- After Julie Benz's shocking Dexter exit, she's moving into a new neighborhood: Wisteria Lane. Benz will join the cast of Desperate Housewives as an educated stripper (you read that right) to whom Susan offers a job.
- True Blood's Lafayette is getting a new love interest! It's in the form of Southland star Kevin Alejandro, who will play Jesus, an orderly caring for Lafayette's ailing mother (a recently cast Alfre Woodard).
- After appearing as a guest star on Grey's Anatomy, Kim Raver has been promoted to permanent cast member.
- How's Dawson's bedside manner? James van der Beek has been cast in hospital drama Mercy as Dr. Liam West, the hospital's new ICU director.