Friday, July 18, 2014

Casting News - 'Homeland' & 'The Affair' Premiere Dates Set; 'Prison Break' Alum Joins 'The Flash'; Plus 6 More Updates!

Casting News - July 18, 2014

ABC's Castle; CBS' The Good WifeThe Mentalist & Mom; The CW's The Flash; Lifetime's The Lottery; and Showtime's The Affair & Homeland.





ABC's CASTLE
  • Ryan Sands (The Wire) has been tapped to guest-star in the dram's Season 7 premiere episode. He will play Tagger, a Hamptons police sergeant who will Beckett (Stana Katic) investigate the most difficult case of her career.
CBS' THE MENTALIST
  • Josie Loren (Make It or Break It) has joined the drama in a major recurring role - with a series regular option - in its upcoming seventh season. She will play Michelle Vega, the newest addition to the FBI task force. Fresh out of the Academy, Michelle is eager, ambitious and hungry to learn. She has never heard of Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) and is very skeptical of his unorthodox ways.
CBS' THE GOOD WIFE
  • Steven Pasquale (Do No Harm, Rescue Me) has joined the cast of the drama for a two-episode arc during its sixth season. He will play Elfman, one of the top campaign managers in the country who Eli Gold (Alan Cumming) is trying to convince to run Alicia's (Julianna Margulies) possible campaign.
LIFETIME's THE LOTTERY
  • The drama - premiering this upcoming Sunday - has booked veteran character actor Ernie Hudson for a guest spot in its first season. He will play Randall Mitchell, a former Attorney General who uses his access to get the truth about his son (August Richard).
CBS' MOM
  • Jaime Pressly (My Name is Earl, Jennifer Falls) has booked a major recurring role on the comedy's second season. She will play a newly sober woman who Christy (Anna Faris) tries to help but at times can be more than she can handle. Additionally, Kevin Pollak is set to reprise his role of Alvin, Christy's father, in multiple episodes of the new season.
THE CW's THE FLASH
  • Prison Break alum Wentworth Miller will appear on the Arrow spinoff, it was announced today during the series' panel at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour. He will debut in the fourth episode as Leonard Snart, aka Captain Cold.
SHOWTIME's HOMELAND
  • The 12-episode fourth season of the hit drama will premiere on Sunday, October 5 at 9/8c. Series regulars for the new season are Claire Danes, Rupert Friend, Tracy Letts, Nazanin Boniadi, Laila Robins and Mandy Patinkin.
SHOWTIME's THE AFFAIR
  • The 10-episode first season of the new drama will premiere on Sunday, October 19 at 10/9c. Series regulars are Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney and Joshua Jackson.