Christine Lahti

Sydney Poitier, Shea Whigham, Hong Chau, and Jeremy Allen White are joing Julia Roberts-starrer Homecoming and Netflix’s second season of American Vandal has set its two leading men. All this and more on today’s TV casting round-up.

Community alum Yvette Nicole Brown has boarded the untitled Mayor City comedy, Oscar-winner Timothy Hutton has joined Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, and Nia Long is set to star in The Goldbergs spinoff.

“Chicago Hope” actress joins cast of Paul Dalio drama.

A round-up of the week’s TV casting news!

“Obsessed” thesp joins comedy.

Thesp to star in coming-of-age drama.

Logline: A rapper and a poet, both with bipolar disorder, meet in a hospital and begin a romance that forces them to balance their sanity with their love.

Logline: When their father elopes with a cocktail waitress, an uptight New Yorker and his party girl sister go to a lake house to meet their new step family and hear their dad’s big announcement. But the steps — and the announcement — are not what they expected.

Dawson makes his TV return for ABC’s “Bitch”, Michael Emerson signs on for another JJ Abrams project, NBC finalizes a deal for the next Wonder Woman, and another nine land starring roles as pilot season rages on.

Logline: A man falls into a homosexual relationship with a married man, while his parents–both therapists–deal with growing tired of each other, and his siblings deal with sexual neuroses of their own.

Logline: When a washed-up high school quarterback is sent back in time he gets the opportunity to replay his final game. Will he avoid the injury that ended his promising career or will he choose the route that lead to his small town life?

Logline: While working at a truck stop, a teenager with cerebral palsy befriends a troubled prostitute, and together they find the strength they need to confront their obstacles.

Logline: A nanny is hired to care for a teenage girl whose mother has just died. Complications arise when the nanny falls in love with the teen’s ailing father.