Channel Surfing: Robert Patrick Targets "Chuck," Love "Pentagon" for "Glee," "Lost" Finds Former "L.A. Law" Star, and More

Welcome to your Wednesday morning television briefing. Given that it's Veteran's Day, there are but a few headlines to get through this morning.

Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello is reporting that Robert Patrick (The Unit) has been cast in an upcoming episode of NBC's Chuck, where he will play Col. Keller, described as "a mysterious figure from Casey's past." He's slated to appear about halfway through the series' third season in a Casey-centric episode entitled "Chuck Versus the Tic Tac." (Entertainment Weekly's Ausiello Files)

TVGuide.com's Natalie Abrams talks to Glee star Chris Colfer about tonight's episode of Glee ("Wheels") and the romantic permutations coming up on the FOX musical dramedy series. "It's very incestual," Colfer told Abrams about the glee club's romantic entanglements. "There's love triangles right now, but there's soon to be love pentagons and hexagons. I get added on to the [Puck-Quinn-Finn-Rachel] quadrangle. We go full force: When Kurt fell in love with Finn [Cory Monteith], why he's in love and what he plans on doing. There's a flashback and it's pretty funny." (TVGuide.com)

Former L.A. Law star Shiela Kelley has been cast in the sixth and final season of ABC's Lost, according to Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello. Kelley is set to recur as Kendall, described as "an intellectual beauty with a sharp edge to her wit who is caught committing corporate espionage and has to lie her way out." Hmmm... (Entertainment Weekly's Ausiello Files)

Jennifer Morrison confirmed her departure from FOX's House on an episode of the syndicated talk show The Bonnie Hunt Show, which is slated to air today. (E! Online's Watch with Kristin)

Winona Ryder and Barry Pepper have been cast in CBS' latest Hallmark Hall of Fame telepic When Love is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story, which is slated to air later this season. Ryder will play Lois Wilson, the wife of alcoholic Bill Wilson, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, who went on to co-found Al-Anon. Project, produced by E1 Entertainment, is written by Camille Thomasson and William Borchert (based on the latter's book) and directed by John Kent Harrison. (Variety)

Bravo has ordered a sixth episode of unscripted series Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List. The ten-episode season, in which "Kathy will continue traipsing around the globe with Team Griffin, her mother, a box of wine and maybe even Levi Johnston," will begin production in January. (People)

Food Network has ordered five episodes of reality competition series Worst Cooks in America, in which two teams of would-be chefs prepare a meal for a group of food critics, with one contestant going home each week. Series, hosted by Anne Burrell and Beau MacMillan, will launch on January 3rd. (Variety)

Mitch Ryan (HBO's The Pacific) has been cast in a recurring role on the CW's One Tree Hill, where he will play Alexander, "a handsome pro surfer-turned-young mogul." (Hollywood Reporter)

FearNet has commissioned a series of five-minute webisodes entitled Post Mortem with Mick Garris as the multihypenate sits down with horror writers, directors, and actors. Series will be available online, on demand, and on mobile platforms beginning in December. (Variety)

Stay tuned.

Have a Burning Question for Team Darlton, Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, or Michael Emerson?

Lost fans: you don't have to make your way to the island via Ajira Airways in order to ask a question of the creative team or the series' stars. Televisionary is taking questions from fans to put to Lost 's executive producers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and stars Matthew Fox ("Jack Shephard"), Evangeline Lilly ("Kate Austen"), and Michael Emerson ("Benjamin Linus") for a series of on-camera interviews taking place this weekend. If you have a specific question for any of the above producers or actors from Lost , please leave it in the comments section below . I'll be accepting questions until midnight PT tonight and, while I can't promise I'll be able to ask any specific inquiry due to the brevity of these on-camera interviews, I am looking for some insightful and thought-provoking questions to add to the mix. So who knows: your burning question might get asked after all.

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What's Done is Done: The Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil on the Season Finale of "Lost"

Every story begins with thread. It's up to the storyteller to determine just how much they need to parcel out, what pattern they're making, and when to cut it short and tie it off. With last night's penultimate season finale of Lost ("The Incident, Parts One and Two"), written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, we began to see the pattern that Lindelof and Cuse have been designing towards the last five seasons of this serpentine series. And it was only fitting that the two-hour finale, which pushes us on the road to the final season of Lost , should begin with thread, a loom, and a tapestry. Would Jack follow through on his plan to detonate the island and therefore reset their lives aboard Oceanic Flight 815 ? Why did Locke want to kill Jacob? What caused The Incident? What was in the box and just what lies in the shadow of the statue? We got the answers to these in a two-hour season finale that didn't quite pack the same emotional wallop of previous season

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In Defense of Downton Abbey (Or, Don't Believe Everything You Read)

The proof of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating. Which means, if I can get on my soapbox for a minute, that in order to judge something, one ought to experience it first hand. One can't know how the pudding has turned out until one actually tastes it. I was asked last week--while I was on vacation with my wife--for an interview by a journalist from The Daily Mail, who got in touch to talk to me about PBS' upcoming launch of ITV's period drama Downton Abbey , which stars Hugh Bonneville, Dame Maggie Smith, Dan Stevens, Elizabeth McGovern, and a host of others. (It launches on Sunday evening as part of PBS' Masterpiece Classic ; my advance review of the first season can be read here , while my interview with Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and stars Dan Stevens and Hugh Bonneville can be read here .) Normally, I would have refused, just based on the fact that I was traveling and wasn't working, but I love Downton Abbey and am so enchanted with the proj

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