Tuesday, July 3, 2007

New characters on tap for Heroes, Prison Break

Hit shows add cast members; new series rethink some roles.

The 2006-07 season is barely over and the broadcast networks have announced their fall schedules, and buzz has already started about new characters being added to returning hits next season and roles being recast on the newly picked-up rookie shows.

NBC's Heroes, which wrapped its freshman season with an explosive finale, is rumored to be introducing at least four new, mostly international, characters next season, among them a sexy boyfriend for everyone's favorite cheerleader, Claire (Hayden Panettiere).

Also potentially joining the cast of characters on Heroes next season are a 28-year-old black mother, a surrogate for Niki's (Ali Larter) son, an Irish mobster, and a twentysomething Latina. It is believed that most of these characters will only do arcs on the show rather than become regulars.

New characters on Fox's Prison Break--which will find Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) and the gang locked up in a Panama prison next season--include a mysterious fisherman who apparently is wrongfully imprisoned there, a beautiful local woman who is the fisherman's girlfriend, a Panamanian drug kingpin, and a female freelance operative with a government organization.

Story Source Reuters Limited.

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