Sarah Jessica Parker (Bauer Griffin) and actress AnnaSophia Robb (Getty Images)
Move over Sarah Jessica Parker, because AnnaSophia Robb (Soul Surfer, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) is the fresh Carrie Bradshaw.
The 18-year-old extra has active on to brilliant in The Carrie Diaries, the Sex and the City prequel that tells the news of a adolescent Carrie Bradshaw advancing of age during the 1980s. The CW pilot is actuality produced by Gossip Girl producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, so you apperceive there will be affluence of ambrosial drama, hot guys, and—of course—fabulous fashion.
• The Academy Awards denticulate big ratings aftermost night, but not as big as the February 12 Grammys telecast, it seems. The Oscars brought in an estimated 39.3 actor admirers nationwide, up from the 37.9 actor bodies who watched the 2011 James Franco/Anne Hathaway debacle. The Academy Awards are usually the additional accomplished rated affairs of the year (after the Super Bowl), but this year the Grammys rode the beachcomber of concern about Whitney Houston's casual to account 39.9 actor viewers. It is alone the additional time back the two ceremonies were televised that the Grammys accept managed to exhausted the Oscars in the ratings.
• HBO has appear yet addition Game of Thrones examination advanced of the show's April 1 premiere. The two-minute continued examination offers added capacity on the green division of the ballsy fantasy alternation and offers some best affecting moments. Our admired line? "When my dragons are grown, we will lay decay to armies and bake cities to the ground!" We can't wait.
• In added pilot casting account ('tis the season), the above brilliant of ABC Family's 10 Things I Hate About You has landed a asset role in the fresh Hunger Games-esque CW pilot, The Selection. Ethan Peck, grandson of acclaimed amateur Gregory Peck, will comedy a prince in the affected drama. Friday Night Lights' Aimee Teegarden has already been casting as a adolescent women who is called by activity to attempt to win the prince's hand.
Meanwhile, Giancarlo Esposito, who played the angry baddie Gus Fring on Breaking Bad and currently appears on ABC's Once Upon a Time, has landing a starring role in NBC's fresh J.J. Abrams pilot, Revolution. The alternation is declared as a high-octane activity ball that follows a accumulation of characters disturbing to survive and accumulate with admired ones in a apple area all forms of activity accept mysteriously accomplished to exist. Esposito will comedy a boxy as nails aggressive man who may not consistently be what he seems.
• DVR Watch: The Bachelor takes his final three ladies to Switzerland (ABC, 8pm), Blair thinks there ability be a artifice in her prenup on Gossip Girl (CW, 8pm), The Voice keeps up the dark auditions (NBC, 8pm), Hart of Dixie has George actuality called the town's Man of the Year (CW, 9pm), Castle and Beckett chase for a analgesic who dresses up his victims like bogie account characters on Castle (ABC, 10pm), Smash has Nick Jonas bedfellow starring (NBC, 10pm), and Joan Rivers and her army of appearance cohorts breach bottomward the sartorial hits and misses from aftermost night's Oscars on E!'s Appearance Police Special (E!, 10pm).
