TV News: San Diego Comic-Con TV Panel Info, Oscar Winner Joins NCIS: LA

- Information about the television panels scheduled for next month's San Diego Comic-Con are starting to trickle out. The list so far includes Caprica, Chuck, Dexter, Dr. Who, Heroes, Lost, Mythbusters, True Blood and V, for starters. Pop Wenches will be attending the four-day convention, so expect lots of live blogging here from July 23-26! [E! Online]

- Oscar-winning actress Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously, Dune) has joined the cast of the spin-off drama NCIS: Los Angeles which stars LL Cool J and Chris O'Donnell. Hunt will be tech who provides LL and O'Donnell with all sorts of nifty gadgets before they head out into the field. [Associated Press via Yahoo! News]

- After passing on a One Tree Hill role, Brian Austin Green has kept in the CW family, joining Smallville as the villian Metallo. Green goes from fighting cyborgs to being one in at least the first two eps of Smallville's upcoming season. [TV Guide]

- The 24 casting news keeps coming with the announcement that Clayne Crawford (Swimfan, Jericho) has been added to the show. Crawford "will play a bad boy from Dana Walsh's (Katee Sackhoff) past." Sackhoff's (Battlestar Galactica) addition to the 24 cast was confirmed earlier this month. [Hollywood Reporter]

- Bradley Whitford (West Wing) and Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle, Raising the Bar) are divorcing after almost 17 years of marriage and three children. [Associated Press via MSN]

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TV News: Emmys Coming Early, More Hannah on the Way

- The Emmys will air on September 13 (8:00-11:00PM, live ET/delayed PT) this year, one week earlier than the orignally announced date. A spokesman for CBS cited the possibility of broadcast delays on the orignal award show date due to an NFL doubleheader airing on The Eye that Sunday. The original date for the Emmys was set before the NFL released their 2009 television schedule. This year's Primetime Emmy nominees will be announced July 16 at 5:40AM. [Emmys.tv]

-Disney Channel has ordered a fourth season of its franchise-generating hit show Hannah Montana. Tween queen Miley Cyrus will return as the titular character, though "goodbyes will be will be an ongoing theme in an arc that will see Cyrus' character and her family leave their beachfront Malibu enclave." The Mouse also renewed the freshman comedy series Sonny With a Chance, which stars another tween darling, Demi Lovato. [Variety]

- Brian Austin Green (of the recently cancelled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) is in talks to join the cast of The CW's One Tree Hill. The hour-long drama faces big changes going into its seventh year after last season's departure of two of the show's original leads, Chad Michael Murray and Hilarie Burton. If Green comes aboard, he would be a series regular -- a "brash sports agent" who is also "enjoying the spoils that come from being a wealthy, handsome single guy." Sounds like Green would be moving back toward his 90210 roots with this character. [Hollywood Reporter]

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