Katie Cassidy has been announced as the lead female role in CW’s Green Arrow pilot, Arrow, as none other than Dinah Lance. Perfect…. In case you can’t tell, I’m elated with this news. Cassidy has been named as Dinah Lance. To those unaware, Dinah Lance i

Welcome to Channel Surfing, the IGN TV podcast. This is where the staff of IGN TV (and occasional guests) lends their print-ready voices to the world of podcasting! Hey guys, Eric and Matt here for a news-packed installment. We start off with NBC officia

We’ve got a number of casting additions for the small screen today. First up, Malin Akerman ( Watchmen ) will be joining Portia de Rossi ( Arrested Development ) in the ABC comedy, The Smart One. Written by Don Todd ( Ugly Betty ), The Smart One follows

It's the most wonderful time of the year: pilot season! We like to think of pilot season as TV's version of the NFL trade, where actors' fans anxiously await news of their favorite star being cast in a new project hoping to hit airwaves in the fall. In r

LOOKING to replace their cultishly popular hit Smallville, television network The CW is closer to filling the time slot - and hopefully the ratings - with Arrow, another DC Comics-based superhero drama. Casting is now in progress and Katie Cassidy (right

Swifter than an arrow, The CW is speeding through the casting process on its upcoming Green Arrow pilot. Two new actors have joined the fray now, bringing the current cast list up to five names. TV Line reports that "Melrose Place" alum Katie Cassidy has

Actress Katie Cassidy, who has appeared in The CW dramas ’7th Heaven’, ‘Supernatural’, ‘Melrose Place’ and ‘Gossip Girl’, has landed the lead female role in the much-buzzed about drama Arrow. According to TV Line, Cassidy will play Dinah “Laurel” Lance,

Arrow, based on the DC comics character Green Arrow, stars Stephen Amell as a superhero who fights crimes using archery and martial arts. Arrow's alias is the wealthy playboy-turned-politician Oliver Queen. Holland will play Queen's bratty younger sister

Previews: Vertigo has new previews for its March debuts Fairest, Saucer Country, Dominique Laveau: Voodo Child and The New Deadwardians. [Graphic Content] TV: Actress Susanna Thompson has been cast as Green Arrow's mother in The CW's "Arrow" pilot and Ka

The new Green Arrow has found his Black Canary. Well, his Dinah Lance at least, Canary's alter ego in the comics. Deadline reports that Katie Cassidy (Supernatural, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Harper's Island) has been cast as the female lead in Arrow, t

Katie Cassidy should win CW loyalist of the year!! We mean, really!! Gossip Girl, Supernatural, Melrose Place, and now Green Arrow!?! Dang gurl, get it!! While Stephen Amell plays Oliver/Green Arrow, Katie will play Laurel — the young legal clinic attorn

But is Katie Cassidy playing the Black Canary in Arrow? Katie Cassidy (Taken, Nightmare On Elm Street 2010, Ruby in Supernatural) has been cast as the female lead in The CW’s “gritty” Green Arrow pilot Arrow, reports Deadline. In the comics, the characte

EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of casting Gossip Girl, Melrose Place and Supernatural alumna Katie Cassidy as the female lead in the CW’s pilot Arrow, another familiar CW face is joining the project. Willa Holland (Gossip Girl) has been cast in the modern retel

The pilot is about a 27-year-old reformed bad boy, who after having spent five years shipwrecked on a tiny, brutally dangerous island in the South China Sea, returns to town a different man. Or to be more specific, a tortured, thoughtful master of the bo

IDW re-discovered Chuck Jones' lost comic strip and made a book. Augie likes the book, even if the strip isn't so good. Also, is "Comic Book Men' any worse than "Big Bang Theory?"

Katie Cassidy ("Gossip Girl," "Melrose Place," "Supernatural") has landed the female lead role in The CW's Green Arrow pilot "Arrow," reports Deadline. She'll be joining Stephen Amell in the Warner Bros. TV project and is set to play Laurel, "a young leg

Well, as her civilian alter ego anyway. Deadline report that Cassidy will play Oliver Queen's love interest Laurel - Dinah "Laurel" Lance in the comics - in The CW's take on Green Arrow.. As the casting continues for The CW's Green Arrow centric pilot, w

Image Credit: Getty Images The CW’s The Carrie Diaries pilot just filled its first role. Stefania Owen ( Running Wilde ) has landed the part of Carrie Bradshaw’s 14-year-old sister Dorrit. She’s described as rebelling in the most obvious of ways: dying h

Image Credit: Duffy-Marie Arnoult/WireImage.com Katie Cassidy has scored the role of Dinah Laurel Lance on Arrow , The CW’s DC Comics-inspired pilot. By day, Lance is a lawyer with the City Necessary Resources Initiative. She is also the second-in-line t