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While his big screen career hasn't been filled with success and blockbuster jobs of late, Brendan Fraser has found plenty to keep him busy on TV. He's now joining the cast of the DC Universe series Doom Patrol . The show, which will be shown on the comics company's streaming service, brings the unusual superhero team created by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney and Bruno Premian in 1963 to life in live-action form. Supernatural veteran Jeremy Carver is the main writer for the show, which unites a group of powered outcasts under the leadership of the mysterious Dr. Niles Caulder and Cyborg ( Jovian Wade ). Together Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Woman ( April Bowlby ) and Crazy Jane ( Diane Guerrero ) go on a mission to the weirder corners of the sprawling comics universe. Fraser will provide the voice-over for Robotman (to be played in costume by Riley Shanahan on set) and will appear in flashbacks as his alter ego, Cliff Steele. A racing driver who was horrifically injured in...

Despite House Of Cards scoring the bigger initial buzz, Netflix’s other series launched last year, prison comedy drama Orange Is The New Black , won a lot of critical praise for its funny, touching, and progressive characters and plotlines. The show returns to our small screens this year for a second season. Watch the new trailer after the Jump... Orange Is The New Black adapts Piper Kerman’s memoir of her time spent in a women’s prison on drug smuggling charges. Taylor Schilling plays Piper, a character loosely based on Kerman, who reports to Litchfield prison to serve her term, worried about what she’ll encounter. Through the first season, she comes to terms with life inside, meets a variety of fellow inmates and manoeuvres their various, shifting power structures. But even as she learned more about her new world, there were still moments she felt like an outsider. Especially when her ex-girlfriend, Alex ( Laura Prepon ) showed up on the block… Orange’s cast includes ...