace then maybe the fact that she’s squaring off against a male character who happens...