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Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

It looks like MTV is going to double the episode order for the second season of Teen Wolf, giving the new season 24-episodes. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Michael Zegen (Rescue Me) has joined the cast of The Walking Dead. He will play Randall, a new character that isn’t featured in the original comic book. (Michael Schneider at TV Guide)

Actress Alexandra Daddario (who played Kate on White Collar) will appear on Parenthood as Rachel, the new receptionist at Adam (Peter Krause) and Crosby’s (Dax Shepard) new business venture, The Luncheonette. (Megan Masters at TV Line)

Actor Gilles Marini (Brothers & Sisters) will guest star on Modern Family, as Julian, a friend of a friend of Cameron and Mitchell’s whom they both assume is gay; however, that proves to be erroneous when the boys invite Claire (Julie Bowen) on a rare “fun night out” and end up leaving her with Julian –- and in short order it becomes clear that he is very straight. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actor Jeff Nordling (formerly of Once and Again) will guest star on two episodes of CSI: NY, appearing alongside Sela Ward who also starred in Once and Again. He will play a U.S. senator who is still miffed at the way Jo (Ward) handled a rape case involving his daughter, Serena (newcomer Jenn Proske). The senator comes to New York City when his daughter’s rapist is arrested on a new case and applies pressure to make sure things aren’t screwed up the second time around. (Lynette Rice at Entertainment Weekly)

Actress Deirdre Lovejoy (who played “The Gravedigger” on Bones) will play the potentially recurring role of Jeannie Morris, the wife of Detective Bud Morris (John Carroll Lynch) on Body of Proof. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actor Victor Garber (Alias) has been tapped to provide the voice of Charlie on the new reboot of Charlie’s Angels that will debut this Thursday on ABC. (Vulture and Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Former Columbia Pictures chief-turned-producer Matt Tolmach has sold a female-driven drama project to CBS that is titled Sleepers. It centers on a woman who has the gift to save “sleepers,” people who are caught somewhere between life and death. The network also bought a project from feature film director Sam Raimi that is about a female FBI agent who is placed undercover in a St. Louis homicide unit to solve murders while investigating her own precinct for corruption. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Novel writer Nicholas Sparks is making his first foray into TV writing. He has sold an original story idea to ABC for a drama series titled The Watchers. This project tells the story of a fallen angel looking for his mortal love. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

FOX has bought a CIA drama that is a procedural thriller centered on the orphaned 17-year-old daughter of a CIA operative who is recruited to become an operative herself. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) will star in the upcoming box office film King of Heists where he will play George Leslie, a mild-mannered gentleman who quietly assembled a crew and pulled off a $3 million heist from the Manhattan Savings Institution in 1878. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

Actor Robert Knepper (Prison Break) has joined the cast of the supernatural action thriller R.I.P.D. that is based on the Dark Horse comic, starring Ryan Reynolds as a murdered cop who is recruited to work in the Rest in Peace Department, a police force comprised of ghosts who battle spirits unready to depart this world. Knepper will play one of the spirits, known as a “deado”. Jeff Bridges plays Reynolds’ partner while Kevin Bacon and Mary-Louise Parker [among others] co-star. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)

Actress Leven Rambin (who will be seen in the upcoming film The Hunger Games) has joined the cast of the surfer biopic called Mavericks that follows Jay Moriarty (Jonny Weston), a Santa Cruz native who found his calling in the world of surfing at a young age and flourished under the guidance of local elder Rick “Frosty” Hesson (Gerard Butler). Moriarty passed away the day before his 23rd birthday in a free-diving accident in the Maldives. Rambin will play Moriarty’s best friend and potential love interest in the film. (Showblitz and Dark Horizons)

Actor Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen) will appear in the Steven Spielberg film Lincoln as Alexander Stephens, the Vice President of the Confederate States during the Civil War and a nemesis of Lincoln’s slavery reform agenda. The cast of this film includes Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd as well as Tommy Lee Jones and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. (Deadline and First Showing)

That’s it. Enjoy!