'Salem' Season 2 Begins Production with New Cast Additions Lucy Lawless, Stuart Townsend, Joe Doyle and Oliver Bell

 Lucy Lawless, Stuart Townsend, Joe Doyle and Oliver Bell have joined the cast of Salem.

Lucy Lawless, Stuart Townsend, Joe Doyle and Oliver Bell have joined the cast of WGN America’s hit Supernatural thriller Salem, which begins production on its second season today in Shreveport, LA. The new season of the series centers on Salem's most powerful and ruthless witch Mary Sibley (Janet Montgomery, Made In Jersey, Human Target) as she faces off against new and old adversaries vying for control of the embattled 17th-century village. Created and written by award-winning Brannon Braga (Cosmos, 24) and Adam Simon (The Haunting in Connecticut), the gripping one-hour drama, produced by Fox 21, will return to WGN America in April 2015.

'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' Season 2 Premieres Tonight, Lucy Lawless Debuts as Isabelle "Izzy" Hartley

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. kicks off its second season tonight.

The second season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premieres at its new time on Tuesday, September 23 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.

In the episode, titled "Shadows," Coulson and his team are now wanted fugitives with limited resources -- but that's not stopping them from keeping the world safe from powerful and unseen threats everywhere. However, with new members they hardly know, will S.H.I.E.L.D. ever be trusted again?

Watch a sneak peek video below:

News Brief: Lucy Lawless, 'Friends' Reunion on Kimmel, 'Full House' Reboot, Kathryn Prescott, Shonda Rhimes

* Marvel has released the first image of Lucy Lawless as Agent Isabelle Hartley in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 premiere.

* Despite all the pieces heralding this as a golden age of television, the Emmys — or more accurately, those who mounted and attended them — still haven’t gotten over their infatuation with movie stars, or retired their age-old inferiority complex. Not only does this fly in the face of history — movie stars aren’t exactly a new feature of Emmy voting — but it does a general disservice to those who have rightfully garnered praise for their television work.

* Grey's Anatomy and Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes is set to make her acting debut in a fall episode of The Mindy Project.

* Visit the sets of this year’s Emmy Award nominees on Google Maps.

* Finding Carter star Kathryn Prescott has joined CBS' upcoming miniseries The Dovekeepers, playing a teenaged tomboy named Aziza. Blessed with expert archery skills, Aziza disguises herself in her brother’s armor to join the male warriors of Masada — even managing to fool her lover Amram (played by 90210's Diego Boneta).

* Could a Full House return be in the works? The family sitcom, which aired on ABC from 1987 to 1995, is still a ratings juggernaut via repeats on Nick at Nite. Now Warner Bros. TV is mulling a new take on Full House, with some of the original cast intact. Leading the charge is John Stamos (Uncle Jesse) — who has an ownership stake in the show, which gives him good reason to champion the new series.

* Susan Sarandon's first job in New York? "A soap opera called A World Apart. I think I was about 21. No, wait, actually I did the movie Joe before, as soon as I got to New York. It was so much fun that I decided to be an actor."

* Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow reunite on Jimmy Kimmel for Friends fan-fiction. Watch below:

Lucy Lawless Joins 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'

Former Xena star Lucy Lawless is heading to ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in Season 2, TVGuide.com is reporting.

Details on her role and how long she'll be sticking around are being kept under wraps.

Lawless is also known for her roles on Spartacus, Battlestar Galactica and Parks and Recreation.

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns Tuesday, September 23 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.

Who do you think Lawless should play on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. this season?