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Megalyn Echikunwoke is joining CSI: Miami as a recurring character. On CBS’ veteran forensic drama, she will play a medical examiner who makes a good first impression with Lt. Horatio Caine and his team of CSIs. Echikunwoke is expected to at least partially fill the void left by the departure of Khandi Alexander, who played Miami-Dade medical examiner Dr. Alexx Woods since the launch of the show in 2002. Alexander still may return for guest appearances.
Denny Duquette, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, is returning to ABC’s medical drama Grey’s Anatomy says The Hollywood Reporter. A rep for the show confirmed Morgan’s guest appearance but declined to divulge further details. Denny first appeared in the show’s second season as Izzie’s (Katherine Heigl) patient, who was in the hospital because of a heart condition. The pair became engaged, but Denny died at the end of the season. His character did return in the third season in a vision seen by a near-death Meredith (Ellen Pompeo). Grey’s Anatomy has its fifth-season premiere September 25.
Many entertainment sites are reporting that this is Zach Braff’s last season on Scrubs, and they are making a big deal about it. This was always supposed to be the last season of Scrubs. Creator Bill Lawrence has been saying that Scrubs could go on another season, and with ABC getting behind the show, ratings could improve enough to be reupped for another season. Braff said he is open to coming back as JD in a more limited role and to direct if the show made it to another season. Lawrence is saying he always saw Scrubs as a comedy version of ER with people rotating in and out of the show.
Lawrence wrote the finale a few years ago and was very upset when NBC wouldn’t give him the chance to wrap up his show. “The end of the show will be about J.D. leaving the hospital,” Lawrence said. “When you leave, it’s about holding on to your relationships.” ABC came in and gave Lawrence that chance, giving him the support and promotion NBC never gave Scrubs. This is the first season that will be recorded in HD. Most of the upcoming season has already been shot and will air in midseason.
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FX has ordered 19 additional episodes beyond the current 22-episode season that will mark the plastic surgery drama’s final season. The show will end its run with a total of 100 episodes in early 2011, with creator/executive producer Ryan Murphy signed on through the last episode. Nip/Tuck has already aired 14 episodes of its current fifth season; the remaining eight are set to premiere in January.
With ABC’s Desperate Housewives jumping ahead five years for its upcoming fifth season, four newcomers have come aboard to play the now-aged Scavo kids. Joshua Moore is set to play Parker, the oldest son of Tom and Lynette Scavo (Doug Savant and Felicity Huffman). Charles and Max Carver will play trouble-making twins Porter and Preston, respectively, and Kendall Applegate has signed on as Penny, the youngest child and only daughter. The three sons will now be teenagers, while the daughter is around 8 or 9 years old.
Michael Ausiello is reporting that William Petersen is leaving CSI by midseason. This season’s 10th episode will be his last as a full-time series regular. “Billy is leaving,” confirms executive producer, Carol Mendelsohn. “But he will remain throughout the run of the series an executive producer. And he will, whenever CBS asks, come back. I don’t think you’ve seen the last of Gil Grissom.”
Petersen seems almost reluctant to characterize his departure as a departure. Citing both his ongoing role as an executive producer and his intention to return on occasion as a guest star, he said, “I’m in a great place in terms of knowing that I’ll be more free to make choices. And I’m responsible enough to not do it in a way that would hurt [the show]. “I want it to work for the writers, I want it to work for the cast, and, most importantly, I want it to work for the audience,” he added. “I don’t want them to abandon the show.”
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Seth Rogen has written and will do voice work in an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. The Hollywood Reporter found a synopsis of the episode. Comic Book Guy creates a super hero, it’s turned into feature film, Homer plays the hero. Seth plays his personal trainer. Homer gets into great shape, but then the movie is over and he can’t afford the personal trainer anymore and his life becomes hell.
Burn Notice returns tonight for a second season of spy games. Everyone’s favorite burned spy finally returns after a yearlong wait. The second season picks up right where they left off for Michael, who thought he was going to meet the people that burned him. Instead, he finds himself cornered into working for them. Tricia Helfer, best known as sexy Cylon Number Six from Battlestar Galactica, joins the cast as Carla, the latest person to yank Michael’s chain. Tonight, Michael is trying to retrieve information that’s heavily guarded by cutthroat mercenaries, in order to help his client free his kidnapped family. Burn Notice returns tonight on USA at 10 PM/ET.
Michael Ausiello is reporting that Courteney Cox is joining the cast of Scrubs for a three-episode arc as Sacred Heart’s new Chief of Medicine. Cox’s boss lady character will “ruffle feathers,” teases a Scrubs insider. Creator Bill Lawrence teased a few months ago that he wanted to “stunt” cast a big name for the role of Dr. Kelso’s successor and I think he succeeded with casting Cox.