Hey All,
Here are the news items for the past week:
CASTING NEWS
Actor Denis Leary (Rescue Me) has landed a recurring role on Animal Kingdom where he will play Billy, Deran’s (Jake Weary) drifter dad whom Smurf (Ellen Barkin) kicked out years ago. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Legendary Patti LaBelle will recur on OWN’s Greenleaf as Maxine Patterson, a famous Christian motivational speaker and CEO of a global Christian self-help empire. She is an old friend of Mae (Lynn Whitfield) from college days. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)
New cast members have been added to the second season of the Netflix drama Marvel’s The Punisher. Actor Josh Stewart (Shooter) and actress Floriana Lima (Supergirl) will play – respectively – John Pilgrim, a man whose calm exterior belies a ruthless interior, and Krista Dumont, a smart, compassionate, and driven psychotherapist for military veterans. (The Futon Critic)
Actress Mercedes Mason (Fear the Walking Dead) has landed a series regular role in the straight to series crime drama The Rookie that will star Nathan Fillion (Castle). She will play Capt. Zoe Andersen, John Nolan’s (Fillion) confident and irreverent commanding officer. (Deadline)
Actress Dana Delany (Body of Proof and China Beach) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Bull, playing AUSA (Assistant United States Attorney) Banner, a federal prosecutor who is bound and determined to imprison a young mother/physician who illegally purchased thousands of vials of marijuana-derived CBD oil to treat her patients in Virginia, where the oil is illegal. (TV Line)
Breakout actress Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) has landed a role alongside Elizabeth Olson (the Avengers franchise) in the Facebook watch series Sorry for Your Loss, a dark comedy that will explore the life of young widow Leigh Gibbs (Olsen) as she deals with the grief of losing her husband while reconnecting with relationships of her past. Tran will star as Jules, Leigh’s younger sister. (Variety)
Actor Brett Tucker (Mistresses) has landed a multi-episode arc in the upcoming ABC Grey’s Anatomy spin-off Station 19 that will follow a group of heroic firefighters. Tucker will play a character named Ripley, but no other character details have been revealed. (Deadline)
Actress Elena Kampouris (Before I Fall and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2) and actors Kevin Carroll (The Leftovers) and Ryan Robbins (Sanctuary) have been cast in lead roles in the half-hour drama Sacred Lies (the working title), a 10-episode series based on the classic Grimm Brothers tale The Handless Maiden and Stephanie Oakes’ novel The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly. The series is about a handless teen who escapes from a cult and finds herself in juvenile detention, suspected of knowing who killed her cult leader. Kampouris will play Minnow Bly, the lead character. Carroll will portray Dr. Wilson, Minnow’s mental health coordinator. And, Robbins will play Samuel Bly, Minnow’s father. (Deadline)
RENEWAL NEWS
The Magicians have been renewed for a fourth season by Syfy. (Variety)
MOVIE CASTING NEWS
Actress Gemma Chan (Humans) will star alongside Brie Larson in the latest Marvel superhero movie Captain Marvel. Chan will play, Minn-Erva (aka Doctor Minerva) a Kree geneticist and spy. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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