Broadway Hits the Small Screen - BWW's Complete Guide to New TV Season

Patti Lupone, Cristin Milioti and Sean Hayes are among the many Broadway favorites who will be popping up throughout the new Fall TV season. Below, BWW brings you a peek at some of your favorite Broadway stars who will be featured as both series regulars and guest stars. Be sure to set your DVR's!

Patti LuPone, FX's AMERICAN HORROR STORY

This season of the hit FX creepy series anthology, titled "Coven" features an all-star cast including Broadway vet Patti Lupone (Evita, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown). Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Sarah Paulson, Frances Conroy, Gabourey Sidibe, Denis O'Hare, Evans Peters, Taissa Farmiga, Lily Rabe and Emma Roberts also star. The new season will begin on October 9th.

"Coven" tells the secret history of witches and witchcraft in America. Over 300 years have passed since the turbulent days of the Salem witch trials and those who managed to escape are now facing extinction. Mysterious attacks have been escalating against their kind and young girls are Being sent away to a special school in New Orleans to learn how to protect themselves.

Wrapped up in the turmoil is new arrival, Zoe (Farmiga), who is harboring a terrifying secret of her own. Alarmed by the recent aggression, Fiona (Lange), the long-absent Supreme, sweeps back into town, determined to protect the Coven and hell-bent on decimating anyone who gets in her way.

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Laura Bell Bundy, FX's ANGER MANAGEMENT

This summer it was announced that Legally Blonde's Laura Bell Bundy would be replacing exiting star Selma Blair in FX's Anger Management as a series regular. The actress will take on the role Dr. Jordan Denby, Charlie's new sex study partner. The character is described as "a brilliant psychologist whose recent divorce, fondness for alcohol and wild mood swings turns Charlie's life into an emotional roller coaster."

The new season will premiere on January 17th!

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Laura Benanti, Laura Osnes, Jeremy Jordan, and Steve Kazee in CBS's ELEMENTARY

ONCE star and Tony Award winner Steve Kazee will be appearing as Joan Watson's (Lucy Liu) love interest in the show's "We Are Everyone" episode this October.

Broadway vet and 'Smash' star Jeremy Jordan will guest star on the October 3rd episode titled "Solve For X". In the episode, when a well-respected mathematician is found dead, Holmes and Watson set out to solve a murder and the purpose of the highly guarded equation he was trying to decipher.

Also on tap for the series will be appearances by Broadway favs Laura Benanti, who will take on the role of a nanny whose boss is found dead on the October 17 episode titled "Poison Pen" and Laura Osnes, scheduled to appear in an upcoming October episode.

Elementary stars Miller as detective Sherlock Holmes and Liu as Dr. Joan Watson in a modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare -- a sober companion, Dr. Watson.

Elementary kicked off its second season on September 26 on CBS.

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Cristin Milioti is 'The Mother' on CBS's HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER

Last spring it was revealed that Tony nominated ONCE star Cristin Milioti was cast in the pivotal role of 'The Mother' on CBS's long-running hit comedy How I Met Your Mother and would be featured as a series regular in the final season of the show. The actress made her first apperance in the season premiere which aired last Monday, September 23rd. Check out a BWW interview in which the actress talks about her experience on the comedy here!

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, now in its ninth and final season, is a comedy about Ted and how he fell in love. This season takes place over the course of Barney and Robin's wedding weekend, when the lives of the gang change dramatically. Ted is about to move to Chicago, Marshall and Lily are about to move to Rome, and Robin and Barney are about to become husband and wife. The series, airing 8/9c on Mondays on CBS, is narrated through flashbacks from the future.

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Will Chase in ABC's NASHVILLE

Two-time Tony nominee Will Chase will star as a potential love interest for Connie Britton's character in the upcoming season of ABC's musical drama NASHVILLE. The Smash vet will portray 'Luke', described as "a country music star who just might capture Rayna's hurting heart on the ABC drama, (according to TVLine)

The 'Mystery of Edwin Drood' star recently left a starring role in the off-Broadway production of Little Miss Sunshine (Will Swenson takes over the role in the James Lapine directed musical) to take on the TV series which airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on ABC.

In last season's finale of the critically acclaimed drama series , Rayna and Deacon's final moments left their lives hanging in the balance. But one thing is certain... their relationship will never be easy. Rayna will continue to be driven by her desire to expand upon her music empire, signing new talent and going head to head with a new label chief. Juliette is poised for a fresh start after her success was briefly mired by her short-lived marriage, an extortion plot, and the shocking death of her mother. As she continues to work towards shaping her sound and style, she'll discover there isn't a lot of room for error as emerging artists continue to nip at her heels. Deacon's fall from grace will force him to evolve from his role as band leader to a position outside of his comfort zone.

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Sean Hayes, Megan Hilty, Linda Lavin in NBC's SEAN SAVES THE WORLD

In the new NBC comedy series, Sean Hayes (Promises Promises. SMASH, "Will & Grace") is a divorced dad who juggles a lot - his successful but demanding career, offbeat employees, pushy mom, Lorna (Linda Lavin, "Alice"), and weekends with his teenage daughter, Ellie (Samantha Isler). So when his 14-year-old bundle of joy moves in full time, it's a whole new world. Echo Kellum ("Ben and Kate") and 'Smash's Megan Hilty' also star.

From executive producers Hayes ("Hot in Cleveland," "Grimm") and Todd Milliner ("Hot in Cleveland," "Grimm"), executive producer/director James Burrows ("Friends," "The Big Bang Theory") and writer/executive producer Victor Fresco ("Better Off Ted," "Andy Richter Controls the Universe"), "Sean Saves the World" is a production of Universal Television and Hazy Mills Productions and Garfield Grove.

Sean Saves The World premieres October 3 on NBC.

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Kristin Chenoweth on TV Land's KIRSTIE

Broadway vet Kristin Chenoweth ("Pushing Daisies," "The Good Wife") is set to guest star on TV Land's new comedy series KIRSTIE, featuring actress Kirstie Alley. Alley executive produces the series and plays Broadway actress, Madison "Maddie" Banks. Rhea Perlman ("Cheers"), Michael Richards ("Seinfeld") and Eric Petersen ("Shrek: The Musical") co-star in the series which will premiere in December.

According to the network's press notes, Chenoweth will appear In the upcoming episode as 'Britney Gold', described as "Maddie's conniving understudy who will do anything - or anyone - to get onstage. When Maddie finally offers her the opportunity, in exchange for an unseemly favor, Britney doesn't give it a second thought."

Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Damien Lewis Jamey Sheridan and Marin Ireland in Showtime's HOMELAND.

The Award winning Showtime drama Homeland stars Claire Danes (Roundabout Theatre Company's Pygmalion), Damien Lewis (West End's Into the Woods) and Mandy Patinkin (Two-time Tony Award winner Evita, Sunday in the Park With George). On the third season of the show, viewers will see guest appearances by Tony nominee Jamey Sheridan (All My Sons) portraying Vice President William Walden, and Tony nominee Marin Ireland (Reasons to Be Pretty) as criminal accomplice Aileen Morgan. The series (which premiered last night) airs Sundays at 9/8c on Showtime.

The winner of 6 Emmy Awards including Outstanding Drama Series, HOMELAND is an edge-of-your-seat sensation. Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody (Emmy winner Damian Lewis) is both a decorated hero and a serious threat. CIA officer Carrie Mathison (Emmy winner Claire Danes) is tops in her field despite being bipolar. The delicate dance these two complex characters perform, built on lies, suspicion, and desire, is at the heart of this gripping, emotional thriller in which nothing short of the fate of our nation is at stake.

Darren Criss, Lea Michele on FOX's GLEE

GLEE kicked off its fifth season last Thursday, September 26th with a two-part tribute to the music of The Beatles. The cast, crew and creative team of the FOX musical drama faced a challenging start to the new season with the loss of beloved cast member Cory Monteith who died of an accidental drug overdose in July.

On the third episode of the new season, the gang at McKinley high will pay tribute to their fallen co-star, who portrayed star quarterback Finn Hudson. The special epiosde titled 'The Quarterback' airs Thursday, October 13th. Series creator Ryan Murphy has shared that the upcoming episode was highly emotional for all those involved with the show.

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Other Broadway star appearances include Lauren Graham as Sarah Braverman in Parenthood, Aaron Tveit in USA Network's Graceland, Annaleigh Ashford in the new Showtime drama Masters of Sex based on the lives of Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson (premiered September 26th), and Godspell's Uzo Aduba as Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren in Netflix's new series 'Orange is the New Black'. Also, catch Corbin Bleu and Valerie Harper cut a rug on the current season of ABC's DANCING WITH THE STARS.

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