TVLine Items: New Girl Casts [Spoiler]'s New Guy, One Tree Hill Vet Joins 90210 and More!

Looks like New Girl faves Schmidt and Cece won’t be reconciling anytime soon.

Traffic Light alum Nelson Franklin has been cast in the quirky Fox comedy’s second season (bowing Sept. 25) as the model’s new boyfriend, TVGuide.com reports.

The funnyman’s character, Robby, is described as a nice guy — albeit a half-deaf one — who is a shockingly bad dancer.

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• One Tree Hill alumna Lindsey McKeon has joined 90210‘s upcoming fifth season, Zap2it reports. She’ll become a mentor to Silver after the two bond over their respective Braca gene diagnoses.

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Mad Men stars January Jones, Elisabeth Moss and Vincent Kartheiser are finalizing deals to continue with the AMC series through a seventh and likely final season, Deadline reports. Christina Hendricks, meanwhile, is still in negotiations. Mad frontman Jon Hamm last year reached an agreement that keeps him on the Emmy-winning drama through the aforementioned Season 7.

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• Jay Hernandez (Six Degrees) has booked an eight-episode arc on ABC’s new fall drama Last Resort, EW.com reports. He’ll play a man involved with Scott Speedman’s character’s estranged wife (played by Jessy Schram).

• Real-life sports mogul Mark Cuban will guest-star in an episode of Necessary Roughness next year, EW.com reports, playing a potential owner of the New York Hawks.

• Nick at Nite has given a 20-episode series order to Wendell And Vinnie, a family comedy starring Jerry Trainor (iCarly) and Nicole Sullivan (MADtv), Deadline reports.

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