TV on Tap: "Pretty Little Liars" Gets Blaine's "Glee" Crush, and Donna Brazile Gets Ready to Meet "The Good Wife"

It's a Lawrence Brother triple feature when Andrew and Matthew Lawrence join
Joey on tonight's Melissa & Joey.

News

When Pretty Little Liars returns next year, we'll get to meet one of the students who attended the school of the blind with Colleen Jenna, and he'll be played by Alexander Nifong, who you might remember as the guy Blaine and The Warblers inappropriately serenaded in that episode of Glee.

Starz's next leading man just might be Leonardo DaVinci. David S. Goyer has written a pilot, Da Vinci's Demons, that focuses on the Renaissance Man's early days. I hope this show doesn't ignore Da Vinci's homosexuality, even if the period covered by the drama doesn't include his arrest for sodomy.

Meanwhile, HBO has ordered a pilot from Spike Lee, Entourage creator Doug Ellin and Mike Tyson titled Da Brick, which will take inspiration from Tyson' s youth.

Battlestar Galatica re-creator Ron Moore has a new project in the works. ABC has ordered Hangtown, the latest attempt at updating the western for modern audiences, which will mix elements from crime procedural series. As long as I don't need to turn on the captions to follow the nuances of the dialogue, I think Moore has me interested in this one.

FEARnet's original comedy Holliston just cast Twisted Sister's Dee Snyder and GWAR's Orderus Urugus. Snyder will play the lead character's boss and a member of a Van Halen tribute band, while Urugus will play an imaginary-friend version of himself. A member of GWAR as an imaginary advice-dispenser certainly gets my attention.

She wasn't able to appear last season, but Democratic strategist Donna Brazile will appear this season on The Good Wife as herself. Brazile was asked about appearing in the same episode with Lou Dobbs, but couldn't work it into her schedule.

Jason Priestly has jumped from one Stephen King-inspired project to another. He's following his run on Haven with a role on A&E's adaptation of King's 1998 novel Bag of Bones. The mini-series will also star Pierce Brosnan and Annabeth Gish.

I guess yesterday was the day to make announcements about Stephen King projects, since Showtime also announced that they will be turning Under the Dome, a 2009 release, into a series, with Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks Television. Under the Dome follows a Maine tourist town that suddenly finds itself cut off from the world by a force field. I remember former fans of King telling me to ignore everything after Needless Things. Should that leave me wary about these projects?

Josh Gad will follow-up on his Tony-nominated performance in The Book of Mormon with an appearance on Modern Family. Gad will play a neighbor of the Dunphys who idolizes Phil.

I suspect Spike TV will continue to be on the far end of my radar as the network makes Blue Mountain State its only scripted show. With shows such as Auction Hunters being hits, the channel is focusing on reality programming. With this kind of news, why did Current cancel infoMania instead of turning it into a daily show. There's just so much to mock.

Listings

Melissa & Joey (ABC Family) 8:00 PM ET
In the first half of tonight's two episodes, Matthew Lawrence appears as Joe's little brother, who frustrates Joe when he and Mel make a romantic connection. Then, Joe gets Ryder in trouble with his teacher (United States of Tara's Andrew Lawrence)  and has to fix the situation.

America's Got Talent (NBC) 9:00 PM ET
Last week was heavy on the singers and that competition kept Daniel Joseph Baker out of the finals. This week's round had plenty of dance acts including Steven Retchless, but will he have a better chance than Baker did?

Degrassi (TeenNick) 9:00 PM ET
With tonight's two-part season finale being the last we see of Riley and Zane's class, lets hope we get to see them one more time. I'm going to need that for another episode with Bianca and Drew.

Law & Order: UK (BBC America) 9:00 PM ET
When a murder case has an obvious suspect, Alesha realizes she needs to dig a little deeper to get to the bottom of the crime.

The Hour (BBC America) 10:00 PM ET
When Freddie heads out to Marnie's country home, it leads to him discovering a secret about Adam and Ruth's relationship.

Top Chef: Just Desserts (Bravo) 10:00 PM ET
The cheftestants have to create a cake in three movements in honor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

Hot in Cleveland (TV Land) 10:00 PM ET
It may be Elka's wedding day, but the bride-to-be is nowhere to be found after her bachelorette party, and the house is full of passed-out frat boys.

What will you be watching tonight? Please share in the comments!

Tomorrow's Preview

Burn Notice (USA) 9:00 PM ET
Attention Buffy fans! Need a Cordelia fix? Well, Charisma Carpenter appears in this week's episode. Now, if only they'd get around to casting Nicholas Brendon as a relative of Sam..,

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