Allison Miller (Betwixt):   The 24-year-old beauty was King Silas’ daughter on the short-lived Kings.  Will play one of three changelings—the children of mythological fairies who protect humans; her character can fly. 

David Gallagher (Betwixt):   Starred for 11 seasons on 7^th Heaven.  Here, he’s a fellow changeling who’s gone over to the dark side.

Jessy Schram (Betwixt):   Known from Life, Veronica Mars and the Jane Doe TV films, Jesse now transforms into a changeling with claws, fangs and yellow eyes.

Aly Michalka (Hellcats):   A former Disney star and one-half of the pop duo 78violet (formerly Aly & AJ), she’ll play a competitive college cheerleader from the wrong side of the tracks.

Gail O’Grady (Hellcats):   The 3-time Emmy nominee is recognized from NYPD Blue, American Dreams and decades of drama queen roles.  Her character’s serial irresponsibility causes her daughter to lose a college scholarship.

Megan Boone (HMS):   She’s a relative newcomer famed for a sexy role in My Bloody Valentine.  Megan will play one of many first-year students at Harvard Medical School.   

Tasso Feldman (HMS):   A stage actor with only one small TV credit, Tasso joins the unknown class of doctors-in-training.

Sarah Jones (HMS):    Had extended exposure on Big Love and Sons of Anarchy.  Another freshman.

Aaron Stanford (Nikita):   Widely known as Pyro in X-Men 2 and 3, as well as the lead in Traveler, Aaron plays a computer specialist in this Le Femme reboot.

Lyndsy Fonseca (Nikita):   You’ve seen her on Desperate Housewives (Dylan), How I Met Your Mother (the daughter) and daytime’s Y & R.  Her new assignment: assassin-in-training.

Melinda Clarke (Nikita):   The O.C. villainess will play a division operative, as a global hunt begins for the rogue title character (Maggie Q).      

Ryan Hawley (The Wyoming Project):   Meet Ryan, a London stage actor with only a handful of British screen appearances.  He’ll play the younger brother of Sean Faris in this ranching family dramedy, an Ivy Leaguer who has no desire to return to the Midwest.

Scarlett Johnson (The Wyoming Project):   She’s also from the U.K., having starred in 200 episodes of the popular EastEnders.  MTV fans may have caught her as a regular on Ashley Parker Angel’s (O-Town) reality series.  Looks like she’s an early love interest for Faris.

Alan Ruck (The Wyoming Project):  This Cleveland native is chief nemesis for Parma’s Faris.  The Spin City veteran plays a pompous, over-the-top cowboy whose boots have never seen dirt.  And, of course, he wants to swindle the neighboring ranch.   

For more details, here are links to two previous updates about potential CW fall series and stars: (A) (B)

Ostroff:   We’ve been trying to find more franchise shows…where the personal relationships continue on in each episode, [such as] CSI or Grey’s Anatomy, and the (stories) have a beginning, middle and end.  The intention was to get a broader scope of programming on the network so that not all of the shows we did were soap operas, per se.

Ostroff:   HMS is a more traditional show for us, with its own twist that makes it right for The CW.  It’s set at Harvard Medical School, and the pilot’s entry point is through first-year students.  What makes it unique is that these people are learning about the profession at the most prestigious med school—you’re steeped in history, but with cutting-edge medicine.  It’s going to be as much of a show-and-tell about medical science as the emotional cases of different patients and the relationships between the characters themselves. 

Ostroff:   Smallville has had a great year (both) creatively and moving to Friday nights.  What Vampire Diaries has done so well is, it’s not just a genre show.  It has romance and humor and friends that feel like family, so many elements that work on different levels for all of our audience.  Great writing, great casting, a topic that’s in the zeitgeist and a known franchise is always what we look for.  We picked up a pilot called Betwixt, which is a ‘genre’ show, but has many of the same elements. 

Ostroff:   90210 creatively is light-years away from where it was last year.  Sometimes that show is watched more on DVR than live; you have a lot of people time-shifting our shows and watching in different ways.  (On the likelihood of renewing One Tree Hill), we’re encouraged.  We think Mark Schwahn has done a great job with the show.  The fans are the most loyal and dedicated I think I’ve ever seen.  They have some 1.6 million fans on Facebook.  Too early to tell, but creatively we feel the show is in a really good place.  (And on Life Unexpected), that’s really too early to tell.      

Ostroff:   I believe The CW is more boy-friendly than most people think.  There are some really dynamic women at the core of (new) shows—Betwixt, Nikita, Nomads—that hopefully will be interesting to men.  I know more men who watch Gossip Girl than you can imagine.   We’re working on a lot of different reality projects, a couple things for fall and for summer, and we’re looking at our reality shows as having comedy.  One pilot show, Wyoming, which Amy Sherman-Palladino wrote, also has a lot of humor.  So it’s different ways of doing comedy.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer favorites Anthony Stewart Head (Giles) and James Marsters (Spike) both read for the role of the devil, “but as soon as Ray Wise auditioned, he was the one.”  The Akron native embodied what the producers were looking for.  “He was amazing, he just blew people away.” 

Andi (Missy Peregrym) gambled her own soul in the finale to try and save Sam.  Had the show continued, she would’ve worked in the DMV alongside Gladys.  “Christine Willes is just so much fun, and we thought she and Andi had a great way of sparring with each other.” 

The character of Ben became a dark-horse favorite of the writers.  “He had such an interesting love story with Nina; and more than any other person on the show, (Rick Gonzalez) formed that character.  Ben became a much different person toward the end.”  

Ben and Sock were not secret guardians of Sam.  “Tyler Labine had this storyline worked out that he and Rick were like archangels, but we had never intended for that.  They were just good friends helping out their buddy.” 

Reaper would’ve had a happy ending.  “Sam would have gotten the girl and he would have gotten out of his deal with the devil.  We would’ve found a way to get there.”

It’s been more than five years since we’ve heard from “Lydia James,” mother of Haley, Taylor and Quinn on One Tree Hill.  The always-radiant actress returns February 8 with a shocking announcement for her girls.  Are there even more siblings out there?  How many recall that rock star Huey Lewis played Haley’s father back in Season Two?  And can it really be three decades since Bess stole our hearts in her film debut opposite Alan Alda and Carol Burnett in The Four Seasons? 

Remember when Supernatural sent Dean sent back in time to meet his young parents—and his grandfather (Mitch Pileggi), who turned out to be possessed by Azazel?  Next Thursday, both Winchester boys find themselves in 1978 trying to prevent the murder of John (Matt Cohen) and Mary (Amy Gumenick).  The previous flashback was one of the series’ best episodes, and Sam’s first encounter with his disco-era folks will be emotional.  On a side note, how is Matt Cohen not a series regular somewhere on The CW?

Martha Kent has been one hard-working congresswoman, absent from the Smallville farm for nearly three seasons.  And Perry White, last seen in ‘03?  It’s about time he starts barking orders at the Daily Planet.  The real-life married couple returns with some big news in May, EW reports, and there’s online speculation it has something to do with “government agent/villain” Amanda Waller (Pam Grier).

You didn’t think we’d seen the last of Clay’s deceased wife, Sara, on One Tree Hill, did ya?  It was the season’s most heartfelt love story and certainly ended too soon.  Foreshadowing a new mystery, E! Online says we’ll see Sara again…but she won’t be Sara.  Hmm.

Last season, the Canton, Ohio native delivered one of the unlikeliest twists ever seen on Supernatural.  Turns out, Sam and Dean had a secret half-brother their dad never mentioned…and the kid led a normal, monster-free childhood.  Well, until a ghoul ate him.  On a press tour this month for Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Jake revealed that “Adam” comes back to play a pivotal role in an upcoming episode.