STUNNING CAST PICS FOR NBC 'DRACULA' SHOW WITH JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS! JASON STATHAM JOINS MELISSA MCCARTHY IN 'SUSAN COOPER'! DAMIAN LEWIS JOINS NICOLE KIDMAN IN 'QUEEN OF THE DESERT'!

JASON STATHAM JOINS

MELISSA MCCARTHY IN 'SUSAN COOPER'

It seems delightful and always funny Melissa McCarthy might get a superhunk for her partner in spy comedy SUSAN COOPER. 'Deadline' reports that British superstar Jason Statham might join the Paul Feig directed comedy in which the story revolves around an unlikely female secret agent, played by Melissa McCarthy. Jason Statham would portray a spy on the same side as the title character. Melissa McCarthy also has BUREAU OF OTHERWORDLY OPERATIONS (adventure about a secret government organization that protects humans from ghosts) and TAMMY (about a scorned women who takes a road trip with her drunken grandmother) on the list of her future projects.

DAMIAN LEWIS JOINS

NICOLE KIDMAN IN 'QUEEN OF THE DESERT'
Deadline also reports that Damian Lewis has joined Nicole Kidman in THE QUEEN OF THE DESERT.  Werner Herzog's movie focuses on the writer, explorer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell, who is credited with the formation of the Middle East in the early 20th Century. Damian Lewis will portray Lt. Colonel Charles Doughty Wylie, an unhappily married British soldier who starts a turbulent affair with Bell between 1913 and 1915, before he was killed in active duty at Gallipoli.
ROBERT HOFFMAN IN 'SONGBYRD'
In TV news, Robert Hoffman from BH 90210 has joined E! new scripted show SONGBYRD in which Bethany Joy Lenz from ONE TREE HILL will play  writer of hit love songs, who employs a small staff, including her sister Mickey (Rumer Willis), to enable and manage her eccentric yet wildly successful process. Hoffman will play Lauren’s creative affairs director who is helplessly in love with her, a fact she is clueless about. The show is based on the life of Diane Warren who wrote some of the biggest pop classics in history for Celine Dion, Toni Braxton...

NEW 'DRACULA' IMAGES

 LOVE NEVER DIES

Your main visual treat for today are stunningly beautiful cast pictures coming from new epic show DRACULA which starts airing this Friday at NBC! Set in the late 19th century, the show follows Dracula who, hell-bent on destroying his enemies once and for all, arrives in Victorian London posing as mysterious American entrepreneur Alexander Grayson. There he will enjoy the newly discovered electricity, which can brighten his nights, and a mysterious girls who looks like the reincarnation of his long lost wife, who might brighten his life. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Oliver Jackson Cohen, Victoria Smurfit, Thomas Kretschmann and Katie McGrath star.