The Windy City is about to heat up with two new transplants. Deadline is reporting Sanaa Lathan and Glee star Jonathan Groff have both joined the cast of Starz hit series Boss. According to the site, Lathan will play Mona, Mayor Kane's (Kelsey Grammer) new chief of staff, who he starts to "obsess" over. Delish! Meanwhile, Groff has signed onto the show as Ian Todd, a new staffer in Kane's camp, who fills the hole left by Ezra (Martin Donovan).

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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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Spartacus is returning and he’s out for vengeance! That’s right folks, Starz’s gladiators of gore return on January 27, 2012 in Spartacus: Vengeance. 

The series picks up after the massacre at House of Batiatus, which has left Capua in flux and the escaped gladiators in an uneasy alliance. Vengeance marks the debut of Liam McIntyre as Spartacus, after Andy Whitfield left the role to fight non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Whitfield passed away on September 11, 2011. Watch the trailer for Spartacus: Vengeance after the jump! 

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Starz has a hit Spartacus franchise, Torchwood: Miracle Day helped bring the network great publicity and it has already renewed Kelsey Grammer’s Boss for a second season. Now the cable network has given the go-ahead to a new adventure series, Da Vinci’s Demons. 

“Da Vinci's Demons" is David Goyer's historical fantasy, following the "untold" story of the world's greatest genius during his raucous youth in Renaissance Florence.  Brash and brilliant, the twenty five-year old da Vinci is an artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist.  As a free thinker, with intellect and talents that are almost superhuman, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time.  He begins to not only see the future, but invent it.

Da Vinci's Demons will premiere in 2013.

If you are as excited as I am to see Kelsey Grammer’s new Starz drama Boss, then you need to drop what you are doing and hurry over to Starz.com. The cable network is offering viewers the chance to watch the entire first episode online before Boss premieres on October 21. Check it out and then return to Pop Confidential to tell us what you think of the already renewed series's first episode.

According to The Associated Press, Spartacus: Blood and Sand star Andy Whitfield has died. The late actor's manager announced he lost his battle with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma on Sunday at his home in Sydney. Whitfield was diagnosed with the illness 18 months ago, while getting ready for season two of the smash Starz show. Whitfield was 39. Starz announced in January that Liam McIntyre would take over the role of Spartacus.

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