TVLine Items: True Blood Newbie Upped to Series Regular, Reality Bites for NBC and More!
Eric’s new progeny is making Bon Temps her permanent home.
Amelia Rose Blaire has been upped to series regular in True Blood‘s upcoming seventh season, Deadline reports.
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The actress joined the HBO drama’s last season as Willa Burrell, the dastardly Governor’s daughter who happily joined Eric and Pam’s ever-expanding family of vamps.
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• NBC is developing a half-hour series based on the cult hit movie Reality Bites, Variety reports. Exec-produced by Ben Stiller — who starred in the big-screen flick — the project centers on a recent college grad trying to make her way in early ’90s, “recession-plagued” Houston.
• Michael Ian Black has been upgraded to a series regular on Fox’s new comedy Us & Them. The actor-comedian-Burning Love host, who plays uncle to Alexis Bledel’s Stacey in the series, appeared as a guest star in the pilot.
• Erstwhile View hostess Elisabeth Hasselbeck is slated to make her Fox & Friends debut on Sept. 16.
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• Jerry Springer will guest-star in The Neighbors‘ Season 2 premiere (airing Sept. 20), EW.com reports, playing a “virtual moderator,” á la iPhone It Girl Siri.
• The Rachel Zoe Show is no mo’. “We’ve done five [seasons],” the celeb stylist tells Capitol File magazine. “I think it’s time to probably move on.”
• Is Garth back on Supernatural duty? Jared Padalecki’s recent tweets with DJ Qualls would seem to suggest so…
@TheOnlyDJQualls can't wait brother!! Sorry to miss ya
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Jared Padalecki (@jarpad) August 23, 2013
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