NEWS: GENERAL HOSPITAL Casting New Role; REVOLUTION & BELIEVE Comic Con Trailers; SUPERNATURAL Spin-Off

GENERAL HOSPITAL casting new female role
GH is hunting for an African-American actress, 25-37, to fill a contract role slated to begin shooting in September. "She changes a room just by entering it," the character description says.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND Taps Naveen Andrews as Jafar
"We always wanted to have Jafar be a part of this story," executive producer Edward Kitsis told fans at Saturday's Comic-Con panel. "It's going to be a very, very evil villain... When we had this character in mind, we knew we wanted Naveen to play it and when we asked him he said yes."

Peter Dinklage to guest on FAMILY GUY
He just got another nomination for best supporting actor on GAME OF THRONES and now he’s booked a fun gig — Peter Dinklage will appear on the next season of Fox's FAMILY GUY, along with a score of other guest stars. The full roster: Liam Neeson, Dennis Farina, Ashton Kutcher, Conan O’Brien, Bryan Cranston, Jeff Daniels, Jon Cryer, and Adam Levine.

The CW Developing SUPERNATURAL Spin-Off
Executive producer Bob Singer first announced the project during a press event at Comic-Con on Sunday.

Details are few and far between right now — it’s still early in the process — but here’s what we’ve gleaned: A new character will be introduced in or around Episode 20 (which will serve as a planted pilot for the new show). That character will then anchor the spin-off.

REVOLUTION Adds Stephen Collins as Rachel's Dad, Makes Season 2 Tweaks
Collins' casting was announced Saturday when producers unveiled a new teaser trailer for Season 2 at the show's Comic-Con panel.

Collins will be play Rachel's (Elizabeth Mitchell) father. "[He] brings an entirely new perspective on her, her upbringing," executive producer Rockne S. O'Bannon said. "He's a very important part of the world we got to inhabit in the first part of the season."

Cast additions are far from the only changes being made on the sophomore series. Creator and executive producer Eric Kripke said he and the writers have gone to great lengths to improve upon Season 1. "As good as it was, it needs to be better," Kripke said. "It was a lot of story about a light switch."



BELIEVE Comic-Con 2013 Video
At the end of the REVOLUTION panel at Comic-Con, fans were given a special surprise when filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron introduced his first television project. The 2014 series preview "is both action-packed and inspiring."



TRUE BLOOD Postmortem: "It's a Big Relief Now That It's Over," Says Latest Casualty
[Warning: This story contains major spoilers from Sunday's episode of TRUE BLOOD. Read at your own risk!]

After Terry (Todd Lowe) contracted an old Marine buddy to kill him, it should've come as no surprise that the Merlotte's chef did, in fact, meet his maker on Sunday's True Blood. But what was heartbreaking was that his friends and wife Arlene (Carrie Preston), having deduced something was awry, enlisted a vampire to glamour all the pain away, be it his PTSD from the war or his memories of Patrick (Scott Foley), whom he had to kill to save his own life.

For once, Terry was happy. But it was short-lived since, along with his painful memories being erased were those of planning his own suicide. His Marine friend came through, killing Terry outside of Merlotte's, with the gentle giant giving one last farewell to his wife Arlene before dying.