Jane the Virgin star joins Chicago Med

A new generation of doctors are coming to Chicago Med.

TVLine reported that Rachel DiPillo (Jane the Virgin) has been cast as a series-regular in the Chicago Fire spinoff as intern Dr. Sarah Reese.

Executive Producer  Andre Dettmann tells TVline, "Dr. Reese is fresh out of medical school and 'comes in with a lot of confidence because she's been straight-A, super-proficient, accomplished at everything. But everything has been book knowledge until know. She's hit that spot that first-year interns have to go through. Now they have real cases that they have to handle. She may e in a little over her head.'"

DiPillo is the latest addition to the series since the departure of Laurie Holden, who portrayed an ER surgeon in the backdoor pilot. Later this week, Torrey DeVitto (The Vampire Dairies) was added to the cast, as the pregnant ER pediatrician Dr. Lilly Manning.

You can catch the premiere of Chicago Med Tuesday, Nov. 17th at 10/9c on NBC.

Law & Order revival

If 24 done it, The X-Files is doing it, why not Law & Order too?

With reports that NBC is eyeing a limited Law & Order series that features the original cast members of the long-running franchise, creator Dick Wolf on Thursday gave a brief update.

"As you've heard, everybody wants to do it," Wolf told reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. "Its is a question of...most of the people involved are very successful in their careers. To try to get everything in sequence is much more difficult than it looks on the outside. I a always an optimist. I would love to do it if we can make it work."

With previous reports, the limited series would likely be a 10 episode order, original stars that include Chris Noth and Sam Waterston, who have reportedly been approached.

I'm hope that sometime in a year or so that this could happen. I understand how the cast are busy with other projects. I would hope that Linus Roache and Alana de la Garza would come back as well.

"The Vampire Diaries" alum cast on Chicago Med

Deadline has reported that Chicago Med, the latest spinoff from Chicago Fire, has cast The Vampire Diaries alumni Torrey DeVitto as a series regular.

The news comes after Laurie Holden, who appeared in the backdoor pilot, departed the series this week due to family matters. But this is not a replacement.

Med is in process of casting three new female characters, one being played by DeVitto. The other characters are a young resident and a charge nurse.

Showrunner Andrew Dettman told TVLine at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, that DeVitto will be playing Dr. Lilly Manning, who is an ER pediatrician and is pregnant.

"When we meet her, she's very pregnant. She's just a really sweet, warm, midwest (woman who) planned it out, studied, worked hard, got everything to where she wanted- the husband and everything going the way it's supposed to be going," Dettman said. "But this is her first child, and it seems to me, at the end of the day, there's a little bit of denial (about) the fact that she's about to undergo an enormous change in her life."

DeVitto has had some other TV roles from The Vampire Diaries to One Tree Hill, Pretty Little Lairs to CSI.

You can catch the premiere of Chicago Med Tuesday, Nov. 17th at 9/8c on NBC.

Gabriel Mann joins 'Mysteries of Laura'

Former Revenge star, Gabriel Mann joins the cast of Mysteries of Laura.

There are no complete detail of who he will be playing but from indications, looks like he'll be pairing up with Laura (Debra Messing), Jake (Josh Lucas) and Meredith (Janina Gavankar).

When "Laura" was renewed, it was reported that season two will be focusing more on Laura's life on the force than jiggling work and her crazy family.
 
"The Mysteries of Laura" premieres Wednesday, September 23rd at 8/7c on NBC.

Heroes: Reborn TCA press tour

On Thuesday, the cast and producers of Heroes: Reborn got to answer questions and give some details of the new season at the TCA press tour. Here's some pin-points:

•  The premiere will be a two-hour event on Thursday, Sept. 24th at 8/7c
• Creator Tim Kring, talked about how certain actors were not available and replied that when others return it happens simply when  ideas come up in the writers room.
• Kring says that he wanted to make something that was easy for brand new viewer to watch for the first time and had always thought that this show could repopulate.
• Kring's vision for the series was that he 'was always most interested in the origin stories."
• Sadly but Kring has confirmed that Claire Bennet died a year before the events of Heroes Reborn.
• King says that he feels that Heroes was hurt when it was hurt by the longer seasons and promises that there will be a beginning, middle and an end with the 13 episodes.
• There's a potential for more seasons.
• Kring is confident that they can find other stories to tell with new and recurring characters.
• Zachary Levi says "We've been given a really cool world to play characters that are ambiguous."
• Kring says that they're treating this season like it's the 10th season as in like other seasons happened in-between the time the show left the air.
• Masi Oka and Sendhil Ramamurthy will both appear in "a couple of episodes" of the season and that they'll help advance the story.
• Hiro can time travel and Kring says coyly hat will come in handy.
• Jack Coleman is the only original Heroes character who appears in every episode of Heroes Reborn.

Blindspot at TCA press tour

On Thursday, NBC buzzed new drama series "Blindspot" answered questions and discuss about the upcoming new series at the TCA press tour. Here are some pin-point:

• The series premiere is Monday, September 21 at 10/9c.
• Jamie Alexander says she has a fighting background and was a wrestler growing up that help her with her character's combat skills.
• It took 7.5 hours to apply the full-body tattoos, that lasted for several days.
• Alexander has nine tattoos of her own.
• Executive Producer Martin Gero says that the series is "a character drama first and foremost" and adds that "It's a procedural for people who don't like procedurals."
• Gero admits that there are similarities between Blindspot and Blacklist "but that's not a bad thing."
• Gero says that Jamie Alexander's character has many, many years worth of stories tattooed on her body. Adding that "She had 9 to 10 years of stories on her body. Her legs are for the spin-off."
• At the end of every episode, they're going to throw a hook in for the next episode.
• "Each episode is a puzzle piece."
• Executive Prodcers Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter noted that they want to deliver satisfying stories each week while it still building the mythology.
• There will be answers to why her memory was wiped.
• Berlanti says that the audience will be satisfied at the end of the ride.
• The night that they filmed the pilot, when Alexander crawls naked out of the bag, the temperature was six degrees in Time Square and that she was really shaking. Plus there was not a single visual effect in that opening sequence, they closed down Time Square.
• "She's got a secret. That's all I'm gonna say," said Marlanne Jean-Baptiste on her character.
• Berlanti says that on working on several shows, he works with people who have a clear vision and that Martin has such a clear vision for Blindspot and that his involvement is day-to-day.
• And mentions that there are "secret tattoos" that haven't been revealed yet.

Chicago Med TCA press tour

On Thursday, NBC's new drama series "Chicago Med" answered questions and discuss about the new spinoff series. Here are some pin-points.

• The premiere date has been moved back a week to Tuesday, Nov. 17th at 9/8c. That filming the new season will start in mid-September.
• Dick Wolf says that they aim for a "Ripped from the Headlines" storyline each week that'll get you one piece of medical information that you don't know. Other medical stories besides Ebola.
• As for crossovers, Wolf says that they "are incredible ratings engines for us." But can't be commonplace. 
• Colin Donnell was questioned if he's worried about being killed off after dying in the last two shows he was in. He replied with a no. 
• Wolfs mentions the support of the city and the people have been incredible, "Now these are the hometown shows." Also saying that people are polite in Chicago and don't bother the actors like they would in other cities. 
• Andrew Dettmann, the showrunner for Chicago Med, says that the series will be a fast-paced show but they're also taking cases and following them through so you won't know what the diagnosis is right away.
• There will be a three crossovers: two will be between Chicago Fire, Chicago Med and Chicago PD and the third one will be the jumbo four episode crossover between Fire, Med, PD and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.