Let’s get right to one of the most talked-about returns coming to television this fall—namely, Glee and how they plan on handling the bitter absence of their very own Finn (aka Cory Monteith, RIP). After a rather standard brief promo clip out last week, it’s been revealed that two hot young songsters, specifically Adam Lambert and Demi Lovato, will be guesting on the show this season, Lambert in a yet-to-be-announced villainous role of some sort. Thanks to a quickly deleted tweet (thanks, Adam!), we also know that the two will be dueting in at least one song together!
In other TV news, Once Upon A Time will be going underwater this season with Royal Pains’ JoAnna Garcia playing none other than Ariel, The Little Mermaid! Producers promise a characteristic twist to the beloved Disney character, who will most probably not be all that she seems.
Newcomer Chris Wood will be enjoying plum roles on two popular TV series in the coming months – first on The Carrie Diaries as a playwright who piques Carrie’s (AnnaSophia Robb) professional and personal interest (you better hang on to your hat, Sebastian!) and then on HBO’s Girls next spring as Paul, a snooty ‘pretty boy’.
Rounding out TV news is the casting of Luke Benward, Henry Simmons, and Sophia Brown in the upcoming supernatural spinoff to Pretty Little Liars, Ravenswood.
For those True Blood fans out there, we have an announcement for cutie shapeshifter Sam Trammell – he’s been cast as father to Shailene Woodley’s terminally ill lead character in the film adaptation of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars! Who seems more buyable as Shailene’s dad? Sam or George Clooney (The Descendants)?
Les Miserables’ beautiful Eponine, Samantha Barks, has been tapped for the new Dracula, which looks to be a reinvention of the classic tale mixed with the true history of Prince Vlad ‘The Impaler’…lets see how much more vampire fare Hollywood can ram down our throats in this endless trend!
Speaking of vampires, the little-known (not!) Vanessa Hudgens is currently filming The Kitchen Sink, which looks to cash in on practically every hot trend going on out there: a comedy featuring teens who team up with vamps and zombies in order to face off against an army of invading aliens.
To follow up on the report of Secret Circle’s Britt Robertson being cast to star in Disney’s ultra-top secret Tomorrowland, Judy Greer—a fan fave famous for her work on Arrested Development along with so much more—is also in talks to join the cast, which includes George Clooney and Raffey Cassidy (aka the young Kristen Stewart in Snow White and the Huntsman).
Speaking of Kristen Stewart, the actress is looking to put Twilight (far) behind her with Camp X-Ray, a gritty drama following a soldier (Stewart) who is sent to Guantanamo instead of Iraq, where she had been hoping to make a tour of duty. She is joined by Cory Michael Smith and Lane Garrison.
Finally, Mr. Gossip Girl Penn Badgley finally has some good follow-up work coming up since wrapping that little old show over at the CW: he is gearing up to play Posthumus in a modern day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline opposite Ethan HawkeandAnton Yelchin. But perhaps most interestingly, Badgley will also be playing alongside Alexis Bledel, Teresa Palmer, and Rosario Dawson in the mysterious sounding romantic drama Parts Per Billion, about relationships threatened by a huge biological event. Both films out next year!
