13/03/12 - TV News Weekly Review #56 - Killer Hope

- Renewed:

• Archer (for a forth season)

• America’s Next Top Model (for a 19th season)

• Conan (for two more years)

• Justified (for a forth season)

- Canceled:

• Terra Nova

Source's: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

- Casting news:

- Brian Austin Green will guest star in the season finale of ABC's Happy Endings. (Source)
- David Zayas will guest star on episode 19 of Grimm.  (Source)
- Zachary Quinto will be back as a series regular in Season 2 of American Horror Story, joining Jessica Lange. Like Lange, he will play a brand new character next season, which is set at an East Coast institution. (Source)
- Adam Baldwin will be reunited with his former sci-fi series co-star Nathan Fillion on the hit ABC drama Castle. Brett Tucker will also guest star. (Source 1, 2)
- Leonard Nimoy will make a voice cameo on The Big Bang Theory. He will speak to Sheldon, as Spock, in a dream sequence. And if that's not enough for you check this out: Stephen Hawking will appear on episode 21(April 4) (Source 1, 2)
- Scott Bakula landed a recurring role on ABC’s Desperate Housewives. (Source)
- Jordan Belfi and Ashley Jones have been cast on Fox’s Bones as big-screen versions of Booth and Brennan. (Source)
- David Morrissey is joining The Walking Dead in Season 3. (Source)
- Josh Hopkins landed a multi-episode arc on the final season of USA Network’s In Plain Sight. (Source)
- Childrens Hospital‘s Rob Corddry will guest-star in the season 3 finale, reprising his season 2 role as Alan Connor. (Source)
- Marin Ireland is joining The Killing in the potentially recurring role of Liz, sister to Joel Kinnaman’s Detective Holder. (Source)
- Marion Ross has been tapped to guest-star in an upcoming episode of the NBC comedy Up All Night, playing the tough, doting grandmother of Will Arnett’s Chris. (Source)
- Katrina Bowden will guest star in an upcoming episode of New Girl as a love interest for Nick. (Source)
- Georgina Haig has been cast in the potentially recurring role of Etta, a new Fringe agent who turns up in this season’s 19th episode. (Source)
- Mía Maestro has landed the role of Maya, a local café owner with whom Neal will be romantically involved on White Collar’s next season. Joining Maestro for the new season’s first couple of episodes are Mekhi Phifer (as the FBI’s foremost tracker of fugitives) and Gregg Henry (as an island local who has the means to help Neal and Mozz lay low). (Source 1, 2)
- Peter Cambor will reprise hill role as Nate on NCIS: LA. (Source)
- Karina Lombard has been cast on NCIS as Coté de Pablo's Ziva longtime friend and mentor. (Source)
- Margarita Levieva has landed a major recurring role on Season 2 of HBO’s Luck. (Source)
- Gary Cole will reprise his role as Christine Baranski’s onscreen ballistics expert crush Kurt McVeigh in the March 18 episode of The Good Wife. (Source)
- Jamey Sheridan has been promoted to series regular for Season 2 of Homeland. (Source)
- Alyssa Milano has been booked for an encore, as the scheming estranged wife of Christian Slater‘s Oz on Breaking In. (Source)
- Martha Stewart will play herself in the May 7 episode of CBS’ rookie hit 2 Broke Girls. (Source)
- Cary Elwes is set to guest-star in the premiere of Leverage. (Source)
- Brett Butler joined Charlie Sheen’s upcoming FX comedy Anger Management. (Source)

In other news:

- Bones is moving to a new night on Fox. The drama will be moving to Mondays on April 2 at 8/7c, which will push House back to 9/8c. Replacing Bones on Thursdays is the new Kiefer Sutherland series Touch, which will debut March 22 at 9/8c following the American Idol results show. (Source)
- James Spader is NOT returning to The Office next season!. (Source)
- Dexter and Homeland will return on Sunday, Sept. 30.
- ABC May finale schedule:

• Last Man Standing (Tuesday, May 1)

• GCB (Sunday, May 6)

• Castle (Monday, May 7)

• Once Upon a Time and Desperate Housewives (two-hour series finale) (Sunday, May 13)

• Cougar Town (one-hour finale) and Private Practice (Tuesday, May 15)

• Suburgatory (Wednesday, May 16)

• Missing (premieres Thu, March 15) Scandal (premieres Thu, April 5) and Grey’s Anatomy (Thursday, May 17)

• Shark Tank (Friday, May 18)

• America’s Funniest Home Videos (Sunday, May 20)

• Dancing with the Stars (final performance show) (Monday, May 21)

• Dancing with the Stars (final results show) (Tuesday, May 22)

• The Middle, Modern Family, Revenge and Apartment 23 (premieres Wed, April 11) (Wednesday, May 23)

Weekly Recommendation:

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