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Bruce Greenwood and Odette Annable are heading to Venice, Calif. The Star Trek alum has landed the starring role in ABC’s Romeo and Juliet-themed soapy pilot Venice, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, while the House actress has nabbed a co-starring role. The pilot revolves around the haves and the have-nots of California’s most seductive region, Venice. The drama will focus on two rival families (the Nances and the Carvers) and a forbidden and dangerous romance emerging between them as they battle for control of the beachside community.

Greenwood, who will reprise his role as Pike in Star Trek Into Darkness, will star as Gordy Nance, the most powerful man in Venice. The head of the Nance family, he’s described as Bill Clinton, without the moral compass. Annable, who most recently starred on Fox’s Breaking In, will play Gordy’s daughter Sophie, an independent thinker who owns a trendy Venice boutique. She has her father’s business sense but has been in love with the Carvers’ son, Chris, since she was a girl. Jennifer Beals will play Lisa Carver, the matriarch of the rival family, in the drama that reunites her with The L Word showrunner Ilene Chaiken. Without a Trace’s Byron Balasco will pen the pilot and executive produce alongside Peter Johnson, Chaiken and McG, who will direct the Warner Bros. Television pilot.

We added the first high quality promotional stills of the upcoming episode 2×19 Guys Night of New Girl airing March 12, 2013. Can’t wait!

NEW GIRL: Nick’s (Jake Johnson, R) boss (guest star Odette Annable, L) loves his idea to promote the bar in the “Guys Night” episode of NEW GIRL airing Tuesday, March 12 (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

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Television Series > New Girl (2013) > Season Two > Episode Stills > 2×19 Guys Night

If you were hoping for a quick happily ever after following the epic kiss between Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson) on “New Girl,” this news is really, really going to disappoint you. The FOX comedy has cast Odette Annable in the recurring role of Nick’s girlfriend. Sorry.

Annable, best known for her roles on “House,” “Breaking In” and “Brothers and Sisters,” will play the character of Shane, according to TVLine. Shane comes into Nick’s life when she is hired as the new manager at the bar. A graduate of management school, Shane is basically the anti-Nick — efficient and perky.

Of course Nick has to fall for her. Annable is expected to appear in several episodes of “New Girl” this spring, indicating that this particular romance is more than just a one-night stand.

Where does this leave Jess and Nick? Without giving too much away, let’s just say that the pair will not be going straight down the romantic path into relationship bliss any time soon. Tuesday’s (Feb. 5) episode makes that very clear. So Nick might as well date the hot boss in the meantime!

It’s a House reunion for Odette Annable, who will make her way to Greg Yaitanes’ upcoming Cinemax series Banshee, according to TVLine.com. Annable has landed a multi-episode arc on the new drama, which follows an ex-con (Anthony Starr) who poses as a murdered sheriff in a small Pennsylvania Amish town. There he enforces his own kind of justice while developing plans to serve his own ulterior motive. Annable will play a Native American assassin with a questionable past.

Written by Jonathan Tropper and David Shickler, the series is executive-produced by Yaitanes, True Blood’s Alan Ball and Peter Macdiss. Yaitanes was an executive producer on House.

EXCLUSIVE: House alumna Odette Annable has been tapped for a recurring role on CBS’ midseason drama Golden Boy, about the meteoric rise of a cop (Theo James) from his days as an officer to detective to police commissioner. Annable will play ADA Kat O’Connor, a young, attractive Assistant District Attorney with a complicated marital history who prosecutes cases brought by the squad. Annable also just booked a recurring role on the upcoming Cinemax drama Banshee, marking the second consecutive year that the actress will juggle two series simultaneously after doing Fox’s House and Breaking In last season.

The Contra Security workplace will look a bit different when Fox’s Breaking In breaks out its second season. Confirmed to return as series regulars to the caper comedy — which was canceled back in May but then plucked from the ashes as a midseason replacement — are Christian Slater (as Contra boss man Oz), Bret Harrison (Cameron) and Alphonso McAuley (Cash).

Plus, as TVLine exclusively reported last month, Emmy winner Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) is coming on board as a Season 2 regular, playing Oz’s own boss. Fox Midseason Sets Dates for Alcatraz, Finder, Returns of Kiefer Sutherland and Breaking In

As for the rest of the ensemble: TVLine has learned that Odette Annable, who during Breaking In‘s brief canceled state joined the cast of Fox’s House, will reprise her role of savvy, sexy Melanie in “multiple episodes” but not reclaim series regular status. Meanwhile, Michael Rosenbaum — who in Season 1 guest-starred as Mel’s doofus beau, Dutch – is not set to return, due to his preexisting commitment to direct a feature film that he wrote. However, we hear the Smallville alum could guest-star at some later point.

Breaking In kicks off its new season on March 6, airing Tuesdays at 8:30/7:30c between encore and new episodes of New Girl (while Glee is on hiatus).

We added the first high quality promotional stills of the upcoming episode 8×07 Dead & Buried of House airing November 21, 2011. Can’t wait!

HOUSE: Park and Adams work to diagnose their 14-year-old patient in the “Dead & Buried” episode of HOUSE airing Monday, Nov. 21 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

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Television Series > House (2011) > Season Eight > Episode Stills > 8×07 Dead & Buried

We added the first high quality promotional stills of the upcoming episode 8×06 Parents of House airing November 14, 2011. Can’t wait!

HOUSE: Chase and Adams run tests in the lab in the “Parents” episode of HOUSE airing Monday, Nov. 14 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

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Television Series > House (2011) > Season Eight > Episode Stills > 8×06 Parents

We added 900+ high definition screencaptures of this week’s episode of House, 8×04 Risky Business.The episode was amazing and hilarious and we especially loved the ending!

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Television Series > House (2011) > Season Eight > Episode Sscreencaps > 8×04 Risky Business

We added the first high quality promotional stills of the upcoming episode 8×05 The Confession of House airing November 7, 2011. Can’t wait!

HOUSE: Chase and Taub join Adams and Park on House’s team in “The Confession” episode of HOUSE airing Monday, Nov. 7 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

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Television Series > House (2011) > Season Eight > Episode Stills > 8×05 The Confession