* And now, we must give well-deserved props to one of our own: TVLine’s Editor-in-Chief Michael Ausiello has been named one of The Advocate‘s 50 Most Influential LGBT People in Media. Wallenda has also previously walked over the brink of Niagara Falls. * Syfy has unveiled a new teaser for Helix Season 2, premiering in January 2015. * Valerie Cherish has still got it in the new teaser and poster for The Comeback Season 2. * IFC has renewed its original comedy series Maron for Season 3, to air spring 2015. RELATED Cable Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Cancelled? Relive Nik Wallenda's two incredible walks across Chicago at epic heights with no safety tethers or nets. * Netflix’s upcoming Marvel series Daredevil has tapped Scott Glenn ( The Leftovers) to play the blind vigilante’s mentor/mysterious martial artist Stick, Variety reports. * Ann Cusack ( Private Practice) will guest-star on Fox’s upcoming midseason drama Backstrom as a professional sex surrogate who’s not about to be derailed by comments from Rainn Wilson’s titular character, TVLine has learned exclusively. RELATED Fall Preview 2014: Your Handy Calendar of (More Than) 99 Premieres The move comes because of production issues resulting from the conflict in Gaza, which prevented the show from continuing to film in Jerusalem past the pilot. * USA has pushed back the premiere of its action adventure event series DIG from this fall to 2015, our sister site Deadline reports. Vet Side-Eyes Disney CEO’s Slighting of Past Marvel Series Daredevil Nik Wallenda completes Chicago skyscraper wire walks Novem/ 9:46 PM / CBS/AP CHICAGO - Daredevil Nik Wallenda wowed Chicago and the world Sunday with two. He also is working on a special coating for the cable to deal with potentially frigid conditions in November.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Washington (AFP) - US daredevil Nik Wallenda broke two world records when he crossed the Chicago skyline on a tightrope suspended between three skyscrapers, without a safety harness. Wallenda said he initially considered putting duct tape over his eyes to ensure the audience knows that he truly will not be able to see before deciding to go with a regular blindfold. In what he predicted will be the most incredible tightrope walk of my career, daredevil Nik Wallenda announced Tuesday he will walk between two skyscrapers on Nov. Most people would think a wire walker doesn't want to go to the Windy City, but I enjoy the challenges." ![]() "Chicago, the Windy City, that was, believe it or not, very alluring to me. ![]() "It's my passion, it's what I love doing,'' Wallenda said. In the second part of the special, he will be blindfolded while walking from the west tower to the east tower of the Marina City building on State Street in downtown Chicago. 2, will feature two portions: first, Wallenda will walk the length of two city blocks up a 15-degree angle from the Marina City’s 534-foot-tall west tower to the 635-foot-tall Leo Burnett Building, more than 50 stories above the Chicago River. TIME spoke with Wallenda about why he chose. Wallenda announced that his latest tightrope walk, which will air live on the Discovery Channel on Nov. From the second skyscraper, Wallenda will don a blindfold and walk a level wire 543 feet above the ground to his third and final pillar of safety. ![]() I've trained a lot, intensively actually, blind-folded." Nik Wallenda returns with his newest death-defying challenge a tightrope walk between skyscrapers in Chicago for Discovery on Sunday, Nov. "It's about challenging myself, and hopefully through challenging myself, inspiring other people to challenge themselves," Wallenda said.
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