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Gabrielle Union, Single Black Female (BET) - Out of the new faces we can expect to see on the small screen this fall, the one we're most excited for is Gabrielle Union in The Game and Girlfriends creator Mara Brock Akil's new BET series Single Black Female. The series will focus on the life of a Black woman (Union) who hosts a popular 24-hour cable news network and marks the actress's return to TV since last starring in 2005's Night Stalker. (Photo: John Ricard / BET)

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John Boyega, Da Brick (HBO) - After his star-making turn in last summer's hit creature feature Attack the Block, Boyega was hand-picked by Spike Lee to play the lead in his HBO boxing drama, loosely based on the life of Mike Tyson.  (Photo: Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

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Edi Gathegi, White Van Man (ABC) - This Kenyan-American actor, whose résumé is already bursting with roles in high-profile projects like Twilight and House, makes his sitcom debut opposite Kyle Bornheimer and J.K. Simmons in this comedy about a man forced to take over his father's handyman business. Gathegi plays one of the workers for the company. (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Michael B. Jordan, County (NBC) - After scoring back-to-back big screen hits with Red Tails and Chronicle, this young up-and-comer will next be seen in NBC's hour-long drama about young doctors and nurses working in an underfunded LA hospital. Jordan reunites with his Friday Night Lights boss Jason Katims, who created the show.(Photo: Michael Buckner/Getty Images)

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Freema Agyeman, The Carrie Diaries (CW) - This British hottie has already made a name for herself on TV in England (Doctor Who, Law & Order: UK), and now she's landed the coveted role of young Carrie Bradshaw's hip mentor in Sex and the City prequel The Carrie Diaries.(Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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Tahj Mowry, Baby Daddy (ABC Family) - Proving once again that his older sisters aren't the only ones in the Mowry family with talent, Tahj will play a friend of Ben, a surprise dad to a baby girl when she's left on his doorstep by an ex-girlfriend.(Photo: REUTERS/Gus Ruelas/Landov)

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Phylicia Rashad, Do No Harm (NBC) - Claire Huxtable is back! But this time, she'll be the one swinging the stethescope. Rashad will play a stern-but-supportive chief of surgery in this hospital drama, whose underlings include a neurosurgeon with an evil alter-ego.(Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

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Cuba Gooding, Jr., Guilty (FOX) - The Oscar-winning actor makes his primetime drama debut in this hour-long show about a disbarred lawyer who solves cases on his own time while seeking revenge on the people who cost him his legal license. (Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

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Ving Rhames, Chelsea General (TNT) - This busy actor is making time between film projects to star in David E. Kelley's hospital drama about five surgeons with complex personal and professional lives. Rhames plays a former football hero who becomes the most celebrated surgeon in the country.  (Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

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Sanaa Lathan, Boss (STARZ) - Kelsey Grammer's hit series about Chicago politics gets a little heat with the addition of Sanaa Lathan as a tough chief of staff to ruthless mayor Tom Kane (Grammer) who captures the attention, and obsession, of her boss.(Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

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Persia White, The Vampire Diaries (CW) - The sexy actress can sink her fangs into a role on one of TV's most popular vampire series. The former Girlfriends star has signed on as a guest star, but rumor has it she may become a series regular. (Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

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Denise Vasi, Single Ladies (VH1) - The former All My Children star joins VH1's hit series, taking over the lead role from Stacey Dash. Vasi will play "Raquel," a savvy businesswoman who is a friend of Keisha (LisaRaye McCoy).(Photo: David Becker/Getty Images)