Charisma Carpenter has signed on for a role in Scream Queens.

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer star will play the mother of Ariana Grande's character in Ryan Murphy's horror-comedy anthology series, reports Deadline.

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Emma Roberts also took to Instagram to reveal that the show will premiere on Tuesday, September 22 on Fox.

Scream Queens centres on the 20-year-old mystery of the Red Devil killer re-emerging inside the Kappa sorority house at Wallace University.

When the university's dean Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis) threatens to pull the plug on the Kappa house, the Red Devil begins killing once again.



The ensemble cast of Scream Queens also includes Lea Michele, Emma Roberts, Oliver Hudson, Abigail Breslin, Keke Palmer, Billie Lourd, Skyler Samuels, Lucien Laviscount, Diego Boneta and Glen Powell.

Watch a teaser for the show below: