Casting News - January 13, 2015
ABC's black-ish; AMC's Turn: Washington's Spies; CBS' CSI; FOX's Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Gotham & Red Band Society; MTV's Shannara; NBC's The Blacklist, Hannibal & The Mysteries of Laura; Showtime's Twin Peaks; and Yahoo Screen's Community.
FOX's GOTHAM
- Shameless star Cameron Monaghan will appear in an upcoming episode of the hit drama's first season. He will play Jerome, who works in the circus and will cross paths with the Gotham Police Department in the middle of a murder investigation.
SHOWTIME's TWIN PEAKS
- Kyle MacLachlan has officially signed on to reprise his role as Special Agent Dale Cooper on the upcoming revival of the cult drama - 25 years after its series finale.
CBS' CSI
- Eric Roberts will reprise his role as Brother Daniel Larson in the procedural's upcoming fifteenth season finale. This will be his third appearance on the long-running drama - following spots in the Season 13 finale and Season 14 premiere.
ABC's BLACK-ISH
- Allen Maldonado (You're the Worst) has booked a recurring role on the comedy's first season. He will play Curtis, Dre's (Anthony Anderson) new assistant at work.
NBC's THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA
- The cop dramedy is staging a Will & Grace reunion later this season when Eric McCormack will guest star opposite star Debra Messing. McCormack will play Dr. Andrew Devlin, a roguish, arrogant-as-can-be heart surgeon and Laura's (Messing) one-time fiancé. When his ex-wife is murdered, Devlin becomes the lead suspect in the homicide investigation led by a highly suspicious Laura.
YAHOO SCREEN's COMMUNITY
- The 13-episode sixth season of the hit comedy will premiere on Tuesday, March 17 on the online streaming service. Two episodes will drop on the 17th, with one new episode debuting every Tuesday after that.
FOX's BROOKLYN NINE-NINE
- Bradley Whitford (The West Wing, Trophy Wife) will appear as Jake's (Andy Samberg) absent father on an upcoming episode of the comedy's second season. He will appear in at least one episode as Captain Roger Peralta, a charming regional airline pilot who has made a career out of letting Jake down. The pair are reunited for a father-son weekend in Brooklyn.
NBC's HANNIBAL
- The Hobbit's Richard Armitage has signed on to recur on the drama's third season as Francis Dolarhyde - the main villain of Thomas Harris' Red Dragon book on which the series is based. Appearing in at least six episodes, the hulking Dolarhyde is a serial killer with a penchant for targeting entire households for slaughter.
AMC's TURN: WASHINGTON'S SPIES
- Gentry White (Kingdom) has booked a recurring role on the drama's upcoming second season. He will play Billy Lee, a young slave from Virginia who was educated by George Washington (Ian Kahn) and now serves as his right hand man, household servant and valet.
FOX's RED BAND SOCIETY
- FOX has decided to schedule the final three episodes of the hospital drama's first season on Saturday, January 31 at 9/8c. and then two back-to-back episodes on Saturday, February 7 at 8/7c.
NBC's THE BLACKLIST
- David Strathairn (Alphas), Janel Moloney (The West Wing) and Gloria Reuben (ER) will guest star on the drama's upcoming two-part Super Bowl episode. Strathairn will play The Director, the high-powered and secretive leader of the US National Clandestine Service. Moloney will play Kat Goodson, the elegant, self-confident and cold liaison to the Director of NCS. Reuben will play Dr. Selma Orchard, an expert at retrieving subconscious memories whose services are requested by the episode's big bad, Luther Braxton (Ron Perlman).
MTV's SHANNARA
- John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings) has joined the cast of the upcoming drama starring Poppy Drayton. He will play King Eventine, Amberle's (Drayton) grandfather, who has ruled the Elvin kingdom of Arborlon for decades, flanked by his sons Arion and Ander. Eventine has done questionable things to keep the Four Lands at peace, but when his beloved granddaughter is chosen to fulfill a dangerous destiny, his path is changed as well.
