Friday, December 5, 2014

Casting News - 'Dexter' & 'The Bridge' Vets Join 'True Detective'; 'Marry Me' Adds Ana Ortiz; Plus 4 More Updates!

Casting News - December 5, 2014

ABC Family's Melissa & Joey; BBC America's The Musketeers; HBO's True Detective; NBC's Marry Me; Starz's Blunt Talk; and TNT's Major Crimes.





HBO's TRUE DETECTIVE
  • CS Lee (Dexter), Emily Rios (The Bridge), Ronnie Gene Blevins and Timothy V. Murphy will appear on the upcoming second season of the anthology drama. Lee will play Richard Geldof, a state attorney general with grand political ambitions. Rios will play Gabby Behenna, traumatized by life in a traumatic family. Blevins will play a long-standing company man to Frank (Vince Vaughn). Murphy will play Osip Agranov, a Russian gangster.
STARZ's BLUNT TALK
  • Timm Sharp (Enlightened) will co-star on the upcoming comedy series starring Patrick Stewart. He will play Jim, the head writer for Walter Blunt's (Stewart) show. He is wildly smart, combustible and deeply insecure. He's single but always on the make. He has strange hobbies, passions, is a hoarder and isn't afraid to stand up to Walter but is prone to crumbling quickly.
BBC AMERICA's THE MUSKETEERS
  • The action adventure series will return for its second season on Saturday, January 17 at 9/8c.
NBC's MARRY ME
  • Ana Ortiz (Devious Maids, Ugly Betty) will appear in a recurring role on the comedy's first season. She will play Hailey, a sexy, quippy new love interest for Kay (Tymberlee Hill) who can hold her own with the rest of the gang.
TNT's MAJOR CRIMES
  • Annie Potts (Designing Women) will guest star on the third season finale of the hit drama. She will play Clarissa Fields, an astrologer to the stars who treats her field as a science who will help the Major Crimes unit reverse engineer a decade of murders.
ABC FAMILY's MELISSA & JOEY
  • Brian Baumgartner (The Office) will guest star in the fourth episode of the comedy's upcoming fourth season. He will play Hank, a campaign investor who considers helping Mel (Melissa Joan Hart) run for Congress but has second thoughts once he meets Joe (Joey Lawrence).