Thursday, July 9, 2015

Casting News - Margo Martindale Joins 'The Good Wife'; 'Doctor Who' Returns in September; Plus 5 More Updates!

Casting News - July 9, 2015

Amazon's Mad Dogs; BBC America's Doctor Who; CBS' The Good Wife & Scorpion; The CW's Reign; Hulu's The Way; and TNT's Legends.





CBS' THE GOOD WIFE
  • Emmy winner Margo Martindale (Justified, The Americans) has joined the drama's upcoming seventh season in a recurring role. She will play Willa Eastman, a top campaign operative responsible for past successes by underdog presidential candidates in Iowa who hides her intelligence and cunning under a fake, folksy charm.
HULU's THE WAY
  • Kyle Allen (One Night) has been cast as a regular on the upcoming drama starring Aaron Paul and Michelle Monaghan. He will play Hawk Cleary, Eddie (Paul) and Sarah's (Monaghan) son and a lifelong follower of The Way, a small religious sect that gains attention in a rural area after a tornado levels the town.
TNT's LEGENDS
  • Ralph Brown (Agent Carter) and Klára Issová (Crossing Lines) have joined the cast of the drama's upcoming second season. Brown will play Terrence Graves, a sophisticated, wry MI6 Intelligence Officer, but underneath the polished exterior lurks a man both personally and professionally compromised. Issová will play Ilyana Crawford, a refugee from war-torn Chechnya who will do whatever it takes to survive.
BBC AMERICA's DOCTOR WHO
  • The ninth season of the veteran drama will debut on Saturday, September 19, it was announced today during the show's panel at Comic-Con.
AMAZON's MAD DOGS
  • Relative newcomer Rachael Holmes has been cast in a recurring role on the drama's upcoming first season. She will play Erica, a friendly employee at a local pharmacy who is actually quite a force to be reckoned with.
THE CW's REIGN
  • Degrassi vet Spencer MacPherson has landed a major recurring role on the drama's upcoming third season. He will play Charles, a boy on the edge of puberty who has begun to realize that he may be the next King of France sooner than he'd imagined. This harsh realization causes him to swing back and forth between fulfilling the needs of a teenage boy and a drive to be the best ruler he can be.
CBS' SCORPION
  • The hit drama series revealed during its panel at Comic-Con today that a special 90-minute episode will air on Monday, October 26 at 9:30/8:30c. following the series premiere of Supergirl. It was additionally revealed that KISS rocker Gene Simmons will make a cameo appearance in the season premiere.