Jessica King out after a mystery injury, Comfort Fedoke in!

Less than a week after claiming a spot in the “So You Think You Can Dance” Top 10, hoofer Jessica King has exited the competition following an injury.

King will be replaced by Comfort Fedoke, the season’s most recently eliminated female contestant.

“I would like to say how sorry I am that Jessica cannot continue dancing in the competition at the advice of her doctor,” series producer and judge Nigel Lythgoe says in a statement. “Her full recovery is paramount and will only come with rest. We are fortunate that Comfort has agreed to rejoin the competition and know that under the circumstances she has Jessica’s full support.”

Asked for additional clarification at Monday (July 14) morning Television Critics Association press tour session for the show, Lythgoe was deliberately obscure.

“I’m afraid I can’t be specific about the injury,” Lythgoe says.

He wouldn’t address what the injury was or when it had occurred. He promised that King would give more information on a future show. He would only say that the mystery injury would take up to five weeks to heal.

King had been paired with Will Wingfield for the first leg of the competition. The Top 10 will be swapping partners this week as, for the first time this year, America’s votes will be the sole determining factor in who stays and who goes.

Source

Fox is looking to expand its primetime prison population with a spinoff from “Prison Break.”

Tentatively titled “Prison Break: Cherry Hill,” the potential new series would be set at a women’s prison and center on Molly, a new regular character that will be introduced on “Prison” later this season.

Fox has ordered a script of the possible spinoff, which is being written by “Prison” exec producer Matt Olmstead and co-exec producer Zack Estrin and produced by 20th Century Fox TV.

Molly is an upper-middle-class wife. After suffering a family tragedy at the hands of the Company — the government conspiracy that framed Michael (Wentworth Miller) and Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) and put them behind bars — she seeks them out at the hellish Panamanian prison Sona in her quest to exact vengeance.

“There is an ironic similarity between Molly and Michael — they’re both emotionally banged-up, both have lost loved ones, and both want the people responsible to pay — so they empathize with each other,” Olmstead said. (Michael’s love interest Sara, played by Sarah Wayne Callies, was killed earlier this season.)

In “Cherry Hill,” which would have the same tone as “Prison,” Molly goes to a women’s detention facility fully accepting the life sentence for her acts of revenge until she is contacted by the government with information that some of her loved ones are alive.

“In a moment’s time, she is transformed from an unapologetic murderer to a motivated woman who would do anything to get out of prison and be with them,” said Olmstead, who is exec producing “Cherry Hill” with Estrin and “Prison” exec producer Dawn Parouse.

MORE AFTER THE CUT! (more…)