The Exes: Chocolate and vanilla bear have been reunited! Former Scrubs stars Zach Braff and Donald Faison will give Sacred Heart fans heart palpitations when the duo reunites on Faison’s TV Land sitcom The Exes. Braff will appear on the August 29 episode as a womanizing tennis player and client of Faison’s sports agent Phil. [THR]
Duff stuff: The erstwhile Lizzie McGuire is returning to television! Hilary Duff has signed a deal with 20th Century Fox Television to develop a half-hour comedy starring Duff — and should that comedy fall through, the deal includes language that allows for Duff to be cast in one of the company’s other running series. The purpose is to find Duff a proper starring vehicle, though, which shouldn’t be too tough considering her natural comedic timing (she’s the female Shia LaBeouf, in more ways than just their Disney history). [Deadline]
90210: Well, that didn’t take long at all! Olympian Ryan Lochte will guest on the fifth season of the CW soap, playing a resort guest who encounters Naomi (AnnaLynne McCord) and Max (Josh Zuckerman). [TV Line]
Modern Family: In the first bout of new Modern Family casting, Bridesmaids funny lady Wendi McLendon-Covey is set to appear on the third episode of the ABC sitcom’s third season as a lesbian mother whose son gets into a playground scuffle with Lily. Playing McLendon-Covey’s better half is SNL alum Michaela Watkins, whose brief time on the sketch comedy show is best represented by this clip. [EW]
Raising Hope: Another SNL vet, Jenny Slate (famously of the ‘Marcel the Shell’ web series) is set to join Fox’s Raising Hope as a social worker who visits the Chance household to survey the conditions of baby Hope. [TVLine]
Revenge: Declan (Connor Paolo) will be getting a new best friend in the form of young actor Michael Nardelli (CSI:NY), who has been cast as “a preppy misfit who befriends [Declan] and then proceeds to get him in a world of trouble.” So… Tyler Barrol? [TVLine]
NCIS: CBS’s popular procedural has tapped Star Wars legend Billy Dee Williams as Leroy Jethro, a “World War II veteran and close friend of the Gibbs (Mark Harmon) clan.” [TV Guide]
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