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Robyn Lively‘s role in the upcoming Powerpuff reboot for The CW has just been revealed!

The 49-year-old actress will be portraying the live action version of Sara Bellum in the pilot, Deadline reveals.

She is described as “a warm and witty career woman who has a complicated romantic history with Drake. Always a friend to the Powerpuff Girls, she has remained close to them since childhood.”

Robyn has even already been spotted on set. See the pics here!

Also joining the live action series is SpongeBob Squarepants voice actor Tom Kenny. He will actually be reprising his role from the original series, as the narrator!

Tom is keeping super busy as he’s also currently a part of almost 10 shows! He is lending his voice to multiple different characters, including of course his most iconic SpongeBob in three series, the original SpongeBob Squarepants, and it’s two new spinoffs – Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years and The Patrick Star Show.

Get all the latest news on the live action Powerpuff Girls here!

Amarr Wooten is the latest star cast in the 4400 reboot series!

The 20-year-old actor has been cast to play Hayden, Deadline reveals.

His character “arrives in 2021 from the 1930s where he was kept in an institution. Perhaps due to an unpleasant past, he doesn’t appear to speak but is compassionate and seems to have insight and knowledge into things he couldn’t possibly know.”

The reboot follows “4400 overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized people who vanished without a trace over the last hundred years are all returned in an instant, having not aged a day and with no memory of what happened to them.

As the government races to analyze the potential threat and contain the story, the 4400 themselves must grapple with the fact that they’ve been returned with a few upgrades, and the increasing likelihood that they were all brought back now for a specific reason.”

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One of The CW’s new shows, Kung Fu, is making it’s series premiere TONIGHT (April 7)!

The brand new series, from CW super producer Greg Berlanti and showrunner Christina M. Kim, is a re-imagining of the 1970s series of the same name, but this time, features a female Asian lead, which is pretty groundbreaking for a primetime network show. It also features an almost all Asian cast.

The show is premiering in Riverdale‘s Wednesday night time slot as it goes on a brief hiatus.

Here’s a synopsis: A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese American woman, Nicky Shen (Olivia Liang), to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China.

But when she returns to San Francisco, she finds her hometown is overrun with crime and corruption and her own parents Jin (Tzi Ma) and Mei-Li (Kheng Hua Tan) are at the mercy of a powerful Triad.

Nicky will rely on her tech-savvy sister Althea (Shannon Dang) and Althea’s fiancé Dennis (Tony Chung), pre-med brother Ryan (Jon Prasida), Assistant District Attorney and ex-boyfriend Evan (Gavin Stenhouse) and new love interest Henry (Eddie Liu) as well as her martial arts skills and Shaolin values to protect her community and bring criminals to justice… all while searching for the ruthless assassin who killed her Shaolin mentor Pei-Ling (Vanessa Kai) and is now targeting her.

Tune in to Kung Fu TONIGHT (April 7) at 8/7c on The CW. There will also be an encore presentation on Sunday (April 11) on TNT at 10pm ET/PT.

In case you missed it, see what the show’s star Olivia Liang shared about being an Asian lead on a primetime network show!

The cast of the live action Powerpuff Girls pilot for The CW is shaping up!

The potential new series has now cast the actor who will be portraying the iconic villain, Mojo Jojo – Nicholas Podany.

Nicholas will play Joseph “Jojo” Mondel Jr. According to Variety, “as a kid, the nerdy, power-hungry, insecure JoJo was obsessed with The Powerpuff Girls, despite his father’s grudge against them. As an adult, JoJo finds his sweetness and rage in constant battle.”

You may perhaps recognize Nicholas from a guest appearance on Disney Channel’s I Didn’t do It, or from a recurring role on The CW’s Hart of Dixie, where he played Max Burgess, a love interest for McKaley Miller‘s Rose.

He also played Albus Potter on Broadway in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two.”

If you missed it, find out which actor was recently cast to portray Professor Utonium!

Barry Watson is heading home to The CW for the upcoming pilot, Naomi!

The actor has landed a series regular in the potential new DC Comics series from Ava DuVernay, Deadline reports.

Also new to the cast are Mouzam Makkar, Mary-Charles Jones, Aidan Gemme and Daniel Puig, who join previously announced Kaci Walfall as Naomi.

Alexander Wraith, Cranston Johnson and newcomer Camila Moreno are in the cast as well.

Barry will play “Greg, Naomi’s adoptive father, a veteran military officer who is serious about his responsibilities at the town’s military base. He is happily married to Jennifer and sees Naomi as the perfect daughter.”

Mouzam is set as Jennifer, who is “Naomi’s adoptive mother, who dotes on her bright and gifted daughter. She is happily married to Greg and teaches linguistics at the town military base.”

Mary will star as Annabelle, Naomi’s fiercely loyal classmate and best friend; Aidan as Jacob, Annabelle’s boyfriend; and Daniel will play Nathan, a high school jock who briefly dated Naomi before she ended the relationship.

This is Barry‘s first series regular role on The CW (formerly The WB) since season six of 7th Heaven in 2002. He’s also appeared in other CW series Gossip Girl and Hart of Dixie.

The cast of the upcoming The 4400 reboot series has cast it’s first stars!

Arrow actor Joseph David-Jones and newcomer Khailah Johnson have been cast in the new CW show, Deadline reveals.

The upcoming series received a straight to series order from the network and follows “4400 overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized people who vanished without a trace over the last hundred years are all returned in an instant, having not aged a day and with no memory of what happened to them.

As the government races to analyze the potential threat and contain the story, the 4400 themselves must grapple with the fact that they’ve been returned with a few upgrades, and the increasing likelihood that they were all brought back now for a specific reason.”

According to Deadline, Joseph will play “Rev Johnson who was raised in a powerful and affluent church family and disappeared in the 1990s. While he is a man of true faith and compassion, he is accustomed to the power and clout afforded his position. He will emerge as a natural leader among the 4400.”

Khailah will play “Ladonna, a high maintenance Miami party girl who disappeared on her 21st birthday. While she at first comes across as spoiled and vapid, she will end up tapping into her own potential in ways she never expected.”

If you remember, Joseph was previously seen on Arrow and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow as Connor Hawke/Green Arrow, as well as a recurring role on Nashville. He also played Hollis in the Allegiant film.

Khailah is currently a senior at Carnegie Mellon University and is set to graduate this year. This will be her first film and TV role.

Donald Faison is set to join the upcoming live action Powerpuff Girls at The CW!

It was just announced that the Scrubs star will play Professor Drake Utonium in the pilot, according to Deadline.

The character is described “as quirky, debonair and a pinch narcissistic, Faison’s Professor Drake is a scientific genius who is immensely proud of the three extraordinary girls he created in his lab. Staring down a midlife crisis, he is determined to repair his relationships with his now-adult daughters.”

The potential series is reportedly now going by just Powerpuff, and follows Blossom (Chloe Bennet), Bubbles (Dove Cameron) and Buttercup (Yana Perreault), who used to be America’s pint-sized superheroes. Now they’re disillusioned twentysomethings who resent having lost their childhood to crimefighting. Will they agree to reunite now that the world needs them more than ever?

Diablo Cody and Heather Regnier wrote the script and Maggie Kiley will direct. Production is underway in Atlanta, Ga.