On Monday, Nov. 3, entertainment media publications, as well as the hip-hop community, gushed after "Saturday Night Live" made the announcement that Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson would host alongside Kendrick Lamar as musical guest on Nov. 15.

This is the third time that Harrelson will appear on the iconic sketch show: Once, while promoting his now-iconic sitcom "Cheers" on Nov. 18, 1989; once while promoting "White Men Can't Jump" alongside Vanessa Williams as musical guest on May 16, 1992; and again as a special guest performer alongside Ted Danson, Kelsey Grammer and George Wendt when Kirstie Alley hosted on Oct. 12, 1991.

While the "True Detective" actor will likely promote "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1," the third installation of the upcoming science fiction blockbuster odyssey that brought him further acclaim, it's possible that the star will parody his HBO show on "SNL."

Harrelson's appearance comes after news that Season 2 of the one-hour hardboiled crime drama is likely to premiere in summer 2015. According to The Epoch Times, the hit show was to return to the cable network some time around January 2015, but was delayed due in part to casting decisions and negotiations, like beefing up the show's female ensemble.

According to Deadline, Leven Rambin ("The Hunger Games"), Abigail Spencer ("Suits") and Kelly Reilly ("Black Box") are all in various stages of negotiation with HBO to join the upcoming season as series regulars. According to Fashion Times, Rambin is to portray a beautiful lady with a troubled past around drugs, while Spencer plays the survivor of sexual assault.

Earlier in the week, Taylor Kitsch ("Friday Night Lights") revealed that he will also be joining the cast, which Oscar winner and the star of the show, Matthew McConaughey confirmed with E! Online. Latin Post mentioned earlier this week that Kitsch will play the role of a California Highway Patrol officer and military veteran "who had been suspended for his sexual exploitation of a young woman that he pulled over during his shift. Just like most of the characters in the new episodes of 'True Detective,' his character had seen too much destruction and violence."

Alongside Kitsch, Colin Farrell ("Tigerland") will also star as Ray Velcoro, a compromised detective caught in the crossfire of allegiances between the mobsters looming over him and his overseers in a corrupt police department, according to USA Today.

"Almost Human" actor Michael Irby will also star.

Perhaps the most surprising casting is that of Vince Vaughn ("Wedding Crashers"), who is breaking typecast. Vaughn will play career criminal Frank Semyon, whose life gets "turned upside down when his close associate, the corrupt city mayor Ben Caspar, [is] found dead and abandoned along the highway," after they get caught up in a bribery scandal surrounding the construction of a major railway.

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