When “Heroes” returns next fall for its second season, audiences will meet four or five new heroes.
The first of these new characters has been cast, according to Variety. Diana Ramirez has accepted a role on the hit NBC series.
Ramirez may be best known to genre fans from her role as Calysto in last summer’s “X-Men 3: The Last Stand.”
Details on Ramirez’s character and her powers are being kept under wraps. Ramirez’s character may be the only one of the new set of heroes to become a regular on the show.
From SCIFI.com:
David Greenwalt , co-creator/executive producer of the vampire drama “Angel,” has been tapped to serve as executive producer/show runner on CBS’ new drama series “Moonlight,” which has a similar theme, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Moonlight,” from Warner Brothers TV and Silver Pictures TV, centers on a private investigator (Alex O’Loughlin) who is a vampire. In his eternal life, he is joined by his former bride (Amber Valletta), a seductive vampire who bit him 60 years ago, as well as a deceitful ally (Rade Serbedzija), who also is undead.
The PI’s life is turned upside down when he falls for a beautiful mortal woman. In the pitch presentation, Shannon Lucio played the part, which is now being recast.
Greenwalt will serve as an executive producer alongside Joel Silver; the project’s writers, Ron Koslow and Trevor Munson; director Rod Holcomb; and Gerard Bocaccio.
Greenwalt previously served as show runner on NBC’s “Kidnapped,” UPN’s “Jake 2.0” and ABC’s “Miracles”. In addition to co-creating “Angel” with Joss Whedon, Greenwalt was a writer-producer on Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”. He also worked as a consulting producer for SCI FI Channel’s original series “Eureka”.
Sunday, June 17 will be one of the better evenings for sci-fi fans this summer. The USA Network series “The 4400” and “The Dead Zone” return for their summer runs and the highly-anticipated “Star Wars” special of “Robot Chicken” also debuts.
Snippets and previews of the special were shown at last weekend’s big 30th anniversary “Star Wars” convention. But if you couldn’t be there, don’t worry–the footage has been posted by Cartoon Network on the “Robot Chicken” Website
You can check out a promos for the show, including one in which George Lucas goes to therapy for allowing the “Star Wars Christmas Special” to see the light of day. And yes, that really is the voice of Lucas in the commercial. As we reported on the Slice of SciFi show several weeks ago, Lucas and Mark Hamill are both lending their voices to the show.
The “Robot Chicken” special premieres Sunday, June 17 at 10 p.m on Cartoon Network.
