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Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor John Larroquette will have a major recurring role in the new NBC mid-season drama called Infamous that is an opulent soap about a female detective (Meagan Good) who returns undercover to the wealthy and troubled Lawson family she grew up in — as the maid’s daughter — to solve the murder of the notorious heiress Vivian Lawson who was once her closest friend. He will play Senator Dwight Haverstock, a powerful politician who has a dark history with the Bowers family. The estranged best friend of Robert Bowers (Victor Garber), Haverstock is an unpredictable man with extreme appetites and big secrets. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Henry Ian Cusick (Lost and Scandal) will appear in three upcoming episodes of The Mentalist, playing Tommy Volker, a multi-millionaire adventurer playboy who comes under suspicion when a television reporter is murdered. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Stockard Channing will appear in at least one episode of The Good Wife as mother to Alicia (Julianna Margulies). Meanwhile, actor Bruce McGill (Rizzoli & Isles) will have a potentially recurring role in the show as a world renowned attorney. The show is back for its new season starting on September 30 on CBS. (Kate Stanhope at TV Guide and Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

TNT has renewed Major Crimes for a second season, consisting of 15 episodes. This new season will air next summer. (TNT)

ONLINE SERIES NEWS

Actress Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager and Warehouse 13) has landed a role in the upcoming online series Orange Is The New Black from Jenji Kohan (the creator of Weeds). The series centers on Piper (Taylor Schilling), an engaged Brooklynite whose decade-old relationship with a drug-runner (Laura Prepon) in college results in her arrest and multi-year detention in a federal penitentiary. Mulgrew will play Red, a Russian prisoner who runs the kitchen and serves as a mother figurehead for the women. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Q&A SECTION (with Team Watch with Kristin at E! Online)

Question: Don’t get me wrong, I love hearing about Elena, Damon and Stefan. I really want something on Jeremy though! – Corey in Indianapolis

Team Watch with Kristin: Kat Graham talked to us about Jeremy’s situation in TVD’s fourth season, and it sounds like he’s got a big journey ahead. “Jeremy is going to be become something new that I think the fans will really like,” she tells us mysteriously. Is there a chance he could become Bonnie’s boo again? “You get to see them have some scenes together in the first episode, which is really cool, and we’ve had a lot of scenes since,” she reveals. “[But] I think it’s yet to be determined. I think it was such a heartbreak for the character when she discovered that he was having an affair with a ghost. She’s got a lot of mending and healing to do. So she might give him another chance, or she might think that friendship is really where they should remain.”

Question: Any scoop on Once Upon A Time? September 30th is not arriving fast enough! – StorybrookeMirror

Team Watch with Kristin: Emma better watch her back because Regina is definitely going to be trying (hard) to win Henry back in season two. “It is heartbreaking because, as we saw in the season finale, she pretty much lost her son. And her final words to him were, ‘No matter what anyone tells you, know that I do love you,'” Lana Parrilla explains. “And this season is about her redemption and trying to get her son back.

That’s it. Enjoy!