Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Casting News - 'Sleepy Hollow' Casts Abbie & Jenny's Mom; ABC Family Cancels 'Twisted' After One Season; Plus 5 More Updates!

Casting News - August 13, 2014

ABC's Astronaut Wives Club & Scandal; ABC Family's Twisted; CBS' Criminal Minds & Scorpion; FOX's Sleepy Hollow; and Syfy's Helix.





ABC's SCANDAL
  • Mary McCormack (In Plain Sight) and Josh Randall (Ed) will appear in an early Season 3 of the hit drama. They will play a power couple. All further details on their story are being kept under wraps.
CBS' CRIMINAL MINDS
  • Alicia Coppola (Jericho) will guest on the fourth episode of the drama's upcoming tenth season. She will play Lisa Randall, the head of a Morgellons syndrome support group who will go to any lengths to ensure her group members privacy.
SYFY's HELIX
  • Steven Weber (Murder in the First, Chasing Life) has joined the second season of the drama in a major recurring role. Weber will play Brother Michael, the charismatic leader of a cult on a mysterious island, a brilliant speaker and sermonizer and also a first class geneticist.
CBS' SCORPION
  • Mykelti Williamson (Justified) will guest star on an upcoming episode of the new drama. He will play General Ned Walker, a hard-edged, lifelong soldier in command of the military-controlled Montero Nuclear Reactor, which comes under threat.
FOX's SLEEPY HOLLOW
  • Aunjanue Ellis (The Mentalist, The Book of Negroes) has been tapped to play Lori Mills, the late mother of Abbie (Nicole Beharie) and Jenny (Lyndie Greenwood), on the hit drama. Due to Lori's mental issues, Abbie and Jenny were both taken from her and made wards of the state, ending up in the foster care. They believed she committed suicide 16 years ago but they will the real truth about their mother when new information surfaces.
ABC FAMILY's TWISTED
  • ABC Family has officially canceled the mystery drama after one season. Its final episode aired on April 1, 2014. The drama starred Avan Jogia (who has already moved on to Spike's Tut miniseries), Kylie Bunbury, Maddie Hasson, Ashton Moio, Denise Richards, Kimberly Quinn and Sam Robards.
ABC's ASTRONAUT WIVES CLUB
  • Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig has been tapped to replace Nick Cassavetes as director for the first episode of the midseason period drama. Cassavetes was originally set to helm the first hour but following the series' move from summer to midseason his schedule couldn't accommodate the production.