Gretchen Mol News

Michelle Williams could end up playing Marilyn Monroe. Production Weekly has confirmed that she's in talks to star as the iconic blonde, bombshell in the Simon Curtis film My Week with Marilyn , which starts shooting in June.

Gretchen Mol, who was last seen in last season's short-lived American television version of Life on Mars and in the feature An American Affair , will be going to HBO for the series Boardwalk Empire .

Barry Murphy returns once more to trawl the TV and radio guides , finding anything worth tuning into this week.

'L ife on Mars," a police-drama with a sci-fi vibe that aired on ABC for a single season before calling it quits in April, had all the ingredients for a successful series: a fine cast , an intriguingly offbeat premise and a post-"Lost" time slot that made perfect sense for a show that deals with time travel and a protagonist with daddy issues.

Life on Mars , a police-drama with a sci-fi vibe that aired on ABC for a single season before calling it quits last April, had all the ingredients for a successful series: a fine cast , an intriguingly offbeat premise and a post- Lost time slot that made perfect sense for a show that deals with time travel and a protagonist with daddy issues.