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Four things we learned today | Wednesday 17 March

Warehouse 13 season two

1. The Warehouse 13 guys have been discussing season two

2. True Blood’s Arlenne, Carrie Preston, is set to guest star in The Good Wife.

3. Spoiler alert! One of our favourite former 24 characters is about to return!

4. How I Met Your Mother’s Jason Segel is to star in the new Muppets movie.

Six things we learned today | Monday 15 March

James Callis joins Eureka

1. Battlestar and Flashforward star James Callis is joining Eureka - or, as Sky1 like to call it, A Town Called Eureka.

2. The supposedly axed 24 may be picked up by a different channel in the States. And Michael Madsen is joining the cast as an old acquaintance of Jack…

3. The Breaking Bad boys have a right old laugh on set…

4. Dollhouse/Sarah Connor/Firefly star Summer Glau has a new fantasy drama series in the works, The Cape.

5. Former X-Files Scully replacement Anabeth Gish is joining FlashForward.

6. Jeremy Irons and Colm Feore have been cast in Borgias, the epic period drama from the makers of The Tudors.

Five things we learned today | Wednesday 10 March

24 axed!

1. It seems that 24 is facing the axe and season eight will be Jack’s final bad day (apart from that rumoured movie).

2. A range of Mad Men dolls are being released – just don’t look too hard at their somewhat identical faces…

3. Four of the original cast members are set to be reunited on the new Melrose Place.

4. Felicity’s Keri Russell is returning to the box as part of Will Arnett’s new sitcom.

5. Here are the first pictures of John Barrowman in Desperate Housewives. It really is happening, we thought it was just a bad dream…

Six things we learned today | Tuesday 9 March

Rousseau returns to Lost

1. Fringe, 30 Rock, The Office and Community will all be back for new series in the Fall. Hurrah!

2. Bravo have picked up the rights to show Spartacus: Blood and Sand in the UK.

3. Frenchwoman Danielle Rousseau looks set to return to Lost in the final few episodes.

4. Heroes’ Sendhil Ramamurthy has been cast in Covert Affairs, a rather promising-sounding new spy thriller series.

5. The role of Eric’s dad in True Blood has been cast - though, sadly it’s not Alexander Skarsgard’s real-life dad Stellan as rumoured.

6. Buffy’s James Marsters has been discussing his forthcoming role in Caprica.

Four things we learned today | Wednesday 3 March

James Callis joins FlashForward

1. Episodes – CSI: NY’s Clare Forlani and Green Wing’s Stephen Mangan have joined the cast of Matt LeBlanc’s new sitcom.

2. FlashForwardJames Callis (BSG’s Baltar) will pop up towards the end of the first series…

3. Gossip GirlWilliam Baldwin’s joining the cast as Serena’s father.

4. LostNone of the regular cast members will appear in a forthcoming episode.

Five things we learned today | Wednesday 24 February

Archer gets second season

The slow news month continues apace…

1. Archer – The new animated spy series has been granted a second season. It starts here tomorrow night on Fiver.

2. Chuck – Quantum Leap’s Scott Bakula will be returning as Chuck and Ellie’s dad later in season three.

3. Desperate HousewivesJohn Barrowman’s been dishing secrets about his new bad guy role.

4. Glee – The curiously aged kids of McKinley High have been summoned to the White House.

5. The Vampire Diaries24/Alias/Heroes baddie David Anders will appear as Elena and Jeremy’s uncle.

Six things we learned today | Thursday 18 February

Vampire Diaries gets second series

1. 24 – Some kind soul’s compiled a video of every 24 explosion. And there’ s been quite a few.

2. LostMaggie Grace will return as Shannon towards the end of the series.3. Lost – Some of the show’s most memorable moments have been immortalised in cartoon form

4. The Vampire Diaries – Has been commissioned for a second series. Also coming back in the Fall are 90210, Gossip Girl and Supernatural.

5. Two and a Half Men – Ally McBeal/Melrose Place star Courtney Thorne-Smith is to guest in a run of episodes.

6. V – Former X Files bad boy Nicholas Lea and Andromeda’s Lexia Doig will show up later in the series.

Five things we learned today | Monday 15 February

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1. 24 – Lost’s Michael Emerson is baffled by this week’s triple 24 stabbing on the excellent The Soup!

2. 24 – Filming’s been suspended as Kiefer Sutherland needs surgery for a ruptured cyst.

3. Desperate Housewives – Sounds like they’re regretting killing Edie as they’re searching for a new Wisteria Lane troublemaker. Also, Heidi Klum will be guest starring as herself.

4. Ugly Betty - Kathy Najimy off Veronica’s Closet (come on, it’s not that obscure) will appear in a pivotal role towards the end of the series.

5. VBattlestar Galactica’s Michael Trucco has joined the sci-fi reboot as a rebel leader.

Thrills and spills ahoy! Bravo picks up US action series White Collar

White Collar comes to Bravo UK

Word’s just reached us that Bravo have picked up the rather good US action series White Collar.

The everyday story of a cunning criminal who negotiates an early release from chokey by agreeing to help the FBI catch over criminals, White Collar is the latest all-action, chest-beating, testosterone-pumping thriller shows that we just can’t get enough of. See Human Target or Burn Notice for a taste of what to expect.

It stars Matthew Bomer (who played Chuck’s best-pal-turned-nemesis in Chuck), Tiffani Thiessen off 90210 and Saved by the Bell, and Willie Garson from Sex & the City.

Here’s a quick trailer to whet your appetite….

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Six things we learned today | Wednesday 10 February

Jon Hamm returns to 30 Rocks

1. 24Jack will be cutting the heads off terrorists and keeping them in bowling ball bags on the big screen, though a ninth series of the spy drama has yet to be confirmed.

2. 30 RockAll of Liz’s ex-boyfriends are back for Valentine’s Day, joined by Jon Bon Jovi…

3. CapricaLucy Lawless has been tapped to appear in the BSG prequel as cylon D’Anna Myers. How’s that going to work, eh?

4. Criminal MindsGabrielle Carteris off Beverly Hills 90210 is set to guest star.

5. House – Prison Break’s dopey doctor Sarah Wayne Challis is set to check in as a patient.

6. The MentalistLeslie Hope off 24 is set to return as Jane’s psychic sort-of-love-interest Kristina.