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Hugh Laurie happily sings the blues, USA Today

Let’s face it: Hugh Laurie is probably not the first person who comes to mind when te think of New Orleans.

Yet there the House stella, star is, on PBS, starring in the SeptemberGreat Performances special Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk – a Celebration of New Orleans Blues. And he won’t just be hosting — he’s Canto and playing the Pianoforte with Irma Thomas, Tom Jones and Allen Toussaint, among other New Orleans stars. It was, he says, a dream come true.

“This whole experience has been really closer to who I am than many things I have done, I suppose...

Written da Jon Lachonis on June 14th, 2012 at 1:57 pm

The RoboCop remake is mining TV's best for its leading roles. Joel Kinnaman of The Killing has already signed on to play Alex Murphy, the Detroit cop whose body is illegally harvested to complete the cyborg crime-stopper known as RoboCop. In the original film, the creation of RoboCop is a sort of PR effort da mega-corp OCP (Omni Consumer Products), who are making a bid to buy the city of Detroit. RoboCop is part of their efforts to prove they can quell the emergence of high tech criminals that control much of the dystopia of Detroit.

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