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LAW & ORDER: SVU
Brad Garrett has been tapped for a guest starring role in the two-part season finale of Law & Order: SVU this season, while Bella Heathcote has joined Amazon’s hit series The Man In The High Castle.
A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!
A recap of the week’s TV news!
A recap of the week’s TV news!
A mid-day recap of today’s TV casting news!
9 Networks… 15 Shows… 25 Actors… All TV.
Comedy Central Goes to the web for new laughs, TV Land readies another original series, while CMT kills one, Law & Order: SVU adds a showrunner, and Aaron Sorkin adds another piece to his cable series on HBO.
7 Networks – 19 Shows – 27 Actors…
18 shows cast 21 stars, as Marcia Gay Harden shows up to Smother, Jim Caviezel signs on to star in a project from JJ Abrams and Jonah Nolan, Anjelica Huston is the latest to star in a Spielberg effort, 17th Precincnt adds yet another Battlestar alum, while Wonder Woman snags a friend, and John Stamos lands on a Law & Order run.
As more new shows seem to continue towards looming cancellations, lots of stars begin to abandon ship in hopes of landing a pilot that goes!
Lots and lots of casting news. A few tidbits… FX superhero pilot cast a Battlestar Alum – Bibb set to become a Good Christian Bitch, A Twilight castaway (and current network series star) lands the lead in a new pilot about The Crossing, A King joins Rachel Bilson in Dixie, Two Rescue Me alums adds new shows to their resumes with USA’s Over/Under and HBO’s Boardwalk Empire… and lots more inside.
A&E Adds Two More To Big Mike, ABC Helps Two Find Their Identity, CBS Adds Riggle To Another Pilot, CW Brings Lex Back For Smallville, FOX Adds A List Of Familiar Faces, And NBC Adds Two For The Coppers, And One For The Music!
ABC fills roles big and smalle in No Ordinary Family, Grey’s Anatomy and Charlie’s Angels, while HBO adds an Arrested Development veteran to VEEP, NBC adds Will Ferrell, Whitney Cummings, and a Housewife, TBS adds a trio to Hound Dogs, Newman tackles a new pilot for TV Land, and Common Law adds some McGee… Jack, that is.
NBC adds a TV juggernaut for sweeps, and Starz continues to build a hell of a roster for their crossover with Torchwood.
CBS taps a brotherly figure for Scott Caan, Danni Lowinski finds a co-star, three more are sentenced to Alcatraz, a famous TV cop returns to another series as a TV cop, and one more readies to become a Bird Dog.
CBS ups one, and asks another to stay, Comedy Central gives another guy a shot with his name in the show, and NBC snags a little Irons… Jeremy Irons, that is.
Torchwood finds a female lead, Bob Newhart returns to TV, Fox adds a new face to a new pilot, HBO adds a familiar face to a new pilot, NBC adds a Soprano to SVU, and TV Land signs a roster of guest stars for Hot In Cleveland.
ABC gets back into the Nicole Richie game, IFC adds a few leads to their new slate, Lifetime loads up their new TV film, NBC adds one to L&O: SVU and 1 to Community, and TNT adds 3 to two new pilots in development.
Melissa Sagemiller is replacing Paula Patton as the new ADA on LAW & ORDER: SVU. Patton was recently tapped to play the lead female role in MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 4 and was amicably released to pursue the high profile role.