ABC
Nick Jonas has landed a role in the freshman comedy LAST MAN STANDING. He will play Ryan, the oft-mentioned deadbeat dad of Mike’s young grandson. Yeah, you read that correctly: a Jonas Brother playing a dad on television. Jonas will appear in the series’ christmas episode.
BBC
TOP OF THE LAKE, the new series from out friends across the pond, continues to heat up only a week after “Mad Men” thesp Elisabeth Moss landed the lead in the series. Now, Holly Hunter, David Wenham and Peter Mullan will also be joining her in the new drama from “The King’s Speech” Producers Emile Sherman and Iain Canning.
FOX
Jeffrey Wright will join the cast of HOUSE in 2012 as a renowned neurosurgeon who will go head-to-head with Hugh Laurie’s character.
CBS
Miguel Ferrer has landed on the cast of NCIS: LA in a recurring role. He will play NCIS Assistant Director Allan Granger, a high-ranking federal agency supervisor.
Mimi Rogers has landed the role of Walden Schmidt’s (Ashton Kutcher) mother on TWO AND A HALF MEN. She will appear in at least two episodes.
SHOWTIME
Joel Grey has landed a recurring role on the fourth season of dramedy NURSE JACKIE.
TNT
“24” thesp Carlos Bernard has landed a recurring role on the networks upcoming reboot of DALLAS. Bernard will play a charming businessman from Venezuela who comes to town to sort out a deal with Larry Hagman’s J.R. Ewing.
Jane Seymour will join the cast of the legal dramedy FRANKLIN & BASH as Peter Bash’s mother. Robocop himself, Peter Weller has landed a guest-star role as a reclusive rock star whose estranged son is being evicted from a Hollywood music club he created. Beau Bridges will also appear in the same episode as Weller.
