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Vampire Diaries on the CW - Ian Somerhalder (Lost season 1's Boone) plays Damon, a cocky vampire who can go from playful to evil in a second. Zach Roerig plays the jock Matt and Kayla Ewell plays Matt's sister. Vampire Diaries is based on a book series about a woman who falls for two vampire brothers, one is good and the other is evil.

V The series, a revamped adaption of the original 80's series will broadcast on ABC. Morris Chestnut, Elizabeth Mitchell, Lourdes Benedicto, Alan Tudyk (who donned many monster masks on shows like Buffy as a Turok-Han) will play an FBI agent and Laura Vandervoort (formerly Kara/Supergirl on Smallville will play an alien seductress named Lisa.

Laura Leighton joins the cast of the CW's Melrose Place. Her character Sydney Andrews was thought to have been killed in the original series in a car accident but it now looks like she survived. Joining Laura Leighton is Katie Cassidy as Ella, Jessica Lucas as Riley, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz as Violent, Michael Rady as Jonah, Colin Egglesfield as Auggie, Shaun Sipos as David and Stephanie Jacobsen as Lauren. Heather Locklear has refused to join the series at least for the time being.

Leverage has been renewed for a 15th episode second season. Catch up on old episodes on the TNT website.

TRUE BLOOD Season 2: Evan Rachel Wood will play Sophie-Anne, the 500 year old vampire Queen of Louisiana. The 2 episodes will air toward the end of the season. Season 2 returns June 14th and will follow Charlaine Harri's Sookie Stackhouse series, Living Dead in Dallas.


The Sixth and final season which will contain 19 episodes will begin airing in 2010.

Dustin Milligan will not be a series regular in season two. However the storyline will be left open so that Dustin can return as a guest star to resolve his character's storyline.

Matt Lanter who plays recurring character Liam will be a series regular in season two.

Don't expect to see a whole lot of the old cast on 90210 next season. There's talk that the producers want to pull away from using the original cast so that the audience can focus more on the teens (played by 20+ actors).

24 Season 8: Jack Bauer and Chloe will be working for CTU based in NY. A brand new character named Brian Hasting will lead the resurrected CTU. Annie Wersching returns as Renee Walker. Season 8 begins production in May and will feature heavily once again on the middle east. Anil Kapoor joins the cast.

Ali Larter's Tracy will continue to go on a murderous rampage in season 4 and Zachary Quinto will return but you already knew that.

Chad Michael Murray and Hilarie Burton will not return to One Tree Hill for season seven. Two new characters are said to be introduced next season to replace the departure of Murray and Burton.

Austin Nichols who plays Julian on One Tree Hill has been bumped to a series regular next season to make up for Chad Michael Murray who leaves the series this season. The identity of the other cast member is unknown.