Flight of the Conchords co-star Jemaine Clement has signed on to the forthcoming Marvel series Legion on FX. Showrunner Noah Hawley made the announcement this weekend during New York Comic-Con.
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New York Comic Con received a big surprise this weekend when The Defenders team arrived on the scene with Sigourney Weaver, announcing the Alien star had been cast as the villain of the first season. Marvel-Netflix also revealed that Daredevil star Deborah Ann Woll would be joining the spinoff The Punisher series.
Lee Daniels and Tom Donaghy’s forthcoming musical drama Star has tapped Tyrese Gibson for a recurring role in the Fox series. He will join a cast that includes Queen Latifah, Benjamin Bratt and Nicholas Gonzalez.
BBC and Endemol Shine Group-owned Kudos are in talks with Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington to star in the drama series Gunpowder inspired by Guy Fawkes.
Cameron Cuffe has been cast as the male lead in the Syfy Superman prequel series Krypton. Cuffe will play Superman’s grandfather, Seg-El, in the series based on the DC Comics characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
Academy Award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend is set to appear on the second season of Underground on WGN America. Legend, who also serves as executive producer of the show, is set to play iconic abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
Two Brothers Pictures’ Liar has tapped Joanne Froggatt and Ioan Gruffudd to star in six-part thriller set to bow on Sundance TV and ITV in the UK.
Lee Daniels has booked Naomi Campbell for a recurring role on the upcoming Fox series Star. Campbell previously did a stint on Daniels’s hit Fox series Empire.
Keanu star Nia Long boards Netflix’s adaptation of Justin Simien’s satire Dear White People while Tiffany Hines and Bailey Chase board Fox’s reboot 24: Legacy.
Executive producer Lorne Michaels has booked Alec Baldwin to portray Republican nominee Donald Trump on the upcoming season of Saturday Night Live. The show is set to make its season premiere this week.
Jennifer Lopez will serve as executive producer and judge on the upcoming World of Dance and Jennifer Beals is teaming with Kenny Ortega and James Larosa for a dance drama on Fox.
Spike Lee’s Netflix adaptation of his film She’s Gotta Have It has tapped Hamilton star Anthony Ramos as one of the male leads. The streaming giant recently gave a 10-episode order for the small-screen version of the 1986 indie classic.
Cable drama pilot The Sinner has landed Bill Pullman. He joins previously cast Jessica Biel in the USA Network project.
The Good Wife star Alan Cumming is looking to continue his relationship with CBS for the new crime drama Dr. Death. Based on the upcoming book by James Patterson, the series is currently in development with Cumming set to star and executive produce alongside Michael Rauch and Alex Kurtzman.
YouTube star Lilly Singh has booked a guest starring role on CBS family comedy Life in Pieces. She will play a talkative babysitter hired by Colin Hanks and Zoe Lister-Jones’s characters.
Vice Principals star Walton Goggins has landed the starring role in Keeping It Real, a new dark comedy currently in development at Showtime with a commitment from the network. CBS TV Studios and Timberman/Beverly are also working on the show
Dark comedy My So Called Wife on Bravo has landed Uma Thurman in a recurring role. The series hails from Universal Cable Productions and executive producers Adam Brooks and Paul Adelstein.
Black Sails actor Toby Stephens has boarded the Netflix reboot of Lost in Space based on the 1965 cult classic TV series from Irwin Allen. Stephens joins Taylor Russell and Maxwell Jenkins in the series written and produced by Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama.
The newly minted Emmy-winning Netflix comedy Master of None has landed Academy Award-nominated actress Angela Bassett for season two. Bassett, along with series co-creator, Aziz Ansari, dreamed up an ideal role for her to test her comedy skills.
With Ewan McGregor tapped to play a pair of twin brothers and Carrie Coon signed on as the police chief, the cast for Season 3 of Fargo is already shaping up well. Now the series has added another big name: Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a lead character named Nikki Swango.
Broadway performer Ben Vereen is joining Fox comedy Making History in a recurring role. The series stars Adam Pally, Yassir Lester, and Leighton Meester, and was created by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
Fox drama series Pitch has booked Rita Wilson and Lyndsy Fonseca for guest starring roles. The series was created by Dan Fogelman and follows the first female to play in the major leagues.
Emmy-winner Tony Shalhoub has been cast in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the Amazon drama pilot starring House of Cards actor Rachel Brosnahan. The series is written and created by Gilmore Girls scribe Amy Sherman-Palladino.
Fox horror-comedy Scream Queens continues to mine television stars of the past and present with the addition of Cheers star Kirstie Alley. She joins other new regulars including John Stamos, Taylor Lautner, and James Earl.
AMC has booked Tobias Menzies to lead their new anthology drama The Terror based on the novel by Dan Simmons. The 10-episode first season is due out next year.
The former Game of Thrones actor Richard Madden has had no lack of roles after leaving Westeros. His newest one is the lead in Strange New Things, a brand new sci-fi series in development at Amazon and based on Michael Faber’s 2014 novel The Book of Strange New Things.
Oscar-winner Meryl Streep is heading to the small screen to star and produce The Nix, a limited series from WBTV and JJ Abrams. Abrams produces through his Bad Robot production company and will likely direct a portion of the series.
USA Network has given a pilot order to The Sinner, a new crime thriller series, which actor Jessica Biel is set to star in, as well as executive produce. The series is based on the best-selling book of the same name by Petra Hammesfahr.
Lifetime has greenlit the romantic comedy The 10th Date. The project features a large ensemble cast that includes Kelly Rowland, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Cat Deeley, Keri Hilson, Kellee Stewart, Brandon T. Jackson, and Meagan Good.
The 1988 cult classic Heathers is getting the small screen treatment with Sleeping with Other People director Leslye Headland at the helm — but it will be taking a slightly different route from the original.
