McManus, late of the CW's One Tree Hill, has joined the cast of NBC's Law & Order: SVU as a regular. She'll play the new assistant district attorney for the Special Victims Unit, the showbiz trade papers say.

Her character will replace Casey Novak (Diane Neal), who was suspended from the job in last month's season finale.

The casting of McManus also partially resolves the cliffhanger that ended One Tree Hill in May. As the show ended its fifth season, Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) picked up the phone and asked someone to fly to Las Vegas and marry him. What viewers have yet to find out, however, is who's on the receiving end: Brooke (Sophia Bush), Peyton (Hilarie Burton), or Lindsey (McManus) - though the latter is probably ruled out now.

McManus is a relative newcomer to showbiz. Other than One Tree Hill, her only screen credits are the independent film Cosa Bella and a short called The Beautiful Lie.

CBS wants more 'Million Dollar Password.' Already an early summer success, Million Dollar Password has received a vote of confidence from CBS.

The network announced on Tuesday that it's ordering six additional episodes of the Regis Philbin-hosted update on the game show classic.

In its first four broadcasts, three on Sundays and a Thursday special, the FremantleMedia North America production has averaged 9.46 million viewers.

The original Password was hosted by Allen Ludden and aired on CBS in both daytime and prime time from 1961 to 1967.

Celebrities on the new CBS Password have included Neil Patrick Harris and Rachael Ray.

'New Amsterdam' star lives. Fans of New Amsterdam may not have to look far to find star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Coster-Waldau is sticking with Fox, taking a lead role in the network's two-hour sci-fi pilot Virtuality.

Written by Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica), it focuses on the 12-member crew of Phaeton, a starship that leaves Earth on a 10-year exploratory mission. The ship's state-of-the-art virtual reality modules let the crew escape their constrained surroundings.

Coster-Waldau will play the ship's mission commander, Frank Pike. One can only assume the name is a not-so-subtle tip-of-the-hat to the Star Trek franchise.

Born in Denmark, Coster-Waldau played immortal police detective John Amsterdam on Fox's short-lived New Amsterdam.

Anne Archer is 'Privileged.' The CW show formerly known as Surviving the Filthy Rich is undergoing a couple of changes.

For starters, it's not called Surviving the Filthy Rich anymore. The series, about a young woman (Joanna Garcia) who's hired as a private tutor for two wealthy Palm Beach teenagers, has changed its name to the more succinct Privileged.

The show has also tapped Anne Archer to star as the girls' grandmother, who's raising them after the death of their parents. She takes over the role from Marsha Mason, according to the Hollywood Reporter.