'Rogue' Season Two Premieres May 28 on DirecTV, New Trailer Released

The second season of Rogue premieres May 28.

DirecTV's suspense-drama Rogue, from leading independent studio Entertainment One (eOne) and Greenroom Entertainment in conjunction with Momentum TV, will premiere on Wednesday, May 28 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Award-winning actress Thandie Newton will resume her role as Grace Travis and joining the strong ensemble cast is Cole Hauser as the charming and enigmatic Ethan Kelly.

Season two of the DirecTV original series will see Grace attempt to navigate a new life. But things can't stay quiet for long. Separated from her husband, she is committed to providing a stable home for her daughter Evie (Sarah Jeffries), but those plans are thwarted by the unexpected arrival of her estranged mother Vivian (Clare Higgins). Professionally, Grace has taken a job as a handler for an FBI Task Force investigating the shadowy world of corporate espionage in San Francisco. But when her undercover operative Sarah (Aleksa Palladino) goes missing, Grace is forced to return to the life she so vehemently renounced.

While undercover, Grace meets Ethan Kelly, who owns the security consulting firm Sarah was in the midst of investigating when she disappeared. Ethan has his own agenda and soon a dangerous game of cat and mouse ensues. Uncovering the truth will lead Grace to discover a dark secret in Ethan's past; a secret that has led to betrayal and murder and that will ultimately bind Ethan and Grace's fates together.

Watch the new Season two trailer below:

DirecTV's Audience Network Expands Programming Slate with British Series BLACK MIRROR and SECRET STATE

DirecTV's Audience Network continues to provide viewers with unconventional, provocative programming with the addition of two celebrated British series, the critically acclaimed, award-winning BLACK MIRROR and the conspiracy thriller SECRET STATE, which will premiere Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET/PT respectively.

Cole Hauser Joins ROGUE Season 2

DirecTV announced today that film and television actor Cole Hauser will join Thandie Newton for season two of its original drama ROGUE that will air in 2014 on Audience.

Hauser will portray Ethan, a former soldier who left law school to enlist in the military after 9/11. Ethan is the founder of a security consulting firm in San Francisco, which he runs with three former military buddies. This band of brothers is united by a terrible secret, a dark event that has quietly haunted them for years.

NEWS ROUNDUP: TRA Ranks TV Shows By Political Party; Nick Wechsler Talks REVENGE; DirecTV's New DVR Records 5 Shows at Once

The CW's SUPERNATURAL is popular with
Democrats according to a new Tivo Study

Republicans Like Golf, Democrats Prefer Cartoons, Tivo Research Suggests
The results come from an analysis assembled by TRA Inc. (which stands for TiVo Research and Analytics), and are based on a model that matches viewing data from cable set-top boxes with voter-registration information from 186,000 households. Measured during the first two quarters of 2012 (which is why there is no football, but plenty of basketball), TRA listed programs by how they performed with registered voters of either party (as well as independents) compared to a base of all registered voters.

In general, the conclusions pointed to television viewing that is every bit as polarized as the political culture. The research listed the top 20 shows for Democratic and Republican viewers and not one network show appeared on both lists.

DirecTV and Viacom Reach Agreement

DirecTV and Viacom have reached an agreement to bring the Viacom channels back to DirecTV. Nick-at-Nite's HOLLYWOOD HEIGHTS and TeenNick's DEGRASSI are two of the primetime soaps impacted by the disagreement.

From DirecTV:
DirecTV has reached a new long-term agreement with Viacom to restore 17 channels (including Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, Spike, CMT, TV Land and ten other channels) that Viacom had taken away from  DirecTV customers on July 10. Viacom has returned all affected networks.

NEWS ROUNDUP: Aaron Sorkin Fires NEWSROOM Writers; Plus, King Sisters, Perry Fenwick, Epix, Grace Phipps, David Hasselhoff

King sisters are making their mark in Hollywood
Hunter King, 18, stars in HOLLYWOOD HEIGHTS while her sister, Joey, 12, has a role in the new Dark Knight movie. Hunter finished shooting the first season of HOLLYWOOD HEIGHTS this week. She plays Adriana, the daughter of Grayson McCouch's Don.

Aaron Sorkin fires THE NEWSROOM's Season 1 writers
Most of the writers on the cable drama about a Keith Olbermann-type television news demagogue have been fired, sources with knowledge of the show told The Daily. "They're not coming back, except for Sorkin's ex-girlfriend [Corinne Kinsbury]," one source said. [Sorkin is currently dating SEX AND THE CITY actress and MELROSE PLACE alum Kristin Davis.]

NEW ROUNDUP: Kassie DePaiva Visits Ailing Father. GH Recast? 3C Infringement? Plus, Lori Loughlin, Viacom vs. DirecTV, Freddie Smith & More

"3C" cast Jake Silbermann, Anna Chlumsky and Hannah Cabell

New play "3C" concludes run despite cease and desist order from THREE'S COMPANY
Most playwrights have jitters on opening night, but David Adjmi was in a panic amid the festivities last month for “3C,” his darkly comic deconstruction of the 1970s sitcom “Three’s Company.” That same day he learned that the copyright owner of “Three’s Company” had sent a cease-and-desist letter to the play’s producers charging that Mr. Adjmi had infringed on the copyright by borrowing so many elements from the TV series, including its premise about a man who pretends to be gay to live with two female roommates.

The show went on — but the copyright fight remains far from resolved.