NEWS BRIEF: Lindsey McKeon, Matt Davis, Diversity on Fall Schedule, John Barrowman, Ilene Chaiken, Sherri Saum & Kamar de los Reyes Welcome Twins

* Supernatural post-mortem: Lindsey McKeon dishes on Tessa's shocking decision. "Nothing seems worse to her than what she’s dealing with right now. She sees the opportunity — [she] wanted to take her own life in the auditorium — [and] now here's the First Blade and this is the chance to do it."

* Matt Davis is returning to The Vampire Diaries as series regular for Season 6. As everyone raced to save the Other Side on Thursday's season finale, a few familiar faces, including Lexi (Arielle Kebbel) and Alaric, returned. But while Lexi was sucked up into the atmosphere, Alaric was left standing alongside his friends.

* All 24 new TV series for Fall 2014, in order of how fast they'll be cancelled. NCIS: New Orleans and How to Get Away with Murder are predicted to run the longest.

* In TV's new reality, diversity is just good business. The major broadcast networks announced what was the most racially diverse broadcast schedule in a long time–maybe ever, depending how you measure it. It wasn’t just about “black best friends” this year; there are several new and returning shows with minority lead characters, several of them minority women. The trend was spread across networks–though ABC had an especially diverse lineup–and across groups: not only African American but Hispanic and Asian American actors will lead casts next season.

* The L Word creator Ilene Chaiken has joined FOX's newly picked up series Empire as executive producer and showrunner.

* Tribune CEO Peter Liguori is not pleased with The CW's performance. He believes the network "should not program to [young] people who don’t watch television."

* John Barrowman to become Arrow series regular in Season 3.

* The Fosters' Sherri Saum and One Life to Live's Kamar de los Reyes welcome twin boys, John Rubén and Michael Luís.

* SundanceTV is developing a modern Rip Van Winkle drama. Crack in the Sky centers on a Don Draper-type who falls asleep in 1962 and wakes up in 2012.

* The West Wing oral history: 9 things you didn't know or forgot. Wonder Years' Danica McKellar would eventually get the role of Will Bailey’s stepsister in season 4.

* Will web series The Dreamers return for a second season? Creator and star Kelsey Jorissen says, "After my cast read episode 12 of the dreamers, they told me that Kara deserved a second season. I think that all of the characters deserve it."