Hudson Joins Heroes Cast

The genial yet authoritative Ernie Hudson (Oz, Ghostbusters) will be joining Heroes in a recurring role. And he's playing a detective. Again.

Hudson will be playing Captain Lubbock, a Baltimore cop who's seeking to capture one of the other characters.

This follows the previous key casting announcement for the upcoming fourth season of Heroes, which introduces a new storyline about a traveling carnival of people with special powers, run by a charismatic but evil Earth-moving ringleader (Robert Knepper).

And yes, it's true: they're working on Ghostbusters III for 2012 – with the original cast. The new writers are Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (The Office, Year One). That could work, if the humor leans more toward the former than the latter. Dan Ackroyd says filming could start as soon as this winter. The plan is for it to be a passing-the-torch kind of movie, which is what you might expect so many years on from the original films.

Heroes kicks off Volume Five with a two-hour premiere on Monday, Sept. 21.