The following was posted on AUSXIP's official message board Talking Xena (many thanks aerips for the news)

Looks like Bridget Regan, Kahlan in Legend of the Seeker, is going to be spending the hiatus making the film The Best and the Brightest with Neil Patrick Harris, Bonnie Somerville, Amy Sedaris, Peter Serafinowicz, John Hodgman, Kate Mulgrew, and Christopher McDonald.

From the philly.com site:

Philly, doing a bang-up film business of late, will stand in for New York in The Best and the Brightest, a farce about two Delawareans trying to get their daughter into an elite Manhattan private kindergarten.

Shooting will start Thursday, and they'll be doing exteriors all over Center City. Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and Bonnie Somerville (Cashmere Mafia) play the couple. Also cast are some wickedly great comic actors: Amy Sedaris (Strangers With Candy), Peter Serafinowicz (BBC), John Hodgman (the PC guy in the Mac commercials), Bridget Regan (Legend of the Seeker), veteran Kate Mulgrew, and Christopher McDonald (yes, Shooter McGavin himself from Happy Gilmore

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