Channel Surfing: July 4, 2008

Channel Surfing – a place for some stories we may have missed and where you can get a large dose of television news at once. Enjoy!

• Tim Roth is set to make his television series starring debut in Lie to Me, a one-hour from Imagine and 20th Century Fox TV that is being eyed for a 2009 premiere. >> More
• Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Journeyman star Kevin McKidd is in serious talks to join the cast of Grey’s Anatomy. He’d play an M.D. who comes to the hospital after a stint in Iraq. >> More
• Shannen Doherty is in talks to reprise her role as Brenda Walsh in the CW’s upcoming spin-off series 90210. >> More
• Oscar nominated actress Amy Ryan will get a chance to flex her comedic muscles a bit more next season as she joins The Office for multiple episodes. >> More
• Academy Award and Emmy nominee Jeff Goldblum (Raines, Jurassic Park) will join the cast of the USA Network hit original series Law & Order: Criminal Intent when it returns for its eighth season. >> More
• The Battlestar Galactica TV-movie expected to shoot in August will be directed by star Edward James Olmos from a screenplay by Jane Espenson (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Gilmore Girls). >> More
• Aidan Quinn and Rutger Hauer have joined ABC’s new drama Prince of Motor City, which is being billed as this years Dirty Sexy Money and Brothers & Sisters. >> More