Today (June 2), Morena celebrated her birthday! Here’s to hoping it was a good day for her. Fun fact, today is also Firefly co-star Jewel Staite’s birthday. Happy birthday to them both.

Due to filming for her new series, Morena will be unable to attend the Supanova Sydney and Perth conventions later this month. She apologized on via Twitter: Sadly I can’t make it to Australia this month. Start shooting in a couple of weeks. Make it up to you by being on a great show! Deal? Supanova has confirmed her cancellation on their website.

Very exciting news for you all today! Morena has a new series lined up. Just two weeks after ABC canceled cult favorite V, the show’s breakout alien Morena Baccarin has joined another drama series, Showtime’s Homeland. The upcoming thriller, from 24 executive producers Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, centers on Marine Sergeant Scott Brody (Damian Lewis), who returns home eight years after going missing in Iraq, and Carrie Anderson (Claire

Wizard World has been gracious enough to post a video of Morena’s Q&A from this weekend’s convention. Thank you to Deb for sending it my way.

This past weekend, Morena attended the Big Apple Comic Con in New York. Ilana’s V Site has a summary of her panel, as well as a video of her shouting out to Project Alice (for those of you unaware, this is the fan campaign to get V renewed for a third season). A lot of tidbits from her panel can be found here. The two I thought were most interesting

The news has just broken that ABC has cancelled a slough of series, including “V”. This does not come as a surprise, but it is bad news all the same. Best of luck to the cast and crew of “V” in the future. Friday the 13th turned out to be doomsday for Brothers & Sisters and V: ABC has axed both shows. The Alphabet net also pulled the plug on