With the start of season 4 for Friday Night Lights came a whole slew of new characters. As old graduates moved on, fresh new faces filled their places. Click here for a wonderful interview with this season’s newest additions played by Michael B. Jordan, Jurnee Smollett and Matt Lauria.

As for ‘Friday Night Lights’ fifth and suspected final season, the show is debuting a whole bunch of new characters.

Grey Damon who has appeared on episodes of 90210 and Greek will portray Hastings Ruckle, an East Dillon basketball player who joins the Lions as a wide receiver. Look for Hastings to be one of the more popular kids at school.

Lynn Blackburn will play a character named Laurel. According to Entertainment Weekly, she will be an intelligent, tough teacher at East Dillon who befriends the school’s newest hire, Tami. This will be Lynn Blackburn’s first acting role.

Emily Rios has also been cast for at least six episodes as Epyck, a rebellious, goth student. You may recognize her as Maria on Men of a Certain Age this year, and she also appeared on a 2008 episode of House.

Jeff Rosick will play the new face of Buddy Jr., and he will be back next season with an attitude. He will be even more trouble than when he came to Dillon last time. Buddy Jr. has been away for two years in California and when FNL returns this fall on DirecTV, we’ll see Buddy Jr. back in Dillon – and very unhappy about that fact.

So there you have it, FNL’s newest members, thanks to TV Fanatic for the scoop! And remember, you can catch FNL on NBC, Fridays at 8/7c.

You can check out Scott Porter next in Bandslam staring Lisa Kudrow, Alyson Michalka and Vanessa Hudgens.

The plot surrounds a boy named Will Burton (Gaelan Connell) who used to being bullied or completely ignored by his schoolmates, so when cool and popular former cheerleader Charlotte Barnes (Alyson Michalka) starts inviting him to spend time with her, the teenager is stunned — as is his single mom Karen (Lisa Kudrow). Impressed by his eclectic knowledge of music, Charlotte, a gifted singer-songwriter, asks Will to manage her rock/ska band. Her goal is to take revenge on her egocentric musician ex-boyfriend Ben Wheatley (Scott Porter) at a regional battle of the bands.

Unsure of what he’s getting himself into, Will agrees to help Charlotte’s band, including Bug (Charlie Saxton) and Omar (Tim Jo), eventually expanding it with a crew of like-minded outcasts. Against all odds, the group’s sound starts to come together and their prospects for success look bright. Even more surprising, Will starts losing his “loser-status”, up to the point there is a potential romance brewing with Sa5m (Vanessa Hudgens), a classmate with untapped musical talents.

Perpetually a misfit, Will strikes up a friendship with like-minded outsider Sam. They are both surprised when the school’s “it” girl, Charlotte recruits Will to help assemble a band to compete in “Bandslam,” a battle of the bands that is “Texas High School Football BIG.” Charlotte’s ex-boyfriend Ben Wheatly is poised to win with his band Glory Dogs – Springsteen wannabes down to their hats. For the first time in his life, Will finds he is uniquely suited to not only participate in something, but to truly make a difference.

You can check out the trailer here:

Currently, Taylor Kitsch is at The Bang Bang Club photocall at Terrazza Martini, Gray D’Albion Beach during the 2009 Cannes Film Festival on Saturday (May 16) in Cannes, France.

The 28-year-old actor was joined by director Steven Silver, producer Patrice Theroux, and costars Malin Akerman and Ryan Phillippe. The Bang Bang Club is a drama based on the true-life experiences of four combat photographers capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa. The film is based on a book of the same name, released after the Time article, which was written by two members of the titular club. Kitsch will play Pulitzer Prize-winning, drug-addled photojournalist Kevin Carter.

The project has just wrapped principal photography and is currently in post-production. Bang Bang Club is due for release next year.

I was watching last night’s two-part season finale of Grey’s Anatomy when, to my surprise, I see our beloved Zach Gilford! He plays a patient who comes into the hospital requesting his leg be removed in order for him to return to Iraq. I was absolutely delighted to see him!

Minka Kelly has been the latest addition to the cast of “The Roommate” alongside Gossip Girl cutie, Leighton Meester and Twilighter Cam Gigandet.

“The Roommate” is a psychological thriller about a deranged college freshman, Rebecca (Meester), who becomes dangerously obsessed with her new roommate, Sara (Kelly).

Kelly (“Friday Night Lights”) recently wrapped “Body Politic,” a pilot for the CW, and next appears in Fox Searchlight’s romantic comedy “(500) Days of Summer.”

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