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Another butt-kicker from The Shield is coming to Charming.

EW has learned exclusively that the Emmy-nominated CCH Pounder will join FX’s Sons of Anarchy for a multi-episode arc. She will play Tyne Patterson, a San Joaquin County District Attorney who runs head first into the area’s violent biker ways.

Pounder will first appear in the second episode of SOA, which will return in the fall.

Pounder, who played Detective Claudette Wyms from 2002 to 2008, is the seventh Shield star to guest star on SOA. The others were Jay Karnes, Walton Goggins, Jay Karnes, Benito Martinez, David Rees Snell, and Kenny Johnson.

So what do you say, Creator Kurt Sutter? CBS cancelled Vegas; can’t you find a place for Michael Chiklis too?

Sutter, for the uninitiated, was a writer on The Shield before creating SOA for FX.

After eight years, A&E is cutting off Intervention.

The Emmy-winning docu-series chronicling real-life addicts and their efforts to get sober will conclude this summer.

“As Intervention comes to an end, we’re proud to have paved the way for such an original and groundbreaking series,” said David McKillop, executive vp of programming for A&E Network. “We’re honored to have been a part of the 243 interventions since its premiere in March of 2005, leading to the 156 individuals that are currently sober to this day.”

The final five episodes air starting June 13. Addiction specialists Jeff Van Vonderen, Candy Finnigan and Donna Chavous will each return for the series’ final run, along with Ken Seeley who “comes back for one of the most difficult and dramatic episodes in the series’ history.”

CBS has released its first full trailers for its new fall shows. Previously, the network had put out behind-the-scenes previews. But here’s the same videos that advertisers got to see at the network’s upfront presentations last week. Below: Mom, The Millers, We Are Men, Hostages and The Crazy Ones (sorry Josh Holloway fans, CBS is holding back the Intelligence trailer … but only for the moment, check back later today). Let us know which fall show you think is the best in our new show poll, and check out how they all land on the schedule here. READ FULL STORY »

Tonight, Fox launches its latest reality experiment: Does Someone Have to Go?, where offices let employees take charge for 48 hours to decide the fate of fellow staffers and make overall recommendations for improvement. Billed as “Survivor meets The Office,” the project has been in the works at Fox for four years, with an early harsher draft of the concept drawing some controversy. Below, Fox’s president of alternative entertainment Mike Darnell discusses the kinder, gentler Does Someone Have to Go? (preview video below), as well as fall’s newly female-dominated X Factor panel and kid-contestant MasterChef spinoff.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This show has been through some changes since we first heard about it. Can you talk about the evolution of the idea?
Mike Darnell: The initial pitch was when the recession was in full force. Endemol brought me something called Toxic Office. Around the same time I saw a news report about a woman who was having problems with her business and she decided to open up the books to show everybody all the salaries and let them decide how the money should be distributed. Our mistake was not just the timing of the idea, but that it concentrated on businesses with economic problems. This does not. This is about offices with dysfunctional problems. All these are million-dollar businesses. This is not about not making money, but solving dysfunction.

Still, the question is: Will viewers during a semi-insecure economic climate watch a show where everyday folks get fired? READ FULL STORY »