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Dr. Brown is checking into White Collar!
Treat Williams (Everwood, Heartland) is set to join the upcoming fourth season of the USA hit on a recurring basis, playing Sam, a gruff and elusive undercover officer from D.C. who has some “deeply rooted ties to Neal’s past.” (Speculation: Could he be Neal’s dad?! Discuss.)
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Fresh from taping the first season of FX’s Anger Management, Brett Butler has already lined up a new gig: She’s going to guest star on a CBS soap!
EW has learned exclusively that Brett Butler, the former star of the ABC comedy Grace Under Fire, will play Beth the neighbor in an upcoming episode of The Young and the Restless. Butler was scheduled to tape scenes with Paul Williams (Doug Davidson) yesterday and today at the CBS Studios in Los Angeles. Her episodes will air on June 12 and 14.
Butler wrapped production May 1 on Anger Management, a new comedy in the works at FX that stars Charlie Sheen. Butler plays Brett, a friend to Charlie (Sheen) who is a bartender at his favorite watering hole, The Merry Peasant. Here’s the official description of her character: “Brett dropped out of school and spent years as a stripper before becoming a bartender, and now loves to joke around with Charlie as he brings his family, dates, even his patients to the bar.”
Anger Management will air on Thursday nights starting June 28. The show will be part of the cable network’s new comedy block.
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Academy-Award nominee James Cromwell (Babe) will soon be facing something scarier than a talking pig: EW has confirmed that Cromwell is in negotiations to join the second season of FX’s American Horror Story. The actor will play Dr. Arden, who works at the same institution for the criminally insane run by Jessica Lange’s character.
Cromwell joins Lange, Chloe Sevigny, Adam Levine, Zachary Quinto, Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe, Evan Peters, and Lizzie Brochere in the ensemble for season two of the horror hit, set to premiere in October.
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Showtime’s docu-reality series The Real L Word was renewed for a third season last fall, and now the cable network is ready to reveal the show’s premiere date and, more importantly, the details on the season’s cast, which EW has here exclusively in the form of the official cast photo, as well as cast bios and a video teaser below.
The Real L Word returns to Showtime with new episodes on Thursday, July 12, at 10 p.m. Just like last year, there are cast changes. Claire, Francine, and Sajdah — regulars last year — have been jettisoned in favor of new mainstays Sara and Lauren in Los Angeles and Kiyomi, Somer, and Amanda, the trifecta representing show’s new expansion into New York City. Past cast members Whitney, Romi, and married couple Cori and Kacy will return.
Series creator Ilene Chaiken had this to say when the third season was announced: “We think it’s time to throw down and invite the women of New York to join in and demonstrate the claims they’ve lobbed at us these past few years…that New York’s women have something more to say about lesbian life, something that isn’t being said by our Los Angeles ladies. Bring it on, Brooklyn!”
Catch a video teaser of the upcoming season — as well as full, official cast bios — below:
Teri Hatcher is staying in the ABC family for her first post-Desperate Housewives gig and heading to — ABC Family.
The actress has landed a recurring role on Jane by Design, the network’s drama series about a high schooler plunged into the professional fashion world. She will play the long-lost mother of title character Jane (Erica Dasher) in the show’s upcoming second season, which kicks off June 5. The network also announced today that Hatcher is set to direct an episode.
The Desperate Housewives series finale airs May 13. Hatcher’s first of at least four appearances on Jane by Design will air June 19.
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Necessary Roughness has just scored a casting touchdown.
EW has learned that comedienne Amy Sedaris will appear in the sixth episode of the show’s upcoming second season as a successful therapist named Dr. Jane Crosetti, who goes toe-to-toe with Callie Thorne’s Dani.
Necessary Roughness, which last year earned Thorne a Golden Globe nomination, returns June 6 on USA.
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Season 2 of the FX hit American Horror Story is shaping up to be even wilder than season 1. Case in point: EW has learned exclusively that Big Love‘s Chloe Sevigny is in final talks to join the second season, set to begin production this summer. Sevigny will play a character named Shelly the Nymphomaniac, who is one of the mortal enemies of Jessica Lange’s character. Basically, prepare yourself for Lange vs. Sevigny! The writers and producers of AHS were such fans of Sevigny that they wrote the part with her in mind.
The actress will join Lange, Zachary Quinto, Adam Levine, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, and Lily Rabe in the new season, which Murphy has revealed will be set in an East Coast institution for the criminally insane run by Lange’s character.
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Aaron Sorkin likes to keep his friends close whenever he starts a new gig. (See: repeat appearances for actors like Martin Sheen, Josh Malina and Bradley Whitford in projects like The American President, The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip). And he’ll continue the tradition in his new HBO drama The Newsroom.
EW has learned exclusively that Jesse Eisenberg — who played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, which earned Sorkin an Oscar for writing – has a small voiceover role in the premiere episode that bows June 24. His voice is easily recognized as a key “newsmaker.”
Any chance Andrew Garfield could be next, Aaron?
The Newsroom is about a fictitious cable news network that stars Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Sam Waterston, Thomas Sadoski and Olivia Munn. It follows a news anchor (Daniels), his new executive producer (Mortimer), his newsroom staff (Alison Pill, John Gallagher, Jr., Dev Patel, Munn and Sadoski) and their boss (Waterston).
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American Horror Story has added yet another new castmember: French actress Lizzie Brochere will join the show in season 2, as first reported by TV Line. The actress will reportedly be playing an adversary of Jessica Lange’s character, also still unknown. Brochere will join Lange, Zachary Quinto, Adam Levine, Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, and Lily Rabe in the FX series’ second season set to premiere in October.
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Charlie Sheen is reuniting with ex-wife Denise Richards — on the small screen.
Sheen has tapped his former spouse for a guest spot on his forthcoming FX show, Anger Management, EW has confirmed.
Richards will play the new business partner of Sheen’s character’s ex, Jennifer (Shawnee Smith). TVLine first reported the news.
Anger Management, which released its first promotional spot earlier today, is set to debut June 28.
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If there’s one thing that TV Land sitcoms are known for besides their old-school laughs, it’s their genius stunt casting of television faves. EW has exclusively learned that Fran Drescher’s show Happily Divorced has just booked two TV greats — Rosie O’Donnell and Dan Akyroyd — to appear on separate episodes slated for the end of May.
O’Donnell will play Katie O’Grady, an old high school friend of Fran (Drescher) and Judi (Tichina Arnold) who arrives to help Fran learn a lesson about her relationship with her overbearing mother Dori (Rita Moreno). Meanwhile, Akyroyd plays a potential love interest — described as “charming and successful” — that Fran’s ex Peter (John Michael Higgins) sets up for her.
Happily Divorced is currently airing its second season on Wednesday at 10:30 p.m. and will wrap its current batch of episodes on June 6.
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One of the best new reality shows from last year, The Glee Project, is returning for a second season this summer. The series, which grants the winner of an arc on Glee, saw two victors from last year, Samuel Larsen and Damian McGinty, who both have since appeared on the Fox hit. Once again, Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy will evaluate the contestants along with the series casting director Robert Ulrich and choreographer/co-producer Zach Woodlee. Plus, vocal coach Nikki Anders will now officially join the judging panel.
This year, a new crop of singer/actor hopefuls are headed to the Oxygen series and EW has the EXCLUSIVE cast reveal. The Glee Project‘s inspiring 14 contestants includes a 24-year-old paralyzed from the waist down, a transgender 21-year-old, and another 24-year-old who’s been blind since the age of 9. Meet the rest of the hopefuls after the jump…
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Ringer star Kris Polaha is adding another TV gig to his resume: EW has exclusively learned that the star will guest on MTV’s scripted teen comedy Awkward in a two-episode arc that will air later in the series’ second season, which is currently in production.
Awkward follows the ups and downs of teen Jenna Hamilton (Ashley Rickards), who becomes a school celebrity after people mistakenly think she attempted suicide.
Details are slim at this point, but Polaha will play a man who figures prominently in the past of character Lacey, played by Nikki DeLoach, who coincidentally had a guest role on Ringer earlier this season.
Creator Lauren Iungerich wrote the role with Polaha — who also starred in the critically acclaimed Life Unexpected, from Liz Tigelaar — in mind. A premiere date for the second season of Awkward has yet to be announced.
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