CSI: Miami (CBS)
Lucy Hale (Privileged) has signed on for a guest role. She will play a famous pop star that turns up dead. Hale’s episode is scheduled to air in January 2010.

Delta Blues (TNT)
Sam Hennings, Robyn Lively and Leonard Earl Howze have landed co-starring roles opposite Jason Lee on TNT’s George Clooney produced pilot. The show centers on Dwight Hendricks (Lee), a Memphis police officer who lives with his mother and moonlights as an Elvis impersonator. Hennings will play Dwight’s partner Whitehead. Lively will play Charlene, Dwight’s ex-wife whose catering company is contracted by the MPD. Howze will play a detective who works closely with Dwight and Whitehead. He is managed by Krirzer Levine Wilkins Griffin.

Facing Kate (USA)
Ethan Embry has joined USA Network’s pilot. The show centers on Kate (Sarah Shahi), an attorney-turned-professional mediator trying to balance her new work relationships and those with her family. Embry will play Kate’s brother and confidant who gave up a law career to be a stay-at-home father.

Law and Order: SVU (NBC)
Kathy Griffin has joined the show in a guest role. She will play a lesbian activist in the February 10 episode.

Private Practice (ABC)
Melissa McCarthy has signed on for a guest role. She will play a pregnant woman who is a patient of midwifery expert Dell (Chris Lowell). McCarthy’s episode is scheduled to air in January.

Rizzoli (TNT)
Lorraine Bracco is returning to series television with a role in TNT’s drama pilot. Bracco will play Rizzoli’s mother Angela, who despite her tough Boston exterior is a beautiful woman, loyal wife and mother of three.

The Quickening (A&E)
maury Nolasco (Prison Break) is set to co-star opposite Radha Mitchell in A&E’s drama pilot. The centers on Maggie Bird, a homicide detective assigned to a desk job after it is discovered that she has a bipolar disorder. Nolasco will play a homicide detective who briefly was married to Maggie and remains emotionally connected to her.

This Week: 90210, Big Love, Brothers and Sisters, Californication, Castle, Community, Cougar Town, Criminal Minds, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Desperate Housewives, Dexter, Dollhouse, Friday Night Lights, Fringe, Glee, Gossip Girl, Grey’s Anatomy, House, Legend of the Seeker, Leverage, Lie To Me, Lost, Modern Family, One Tree Hill, Parks and Recreation, Party Down, Private Practice, Scrubs, Smallville, Stargate Universe, The Big Bang Theory, The Cleveland Show, The Good Wife, The Mentalist, The Office, Ugly Betty, V and Vampire Diaries.

90210

Episode 12 is going to be awesome. It all goes down at the Winter Wonderland dance, and an intervention takes place for Annie to get her to realize that Jasper is a bad guy. Also, Teddy has feelings for Silver and asks her out, but she rejects him. Though something will happen between the two later on. (Watch With Kristin)

Big Love

Producers are now casting for an INS agent, which makes us paranoid there’s something not right with somebody’s immigration papers. Could the feds have found a reason to lean on Ana (Branka Katic) or her family? (Watch With Kristin)

Brothers and Sisters

In the next episode, Justin will fall of the wagon (just one sip, but still) and will be fuming mad when Rebecca finally fesses up to him and tells him she is pregnant. He’ll tell the rest of the family and storm out. (Watch With Kristin)

Californication

Hank’s not the only one with a wandering eye, it seems. He gets a big taste of his own medicine when a man from Karen’s past resurfaces. It’s a guy we’ve seen before — a whole lot of him. (TV Guide)

Hank’s disastrous parenting has a specific negative effect on Becca’s educational future. Actually the entire rest of the season is about the near-total collapse of Hank Moody’s personal life. (Watch With Kristin)

Castle

Abigail Spencer says in the November 23 episode she and Perrey Reeves clash over a corpse. “Perrey is great to catfight with be she is really tiny,” she said with a laugh. “You can really intimidate her!” Reeves plays a dead man’s wife and Spencer his fiancée. But as if that weren’t messy enough a matter, “There is a twist,” Abigail says. (Matt Mitovich)

Community

Señor Chang and Jeff Winger become best friends this week! Community star Ken Jeong says, “You see a deepening kind of friendship within our characters during that episode. We are similar in age and scope, and, yeah, there was a natural [progression].” (Watch With Kristin)

Cougar Town

Josh Hopkins, the guitar-playing neighbor, says that “before our characters [Grayson and Jules] ever get together, there will be a detour through some other characters, maybe another regular on the show.” (Watch With Kristin)

Criminal Minds

There will be two deaths in next Wednesday’s 100th episode. (Michael Ausiello)

Next week’s gruesome eppy also boasts a finger-cutting and a head-bashing. (Michael Ausiello)

CSI: Miami

A January episode finds Calleigh working through some prickly trust issues with Jesse. (Matt Mitovich)

CSI: NY

Executive producer Pam Veasey says that the creation of the Compass Killer arc was about highlighting the show’s storied location. “We have the great, great privilege of being the New York show, and we thought all of this information is really worthy of more than one episode. So we created the Compass Killer . . . someone who is fascinated with this information.” Case in point: One upcoming episode deals with Manhattanhenge, a phenomenon in which the sun aligns with the city’s street grid. (TV Guide)

Desperate Housewives

Dana Delaney says she isn’t dying in the Wisteria Lane plane crash, “It’s not me. I’m safe in the hospital.” (Watch With Kristin)

Dexter

4.11 – Hello, Dexter Morgan
In episode 411, Dexter must buy time to protect himself when Debra’s investigation brings the department one step away from identifying Arthur as the Trinity Killer; Rita confides in Dexter, but is disappointed in the result. (Showtime)

4.12 – The Getaway
In episode 412, the season finale, Dexter and Arthur find themselves on a collision course, as Debra unearths a shocking long-hidden truth, Rita admits her marriage to Dexter is troubled, and Batista and LaGuerta face the consequences of an ethics breach. (Showtime)

Dollhouse

Enver Gjolkaj says to expect “a lot of reveals about Victor in Episode 9,” which is now scheduled to air December 18. “We’ll finally find out his backstory” – as well as his real first name. (Matt Mitovich)

Joss Whedon spilled a lot about the final episodes of the now-canceled show. Summer Glau’s character Bennett, who works for the Washington DC Dollhouse, is a character from Caroline’s past. We’ve known for a while that Echo will learn some unsavory details about her pre-wipe persona, and it appears that Bennett will be the person who reveals them. Whedon describes her as having morals, and explains that her arm is in a sling because she has a dead arm. As for Ray Wise’s character Howard, he may be Adelle’s DC counterpart, but he’s not so big on the morals. We’ll also be seeing more of Keith Carradine’s Harding. (TV Guide)

Alpha will be back in the December 11th two-part episode, and we’ll see one of his personalities we haven’t seen before: a violent Franciscan monk. And he’ll have some very interesting questions to ask of someone, and rather unsavory ways of asking them. This time, we’ll also see him interact with people at the Dollhouse other than Echo. (TV Guide)

Claire Saunders will return for two episodes, and where she’s been may come as a surprise. It sounds like Echo will be sent to the Attic, which Whedon describes as “Disneyland on really bad acid.” Ballard and Echo’s relationship will change in the remaining episodes (there will be a kiss), and Ballard’s whole life will change more than once. Felicia Day will return in a later episode (Whedon said he would like to return to the dystopian future of “Epitaph One”). The remainder of the season will focus on Echo realizing that her larger battle isn’t with the Dollhouse, but with Rossum. (TV Guide)

Friday Night Lights

This week, Riggins finally opens up about what happened to him and Lyla. Also, we discover in the most unlikely way someone is hiding in the closet . . . We can only imagine what this means for Coach Taylor. Oh yeah, and did we forget to mention someone dies? Yeah, it’s a pretty intense episode. (Watch With Kristin)

Fringe

On tonight’s episode, we’ll meet August, who is just as bald and hairless as last season’s Observer (who is rumored to be named September). It seems that August is doing more than observing, and his meddling could threaten a woman’s life or death. We’ll also learn that Observers have been present for many calamitous historical events, and that they’re gearing up for the next one, which includes Olivia, Peter and Walter. (TV Guide)

The producers talk about several aspects of the show centered around “Momentum Deferred.” They explain that the First Wave hybrids are more interested in intelligence-gathering than battle, and while William Bell may be telling the truth, he’s probably out to serve his own interest rather than the Fringe team’s. They also mention that Walter and Bell may have some sense of religion, and imply we’ll see more of Rebbecca. As for the formerly disembodied leader of First Wave, we will eventually learn who stored his head and why he wasn’t killed. (Fringe Television)

Episode 2.09 – Snakehead – Airing December 3, 2009
After a cargo ship runs aground, the shoreline becomes littered with bodies hosting a giant squid-like creature. The Fringe team descends upon the scene to examine the bodies and discovers that the mysterious organisms are actually giant parasites. As the investigation unfolds, Walter heads back to the lab while Olivia, Peter and Broyles race against time when they realize the case has ties to a threatening organization. (Fox)

Glee

Many of the baby-centric plots that have been building up will start to unravel as we head toward the mid-season finale on December 9. Mr. Schuester’s pregnancy-faking wife will be found out, and Finn will discover he’s not the father of Quinn’s baby. (Michael Ausiello)

Episode 1.12 – Mattress – Airing December 2, 2009
When the Glee Club is left out of the yearbook because of budget cuts, everyone seems to be relieved that they won’t have to suffer the ridicule of years past. Everyone except Rachel, that is, who wants her legacy cemented in print. Meanwhile, Quinn makes it her mission to be in the Cheerios yearbook photo, and Will and Terri’s relationship is shaken to its core. (Fox)

Gossip Girl

Rufus and Lily’s relationship that will be in a very bad place until the end of the season. From what I understand, it all stems from a letter that Serena’s father is going to send her. And of course, it doesn’t help that Bart Bass is back in the mix! (Watch With Kristin)

Grey’s Anatomy

Kevin McKidd says tonight’s episode will have a major development in that little love triangle. “Something happens between the three of them that’s pretty explosive,” McKidd says. “Up until now you’ve not really seen anyone draw any lines in the sand, but you start to see that this week.” (TV Guide)

House

Cuddy will be sharing her bed with two different people by the end of episode 14. (Michael Ausiello)

House is going to pull some strings to get someone a job at Princeton Plainsboro in early 2010. And someone else (a current employee) is not going to be happy about it. (Michael Ausiello)

Episode 6.09 – Ignorance is Bliss – Airing November 23, 2009
In this episode set during the Thanksgiving holiday, House and the team take on the case of James Sidas (guest star Esteban Powell), an exceptionally brilliant physicist and author who traded his successful career for a job as a courier. For the ailing patient, intelligence is a miserable burden that has prompted depression and addiction, and this, coupled with his myriad unusual symptoms, nearly stumps the team. Meanwhile, the doctors at Princeton Plainboro wrestle with strained personal relationships. (Fox)

Episode 6.10 – Wilson – Airing November 30, 2009
When an old friend and former patient (guest star Malina) of Wilson’s exhibits paralysis in his right arm, Wilson puts himself on the case. House wagers Wilson that the patient’s symptoms are attributed to new cancer cells. Wilson accepts even though he is reluctant to believe the cancer has returned. With the help of the team, Wilson works to diagnose the patient more optimistic results, but when things take a turn for the worse, Wilson must address his inability to separate patient from friend. Meanwhile, Cuddy seeks advice in her search for real estate. (Fox)

Legend of the Seeker

Later this season we’re going to meet Kahlan’s father and find out more about what her parents did to her and why. (Watch With Kristin)

Leverage

Secrets from Nate’s childhood will be uncovered during a con that unfolds entirely in a local pub. (Michael Ausiello)

Lie To Me

In the November 30 episode, Cal risks dredging up some old and very bad habits by working a case at a casino. (Matt Mitovich)

Secret Santa – Airing November 23, 2009
During the holiday season, Lightman travels to Afghanistan to assist in a mission to rescue two captured marines, and his only source of intelligence is an American expatriate. (Fox)

Lost

A new and exciting twist on the “alternate universe where Flight 815 landed safely” concept: a dapper Sawyer was spotted filming a scene at the upscale Diamond Head restaurant, part of the Lotus hotel, and his lunch companion? Was Charlotte (Rebecca Mader) last seen dying on the island. (Hawaii Weblog)

Modern Family

Ty Burrell (Phil) talks about Benjamin Bratt’s gig as Manny’s long-lost father, Javier. “Javier is playing irresponsible, and they all have their tête-à-tête about it, but you don’t leave thinking anybody is a bad guy,” says Ty. “We start to actually like Javier a little bit, and I think he’ll probably be recurring.” As for Phil, he’ll be under the weather during the episode, passing a painful kidney stone. (Watch With Kristin)

One Tree Hill

Skills is moving to Los Angeles. Also, a new man may come between Brooke and Julian. (Watch With Kristin)

Parks and Recreation

Leslie Knope will be involved in a salacious (and hilarious) sex scandal. Leslie “accidentally gets involved with this big sex scandal, and it spirals out of control. There are rumors swirling about another city councilman scandal—who was disgraced by cave sex in the ‘Practice Day’ episode—and Leslie ends up getting photographed with him at a bar late at night by a tabloid newspaper. (Watch With Kristin)

Leslie’s headed for a split with Dave the Cop. “A lot of really heavy stuff happens in the next couple weeks. It’s really good!” Amy Poehler said. “We were so lucky to get Louis C.K., but he’s starting his own show.” (Watch With Kristin)

This week the gang goes hunting. One city employee shoots another city employee and hilarity ensues. Aziz Ansari also says there’s some good stuff on the way involving Tom’s potential love triangle with his wife and Ron: “There’s an emotional episode coming up that deals with Tom, his green card marriage and his divorce.” (Watch With Kristin)

As for Ron’s crush on the fake wifey, Mike Schur says: “A key moment involves Ron talking to Tom about his wife, Wendy, so yes, he’s unwittingly in the middle of a much more complicated situation than he thought.” (Watch With Kristin)

Party Down

Lee Majors is going to crash Constance’s (Jane Lynch) wedding. (Watch With Kristin)

Private Practice

Addison’s mom and dad (JoBeth Williams and Stephen Collins) are coming to visit on December 3, and they’re bringing a third: the other woman! (TV Guide)

Creator Shonda Rhimes talking about Addison: “The journey Addison is on this season is about figuring out if she’s capable of being different than she has been in the past” when it comes to men. (Matt Mitovich)

Scrubs

Denise (Eliza Coupe) finds her match in an older medical student who also enjoys consequence-free sexual assignations. The pair negotiates the tricky emotional terrain to a surprising conclusion. (TV Guide)

Smallville

Chloe’s new love interest is named Steven Swift. His alias is Warrior Angel, and he’s being played by Carlo Marks. (Michael Ausiello)

Stargate Universe

In the mid-season finale, “Justice,” a crew member is found dead from a gunshot wound, and the gun is found in Colonel Young’s quarters. Young will turn over command to Camille Wray. Meanwhile, Rush gains access to the Ancient interface, and a planet harbors a secret that threatens the Destiny. (Gate World)

The Big Bang Theory

In an upcoming episode, a bold nerdette is gonna try to bed Sheldon. (Matt Mitovich)

The Cleveland Show

A Brown Thanksgiving – Airing November 22, 2009
Cleveland celebrates his first Thanksgiving with his new family, as well as his own parents, Cookie (guest voice Francis Callier) and Freight Train (guest voice Craig Robinson), and Donna’s Auntie Momma (guest voice Kym Whitley). The holiday gets complicated when Roberta and Federline (guest voice Jamie Kennedy) decide to celebrate on their own and Cleveland discovers a surprising secret about Auntie Momma. (Fox)

The Good Wife

In next week’s episode, Alicia comes face-to-face with her hubby’s mistress, Amber, for the first time. Alicia refuses to engage her, so the confrontation is a little one-sided. (Michael Ausiello)

Next week, just when Peter thought he was out of jail, the findings of the evidentiary hearing pull him back in – and make Alicia wonder, perhaps more than ever, if he is in fact guilty of corruption. (Matt Mitovich)

Producers are casting what appears to be a potential love interest for Kalinda. His name’s Ryan, he’s a hot-headed police investigator, and he ends up owing her a, ahem, favor. She’ll have time to collect on said favor since it looks like the role will be recurring. (Michael Ausiello)

The Mentalist

Bosco’s investigation of Red John does put him in serious danger. (TV Guide)

Amanda Righetti (Grace) and Owain Yeoman (Wayne) tell us that something huge is coming and that someone won’t survive! “There is a big blood bath imminent; we can’t tell you who, but there will be the departure of somebody and a bit of a twist,” says Owain. (Watch With Kristin)

The Office

Executive producer Greg Daniels says that Dunder Mifflin’s financial problems are not going away any time soon. In fact, in an effort to shore up investor confidence, the powers that be will invite Michael, as the manager of the company’s most successful branch, to New York for a little glad-handing at the shareholders’ meeting. (TV Guide)

Ugly Betty

Justin will continue struggling with his identity and his journey is going to be funny, heartbreaking, moving and powerful. (Michael Ausiello)

V

Next Tuesday you can expect cliffhangers. “Our fourth episode, which concludes the first chapter of our story, was going to have a gigantic cliffhanger,” Scott Wolf said. “But we found that there were also personal cliffhangers for some of the major characters.” Newsman Chad, for instance, gets an eyeful when he begins investigating the Visitor-staffed healing centers and the medical marvels employed therein. “Chad winds up uncovering several things, one of which puts him in a difficult position,” Wolf says. “The stakes in his ‘chess match’ with Anna rise as high as they possibly could.” (Matt Mitovich)

A romance might be a brewin’ between Anna and Chad, but it’s a slow go of it. “We haven’t established any boundaries, but it’s kind of a cat and mouse game,” Morena Baccarin said. (Watch With Kristin)

Vampire Diaries

Elena and Damon are going on a road trip pretty soon. (Watch With Kristin)

Brace yourselves for another flashback, because in episode 12, we’re going to meet Damon and Stefan’s father, Giuseppe! He is described as a handsome, no-nonsense businessman of Italian heritage who in his mid-40s, “with a stern demeanor that hides a fierce devotion to his family and growing fears for their future.” (Watch With Kristin)

Kevin Williamson says that the new history teacher, Matt Davis, is in town because he has “a bit of a secret agenda.” (Watch With Kristin)

Matt and Caroline’s relationship continues to grow. (Watch With Kristin)

“We’ll also get to learn more about the town. We will stay focused on our leads and our central epic love story,” says Williamson. “But the show does expand.” (Watch With Kristin)

Better Off Ted (ABC)
Eddie McClintock has signed on for a guest role. He will play Ted’s brother, Billy. A fast-talking salesman type, Billy brings chaos into Ted’s life and proves to be a bad influence on Lem and Phil. He is shooting the episode this week.

Boardwalk Empire (HBO)
Gretchen Mol (Life On Mars) has joined the show in a recurring role as a showgirl.

Modern Family
Fred Willard (Back to You) has signed on to guest star on an upcoming episode. He will play the father to Ty Burrell’s Phil. Willards episode should air sometime later this year.

Rex Is Not Your Lawyer (NBC)
Abigail Spencer has been cast to co-star in NBC’s drama pilot. Spencer will play Lindsey Steers, an ambitious lawyer at Rex’s law firm who also is his fiancee.

The Middle (ABC)
Brooke Shields has signed on for a guest role. She is playing a neighbor-nemesis of Patricia Heaton’s harried middle-class mom. She’s a single mother with four sons that terrorize the neighborhood. Everyone wants to stay on her good side. Patricia’s character tries to keep the peace. Shields episode is scheduled to air in January 2010.

Better Off Ted (ABC)
Taye Diggs has signed on for a guest role in the second season premiere. In the December 8 opener, Veridian encourages its staff to date coworkers who are their perfect genetic match – as a means to possibly save money on health insurance down the road. The DNA of Diggs’ character, Greg, determines him to be the one for Linda. Ted meanwhile is led to dip his toe back into the office dating pool with guest star Virginia Williams.

Castle (ABC)
Alyssa Milano has been cast to play a former love interest of Nathan Fillion’s title character. Castle reconnects with Kyra (Milano) on her wedding day and sparks fly. Beckett picks up on the connection between them, setting up a fun little love triangle. Milano’s episode, A Rose for Everafter, shoots next week and will air in early 2010.

Retired At 35 (TV Land)
George Segal has landed a starring role on TV Land’s half-hour pilot. The show follows a successful young businessman who decides to leave the New York rat race behind and move into his father’s Florida retirement home. Segal will play the father, a former insurance executive who loves his new lifestyle of fun and partying.

Modern Family (ABC)
Minnie Driver has signed on for a guest appearance on the ABC comedy. In an episode scheduled to air in January, Driver will play a friend and former co-worker of Claire’s (Julie Bowen). The two reconnect after years of being out of touch and things are not exactly how they remembered.

Vampire Diaries (The CW)
Gina Torres has signed on to guest star on The CW’s vampire drama. She will play Bree, a “past” associate of Damon’s. Being a bit of a witch, Bree possibly holds the key to the more sinister Salvatore brother acquiring something he desperately wants – access to a tomb. Torres will appear in the 10th episode.

Keep Hope Alive (Fox)
Lucas Neff and Martha Plimpton have been cast to star in Fox’s new comedy pilot. Olesya Rulin (High School Musical) also has been cast in the project from My Name Is Earl creator Greg Garcia. The single-camera show centers on Jimmy (Neff), a 25-year-old man raising an infant with the help of his quirky family after the mother of the baby, with whom he had a one-night stand, ends up on death row. Plimpton will play Jimmy’s no-nonsense mother who got pregnant with him when she was 16 and has no interest in raising another baby. Rulin will play a smart waitress whom Jimmy considers the perfect woman to help him raise his daughter.

Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family)
Troian Bellisario and Ian Harding have joined Lucy Hale on the new drama pilot. The show, based on Alloy Entertainment’s series of novels, revolves around teenagers Aria (Hale), Emily, Spencer (Bellisario) and Hanna, who begin to receive mysterious messages, seemingly from their girlfriend who disappeared three years before. Harding will play a recent college grad who becomes Aria’s high school teacher and gets in a relationship with her.

Rex Is Not Your Lawyer (NBC)
Jeffrey Tambor is set to co-star opposite David Tennant in NBC’s new pilot. The show centers on Rex Alexander (Tennant), a top Chicago litigator who begins suffering panic attacks and takes up coaching clients to represent themselves in court. Tambor will play Rex’s psychiatrist, a specialist in anxiety disorders who himself suffers from them and who also becomes romantically involved with Rex’s mother.

Untitled Michael Jacobs Comedy Pilot (ABC Family)
Scott Cohen and Stephanie Childers have been cast to star in the comedy pilot. Jacobs’ single-camera project centers on a recently laid-off architect (Cohen) who begins to mentor his underdog middle daughter, while his veterinarian wife (Childers) shares a closer bond with their Type-A older daughter.

This Week: 90210, Big Love, Brothers and Sisters, Californication, Chuck, Desperate Housewives, Dexter, Dollhouse, Eastwick, Glee, Gossip Girl, Grey’s Anatomy, House, How I Met Your Mother, Leverage, Lie To Me, Lost, Melrose Place, Modern Family, Numbers, One Tree Hill, Private Practice, Scrubs, Sons of Anarchy, Supernatural, The Big Bang Theory, The Closer, The Mentalist, Trauma, True Blood, Ugly Betty and Vampire Diaries.

90210

Someone is going to try to commit suicide. (Watch With Kristin)

The truth about Jen and Liam comes out in episode 11. (Watch With Kristin)

Dixon’s birth mother will return and Debbie will start flirting with her yoga instructor. (Watch With Kristin)

Big Love

About midway through the show’s fourth season (debuting January 10), the taboo-shattering drama will finally go there with Ben and Margene. “We have flirted for three years with [that] relationship,” says series co-creator Mark V. Olsen. “And this year we finally decided to pay it off.” (Michael Ausiello)

Brothers and Sisters

Kevin and Scotty are moving forward on their plan to have a baby. In fact, they’re starting to search through egg-donor websites, looking for the perfect match, and eventually they’ll get tested and learn that Scotty has the stronger sperm. (Watch With Kristin)

Californication

Next week’s episode is all about a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for Hank Moody. (Watch With Kristin)

Episode 3.07 – So Here’s The Thing
Eager to set things right with Karen again, Hank tries to distance himself from the ladies of the university. But after Dean Koons catches Hank in an intimate moment with Jackie, Hank finds himself more entangled than ever. Meanwhile, his attempts to cool things off with Felicia and Jill begin to backfire. Adding insult to injury, Becca calls Hank out on the awful example he’s been setting for her. Charlie fights to keep Sue Collini’s favorite client from leaving the agency. Later, Sue asks Charlie for a most curious favor. (Showtime)

Chuck

In the seventh episode, Chuck and Hannah (KristenKreuk) share not only a kiss, but they then go on to treat the Buy More’s Home Theater Room like a no-tell motel. Meanwhile, Shaw (Brandon Routh) and Sarah have one of those, “Oh my god we’re gonna die, so I may as well tell you I love you” moments. Kristin’s character Hannah is not what she seems, and I don’t think she’s long for Chuck’s world. (Watch With Kristin)

In episode 10, Casey does something bad. REALLY bad. Could-cost-him-his-job bad. (Michael Ausiello)

Desperate Housewives

The plane crash planned for the show’s year-end cliffhanger has not one but two of the main housewives getting hit hard by the tragedy. The plane will crash into the house of one of the main housewives. And another Housewife is in serious jeopardy of losing two loved ones. (Watch With Kristin)

A charter plane will come plummeting down onto Wisteria Lane and leave two main characters trapped inside their house: Bree (Marcia Cross) and Orson (Kyle MacLachlan). There will be more than one death. And one of those deaths is a “fan favorite.” (Watch With Kristin)

Dexter

Confession is good for the soul. That’s the lesson Dexter learns when he takes a road trip to Tampa with Trinity. The bigger surprise, however, is the confession that Trinity makes. (TV Guide)

Dollhouse

Summer Glau’s character, Bennet, tends to speak in riddles, but she does make one unequivocal statement that will shock the heck out of you hard-core fans. Let’s just say we might be getting closer to an origin story for one of the show’s most important characters. (Watch With Kristin)

Eastwick

Roxie’s long-presumed dead husband, Danny, who everybody thinks she killed, will return to Eastwick on an upcoming episode, five years after his “death.” (TV Guide)

Glee

Next week, Puck spills his guts to someone that he’s the father of Quinn’s baby. And she doesn’t respond the way he expected. (Michael Ausiello)

Gossip Girl

A main character is going to get in a serious accident. One that will send her to the hospital. And that someone is Serena (Blake Lively). (Watch With Kristin)

Grey’s Anatomy

The Chief falls off the wagon at the end of this week’s episode. (Michael Ausiello)

House

Looks like we’re stuck with Lucas at least through early February. If it makes you feel any better, rumors that House’s mental institution hook-up, Lydia, will be paying a visit to Princeton-Plainsboro are apparently not true. (Michael Ausiello)

How I Met Your Mother

Ted is about to start flirting with a student named Cindy. She’s a little older than the other kids in his class, and the two hit it off on account of their shared advanced age. (Watch With Kristin)

Leverage

Look for Nate to be thrown together with his ex-wife Maggie on a case in an episode that also marks the return of his nemesis Sterling. (Michael Ausiello)

Luke Perry will play an unscrupulous psychic in a guest turn. (Michael Ausiello)

Eliot will finally put a baseball bat to its proper use. (Michael Ausiello)

Lie To Me

Next week’s episode finds Lightman and Foster trying to track down the biological parents of a teenager who realizes he was abducted as a baby. But it’s Lightman’s parenting that comes into question when he has to bend the truth to his own daughter. (Michael Ausiello)

Monday’s episode sees the team investigating a deadly stampede outside a department store on Black Friday. Foster and Lightman, meanwhile, try to reunite a 16-year-old boy with his biological parents. Before the hour is up, somebody will come close to being fired, and they won’t even know it. And it all comes down to money. (TV Guide)

Lost

In episode 6×07, there’s a big scene where Sun, Ben, Frank, Ilana and Miles are on the beach, and they’re surprised to see Jack, Hurley and Richard suddenly appear out of the jungle. This could be the big reunion of the 1970s and 2007 timelines — except then why would Miles already be there? And why is Richard arriving with Jack and Hurley? In any case, everyone embraces, and Claire is there, looking tough with straight black hair. (SpoilersLost)

Melrose Place

Amanda is going to be in hot pursuit of ex-lover Michael’s son David. But no, not necessarily to bed him. “She wants something that Sydney had in her possession when she died,” Shaun Sipos shares. And amazingly, David’s no pushover for Ms. Woodward’s considerable charms. Says Sipos: “I’m like, ‘Listen lady, I have no idea who you are but you’re rubbing me the wrong way.’” (Matt Mitovich )

Modern Family

In an upcoming episode, Mitch and Cam will attempt to “Ferberize” Lily. We’ll also meet Jay’s buddies in an upcoming episode that explores the oft-misunderstood concept of gaydar. (TV Guide)

Numbers

The season/series will feature a wedding, but not the one Charlie and Amita are currently planning. (Michael Ausiello)

One Tree Hill

This just in: Millicent will get a DUI, Nathan will fire Clay when the Bobcats sign another player instead of him and Brooke and Julian will continue to have major problems. (Watch With Kristin)

Private Practice

In the December 3 episode, Dell’s house will go up in meth cooking-related flames with his ex-girlfriend and daughter inside. Sadly, one of the two will be making a visit to the burn ward. (TV Guide)

Scrubs

The med-school revamp was a bit jarring, but it helped having so many familiar faces on hand (including J.D, Turk, Elliot, Kelso, Janitor and The Todd). Among the new faces, the breakout character is, without question, Dave Franco’s entitled douchebag, Cole. But as for whether Kerry Bishe’s Lucy has a strong enough voice, as it were, to inherit the narrator baton from Zach Braff’s J.D… well, the jury’s still out. And now for the spoilers: The first two episodes contain news of a death, Dr. Cox takes a page from Dr. House’s playbook and refers to his students as numbers (although he adds his own special twist), and J.D. and Turk’s hit single “Guy Love” makes a comeback. (Michael Ausiello)

Sons of Anarchy

This is the season when everybody reads John Teller’s book. Look for another character close to Jax to get his hands on the manifesto. (Watch With Kristin)

Supernatural

There is an episode coming next year in which Anna returns and wants to kill Sam, so he doesn’t say yes to Lucifer. She travels back in time to kill Mary and John Winchester, so Dean and Sam go back in time to try and stop her. So does that mean we’ll see Jeffrey Dean Morgan again? Sadly, no, as it will be “young John” and “young Mary.” (Watch With Kristin)

As you’ve seen already, Lucifer gets Castiel trapped in a ring of holy fire — but he doesn’t just question the angel. He tries to convince Castiel to join him as a rebel angel, according to Misha Collins. Also, we might see Castiel using his supernatural tolerance for alcohol to win some drinking games. (Huffington Post)

The Big Bang Theory

About midway through the season, Raj will find himself working with a new wingman, and it’s a surprisingly significant upgrade from Wolowitz. (Matt Mitovich )

The Closer

The winter season starts December 7 with Brenda & Co. investigating the death of a 12-year-old boy whose father and brother are both gang members. Plus, Fritz has a big surprise for Brenda, and Provenza will have more than a little trouble in romantic paradise. (TV Guide)

The Mentalist

Episode 9 is not to be missed, it will change things for the CBI team forever. (Matt Mitovich )

Trauma

If the show makes it to Thanksgiving, we’ll meet Nancy’s many brothers and learn a little bit more about how she’s breaking the family mold by not being a doctor. (Watch With Kristin)

True Blood

We’re going to be meeting Bill’s (Stephen Moyer) first wife! True Blood producers are now casting for Caroline Compton, who is surprised to discover her man was not killed in the Civil War, as she had thought. (Watch With Kristin)

Ugly Betty

Look for Matt Newton to debut in the upcoming Bahamas episode as Mark’s new boyfriend. His stint has been expanded. He’ll now appear in roughly four episodes. Additionally, Nadia Dajani has been cast as Mode’s new creative director for a couple episodes. Cal Hartley imports her from the movie business to try to makeover the magazine. (Michael Ausiello)

Vampire Diaries

“We have another flashback episode scheduled,” says executive producer Kevin Williamson. “We’re going to learn more about the night [Stefan and Damon] died.” This flashback will give us more information about Katherine, which will eventually lead to a surprising reveal about the Elena doppelgänger. (TV Guide)

Better Off Ted (ABC)
Stefanie von Pfetten (Battlestar Galactica) has signed on for a guest role this season. She will play a German executive who is anxious to bed Ted, even though Veridian Dynamics’ high-tech solution to their language barrier finds them making pillow talk in quite possibly the least sexy voices possible.

Chuck (NBC)
Robert Patrick has signed on to appear midway through the third season. He will play Colonel Keller, a mysterious figure from Casey’s past in Chuck Versus the Tic Tac, which will be a Casey-centric episode.

Lie To Me (Fox)
Melissa George is joining the Fox drama. She will play Clara Martin, is the sassy wife of an older billionaire who has been murdered. After being exonerated in a high-profile murder trial, she assumes control of her husband’s empire. George will recur beginning with this season’s 11th episode.

Lost (ABC)
Sheila Kelley has joined the show in a recurring role. She will play Kendall, an intellectual beauty with a sharp edge to her wit who is caught committing corporate espionage and has to lie her way out.

Smallville (The CW)
Pam Grier is joining the show for multiple episodes. She will play DC Comics villainess Agent Amanda Waller. In the DC universe, Waller is a former congressional aide and government agent often placed in charge of the Suicide Squad, a semi-secret government-run group of former supervillains working in return for amnesty. Grier will make her debut in the second hour of the two-part episode, Legends, scheduled to air in late January.

Vampire Diaries (The CW)
Sean Faris is joining the vampire drama for a multi-episode arc. Faris will play Ben, an ex-high school football star-turned-bartender at the Mystic Grill. He gets entangled in the group when a broke Matt takes a job at the Mystic Grill. There is also speculation about a possible romance between Ben and one of the show’s females.

Damages (FX)
Sarah Wynter (24) has signed on in a recurring role. Wynter will play a mysterious security specialist who helps an assistant district attorney (Martin Short) solve a financial scheme.

Facing Kate (USA)
Michael Trucco (Battlestar Galactica) and Virginia Williams have been cast opposite Sarah Shahi in USA Network’s pilot. The show centers on Kate (Shahi), a divorced San Francisco woman who leaves her job as a lawyer to become a mediator following the death of her dad, who headed a law firm. Trucco will play Kate’s ex-husband, also an attorney, a charmer who has feelings for her. Williams (How I Met Your Mother) will play Kate’s obsessive and controlling younger stepmother who is determined to keep her husband’s firm.

Law and Order (NBC)
Elliott Gould has signed on for a guest role. He will play a disgruntled business owner who takes the law into his own hands after a crime spree in his Harlem neighborhood. His episode is scheduled to air November 20.

NCIS (CBS)
The United States Secretary of the Navy will make a guest appearance on an upcoming episode. Secretary Ray Mabus will appear in the November 24 Thanksgiving episode entitled Child’s Play. Mabus will play an NCIS agent. In the episode, Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and the team have to put their Thanksgiving plans on hold when the investigation of a dead Marine leads them into the life of a 12-year-old prodigy (Madeline Carroll), who may be the killer’s next target. Lisa Sheridan (Invasion) and Francis Capra (Veronica Mars) will also guest-star.

Although Mabus won’t be playing himself, NCIS has featured a secretary of the Navy character on the show before. Jude Ciccolella (24) portrayed the secretary in three episodes last season.

This Week: Better Off Ted, Big Love, Brothers and Sisters, Chuck, Community, CSI: NY, Curb Your Enthusiasm, FlashForward, Friday Night Lights, Fringe, Glee, Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes, House, Lie To Me, Lost, Modern Family, NCIS, Numbers, Party Down, Private Practice, Scrubs, Sons of Anarchy, Supernatural, The Mentalist, True Blood, V, Vampire Diaries and White Collar.

Better Off Ted

Later this season we’ll be meeting Ted’s brother, who’s a fast-talking, schmucky salesman type. (Watch With Kristin)

Big Love

You already know that closet case Alby is getting a boyfriend this season named Dale (played by Ben Koldyke). But what you may not know is that the show won’t shy away from depicting their steamy love affair. Short story shorter: Alby’s going to get laid. (Michael Ausiello)

Brothers and Sisters

This Sunday’s episode is more of the same impressive but distressing cancer stuff on Kitty’s and Calista’s parts. Kitty considers dropping her cancer treatment because she thinks that she caused her cancer with the power of her thoughts and that she should also be able to stop it with her thoughts. In other news, Kitty’s hair is falling out, so Sarah and Nora help her shave her head. (Watch With Kristin)

Chuck

Zach Levi will make his Chuck directorial debut with episode 9, titled Chuck vs. The Beard and guest-starring Drew Carey Show grad Diedrich Bader. (Michael Ausiello)

Community

Pierce’s Community musical pursuits continue when he joins a rock band, and next week he uses some unconventional tactics to help Britta (Gillian Jacobs) stop smoking. (Watch With Kristin)

CSI: NY

Stella won’t go back to the well with Adam, executive producer Pam Veasey says, but you should look out for more moments of spontaneity from her. “She’s not going to limit herself,” Veasey says. “Her momentary enjoyable moment with Adam was one of those things. She’ll be a much more aggressive, live-in-the-moment type of character.” (TV Guide)

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Cheryl (Cheryl Hines) is going to have to audition for the role of George Costanza’s wife against a client of Jeff’s. (Watch With Kristin)

FlashForward

Episode 1.09 – Believe – Airing November 19, 2009
Bryce begins his search for the woman in his flashforward, Aaron becomes concerned over Tracy’s odd behavior, Mark attempts to track down the person responsible for texting Olivia and outing his drinking during his flashforward vision, and Demetri’s co-agents try to find the mysterious caller who forewarned him about his unfortunate fate. (ABC)

Friday Night Lights

An upcoming episode features a funeral. (Michael Ausiello)

Fringe

We’re going to learn more about the Observers in the upcoming episode “August.” All of the observers are named after months, and the Observer we’ve come to know and hunt for is named “September.” Walter is able to communicate with the Observers because of his experiences and the things they have done. John Noble, who plays Walter, believes the Observers were transporting a photo of Walter because he’s their only contact, and the Observers aren’t generally supposed to make contact with people. We’ll also learn what the Observers’ weakness is. And we’re coming up on the Walter/William Bell meetup, and an upcoming episode will answer some of the questions from when Charlie died. Plus, Olivia will remember more about what William Bell said to her, especially about the super-soldier leader with the mark on his head. (Fancast)

Lance Reddick himself says that “over there” Broyles is different in a fundamental way: He’s a happily married man. (TV Guide)

Tonight’s episode is about Broyles (Lance Reddick’s character), and when the gang revisits a shadow killer case from four years ago, we learn that he chose Fringe Division over his marriage four years ago, and has lived to regret it. (Watch With Kristin)

Glee

The only thing Sue will be singing in the near future is the blues. According to a Glee insider, she’s finally going to see some real repercussions for all her plotting to take down the New Directions. (Michael Ausiello)

Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) has a dirty secret, and when she reveals it to Artie (Kevin McHale), he rejects her. (Watch With Kristin)

Grey’s Anatomy

Shonda Rhimes says there are “some shocking things” in store for the newlyweds [Alex and Izzie] during the second half of the season. “The next part of [their] journey,” she teases, “is going to be pretty interesting.” (Michael Ausiello)

In episode 11 when the doctors treats a quarterback injured during a football game. (Watch With Kristin)

Episode 6.10 – Holidaze – Airing November 19, 2009
As Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s pass, Miranda is visited by her father, William, who disapproves of her choices in life; meanwhile, Mark and Lexie must cope with the shocking arrival of a woman from his past, and Thatcher Grey questions the Chief’s recent behavior as Meredith comes to his defense. Guest Starring Kim Raver as Dr. Teddy Altman and Frankie Faison as William Bailey. (ABC)

Heroes

In the eleventh episode, aptly title “Thanksgiving,” HRG hosts an unconventional Turkey Day dinner and the Petrellis receive a surprise guest. Meanwhile, Lydia searches for the truth. (SpoilerTV)

Hiro will share turkey and cranberries with the band o’ freaks. “When filming the Thanksgiving episode, we could just not stop laughing,” Masi Oka says of his scenes with carnival leader Samuel (Robert Knepper). Look for a huge gothic banquet and some ballroom dancing? Don’t worry, they totally wear weird masks, Oka says. (TV Guide)

House

In the November 23 episode — the first episode without Jennifer Morrison as Cameron — Chase loses it and punches House in the face! “Chase is very clearly off his game,” says a House insider, “and struggling with the loss of Cameron.” What prompts the fisticuffs? Apparently, House unfavorably compares him to his far prettier, smarter wife, and Chase blows his top and decks him! (Michael Ausiello)

In an upcoming episode of House, Foreman comes crawling back (sort of). According to a source, he tells Thirteen he’s sorry he fired her and that he still loves her. (Watch With Kristin)

Lucas (Michael Weston) is definitely a presence beyond episode 10: Even though Lucas doesn’t appear onscreen in the following episode, House and Cuddy spend most of the time arguing about Cuddy’s relationship with him. House certainly still seems to be harboring some fierce feelings for Cuddy. He’s going to rip up a photo of Lucas. (Watch With Kristin)

Episode 6.08 – Teamwork – Airing November 16, 2008
After House’s medical license is reinstated, he reclaims his role as Head of Diagnostics in time to treat Hank Hardwick (guest star Troy Garity), an adult film star admitted to Princeton Plainsboro for pulsating eye pain. Meanwhile, Cuddy is reminded that the hospial is not conducive to healthy personal relationships, and House angles to form a dream team. (Fox)

Lie To Me

There’s a big episode coming up on Monday for Mekhi Phifer’s Agent Reynolds where we learn that he’s been hiding something in his past from the rest of the group. And as we all know, nobody hides stuff from Tim Roth, so expect some sparks to fly. (Michael Ausiello)

Lost

Zuleikha Robinson, who plays Ilana, and Jeff Fahey, who plays Frank Lapidus, has been confirmed as series regulars for Season Six. (Lyly Ford)

The season’s seventh episode will be called “Dr. Linus” and will naturally center around Ben. (SpoilerTV)

Modern Family

We’ll see how Ed O’Neill’s character met Sofia Vergara, and it’s hilarious and so fitting: At a swim-up bar in Cabo. (Watch With Kristin)

NCIS

Meredith Eaton will play Abby’s former college buddy and fellow lab tech who comes to Abby for advice. Pauley Perrette — whose real-life best friend is Eaton — says the two are very similar. (TV Guide)

Numbers

Peter MacNicol is heading back to the Numb3rs set in a few weeks to direct an episode. His on-screen return, meanwhile, won’t take place until the end of the show’s now-shortened season. (Michael Ausiello)

Party Down

Since Henry is now running Party Down catering, Adam Scott says that Ken Marino’s Ron is now “running Soup ‘r’ Crackers, but he eventually rejoins Party Down as an employee of Henry’s. Everything’s changed.” (Watch With Kristin)

Private Practice

Episode 3.08 – Sins of the Father – Airing November 19, 2009
Addison is shaken by the unwelcome arrival of her father to Los Angeles, Cooper is arrested when he refuses to cooperate in a case involving a longtime patient, and Pete fights to keep a terminally ill patient alive long enough for him to meet his new daughter. Guest Starring Stephen Collins as Addison’s Father. (ABC)

Scrubs

John C. McGinley says the new grad school setting has “reenergized” the show. “We could go on for three or four more years,” he said. “Dr. Cox has become an instructor at a medical school and he has a whole new set of people to torture. Per usual, he adds just enough sugar — a teaspoon — so you don’t hate him entirely. We tend to stick to the school for most of the episodes and see way less of our personal lives. My [TV] wife, Christa Miller, is now shooting Cougar Town, although she graces us with her presence in episode 4. Jordan makes and appearance and it is quite funny.” (Michael Ausiello)

Sons of Anarchy

In episode 11, Tig makes a shocking confession about Donna’s death — and Opie goes on a solo mission to seek revenge. (Michael Ausiello)

Opie officially starts a romance with that porn star from the Caracara studio. (Michael Ausiello)

After Gemma makes her reveal, it’ll seem pretty obvious that Jax is back in the gang and not going anywhere. (Michael Ausiello)

Jax’s decision to transfer to the Nomad Charter will drive an even bigger wedge into the already fractured club, which has to vote on whether or not to let Jax go. The result of the vote however, has far less impact than a difficult decision Gemma will have to make. (TV Guide)

Agent Stahl (Ally Walker) takes notice at the handsome profits SAMCRO is reaping from the repo business. Meanwhile, the Jax- Clay standoff forces Gemma to make a difficult decision. (TV Guide)

Jax Teller has an absurd number of problems, but the end of his relationship with Tara is probably not one of them. In fact, you fans of Jax and Tara can look for a sweet, romantic recommitment of sorts in an upcoming episode. (Watch With Kristin)

When Gemma (Katey Sagal) finally reveals that she was gang-raped by Zoebelle’s thugs, it actually goes a long way to heal the rift between Jax and Clay (Ron Perlman), and it’s a major bonding moment for the entire Teller-Morrow clan. (Watch With Kristin)

After tripping for a while on high-quality hallucinogenic mushrooms, Tig (Kim Coates) starts weeping and telling inanimate objects, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” And then he does something really crazy. (Watch With Kristin)

Luann’s (Dendrie Taylor) death isn’t the only terrible thing that happens to Caracara this season. Expect Sam Crow’s porn operation to come under major fire over the next couple of weeks. (Watch With Kristin)

As for Chibs’ (Tommy Flanagan) wife, Fiona, we learn she’s third-generation IRA, but that doesn’t mean she’s bulletproof. Too bad, because she and Chibs are about to get caught in some major crossfire between the SOA, the IRA and the ATF. (Watch With Kristin)

Titus Welliver is coming onboard for multiple episodes as Irish gun kingpin Jimmy O. He’s going to be a huge part of the end of the season. (Watch With Kristin)

Opie soon starts crawling out of the hole he’s been living in since Donna’s death. You’ll like some of the choices he makes, and you’ll hate some of the choices involving porn stars, but the good news is that any way you look at it, Opie’s getting back in the game in a major way. (Watch With Kristin)

Having Chibs recuperating at St. Thomas puts the already vulnerable Tara in an awkward position, medically speaking. (Watch With Kristin)

There is an assassination attempt on a major character, and someone applies to join the “nomad charter” of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club. (Watch With Kristin)

Supernatural

Sam and Dean switch bodies with each other and a couple other characters. (Michael Ausiello)

The Mentalist

Several people die in the November 19. (Michael Ausiello)

True Blood

Executive producer Alan Ball saids that Terry and Arlene “will make a surprising discovery that will bring them closer together.” Translation: All that free lovin’ they did under Maryann’s spell will result in an unplanned pregnancy. (TV Guide)

V

Episode 1.03 – A Bright New Day – Airing November 17, 2009
Chad reports from the Peace Ambassador Center as 100 diplomatic visas are being issued to the first wave of American Visitors, with Anna getting the 1st, but not everyone agrees with the decision. Meanwhile Erica has started tracking a death threat while paired with a V officer, as she actually has to protect the V’s, and Ryan starts reaching out to his old friends to build up opposition forces and help fight-off the V’s. (ABC)

Vampire Diaries

Witches and vampires aren’t the only supernatural creatures in Mystic Falls. It won’t be right away, but a major male character will reveal himself to be a werewolf. (TV Guide)

White Collar

Neil “appreciates” an art historian (Callie Thorne ) who may be involved in the theft of an antiquity. Also in the episode, Kirk Acevedo will appear as an FBI nemesis of Peter’s. (Matt Mitovich )

30 Rock
James Franco has signed on for a guest role. Franco will play himself and will carry on a fake romance with attention-starved “Girlie Show” star Jenna (Jane Krakowski), a scheme concocted by their respective agents.

Castle (ABC)
Abigail Spencer (Mad Men) has signed on to guest star on the November 23 episode. She will play a murder victim’s fiancée. When Perrey Reeves (Entourage) turns up as the victim’s wife, catfighting understandably ensues.

Jack and Dan (Fox)
Colin Hanks has signed on to lead Jack and Dan, Matt Nix’s new 13-episode hourlong series for Fox. The show centers on Jack (Hanks), an ambitious, by-the-book detective whose habit of undermining himself has resulted in a dead-end position at the Los Angeles Police Department. Worse, he has been partnered with Dan (Bradley Whitford), a drunken, lecherous, wild-card cop who hangs onto his job only because of a heroic act years before.

Law and Order: SVU (NBC)
Naveen Andrews (Lost) has signed on to film a guest spot on an upcoming episode. The details of his role are being kept under wraps for now, but the episode starts filming in the next week or so in New York. Andrews’ SVU episode will air in January 2010, right around the time that Lost’s sixth and final season premieres.

NCIS (CBS)
Robert Wagner is joining the show in a guest role. He will be playing the father of Michael Weatherly’s TV detective, sources confirm to me exclusively. Wagner will appear in an episode scheduled to air in January.

Robert Patrick (The Unit) is joining the show. He will play Col. Merton Bell, a former tank commander who now runs a powerful private-military contracting firm with business in Iraq and Afghanistan. Patrick’s character is led away in handcuffs at episode’s end for his pursuit of Gibbs’ mentor’s Iraqi daughter-in-law, but he might return.

The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS)
Blair Underwood has signed on to reprise his role as Christine’s former flame, Daniel for one episode. Daniel might be coming back to cause some trouble between Christine and her current beau, Max (Eric McCormack). Underwood’s comeback is scheduled to air in December or January.

Ugly Betty (ABC)
Fisher Stevens is joining the show in a potentially recurring role. He will play Mr. Z., Betty’s new landlord.