“Melrose Place” starlet Jessica Lucas returns to The CW to topline its new pilot “Cult.” The 26-year-old Canadian looker will play Skye, a production assistant on the popular crime show “Cult” who teams up with a news blogger to investigate a series of disappearances linked to its fans.

Deadline reports that Alien Nation and “Farscape” scribe Rockne S. O’Bannon has penned the pilot script and will produce with Fake Empire and Warner Bros. TV.

Lucas, last seen on NBC’s short-lived comedy series “Friends with Benefits,” is best known for her portrayal of first-grade teacher Riley Richmond on Fox TV’s now defunct “Melrose Place” reboot. Horror fans, however, will recognize Lucas from her roles in producer J.J. Abrams’ Cloverfield and director Renny Harlin’s teen-warlock thriller The Covenant.

Work on season two of the erotically-charged Cinemax anthology series “Femme Fatales” is well underway, but that didn’t keep its cast of babes from enjoying a day at Miami beach. Show narrator and host Tanit Phoenix was absent from the excursion, but will be back for the new season.

“Femme Fatales” tells the stories of dangerous women and women in peril pushed to the point of murder. The new season kicks off later this year and will reportedly include guest appearances by Vivica A. Fox (Independence Day), Robert Picardo (”Star Trek: Voyager”), Antonio Sabato, Jr. (Bad Girl Island), Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers) and Jeff Fahey (“LOST”).

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After a number of teases, HBO has now released a proper trailer for season two of its acclaimed fantasy series “Game of Thrones.” The one-minute-plus clip features exciting new footage that hints at good and very bad things to come.

“Game of Thrones” season two premieres on April 1st. The show will consist of 10 episodes spanning the length of the book “A Clash of Kings,” the second volume in author  George R.R. Martin’s popular book series “A Song of Ice and Fire.”

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If your life has come to a crawl since AMC ’s “The Walking Dead” took its mid-season break, prepare to get your pulses racing. The second half of season two is set to premiere on Feb. 12 with an episode entitled “Nebraska.”

Showrunner Glen Mazzara tells MTV:

If there’s a zombie attack in every other scene the show would play as a video game and people would not really respond to it. I think in our midseason finale, we were building to that climax to where Sophia comes out of the barn, remember that was a twist on already a big scene.

That was by design and the entire season has been designed to have huge payoffs, smaller character moments and I think that there’s a lot of things in the show that satisfies many people in the audience.

At the end of the run all fans will be happy with this show. It’s just packed, particularly in the second half of the season.

“The Walking Dead” is AMC’s highest rated show and has already been renewed for a 16-episode third season. But, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Posted below is a 30-second tease for season two’s mid-season premiere “Nebraska”:

The first season of the Canadian supernatural series “Lost Girl” is set to premiere tonight on Syfy. The show, which is currently heading into its third season, will introduce American audiences to Bo (Anna Silk), a beautiful woman who discovers she’s a succubus after inadvertently fucking her mates to death.

To remedy the situation, Bo opens a detective agency with BFF Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) and together they solve supernatural cases while investigating Bo’s origins. Things get complicated, however, when Bo develops romantic relationships with detective/werewolf Dyson (Kristen Holden-Ried) and sexy scientist Lauren (Zoie Palmer).

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SVT and Matador Films will premiere creator Lars Lundström’s new Swedish sci-fi drama “Real Humans (Äkta människor)” on Jan. 22. The one-hour, 10-episode series centers on robots so human-like that some party-poopers decide they should not be used for dirty sex and servitude, but instead granted equal rights.

And, suddenly, “Small Wonder” doesn’t seem quite as innocent a family show as we once thought. I never trusted Ted Lawson and United Robotronics.

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Couldn’t get past the the robot boobs? This is the official synopsis:

“Real Humans” takes place in a parallel world to our own, in which people’s lives have been completely transformed by the new generation of robots, the Hubots. They’re used as servants, heavy laborers, company for the lonely and even sex partners.

But Hubots also create conflicts – within families, in places of work and among those concerned about public safety. Their intelligence exceeds our own. Are there any jobs left that are not best carried out by a robot? Can they develop feelings of their own? Can a Hubot harm a human being?

Leo and Niska lead a group of rogue Hubots who are fighting for their freedom. But Leo and Niska don’t agree on methods. During an escape, Leo’s beloved Mimi disappears and Leo leaves the group to find her.

At the same time, the Engman family decides to buy a used Hubot, against the mother Inger’s wishes – at first. But the Hubot addition to the family, Anita, soon wins her over. A lawyer, Inger soon begins to represent clients who support equal rights for Hubots.

Warehouse foreman Roger’s life has begun coming apart at the seams. His wife has left him for her Hubot and all of his human coworkers have been replaced by Hubots as well. Roger joins a resistance movement. Behind the everyday facade, a whole new world is coming to life.

“Real Humans” is directed by Harald Hamrell och Levan Akin and stars Andreas Wilson (Kill Your Darlings) as Leo, Eva Röse (Storm) as Niska, and Lisette Pagler as topless Asian Hubot Mimi.

The show will premiere on Swedish network SVT1, but don’t panic; you’ll still get a chance to see the series as format and international distribution rights have been sold to U.K. distro-house Shine Group.

“Smallville’s” Cassidy Freeman is heading to Mystic Falls, the fictional small Virginia town that vampire brothers Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan Salvatore (the guy who isn’t Ian Somerhalder) call home on The CW’s “The Vampire Diaries.”

TV Line reports that Freeman will play a “sexy and fearless” woman named Sage in the 16th episode of the show’s current season. The character will be introduced in a flashback sequence dating back to 1912, and may return in later episodes.

Freeman, who starred as lesbian Frances Dunhill on NBC’s short-lived 2011 drama “The Playboy Club,” is best known for her portrayal of LuthorCorp CEO Tess Mercer on The CW’s recently ended Superman series “Smallville.”

Looks like “Vampire Diaries” and “Secret Circle” alumna Bianca Lawson is barking up a new supernatural tree. The 29-year-old starlet has scored the recurring role of guidance counselor Ms. Morrell on season two of MTV’s hit high school-set werewolf series “Teen Wolf.”

Joining Lawson in the new season are Stephen Lunsford as a student with a crush on Alison, Daniel Sharman as a troubled lacrosse player, Sinqua Walls as a shy loner, Gage Golightly as a tomboy-turned-beauty-queen and Michael Hogan as Alison’s werewolf-hunting grandfather.

Developed by “Criminal Minds” creator Jeff Davis, “Teen Wolf” premiered to over two million viewers last June. The series, which stars Tyler Posey as teen werewolf Scott McCall, Crystal Reed as love interest Alison Argent and Tyler Hoechlin as Alpha-wolf Derek Hale, returns for a second season this summer.

It appears that after starring as Lois Lane on The CW’s long-running Superman series “Smallville,” Erica Durance is now ready to fight crime as a costumed superhero. The pretty 33-year-old Canadian actress will play a delusional vigilante who thinks she’s Wonder Woman on NBC’s David E. Kelly-produced lawyer dramedy “Harry’s Law.”

Set to premiere Jan. 11, the episode finds the Wonder Woman wannabe up on criminal charges and in need of counsel from Harriet Korn’s (Kathy Bates) Cincinnati-based law firm. Durance, who in the episode wears the costume originally designed for Adrianne Palicki in Kelly’s aborted “Wonder Woman” pilot, spoke to TV Guide about the character and outfit.

She says:

Having been in the comic world for a while now, I’m really very respectful of the people that love this character. I do take it very seriously.  As a side note, just to be light about it, any woman wearing tight pants is not super excited the first time she puts them on. [Laughs] I wasn’t exactly, you know, tight pants- or underwear-ready.

I’m very grateful for the pants. I know that people were very excited about the underwear and seeing them. To be quite frank, I don’t know if I could’ve done the underwear justice at this point in time and it might have been more upsetting for people to see me in them than to not, so I think the pants are a safe bet for me.

I’ll say it again. Wonder Woman in pants makes as much sense as having the Kool-Aid Man in a pair of cargos.

Durance, who played Lois Lane on “Smallville” for 10 seasons, has got a few genre creds under her belt, namely the 2002 indie Canadian frightener Sasquatch, Uwe Boll’s 2003 movie adaptation of Sega’s zombie shoot’em up House of the Dead, and the 2006 New Line sequel Butterfly Effect 2.

She’s also guest starred on the TV shows “Stargate SG-1,” “Tru Calling,” and “Andromeda.”

Starz has released a fun and insightful 12-minute behind-the-scenes featurette for its upcoming “Spartacus: Vengeance” season. Along with new footage, the clip includes interviews with writer/creator Steven S. Knight, producer Rob Tapert and actors Liam McIntyre (Spartacus), Lucy Lawless (Lucretia), Viva Bianca (Ilithyia) and the gorgeous Katrina Law.

“Spartacus: Vengeance” finds our hero leading a slave revolution while attempting to take revenge on the man responsible for the enslavement and consequential death of his beloved wife Sura. The new season premieres on Jan. 27.

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