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After lengthy on- and off- negotiations, Camryn Manheim has signed on to join the cast of CBS' drama "Ghost Whisperer" next season. On the show starring Jennifer Love Hewitt as a newlywed who can talk to the dead, Manheim will play her friend. Manheim, best known for her Emmy-winning role on ABC's "The Practice," recently did a multi-episode arc on Showtime's "The L Word."

In Pasadena, Ca at the Rose Bowl for the CBS Press Party, Singer-Actress/Producer Jennifer Love Hewitt, whose career got a boost last season from spooky series Ghost Whisperer, was most interested in whispering about her show.

She said May's finale, in which co-star Aisha Tyler's character died, was a shock to the cast as well as viewers. "We didn't know what the ending was. We read our script, and it said you'll get your ending later."

She teased that all might not be as it seems: "People think that was the ending of last season, well, maybe they should wait and see."

Hewitt also noted that Camryn Manheim and Jay Mohr would join the cast this season. Manheim will play a woman haunted by a ghost. Mohr will arrive in the second episode, executive producer Kim Moses said, as a professor with expertise in demonology.

"He's not quite a believer," Moses said. "He's going to help Melinda understand some things, and she's going to help him realize that what he's studying is real."

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