Heroes season four: more casting news

Last week, we reported that Prison Break's Robert Knepper was joining the line-up for the fourth season of Heroes, as a brand new villain in the show.

Well, as shooting just about commences on the new season run, a few more casting bits and bobs have come through, too.

Rachel Melvin and Madeline Zima have both been confirmed as playing college roommates of Hayden Panettiere's Claire Bennett in the show. Melvin is currently best known for US soap Days Of Our Lives, while Zima is of Californication fame.

Deanna Bray we don't know too much about (she's from The L Word, apparently), but she's going to playing someone's love interest in season four.

Meanwhile, Darth Maul himself could be thrown into the mix too, with Ray Park apparently in negotiations to appear in the show. According to a report at Entertainment Weekly, there's not much information on the character that he's reportedly pencilled in to play, short of it'll have a "sizeable arc". Sounds painful.

The show returns to screens in the Autumn, and the Entertainment Weekly story is here.