TVLine Items: Oz Alum Drops by The Following, Nikita Vet Joins Fox's Gang Related and More!

Lee Tergesen has scared up a role on The Following.

The erstwhile Oz star/Red Widow alum will guest-star in an upcoming installment of Fox’s midseason thriller, per The Hollywood Reporter, playing a seemingly normal man who Kevin Bacon’s Ryan Hardy suspects is harboring a deep, dark secret.

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The Following’s second season bows Monday, Jan. 20, at 9/8c.

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• Noah Bean has landed his first post-Nikita gig. The actor will recur on Fox’s midseason drama Gang Related, our sister site Deadline reports. He joins the cop drama as a rich hedge-fund owner.

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• Disney is staging a Good Luck Charlie/Jessie crossover as part of its month-long “Fa-la-la-lidays” holiday programming block. Per TV Guide Magazine, Good Luck Jessie: NYC Christmas finds Good Luck Charlie’s Teddy (Bridgit Mendler) and PJ (Jason Dolley) stranded in New York during a storm. It’s there that they meet Jessie‘s Jessie (Debby Ryan), and the three celebrate the season together. The special is set to air Friday, Nov. 29.

• True Blood has promoted Adina Porter — aka Tara’s mom Lettie Mae — to series regular in the HBO drama’s seventh and final season, per The Hollywood Reporter.

• Dying to catch up on Dexter? Netflix has you covered. All eight seasons of the recently wrapped Showtime saga will soon land at the streaming service; the first four launch on Halloween, with the final four debuting on Jan. 1, 2014.

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