Amazon's Overcompensating & Young Sherlock; AppleTV+'s Margo's Got Money Troubles; CBS' Tracker; Disney+'s Percy Jackson and the Olympians; HBO's Lanterns; MGM+'s The Institute; Netflix's Virgin River; and Starz's Spartacus: House of Ashur.
DISNEY+'s PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS
- Tamara Smart has been cast in a recurring role on the drama's upcoming second season. She previously starred for one season in Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid of the Dark? and in Netflix's one-season drama Resident Evil.
- She will play Thalia Grace, the Demigod daughter of Zeus who made her last stand to protect her friends at the edge of Camp Half-Blood. Rather than let her die, Zeus transformed her into a tree that anchors the force field that protects camp. Tough and prickly, with a rebel/punk sensibility, Thalia is fiercely loyal to her friends and distrustful of her father's world.
MGM+'s THE INSTITUTE
- Joe Freeman, Fionn Laird, Hannah Galway, Julian Richings, Robert Joy, Viggo Hanvelt, Arlen So, Birva Pandya, Dan Beirne, Martin Roach and Jane Luk have joined the cast of the upcoming drama starring Mary-Louise Parker and Ben Barnes.
- Freeman (Doctors) will play Luke Ellis, a 14-year-old genius who happens also to be mildly telekenetic. He finds himself snatched from his bedroom and plunged into the depths of The Institute, a shadowy organization that has been kidnapping children with psychic ability and using them for some unknown purpose. The Institute doesn't care at all about Luke's intellect (or his gentle kindness and good humor), but it will be those qualities that help him survive.
- Laird (Under the Banner of Heaven) will play Nick, The Institute's resident bad-boy rebel.
- Galway (Sex/Life) will play Wendy, a police officer and lifelong resident in the town where Tim (Barnes) is night knocking.
- Richings (Patriot, The Umbrella Academy) will play Stackhouse, The Institute's calculating head of security.
- Joy (CSI: NY, Julia) will play Hendricks, the doctor in charge of The Institute's scientific work.
- Hanvelt (Plan B, Three Pines) will play Avery, the youngest, most innocent and by far the most powerful of The Institute's inmates.
- So (Something Rotten) will play George, The Institute's class clown.
- Pandya (Northern Rescue, The Umbrella Academy) will play Iris, one of the first kids Luke meets when he arrives at The Institute.
- Beirne (Ginny & Georgia, One More Time) will play Drew, a police officer in the department Tim works for.
- Roach (Locke & Key, See) will play Ashworth, Tim's boss and the small-town Chief of Police.
- Luk (Chateau Laurier, Streams Flow From a River) will play Maureen, an orderly at The Institute with a tragic past.
AMAZON's YOUNG SHERLOCK
- Max Irons is set as a series regular on the upcoming drama starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Joseph Fiennes, Natascha McElhone and Colin Firth. He previously starred for two seasons in Audience/Epix's Condor, in the BBC One limited series The White Queen and in the Lifetime limited series Flowers in the Attic: The Origin.
- He will play Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's (Fiennes Tiffin) older brother.
AMAZON's OVERCOMPENSATING
- Connie Britton, Kyle MacLachlan, Kaia Gerber, Julia Shiplett, Tommy Do, Alexandra Beaton, Claire Qute, Elias Azimi and Maddie Phillips will co-star on the upcoming comedy created by and starring Benito Skinner.
- Britton (Friday Night Lights, Nashville) will play Kathryn, Benny's (Skinner) helicopter mom and struggling empty nester.
- MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Fallout) will play John, Benny's overbearing dad who can't seem to move on from Benny's high school glory days.
- Gerber (Palm Royale, American Horror Story: Double Feature) will play Esther, one of the terrifying and untouchable co-heads of rush for the elite Yates University secret society Flesh & Gold.
- Shiplett (Love Life, Crashing) will play Mimi, Grace's (Mary Beth Barone) queer, free spirit former friend.
- Do (Hacks, Miracle Workers) will play Kevin, a Yates University freshman orientation counselor who takes his role very seriously.
- Beaton (The Next Step, Ride) will play Bridget, Esther's Flesh & Gold rush co-head who takes great pleasure in running the show.
- Qute (The Detail, Workin' Moms) will play Sloan, a former horse girl and current preppy, posh Yates student.
- Azimi (The Death of a Malevolent Being) will play Chris, an overly confident Yates freshman trying to be the perfect version of a college frat bro.
- Phillips (Gen V, Teenage Bounty Hunters) will play Gigi, a freshman party girl who is down for anything.
NETFLIX's VIRGIN RIVER
- Jessica Rothe and Callum Kerr will appear in recurring roles on the drama's upcoming sixth season. Rothe stars in the Happy Death Day film franchise as well as Netflix's upcoming drama Pulse. Kerr starred for two years in the British soap opera Hollyoaks and appears in the upcoming second season of Netflix's One Piece.
- Rothe will play Sarah, Mel's (Alexandra Breckenridge) late mother as seen in flashbacks set in or around 1972. She is a witty, free spirit from the big city with an ardent passion for activism, and trying to avoid the conventional/traditional life of a young woman in the 70s. Always up for an adventure, she can't help chasing an instant spark with a handsome musician, Everett, that might just be her star-crossed soulmate.
- Kerr will play Everett, Mel's father as seen in flashbacks as well. He is a singer-songwriter with a poet's soul. One day he'll pursue his dreams of the stage, but for now, he's skimming through life in a VW Van, until a chance meeting with a beautiful hitchhiker, Sarah, may just show him there's more to life than he ever thought possible.
HBO's LANTERNS
- Kyle Chandler is in negotiations to star in the upcoming drama based on the DC Comics characters. He has received five Emmy Award nominations - winning in 2011 for his lead role in NBC's Friday Night Lights.
- He will play Hal Jordan, a legendary Green Lantern. In the series, Jordan and new recruit John Stewart are two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.
APPLE TV+'s MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES
- Michelle Pfeiffer has landed a series regular role on the upcoming drama starring Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman. Notably, this will be the first creative collaboration between the Academy Award-nominated actress and her multiple Emmy Award-winning husband, David E. Kelley, who developed the series.
- She will play Shyanne, Margo's (Fanning) mother, who had worked at Bloomingdales for the past 15 years following her six-year stint at Hooters.
CBS' TRACKER
- Floriana Lima will guest star in an upcoming episode of the drama's second season. She previously starred in the second season of The CW's Supergirl, the second season of Netflix's The Punisher and the third season of ABC's A Million Little Things. She also has a recurring role on the next season of ABC's Grey's Anatomy.
- She will play Camille Picket, Colter Shaw's (Justin Hartley) off-and-on lover for at least the past 10 years. Her sister went missing ten years ago and her case was never solved - which brings up some trauma for both Camille and Colter on every anniversary of her disappearance, but also causes them to reconnect, at least for an evening.
STARZ's SPARTACUS: HOUSE OF ASHUR
- Dan Hamill, Andrew McFarlane, Jackson Gallagher, Jaime Slater, Simon Arblaster, Arlo Gibson, Cameron Rhodes, Evander Brown, Graham Vincent, Louis Hunter, Donald Ross and Duane Wichman Evans have booked recurring roles on the upcoming Spartacus spinoff starring Nick Tarabay.
- Hamill (Love Child) will play Celadus. McFarlane (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart) will play Gabinius. Gallagher (Glitch) will play Caesar. Slater (Pacific Rim Uprising) will play Cornelia. Arblaster (Shortland Street) will play Proculus. Gibson (The Sounds) will play Opiter. Rhodes (Housebound) will play Uvidus. Brown (The Dead Lands) will play Ephesius. Vincent (My Life Is Murder) will play Hedylus. Hunter (Troy: Fall of a City) will play Erato. Ross (My Life Is Murder) will play Salvius. Evans (Shortland Street) will play Dacus.
