HOLLYWOOD BUZZ
■ B&B’S Nia Sioux
(Emma, r.) has landed a role in The Code, a new sci-fi action flick that’s filming now ....
ABC’S rookie drama A
MILLION LITTLE THINGS takes over STATION
19’s Thursday post
GREY’S ANATOMY time slot this winter. The firefighter drama starring Jason George (Ben; ex-michael, SUNSET
BEACH) will return on
March 7. The network’s sizzling new prime-time soap, GRAND HOTEL, is set to debut on June
17. The sudser stars
Bryan Craig (ex-morgan,
GH), Roselyn Sanchez
(ex-carmen, DEVIOUS
MAIDS, above r.), Denyse Tontz (ex-miranda,
ALL MY CHILDREN) and Chris Warren (ex-jimmy, B&B), and follows the love lives of the guests and staff of a lavish Miami Beach hotel. Eva Longoria
(ex-isabella, Y&R) is the series’s executive producer .... Alexandra Breckenridge (ex-sophie, THIS IS US) and Martin Henderson (ex-nathan, GREY’S ANATOMY) have been cast in the new Netflix series VIRGIN RIVER, based on Robyn Carr’s
contemporary romance book series. It is slated to premiere later this year .... Fox has given a pilot order to FILTHY RICH, a soapy drama from The Help’s writer/director Tate Taylor. The series is described as a Southern gothic dramedy revolving around two strong matriarchs who will do anything to protect their loved ones. When the wealthy
CEO of the world’s largest Christian network dies in a plane crash, his wife and adult children are stunned to discover that he had another family, and the two clans go head-to-head over their due .... CBS has ordered an action-drama pilot, SURVEILLANCE, starring Sophia Bush (ex-brooke, ONE TREE HILL).