AMC's The Walking Dead; BET's Rebel; CBS' Ransom; FOX's Sleepy Hollow; Hulu's Harlots; NBC's The Blacklist: Redemption & Chicago Justice; and Syfy's Blood Drive.
AMC's THE WALKING DEAD
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Tom Payne, Austin Amelio and Xander Berkeley have been promoted to series regular for the drama's upcoming seventh season. All four actors appeared in a guest or recurring capacity on the sixth season. Morgan plays Negan, the leader of the Saviors who played a crucial role in the season-ending cliffhanger. Payne plays Jesus, a survivor from the Hilltop helping Rick (Andrew Lincoln) in his war with the Saviors. Amelio plays Dwight, a badly burned member of the Saviors and antagonist to Daryl (Norman Reedus). Berkeley plays Gregory, the leader of the Hilltop Colony who clashes with Maggie (Lauren Cohan).
NBC's CHICAGO JUSTICE
- After appearing in the backdoor pilot earlier this year, Nazneen Contractor has departed the cast of the upcoming midseason drama - the latest spinoff in Dick Wolf's Chicago franchise. She has left the cast in order to take a role on CBS' upcoming drama Ramsom (more details below).
CBS' RANSOM
- Sarah Greene (Penny Dreadful), Brandon Jay McLaren (Graceland) and Nazneen Contractor have joined the cast of the upcoming drama starring Luke Roberts. Greene will play Maxine Carlson, a young newcomer eager to prove herself. McLaren will play Oliver Yates, a psychological profiler. Contractor will play Zara Hallam, an ex-cop.
SYFY's BLOOD DRIVE
- Falling Skies alum Colin Cunningham has been cast on the upcoming drama starring Alan Ritchson and Christina Ochoa. He will play Slink, he nastiest creature you'll ever dread to meet, created from an ether of pure corruption and sin. Ever the showman, Slink soaks up the spotlight as the mastermind of Blood Drive, an underground death race in which the cars run on human blood.
FOX's SLEEPY HOLLOW
- Lance Gross and Jessica Camacho will not return to the drama as series regulars for its upcoming fourth season. Both joined the show during its third season as FBI agents Daniel Reynolds and Sophie Foster, respectively. Their departures mean that Tom Mison and Lyndie Greenwood will be the only series regulars returning for the new season - which is currently casting five new characters and plotting a shift in setting from Sleepy Hollow to Washington, D.C.
NBC's THE BLACKLIST: REDEMPTION
- Adrian Martinez (iCreep) has booked a series regular role on the upcoming spinoff of the hit drama The Blacklist. He will play Dumont, an extremely capable computer hacker with an exotic air who keeps his boss apprised of their enemies' movements.
HULU's HARLOTS
- Eloise Smyth (Fortitude) will co-star on the upcoming drama starring Samantha Morton and Jessica Brown Findlay. She will play Lucy Wells, Margaret's (Morton) daughter and Charlotte's (Findlay) sister.
BET's REBEL
- Angel Parker (The People v. O.J. Simpson) has joined the cast of the upcoming drama created by John Singleton. She will play Stella Parker, Rebel's (Danielle Moné Truitt) union-appointed attorney who tries to do her best when Internal Affairs is tasked with investigating Rebel's shooting of another officer.
