Channel Surfing: Lin-Manuel Miranda Checks into "House," Zoe Green Mines "Diamond" for Sci Fi, "Heroes" Nabs Two More Actors, and More
Welcome to your Friday morning television briefing. Tony Award-winning actor Lin-Manuel Miranda ( In the Heights ) will appear in at least two episodes of FOX's House next season, where he will play the roommate of Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) at the psychiatric facility where House is currently living. Miranda's first appearance is slated for House 's sixth season premiere, which kicks off this fall. ( Entertainment Weekly 's Ausiello Files ) Zoe Green ( Book of Shadows ) has been hired to write the script for mini-series The Diamond Age , an adaptation of Neal Stephenson's 1995 novel "The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer," for Sci Fi and executive producers George Clooney and Grant Heslov. Mini-series tells the story about a father and daughter who live in a futuristic society that stifles all creativity; the man creates an interactive book for his daughter, who uses it "as a guide through a surreal alternative world." ( Va...