All the latest TV news courtesy of PJ Flip and 141tv.
- Friday Night Lights will premiere its final season on Oct. 27 on DirecTV. It just concluded its forth season rebroadcast on NBC.
- Mandy Moore will return to Grey’s Anatomy. The former popstar guest starred in the two part season finale last season. She returns in next season’s sixth episode.
- 5.5 million viewers watched the last episode of Jersey Shore, a series record.
- Bret Harrison (Reaper) joins the cast of V in a recurring role. He will make his debut in the season premiere. Will he help raise the shows ratings? Is he a human or alien?
- A double dose of Castle news: Ken Baumann (Secret Life of the American Teenager) will appear on the show as Alexis’ (Molly Quinn) first boyfriend. Victor Webster from the recent Melrose Place reboot joins the cast as a recurring character, a possible love interest for Beckett.
- Over on the CW, One Tree Hill and Life Unexpected will be crossing over this year when Mia (Kate Voegele) and Haley (Bethany Joy Galeotti) from Hill play at a music festival hosted by Life Unexpected‘s Kate’s (Shiri Appleby) radio station in Portland.
- Antonio Sabato, Jr. will guest star in an episode of Bones as a Guido bouncer at a Jersey Shore club. Bones was trying to get The Situation from MTV’s Jersey Shore for the episode, but were unable to secure him.
- Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights) has joined the cast of ABC’s new show Off The Map as a series regular. OTM is from the creator of Grey’s Anatomy.
- Jack Black will be guest starring on an upcoming episode of Nickelodeon’s iCarly.
- Masi Oka (Heroes) has joined the cast of Hawaii Five-0 as a coroner. He joins cast members Alex O’Loughlin, Scott Caan, and Daniel Dae Kim. Buffy‘s James Marsters guest stars in the premiere also.
- Laura Bell Bundy joins the cast of How I Met Your Mother, in a recurring role, as Robyn’s new co-host.Will she end up being the mother? I doubt it…
