He who once was Jack & Jill's Jill is now Betty's nephew — and a long-lost one at that.Ivan Sergei, whose TV credits also include a run on Crossing Jordan, will surface at Betty's Bar and Grill in the season finale of Lifetime's Army Wives, TVGuide.com has learned.Sergei's character won't arrive with his heart set on a family reunion, however. Rather, he will immediately "make waves with Roxy," sources tell me. (I'll let you read into that what you will... though you'd probably be wrong, darn it.)Army Wives kicks off a string of five new episodes this Sunday, with the Season 2 finale slated for Nov. 2. — Matt Mitovich
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How I Met Your Mother has cast Barney's brother, and he will be played by... Wayne Brady. Adoption? Half sibling? "The less we say about it, the funnier it will be," exec producer Carter Bays tells Variety. "We like that 'What the hell?' factor." Thus far, Brady is only booked for a single, Nov. 27 appearance, but the role may become recurring (as has Bryan Cranston's gig as Ted's boss).... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Frances Fisher (Titanic) and Ivan Sergei (Charmed) have joined the cast of the USA Network pilot To Love and Die in L.A., respectively playing the mother and love interest of Shiri Appleby's daughter-of-an-assassin.
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Question: Any chance that Finola Hughes will be in the Charmed finale?
Answer: Yes, Finola will be back, joining previously announced-in-AA alums Drew Fuller (Future Chris), Jennifer Rhodes (Grams) and Wes Ramsey (Future Wyatt). And here are two more late additions: Ivan Sergei (Henry) and James Read (Victor). Read will actually be back for the last two episodes.
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Variety reports that Jenny McCarthy and Ivan Sergei (Charmed) will star in the ABC Family original movie Mary Christmas. McCarthy will play Santa's ambitious businesswoman daughter and, hopefully, wear one of those cute "naughty elf" costumes at some point.... Lifetime Television has tapped All My Children alumna Abigail Spencer — one of the nicest gals you could ever meet and a hottie in her own right — for the lead in Emily's Eyes, a procedural about an FBI agent seeking to right the wrongs of her treasonous CIA-operative parents. Thus far ordered for 13 episodes, Emily's Eyes could premiere as early as this summer.
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Earlier this month, Ivan Sergei — whom you probably remember as the Jill in Jack & Jill — returned to WB via Charmed (Sundays at 8 pm/ET), playing Henry, a lawman oblivious to the ladies' witchy ways. Here's what the actor had to share with TVGuide.com about his charmed existence, the one role he let slip away and his flirtation with danger.
TVGuide.com: For the uninitiated, how would you describe your Charmed role?Ivan Sergei: I'm playing Henry, a parole officer. In my first episode, one of my parolees is destined for future greatness but he's not really showing it to me, so I need Rose McGowan
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