News: Rufus Sewell Cast In “Eleventh Hour”

“I was parked in the car in the hills with a gun and a bottle of Xanax beside me, trying to recover from harsh words said in the tabloids,” actress Delta Burke tells Entertainment Tonight in a two-part interview airing tonight and tomorrow. “I just wanted the pain to go away.” It’s Burke’s first interview since she checked into a psychiatric hospital in January in an effort battle longtime depression. Burke said she needed “an adjustment under a physician’s care” after the five medications she was taking no longer worked. Now she’s on two medications, she said. Burke spoke out in an effort to help others suffering depression. She wants to encourage people to pursue mental help. “I didn’t want to die,” says Burke of her suicidal feelings. “If I ever really wanted to be dead, I’d be dead.”

Brit actor Rufus Sewell (The Holiday) has been tapped to play the lead in Jerry Bruckheimer’s remake of the British sci-fi series “Eleventh Hour,” confirmed the Hollywood Reporter. Sewell will play Jacob Hood, a government adviser who, along with the help of a hot yet-to-be-cast female assistant, saves people from scientific abuses. In the original UK series, Hood was played by Star Trek: The Next Generation’s sci-fi veteran Patrick Stewart. Sewell next appears in the HBO miniseries “John Adams,” in which he plays Alexander Hamilton.