Monday, August 4, 2014

Casting News - Natalie Zea Books Lead on 'Members Only'; 'Arrow' Adds 'Medium' Vet as New Villain; Plus 5 More Updates!

Casting News - August 4, 2014

ABC's GalavantThe Goldbergs & Members Only; Comedy Central's Brickleberry, Key & Peele & South Park; The CW's Arrow; FOX's Backstrom; and TBS' Ground Floor.




COMEDY CENTRAL's SOUTH PARK, BRICKLEBERRY and KEY & PEELE
  • Comedy Central has set premiere dates for its upcoming fall comedies: Brickleberry will return for Season 3 on Tuesday, September 16 at 10:30/9:30c. while new seasons of South Park and Key & Peele will debut on Wednesday, September 24 at 10/9c. and 10:30/9:30c. respectively.
ABC's GALAVANT
  • Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville has been tapped for a guest starring role on the midseason musical comedy. He will play Peter the Pillager, a pirate king who Galavant (Joshua Sasse) encounters on his journey.
ABC's THE GOLDBERGS
  • David Spade (Rules of Engagement) will guest star in an early Season 2 episode of the 1980s comedy. He will play a shifty guy who works at the local photo shop who also has a side business making fake IDs for local teenagers.
FOX's BACKSTROM
  • Eddie McClintock (Warehouse 13) will appear in an upcoming episode of the midseason drama starring Rainn Wilson. He will play Lieutenant Sam D'Agostino, Backstrom's (Wilson) childhood bully who's now a firefighter but who Backstrom still believes is the same worthless bit of slime he always was.
TBS' GROUND FLOOR
  • Stand-up comic and writer Emily Heller has booked a recurring role on the comedy's upcoming second season. She will play Lindsay, a cute and socially awkward girl from the same small town as Jenny (Briga Heelan) who just got hired as an associated upstairs at Remington Trust.
ABC's MEMBERS ONLY
  • Natalie Zea (The Following, Justified) is set as lead on the upcoming drama series that also stars Betsy Brandt and Boris Kodjoe.  She will play Mickey, a beautiful, pedigreed and well-educated woman of society who is also the most together member of the club's founding family.
  • Additionally, R.J. Cutler (Nashville, If I Stay) has joined the straight-to-series project as director.
THE CW's ARROW
  • David Cubitt (Medium) has booked a guest role on the drama's upcoming third season. He will play Mark Shaw, an A.R.G.U.S. operative in Corto Maltese who crosses paths with Diggle (David Ramsey).