William Hurt will join the cast of FX's Damages for its second season, which is scheduled to return to the network in early 2009. Production of season two starts on June 24 in New York.

Hurt joins "Damages" for a season-long arc as a new client of Patty Hewes (Glenn Close). Details of Hurt's character are being kept under wraps, but insiders have intimated that Hurt's character will not only share a professional past with Hewes, but a personal one as well.

Jamie Kennedy will join the cast of Ghost Whisperer as a series regular, starring as "Eli," a graduate student in psychology at the local university who forms a bond with Melinda (Jennifer Love Hewitt).

Rocky Carroll joins the cast of NCIS next season as NCIS Director Leon Vance, an intelligent, highly trained agent who in the season finale showed his power over Gibbs by re-shuffling his team. In this past season, Carroll was a recurring guest star portraying the Assistant Director, but following the murder of Director Jenny Shepard in the season finale, Vance was promoted to Director.