Grimm Gets a Thursday Night Tryout; Plus Scoop on Upcoming Episodes

David Giuntoli, Grimm Is it a riff on the old Pied Piper story...or Glee gone bad? On a special Thursday episode (10/9c) of NBC's fairy-tale-inspired crime series Grimm, a teacher at a performing-arts school will die gruesomely, leaving many of the students on the suspect list Nick (David Giuntoli) must investigate. "It's a very ambitious episode with really cool techno music and a buttload of rats," says exec producer David Greenwalt. "It is not for the faint of heart." That's followed tomorrow night - in the show's normal Friday-at-9/8c timeslot - by an hour of revenge featuring pigs and the wolves who've hunted them for centuries. Drop Dead Diva's Jaime Ray Newman guest stars as a hot 'n' hairy number who shares a stormy past with Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell). "She is a real wild ass," Greenwalt notes. "And by that I don't mean donkey. On our show, you have to clarify that! Wait till you see Jaime wolfing out. It's really amazing." Then, on December 16 comes a story of a feral teenager who hides in the woods and hasn't been to a hairdresser in years. "It's a very cool telling of the Rapunzel story," says exec producer Jim Kouf. "She doesn't just use that long braid of hers to climb up and down stuff. She uses it with violent intent." Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Comedy Central Development Slate: New Shows from Shaun Ross, 'Daily Show's Wyatt Cenac (Exclusive)

NY - Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia founder Martha Stewart designed a surprise appearance in the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference here Wednesday throughout a trader presentation and Q&A featuring leader and COO Lisa Gersh who recommended the organization's outlook.our editor recommendsMartha Stewart revisit Board of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Martha Stewart Living Boss Lisa Gersh to begin Confirming to Board on Sept. 15 At the time of her six-month anniversary with the organization, Gersh told the Wall Street crowd "I'd a really busy six several weeks" and vowed to carry on to operate hard, therefore the top quality lifestyle company can "go back to profitability and obtain the most from our brands." She stated: "This can be a company that needs to be lucrative and growing," and all sorts of models should come to create a profit over in the future. MSLO "hasn't carried out at acceptable levels," Gersh stressed. "Among the finest to express hi," Stewart stated after she walked in to the room in the finish from the session and was requested if she'd any ideas. Highlighting this was her very first time back around the business side of the organization since she lately rejoined the organization's board, she stated she desired to congratulate Gersh and her team on doing "an amazing job" and being aggressive inside a nice way, which she stated was "very pleasing" to her. Requested through the Hollywood Reporter following the UBS session if she could become chairman from the MSLO board again, she stated which was "TBD." The looks came after MSLO earlier within the day had revealed a proper alliance with J.C. Penney which will begin to see the store have a 16.6 % stake within the lifestyle media company. Emphasizing that MSLO thinks in personas and brands, Gersh stated that corporate expenses connected with individuals factors must participate the firm's cost structure. But she stated that her team may take out some cost in support functions, facilities and T&E. Gersh stated that MSLO is constantly on the see its Hallmark Funnel programming block like a five-hour block of "valuable propertyInch that can help the organization "further popularize our brands." And not mention any sort of plans, she also stated that Martha Stewart and Emeril Lagasse "can certainly attract great audiences on broadcast" - an indication that MSLO, following a finish from the run of Stewart's syndicated Television show and also the Hallmark deal, might be thinking of getting broadcast possibilities. Stewart later told THR that they and MSLO were "pleased with the development that's occurring at Hallmark" which MSLO's block was "doing ok." She also stated the firm is dealing with Hallmark "to complete new and various things." She didn't elaborate. Stewart's unaided awareness is 53 percent when individuals are requested the title of an individual who provides lifestyle and home ideas, Gersh stated in stating data. The nearest competitor with 6 % is Rachael Ray, she stated. She also contended that Lagasse along with other company talent continues to be "under-used." Gersh in her own presentation also stated that MSLO would save $5.5 million in the finish of the studio lease that it's exiting the coming year. And she or he stated that the organization could bring TV production in-house, but she didn't share further particulars. MSLO presently has two photo galleries, based on a speaker. Gersh further told the UBS crowd that MSLO includes a "tremendous library" you can use electronically which digital advertising is really a key chance. While digital requires investment, MSLO is going to be prudent, she stated. Meanwhile, retailing may be the quickest-growing and many lucrative a part of the organization's business, she outlined. Better terms for retailing deals ought to be available available on the market, she added. Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Subjects Martha Stewart Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia UBS

Talker Shaun Probst Boosts Station Count

CBS Television Distribution has offered its syndicated first-run Shaun Probst to stations in additional than 70% of the nation in front of its fall 2012 launch. The brand new one-hour talk show starring the Survivor host has become in 22 from the top 25 marketplaces.New sales include to station groups CBS, Dispatch Broadcast Group, Grey Television, Raycom Media, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Hearst Television.

Google's New Venice Beach Office Poised to Jumpstart Real Estate Market

In these endless days of stasis for the residential real estate market, it seems that everyone is searching for a silver lining to news of mounting foreclosures or rising inventories of unsold houses. But in Venice, where Google just opened new offices that house more than 500 employees, there is some honest-to-goodness hope for real estate agents who've long sought silver linings.our editor recommendsGoogle Co-Founder Sergey Brin Gives $500,000 to WikipediaInside Google Music's Launch Party Indeed, the search engine behemoth's November move from Santa Monica to Venice -- where it is leasing more than 100,000 square feet in three buildings on Main Street -- has brokers preparing for a reinvigoration of the housing market. While Google's relocation is expected to lead at least some employees to purchase property in Venice, perhaps more importantly, brokers and others say that the company's choice of location there is spurring others to consider the beachside community. "It's what we call the clustering effect; the Google name leads others to the area," says Kimberly Ritter-Martinez, associate economist for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. "It will eventually attract like-minded and similar types of businesses -- and you hear so much talk about living close to where you work." PHOTOS: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Robert De Niro and Other Big Real Estate Deals Mountain View, Calif.-based Google isn't the only tech or media firm that has gravitated to or solidified roots in the area. This summer, ad agency Zambezi Ink, owned by Kobe Bryant, moved into new offices on Westminster Avenue. In April, actor-director Jon Favreau paid slightly less than $2 million for a three-story commercial property on Abbot Kinney Boulevard that he leases to a postproduction firm. Robert Downey Jr. purchased a building in the same area in 2009 for $5.6 million. And both Facebook and Yahoo maintain offices nearby in Playa Vista and Santa Monica, respectively, positioning the Westside as a tech hub. Several entertainment industry players also have bought or sold residences in Venice in recent months. In September, Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd bought a three-bedroom house a block from Abbot Kinney for $2.715 million. (He's also listed a residence on Navy Street for $3.495 million.) In May, actress Olivia Wilde sold a 3,000-square-foot residence on Crescent Place for $3.095 million and former KCRW-FM music director Tom Schnabel sold a modern house on an Altair Place double lot for $2.9 million in August. That same month, Payam Shohadai, co-founder of visual effects firm Luma Pictures, purchased a Marco Place property for $2.045 million. Luma -- which has worked on films such as The Avengers, Captain America and The Green Hornet -- is based in Santa Monica, and Shohadai decided to move to Venice from the Miracle Mile area to be closer to his office. And it didn't hurt that Google and other similar companies have moved there. "Since they are my sort of people -- creative technology -- that's a bonus for me," Shohadai says. "There's definitely a creative class of people and professionals that are making good money, but it feels very nontraditional." So far, data that proves Google's impact in Venice is scant. Brokers say that they have shown houses to prospective buyers who work for the company, but none interviewed by The Hollywood Reporter has sold a property to a Google employee. (There's no word on co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin casing the area for residences.) And data from the Multiple Listing Service shows that the Venice market essentially is treading water: The number of single-family-house and condominium sales is up slightly in 2011 compared with last year, but the median price of properties sold is down. But real estate agent Sandra Miller of Engels & Volkers, who represented Shohadai in his purchase, says that despite the stagnant market, deals can be made if sellers are motivated. "And if the seller is a real seller, the buyer can get a deal," says Miller, who also has the listing on a compound owned by Anjelica Huston. PHOTOS: Hilary Swank, Chris Brown, Ronni Chasen and Other Big Real Estate Deals Google is known to locate offices in areas where there is room for growth. And the company is hiring, though a spokesman would not comment on how many people it plans to bring aboard at the Venice office, which is partly housed in architect Frank Gehry's iconic Binoculars Building (it is named for the adjoining oversized sculpture created by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen). Earlier this year, the company said it would add 6,000 workers overall in 2011, and Coldwell Banker agent Todd Baker is hopeful that Google will bring more employees to the area. "That will translate into greater demand for homes and more buyers. Every market needs a kick," he says. The company's new Main Street property was previously occupied in part by Digital Domain, the visual effects and animation firm co-founded by director James Cameron, and now houses Google software engineers and sales representatives. (Digital Domain retains offices nearby in Venice.) For years, Venice worked to shake off a reputation for gang violence and drug dealing that tempered enthusiasm for its artist-friendly vibe. Things changed in the past decade with the emergence of Abbot Kinney as a bastion for haute cuisine and boutiques such as Jack Spade and Mona Moore (think $1,000 Martin Margiela boots). In 2008, the community welcomed a Whole Foods megastore, but some residents boycotted the 2007 opening of a since-shuttered Pinkberry outpost. Google has not been met with resistance, perhaps because it was relatively open about its plans, discussing them, for example, at a Venice Neighborhood Council meeting. "Normally, Venice people don't like big companies, but absolutely Venice has embraced Google," says real estate agent Tami Pardee, who specializes in the area. "It has brought people who say, 'Wow, Google is there; it must be a good place to live.' " But for some, the idea of Venice as a haven for tech companies is out of step with the bohemian enclave's character. Longtime Venice architect David Hertz, who is remodeling Shohadai's house, cautions that the community shouldn't be "yuppiefied." While he's a supporter of growth, he hopes the area can retain its grittiness as it evolves. "I don't think Venice was better when there were prostitutes and crack houses, but I think it is really a vital community of eclectic cultures and socioeconomic brackets, and I don't want to lose that original Venice feel." VENICE BY THE NUMBERS: Although brokers are hopeful for an uptick in sales, the market for single-family houses and condos remains flat in the 90291 Venice ZIP code, according to Multiple Listing Service data. Residences Sold (Media Price) 2010: 189 ($950,000) 2011: 194 ($900,000) UPDATE: One Year Later The premiere issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine checked in on the residences of two of Venice's most famous folks: Anjelica Huston and the late Dennis Hopper. Back then, both of their compounds were for sale, and they remain on the market about a year later. The imposing Huston residence, first listed in May 2010, has been reduced from $18 million to $14 million. The five-story, 13,796-square-foot Windward Avenue property, designed by the actress' late husband, sculptor Robert Graham, is still Venice's most expensive listing. Seller's agent Sandra Miller says that there's an interested party. The eclectic Hopper compound, listed in July 2010 for $6.245 million, has been reduced to $5.75 million. The Indiana Avenue property includes three condos designed by Frank Gehry. Although both residences boast celebrity and architectural pedigrees, agent Todd Baker says they are anomalies suited only to "very unique buyers." Email: Daniel.Miller@THR.com Twitter: @DanielNMiller PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Hollywood's Biggest Real Estate Deals of the Week: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, Jennifer Hudson, Robert De Niro Related Topics Google Dennis Hopper Jon Favreau Julian Schnabel Robert Downey Jr.

Jesus Celebrity

A La Jolla Playhouse presentation in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival output of a rock opera by 50 percent functions, with lyrics by Tim Grain and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Directed by Des McAnuff. Choreography, Lisa Shriver. Musical director, Ron Fox. Sets, Robert Brill costumes, Paul Tazewell lighting, Howell Binkley video, Sean Nieuwenhuis appear, Jim Neil fight director, Daniel Levinson, stunt coordinator, Simon Fon. Opened up up November. 30, 2011. Examined 12 ,. 3. Runs through 12 ,. 31. Running time: 110 MIN.Jesus - Paul Nolan Judas Iscariot - Josh Youthful Mary Magdalene - Chilina Kennedy Pontius Pilate - Jeremy Kushnier King Herod Bruce Dow Caiaphas - Marcus Nance Annas - Aaron Walpole With: Matt Alfano, Mary Antonini, Karen Burthwright, Jacqueline Burtney, Mark Cassius, Ryan Gifford, Kaylee Harwood, Mike Nadajewski, Melissa O'Neil, Laurin Padolina, Stephen Patterson, Katrina Reynolds, Jennifer Driver-Shaw, Matthew Rossoff, Jaz Sealey, Jason Sermonia, Julius Sermonia, Lee Siegel, Jonathan Winsby, Sandy Winsby.In Des McAnuff's Broadway-bound revival of "Jesus Celebrity," costume designer Paul Tazewell dresses the title character in solid white-colored, as if offering a clear canvas that the planet is requested to fresh fresh paint for an additional 2,000 many beyond. The effectiveness in the contractor from Nazareth for everybody everyone's choose reasons might be the theme here, surely most likely probably the most thoughtful and scintillating reading through through in the Webber/Grain rock opera since its 1969 recording. Beneath the overture, turbanned, black-covered riot police spin warrior warrior spears to whack raggedy proles. Even though this production was produced in Stratford, Ontario extended just before the Wall Street protests, an inevitable sense of "Occupy Judea" produces immediacy, increased having a news ticker orienting us to a while and put. Pharisees transporting pepper spray wouldn't be an unpredicted sight. Creating the nation's energy vacuum makes way (literally, running Robert Brill's glittering structure from the set) for the reaction to a prayer. Not the normal one-dimensional saintly/pallid Jesus, Paul Nolan offers intriguing levels of engagement and detachment, always departing us once removed understanding him entirely. Because, he intentionally raises the remote celebs within our age: James Dean John Lennon Bowie and Jagger - all people enigmas which we are in a position to eagerly project whatever we imagined. It's not different in Jerusalem, circa 33 A.D. An oppressed populace dances its requirement of Deliverer in Lisa Shriver's exciting choreography. The apostles sing their desiring a fighting commander. Temple elders Annas (weaselly Aaron Walpole) and Caiaphas (menacing basso Marcus Nance) must manufacture a scapegoat to keep Rome using their hair, while Governor Pilate (a subtly nuanced Jeremy Kushnier) is impacted by existential doubt. Jesus becomes everybody's obscure object of desire, just like he remains today. Even King Herod (Bruce Dow), typically dismissable just like a preening, queeny jester ("Walk across my pool"), is granted gravitas. His vaudevilley Charleston is certainly an amusingly rousing Vegas lounge act, but because this potentate is anxiously seeking salvation, Dow is crushed to know "You aren't the MasterOrYou are a fraud!" An ordinarily contemptuous snap is invested with genuine terror. Still more personal demands they fit by tormented Judas (Josh Youthful) and reviled Mary Magdalene (Chilina Kennedy). McAnuff produces an affectional triangular in which the Masters mixed signals alternately seduce and perturb his dearest disciples, similar for the spiritual crises known to by sages from St. Augustine to Thomas Merton. The helmer's notion would actually are better if Jesus saved both at equal arm's length. By separating Judas yet granting Mary unfettered utilization of Jesus' attention, McAnuff stacks when and decreases around the tension. Kennedy lacks vulnerability anyway, and her "I am Unsure The best way to Love Him" leads to just like a mere announcement, no anguished question. It's a rare directorial misstep in several occurrences marked by equal measures of theatricality and probing intelligence. Concept involves full fruition inside the title number, usually carelessly tossed in should be, it's good and B, it's round the album. Here, McAnuff reincarnates Judas just like a spangled Jimmy Swaggart, strutting atop a ramp jutting out inside the auditorium. Since the quietly dignified Jesus begins to speak at his side, the sizzling Youthful revs within the evangelical fervor - and out of the blue we're not able to hear a factor in the Word the gospel becomes an afterthought. This dramatization of man's inhumanity to Jesus' message becomes an unforgettable staging coup. "Celebrity" can be a triumph of interpretation surprisingly impressive in comparison to helmer's fantastically multicultural reimagining of "The Wiz" in 2006, which sadly never handled to obtain from La Jolla. Mischievous original helmer Tom O'Horgan introduced, "If only to shake Them up," but McAnuff desires to make sure they are think and feel. What opened up in Gotham in 1971 just like a cheesy mess will shortly return just like a smart and moving spectacle. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

New Line Looking To Shake Things Up With San Andreas 3-D

EXCLUSIVE: While Hollywood’s preoccupation this week has been high winds, New Line Cinema is preparing for an earthquake. I’m told the studio is out to directors with San Andreas 3-D, a big-budget film hatched by scribes Jeremy Passmore & Andre Fabrizio as a pitch. They’ve written the script and Allan Loeb has done a polish for a north-of-$100 million film that’s ready to go. Beau Flynn is producing. It’s a full-scale disaster picture revolving around a massive earthquake and its devastating effect on California. This is something that hasn’t really been done since the 1974 film Earthquake, which starred Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner. That film boasted of the advantages of “Sensurround” to create a lifelike feel, but the prospect of a 3D rendering holds promise. Passmore & Fabrizio are repped by Paradigm and Aperture Entertainment and Loeb by CAA. Passmore & Fabrizio are rewriting Hellified and Passmore scripted the Red Dawn remake.

Roeg to receive Dilys Powell Award

LONDON -- Filmmaker Nicolas Roeg will be awarded the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film at the London Critics' Circle Film Awards, which unspools Jan. 19. Roeg, whose credits include "Performance," "Don't Look Now," "The Witches" and "Walkabout," will join the likes of Richard Attenborough, Judi Dench, Julie Walters and Quentin Tarantino, who have all be given the award in previous years. The helmer has worked with a raft of talent throughout his career, including Mick Jagger, Anjelica Huston, Oliver Reed, David Bowie and Julie Christie. Commenting on the award, Roeg said: "I'm sure the critics will understand when I say: On looking through and reading some of my old reviews, I'm torn between thanking you and forgiving you. But having slept on it, I'll go with the positive and thank you..." Nominations for the other awards will be announced on Dec. 20. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com