CBS' Training Day; FOX's Pitch; Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale; and Netflix's Alias Grace & Dear White People.
NETFLIX's DEAR WHITE PEOPLE
- Nia Jervier (Step Sisters) and Wyatt Nash (Pretty Little Liars) have been cast in recurring roles on the upcoming comedy from Justin Simien. Jervier will play Kelsey, a bubbly college student genuinely surprised that racism is still a thing. Nash will play Kurt Fletcher, the editor of the campus humor magazine and son of the college president.
NETFLIX's ALIAS GRACE
- David Cronenberg, Edward Holcroft, Kerr Logan, Rebecca Liddiard and Paul Gross have joined the cast of the upcoming limited series starring Sarah Gadon and Anna Paquin. No details were immediately released about any of the characters they will be playing.
FOX's PITCH
- Kevin Connolly (Entourage) has landed a recurring role on the upcoming drama starring Kylie Bunbury. He will play Charlie Graham, the San Diego Padres' interim president of operations. He's a former Silicon Valley executive who takes a cutthroat bottom line approach to the baseball business.
HULU's THE HANDMAID'S TALE
- O-T Fagbenle (The Interceptor, The Five) has booked a series regular role on the upcoming drama starring Elisabeth Moss. He will play Luke, Offred's (Moss) husband from the world before Gilead, and father to their daughter Hannah.
CBS' TRAINING DAY
- Emma Caulfield (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Brian Van Holt (Cougar Town) will appear in an upcoming episode of the midseason drama. Caulfield will play Lauren, a warm, sympathetic single mom who spent the last nine years raising her young daughter alone and in hiding after her husband (Van Holt) went to jail for killing a man in self defense. When a natural disaster forces her out into the open, her husband must brea out of prison in order to save their lives.
