Stars Returning to TV

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Sarah Michelle Gellar

Gellar, who rose to fame on TV shows like All My Children and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will play twin sisters on The CW's new thriller Ringer.

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Christina Ricci

Though she's made several guest appearances on TV (Ally McBeal, Grey's Anatomy, Saving Grace), Ricci will be a series regular on the new ABC series Pan Am. The show chronicles employee affairs, family feuds and friendships in 1963.

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Kelsey Grammer

The actor trades his amiable Cheers alter ego, Frasier Crane, for a ruthless Chicago mayor on the Starz drama Boss.

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Kristen Bell

Bell has focused primarily on her movie career since the end of Veronica Mars in 2007, but the actress will return to the small screen with Showtime's House of Lies, based on Martin Kihn's book of the same name. It costars Don Cheadle, Dawn Olivieri, Ben Schwartz and Josh Lawson.

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Christina Applegate and Maya Rudolph

The two women costar in the NBC comedy series Up All Night. "Everyone in the cast has a baby at home," Applegate tells Us. "We all come in the morning with dark circles under our eyes."

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Claire Danes

It's been 17 years since she embodied teen angst on My So-Called Life. Now Danes tackles the role of a CIA agent suspicious of a returning POW on the Showtime drama Replica Luxury Handbagland.

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Cheryl Hines

The Curb Your Enthusiasm actress now stars in the ABC comedy Suburgatory. The show focuses on 16-year-old Tessa (Jane Levy), who is forced to leave NYC for the suburbs after her father (Jeremy Sisto) finds a box of condoms on her nightstand.

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Hello, Theo! The Cosby Show kid stars with Tracee Ellis Ross on BET's blended-family sitcom Reed Between the Lines.