Lots of Fall TV news

We'll kick things off with the announcement (finally) of the cast for the new season of Survivor. Notables include a professional poker player, a grave digger, and a WWE diva (seriously). I could type out the dossiers of the 16 new players here, but instead, I'll just direct you to this TV Guide site, which not only gives the players' names, ages and jobs, but also Jeff Probst's take on each of them as well.

*UPDATED* CBS has put the castaways up on the official Survivor homepage. You can learn more about the newest contestants here.

Secondly, a bit of Heroes news. Hooray! They just announced that Kristen Bell will be coming on midseason for a multi-episode arc. For those not familiar with Ms. Bell, she played the title chracter on the critically-loved, ratings-challenged show, Veronica Mars. This is an interesting bit of casting, because it seemed that every show in town had been trying to add her onto their show (including Lost, who tried and failed). So for Heroes to get her seems like quite a coup. For more on who Kristen will be playing on the show, click here, but WARNING, the article includes some spoilers for the upcoming season.

Speaking of Lost, they've been doing some casting of their own. Even though the show won't return until February, they announced the hiring of Ken Leung. I'm not too familiar with the guy (the only thing on IMDB that I recognized him from was he played the mutant with the spikes coming out of him in X:Men - The Last Stand), but it's always good to get any kind of Lost scoop. You can read more about his character here, but again WARNING, there are spoilers found in the article.

Finally, for those interested, I added a countdown clock to indicate the start of the new fall TV season. The clock can be found on the left side of this blog, right before the list of my favorite TV shows. Only 30 days to go!