Monday, June 2, 2014

Casting News - 'Girls' Adds Jason Ritter; 'Enlisted' Duo Join 'Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight'; Plus 7 More Updates!

Casting News - June 2, 2014

A&E's The Returned; ABC Family's Switched at Birth; AMC's Hell on Wheels; The CW's The Originals; DirecTV's Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight; HBO's The Comeback, Girls & The Newsroom; and IFC's Garfunkel & Oates.



HBO's THE COMEBACK
  • Mark L. Young (We're the Millers) has booked a recurring role on the revival of the cult comedy series. He will play Tyler Beck, Valerie's (Lisa Kudrow) nephew and USC film student who is part of the camera crew shooting Valerie around Hollywood.
AMC's HELL ON WHEELS
  • Jonathan Scarfe has been cast in a recurring role on the upcoming fourth season. He will play Sydney Snow, an old war buddy of Cullen's (Anson Mount), who has a knack for getting himself and others into sticky predicaments.
THE CW's THE ORIGINALS
  • Nathaniel Buzolic will reprise his Vampire Diaries role of Kol Mikaelson - younger brother to Klaus (Joseph Morgan) and Elijah (Daniel Gillies) - during several flashback sequences in an early Season 2 episode.
A&E's THE RETURNED
  • Treme alum India Ennenga has joined the upcoming drama series starring Mark Pellegrino. She will play Camille, one of Jack's (Pellegrino) twin daughters who died during a school bus crash four years prior.
HBO's THE NEWSROOM
  • Keith Powell (30 Rock, About a Boy) has booked a recurring role on the third season of the drama. He will play Wyatt Geary, the new Human Resources Vice President for AWM.
ABC FAMILY's SWITCHED AT BIRTH
  • Parks and Recreation star Jim O'Heir will guest star on an upcoming episode of the teen drama when it returns for the second half of its third season this summer. He will play Tank's (Max Adler) father.
HBO's GIRLS
  • Jason Ritter (Parenthood) will appear on the sixth episode of the dramedy's upcoming 4th season. Like all of the series' other casting news, details on his character are being kept under wraps. We do, however, known that his character will be named Scott.
DIRECTV's THINGS YOU SHOULDN'T SAY PAST MIDNIGHT
  • The fall comedy has locked in its ensemble cast. Here's the full description of the series: Ben (Stephen Schneider, Broad City), a sweet, young Jewish professor of English, is stunned when his girlfriend Nancy (Collette Wolfe, Young Adult), makes an anti-Semitic remark during an intimate encounter in his office. Leo (Parker Young, Enlisted) and Phil (Jimmy Ouyang, Silicon Valley), two 19-year-old sophomores, come up with a scheme to prank the university's dean (Keith David, Enlisted) only to have their plans foiled by a security guard (Kerri Kenney, Reno 911). Grace (Alanna Ubach, See Dad Run) is in the middle of a late-night session with her therapist (Eddie Kaye Thomas, American Pie), who has offered to set her up on a blind date with his brother. Donald (Kurt Fuller, Manhattan Love Story) has been unhappily married for 40 years to the jealous and perennially suspicious Estelle (Lin Shaye, Insidious), who has driven him to therapy to work on their relationship. Pedro 1 (Jorge-Luis Pallo, NCIS: Los Angeles) and Pedro 2 (Ivo Nandi, Boardwalk Empire) are brothers from a large family hired by Donald to count, stack and label rolls of carpeting. What seems like a night of simple menial labor ends with the brothers being targeted by a hit man (Hugh Dillon, The Killing).
IFC's GARFUNKEL AND OATES
  • The Riki Lindhome-Kate Micucci starring comedy series will premiere its 8-episode first season on Thursday, August 7 at 10/9c. Guest stars for the first season include Sir Ben Kingsley, Steve Agee, Abby Elliott, Chris Hardwick, Anthony Jeselnik, Natasha Leggero, Tig Notaro, John Oates and Chris Parnell.