TVLine Items: Walking Dead Vet's SVU Gig, Steve Carell's TV Return, TVD's New Witch and More

TVLine Items: Walking Dead Vet's SVU Gig, Steve Carell's TV Return, TVD's New Witch and More

Law & Order: SVU has landed a Walking Dead fave for an upcoming, ripped-from-the-headlines installment.

Lauren Cohan will guest-star on the NBC procedural this March in an episode based loosely on onetime Senate nominee Todd Akin’s controversial 2012 remarks that pregnancies rarely result from “legitimate rape.”

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Per The Hollywood Reporter, Cohan will play Avery Jordan, a sports reporter who finds herself pregnant after her cameraman allegedly rapes her.

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Steve Carell is coming back to TV — but sadly, it’s not for the Office finale. Per EW.com, the funnyman will drop by History’s Pawn Stars this spring in an appearance tied to the March 15 release of his magician-centric flick The Incredible Burt Wonderstone.

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• Spartacus: War of the Damned‘s Cynthia Addai-Robinson will guest-star in an upcoming episode of The Vampire Diaries, TVGuide.com reports, playing a witchy new mentor for Bonnie.

The Real World: Portland premieres Wednesday, March 27 on MTV.

• MTV’s new Ke$ha docu-series (?!?), titled Ke$ha: My Crazy Beautiful Life, will debut April 23.

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