AfterElton Briefs: "True Blood" Casting, Zachary and Jonathan Possibly Sitting In A Tree, "Glee" Gets Bad Ratings News, and More

• Birthday shoutouts! Randy Harrison (above) is 34, and k.d. lang is 50. Time to name your top five k.d.songs! Here are mine: 5. "Pulling Back The Reins," 4. "Crying," 3. "Big Boned Gal," 2. "Just Keep Me Moving," 1."Constant Craving"

• British actress Lucy Griffiths is joining the cast of next season's True Blood as _ _ i _'s _ i _ t _ r

• In ratings news, Glee and The New Girl were both down 19% in their return from hiatus.

• Half of that hiatus was because of baseball, but the other half was because Fox wanted to give X Factor more buzz. It must have worked, because despite less-than-promised-by-Simon-Cowell ratings, It's just been renewed for a second season.

• Via Boy Culture comes this Enquirer article claiming that Zachary Quinto and Jonathan Groff are dating. If they are ... it's just not fair.

• Below you can see the trailer for Project X, which looks like Cloverfield meets "every stupid teen film." It's produced by Todd "gays are comedy collateral damage" Phillips, which means i'd rather stick pins in my eyes than see it, but i'm just glad it doesn't feature any NUCLEAR CHIMPANZEES! (if you get the reference, you win today's 80's medal).

• SOAPnet will be offering an eight-episode marathon of Brothers & Sisters on Thanksgiving Day. Because we'll need more family dysfunction.

• Speaking of dysfunction, TVLine talks to Emily VanCamp and Nick Wechsler about Revenge, and whether their characters Emily and Jack will ever hook up.

• Happy Endings' Naughtiest Moments.

• Greg In Hollywood interviews Chandler Massey about DOOL finally revealing that his Will Horton character is gay. Chandler says he's known since February, and is glad it's finally out in the open. "Over the next few months, you’re going to see a whole new side of Will. From beginning of December through January, there will be no lack of storyline there.” Sounds like liveblog material to me! I've been watching the show every day, and it's so obvious that Will's grandedamemother Marlena knows what's going on. Every time she looks at him, she's mentally knitting a rainbow scarf.

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