Eden Sher Will Recur on JANE THE VIRGIN

Deadline reports that Eden Sher (The Middle) will recur on season five of "Jane the Virgin."

Executive producer Jennie Snyder Urman told reporters Thursday at TCA that Sher's character will "be involved in the telenovela world of Rogelio and River."

Sher starred on The Middle, which recently finished its nine-season run. She was set to reprise the role in a spinoff centered around her character, Sue Heck, but ABC passed on the pilot.

Sher's also recently guest starred on NBC's Superstore.

Jane the Virgin will return for its fifth and final season Wednesday, March 27. A spinoff, "Jane the Novela," has just been announced.

Friends! Welcome back to Jane The Virgin... where surprises come at you fast and furious. This is a telenovela after all... Season Four saw our Jane (Gina Rodriguez) falling back in love with her baby-by-accidental-insemination-daddy, Rafael (Justin Baldoni). And she published her first book! Unfortunately, it didn't exactly fly off the shelves, but Jane pushed on and had her biggest writing breakthrough yet, combining her grandmother's story, her mother's story, and her own into a multigenerational love story.

And speaking of the Villaneuva women... our matriarch Alba (Ivonne Coll) had a huge year! She began dating again, became sexually liberated, became an American citizen (at last!), and got married! And Xiomara (Andrea Navedo) certainly had a big year as well. At first, she found herself struggling to adjust to life as a married woman. But she and Rogelio (Jaime Camil) worked through their issues. And then, just as Xo started to get her groove back, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After choosing to have a mastectomy, she started to go through chemo... which was tough. But she's stayed strong, with her husband's support... Which brings us to her husband, Rogelio. First, he had a baby (named "Baby") with his ex-girlfriend Darci (guest star Justina Machado). And then he decided to become a stay-at-home Danny (Dad + Nanny = Danny). And that lasted a whole month! But alas, he found staying home with his baby Baby pretty difficult. And he couldn't resist the siren call of the cameras when the network decided they wanted to remake "The Passions of Santos" for American TV. Can you blame him? That's been his dream forever! Unfortunately, that remake came with strings; it had to costar his latest, fiercest nemesis, River Fields (guest star Brooke Shields).

Which finally brings us to...Petra (Yael Grobglas), who was accused of murder! Again! But Petra denied it and hired a lawyer named Jane Ramos aka JR (guest star Rosario Dawson). And then, she and JR fell in love! And when Petra's life was threatened, JR ran to her rescue, and wrestled the gun away from her would be attacker. But oh no! The gun went off! Leaving us with the classic cliffhanger - "Who did JR shoot"? And speaking of cliffhangers, remember when Jane walked into Rafael's apartment and saw her dead husband Michael (Bret Dier) standing there? Well, I did say surprises come at you fast and furious around here...

JANE THE VIRGIN is produced by CBS Television Studios and Warner Bros. Television, in association with Electus, with executive producers Jennie Snyder Urman ("Emily Owens, M.D."), Ben Silverman ("The Biggest Loser"), Brad Silberling ("Charmed"), Gary Pearl ("10.5: Apocalypse"), Jorge Granier ("Que el Cielo Me Explique"), Lewis Abel ("Cougar Town"), David Rosenthal ("The Middle"), Gina Rodriguez ("Miss Bala") and Paul Sciarrotta ("Reckless").

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