If you thought Dark Blue receiving a second season just before fans were about to start losing hope was good news, how about this possible casting development?

According to Battlestar Galactica veteran Tricia Helfer (pictured above) herself, she has joined the cast of the stark cop drama, presumably for its upcoming sophomore run.

Leverage’s February 17 second-season finale called “The Maltese Falcon Job” continues from where the previous episode, “The Three Strikes Job,” left off.

Still intent on bringing down guest star Richard Kind’s (Spin City) corrupt mayor character Brad Culpepper III, Team Nate runs into a bit of a complication that threatens the members’ plan.

As previously mentioned, Spin City alum Richard Kind guest stars on the all-new February 10 episode of Leverage called “The Three Strikes Job.”

During an installment featuring politics and America’s favorite pastime, namely baseball, is it any surprise that the Team Nate member who gets to swing a bat on the baseball diamond is rough-and-ready Eliot? Not at all.

And the top-notch guest stars just keep on dropping by caper dramedy Leverage.

Next up on the brand-new February 10 episode called “The Three Strikes Job” is funny Spin City and Mad About You veteran Richard Kind (pictured above at right with series star Timothy Hutton).

Talented 90210 icon Luke Perry (pictured below) checks into Leverage temporarily on February 3 for a guest-star stint during the brand-new episode “The Future Job.”

And you’re not going to believe what kind of character he plays.

TNT’s original ensemble legal drama Raising the Bar may have been canceled at the end of last year, but that hasn’t stopped former lead cast member J. August Richards from scoring a prized role on another network’s hugely popular primetime series.

According to TV Guide, the Angel veteran will play a young Dr. Richard Webber on ABC’s hit medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, which is now in its sixth season.

Leverage has really padded the guest star roster for the exciting January 27 episode called “The Zanzibar Marketplace Job.”

Not only does Invasion and Crash alumna Kari Matchett (pictured above at left) return to reprise her role as Nate’s ex-wife Maggie Collins during the installment, but Star Trek: Voyager standout Jeri Ryan will also be back as Tara. Then there’s Battlestar Galactica veteran Mark Sheppard, who drops by to play Nate’s worthy, perpetually conniving nemesis Jim Sterling again.

Saving Private Ryan and Crash cast member Tom Sizemore guest stars on the January 26 episode of Southland called “See the Woman.”

Sizemore plays fictional Timmy Davis, a well-known yet conceited (surprise!) Hollywood actor.

The brand-new January 20 episode of Leverage is called “The Bottle Job.”

This time around, Team Nate takes on a victimizing loan shark whose schemes endanger McRory’s bar.

Newly renewed original dramedy Men of a Certain Age is taking a week off to make room for a January 18 NBA triple-header, but the series will be back on the tube the following week with the brand-new January 25 episode “Father’s Fraternity.”

The wait will definitely be worth it, too, because the episode features acting veteran Robert Loggia (The Sopranos, Mancuso, FBI), who plays the grumpy father of Ray Romano’s character Joe.