TVLine Items: Bollywood Star Visits Hawaii, Oprah Schools Lindsay, Bates Ratings and More
Bollywood leading lady Mallika Sherawat is headed to Hawaii Five-0.
The actress will guest-star on the CBS drama as Farah, a woman who has a history with Catherine Rollins (played by Michelle Borth), TVLine has learned.
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When Farah’s son is kidnapped by the Taliban, Catherine and Steve travel to Afghanistan to help her and her husband Amir get him back.
Sherawat’s episode is tentatively slated to air May 2.
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• Oprah is doling out some tough love to Ms. Lohan in the following first-look trailer for OWN’s docu-series Lindsay. All the drama is exposed on Sunday, March 9.
• From Ratingsland: Bates Motel on Monday night returned to 3.07 million total viewers and a 1.3 demo rating, on par with its Season 1 launch. A&E’s Those Who Kill then debuted to 1.44 mil/0.5, shedding more than half of its lead-in.
• Leven Rambin (The Hunger Games, Grey’s Anatomy) has been tapped for a multi-episode stint on The CW’s The Tomorrow People, TVGuide.com reports. The actress will guest in the final three episodes of the season as Natalie, who, as reported in Matt’s Inside Line, is an unstable and sadistic rabble-rouser/self-determined leader who speaks her mind without putting a lot of thought into the outcome.
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• AMC will debut its new drama series Halt and Catch Fire on Sunday, June 1 at 10/9c. The show, about the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, stars Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies) as a former IBM executive.
• Attack of the Show alum Kevin Pereira will host Psych‘s live one-hour series finale aftershow, per The Hollywood Reporter. Psych After Pshow airs March 26 at 10 pm on USA Network.
• Recently fired Dancing With the Stars co-host Brooke Burke-Charvet has rebounded with a recurring role on Melissa & Joey, per The Hollywood Reporter. She will appear as Felicia, Joe’s (Lawrence) ex-girlfriend, who stirs up trouble for him and Mel (Hart), in two June episodes. Additionally, the ABC Family comedy has enlisted Tim Conway (The Carol Burnett Show) for a secret role in its “special” May 15 episode, featuring clips from all four years.
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• Starz is getting gritty, unveiling a trailer for its original crime drama Power, from executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and creator Courtney Kemp Agboh (The Good Wife). The series, premiering this summer, is set in two different worlds, the glamorous New York club scene and the brutal drug trade.
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