Have you missed the blood, gore and sex of Starz’s Spartacus franchise? Tonight the cable network’s hit gladiator drama returns with Spartacus: Vengeance, which picks up where Spartacus: Blood and Sands left off. Spartacus: Vengeance stars Liam McIntyre, who took over the role of Spartacus after Andy Whitfield was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. 

Zap2it caught up with Spartacus: Vengeance show runner Steven DeKnight, who previewed this season’s body count. 

"It's a Steve DeKnight show. I learned at the knee of Joss Whedon. I'm going to probably kill somebody you love. I mean, that just happens. In this show, each season, we will continue to kill off our beloved children. Like we did at the end of Season 1.

Watch the extended trailer for Spartacus: Vengeance after the jump!

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The 100th episode of Gossip Girl promises to be a good one. Blair (Leighton Meester) is getting married, my favorite Gossip Girl guest star Michelle Trachtenberg is returning as Georgina Sparks and in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the show’s executive producers Stephanie Savage and Josh Safran tease what happens in the last few moments of the episode.

“You have to see [the last few minutes] to believe them. I really think they will take people’s breath away,”

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Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva is getting a dose of reality. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Keeping up With The Kardashian’s Kim Kardashian will be appearing in the cable drama for a multi-episode arc.

"I'm ecstatic to welcome Kim to the Diva family,” creator and executive producer Josh Berman said. “In discussing the role of Nikki with her, I'm blown away by her smarts, sense of humor and passion. This series is all about reinvention and I'm so excited to see Kim ‘reinvented’ in the world of Drop Dead Diva.” READ MORE

This week’s Pretty Little Liars was full of shocking revelations, while every couple is on shaky ground.  Although A might be destroying their personal lives, the girls got closer to solving Alison’s murder. 
 
1.  What did the N.A.T. Club do to Alison the night she was murdered?  Caleb was able to decrypt more videos from A’s cellphone, allowing the girls finally see what will be Alison’s final moments.  After leaving Alison in the woods, Ian rushes over to her bedroom with Garret and Jenna to look for the evidence she took of their spying club.  Garret seems really rattled and just wants to get out of there, but he flips even more when Ian reveals he recorded them ransacking Alison’s room—if he’s going down he’ll take the whole club with him—just then they all hear Alison coming up the steps, and the video freezes.  Caleb still needs to get the rest.   READ MORE

After the success of ABC’s Once Upon a Time, networks are looking to develop other fantasy related series. However, there are very few original ideas left in Hollywood these days, where both The CW and ABC are developing series based on Beauty and the Beast.

According to TVLine, The CW’s BATB pilot will be loosely based on the 1980s series (picture above). Meanwhile, ABC’s BATB is “a fantastical reimagining of the classic fairy tale, set in a mythical, dangerous world wherein a beautiful and tough Princess discovers an unlikely connection with a mysterious beast,” according to site.

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Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs  is adding a new label to his multi-hyphenated name — cable TV founder. According to Broadcasting & Cable, Combs is gearing up to launch Revolt, a music-themed network that is set to debut on Dec. 12. According to the site, Revolt will contain music and music news that will have an audience geared towards African-Americans. READ MORE