Once Upon a Time: Scoop on the introduction of a new princess from TVLine's Michael Ausiello

Here's some scoop on Once Upon a Time from this week's (Posted on 11/27/12) Ask Ausiello column.

Question: ABC has bummed me out with cancelling Last Resort. Any scoop on Once Upon a Time‘s Neal to distract me? —Patti 
Ausiello: Help me solve this latest fairy tale riddle: The show is casting the role of Katerina, a regal beauty in her 40s who possesses elegance, poise and purity of spirit. Thoughts? Theories? Bueller? No? Let’s see what TVLine’s resident OUAT expert Mitovich has dug up: “There is a Princess Katerina who is the Russian version of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ — which I suppose makes sense if Emma & Co. need yet another survivor of a sleeping spell to venture into the netherworld. But if the name is a foiler, this character almost reads like a ‘Glenda the Good Witch’-esque counterpart to Regina, and maybe she figures into someone’s fairytale land backstory.”

Link to the full article:‘Once Upon a Time’ Spoilers — Plus Scoop on ‘True Blood’ in Ask Ausiello - TVLine