The Secret Circle
Thursday 9pm
Secret Circle returns March 16th with new episodes! 
About the Show
Cassie Blake was a happy, normal teenage girl—until her mother Amelia dies in what appears to be a tragic accidental fire. Orphaned and deeply saddened, Cassie moves in with her warm and loving grandmother Jane in the beautiful small town of Chance Harbor, Washington—the town her mother left so many years before—where the residents seem to know more about Cassie than she does about herself. As Cassie gets to know her high school classmates, including sweet-natured Diana and her handsome boyfriend Adam, brooding loner Nick, mean-girl Faye and her sidekick Melissa, strange and frightening things begin to happen. When her new friends explain that they are all descended from powerful witches, and they've been waiting for Cassie to join them and complete a new generation of the Secret Circle, Cassie refuses to believe them—until Adam shows her how to unlock her incredible magical powers. But it's not until Cassie discovers a message from her mother in an old leather-bound book of spells hidden in her mother's childhood bedroom, that she understands her true and dangerous destiny. What Cassie and the others don't yet know is that darker powers are at play, powers that might be linked to the adults in the town, including Diana's father and Faye's mother—and that Cassie's mother's death might not have been an accident.
Watercooler
Katie Cassidy has landed the role of 'Dinah Lance' (aka Black Canary), opposite Stephen Amell, in The CW's Green Arrow fall pilot, Arrow. The 25-year-old beauty has been a network fixture in Supernatural, Melrose Place and Gossip Girl. Arrow cast also includes Susanna Thompson (NCIS) as Oliver Queen's mother and David Ramsey (Dexter) as a Queen confidante, TVLine reports.
Kristin Kreuk returns to The CW in one of the lead roles for drama pilot Beauty and the Beast. The actress memorably played 'Lana Lang' for seven seasons on Smallville. Loosely based on the '80s series, B&B is a contemporary procedural, with Kristin as an NYPD homicide detective protecting a secret vigilante hero—the survivor of a military experiment that went disastrously wrong, says EW.
Ian Somerhalder may play a bad-boy monster on The Vampire Diaries, but off-screen he's a passionate defender of animal life. He'll receive the prestigious Wyler Award next month at the Humane Society of America's 26th annual Genesis Awards ceremony. Ian is being honored for his committed efforts using traditional and social media to campaign about critical animal welfare issues.
WBNX will air the movie Proof this Sunday at 8pm. The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning story was written by Akron's own David Auburn. His grandfather was president of The University of Akron for two decades and his father is a former dean of the school. Oscar-winners Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins star in the film.
