Casting: Looking, New Girl, more

Returning Series

Looking (HBO): The 30-minute comedy-drama about a group of gay friends looking for love in San Francisco has added a couple of love interests for the upcoming second season. Chris Perfetti (Crossbones) will play Brady, a writer for for a San Francisco weekly paper. Bashir Salahuddin will play Malik, a politically active climber within the mayor’s office. Looking will return in 2015 (TV Line).

New Girl (Fox): Once Upon a Time‘s Julian Morris will be featured in a “multi-episode arc” during season 4 of the Zooey Deschanel sitcom. He’ll play Ryan, the new teach who replaces Deschanel’s Jess now that she’s been promoted to vice principal (coughcoughloveinterestcough) (EW).

Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family): Miranda Mayo (The Game) joins the cast of the mystery-thriller as new Rosewood resident Talia, a chef who butts heads with Emily (Shay Mitchell). The second half of Season 5 of Pretty Little Liars begins in December (Deadline).

New Series

Selfie (ABC): Samm Levine (Freaks and Geeks, Do No Harm) has been added to the cast of the new sitcom starring John Cho (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Star Trek) and Karen Gillan (Doctor Who). In a take on Pygmalion/My Fair Lady, Gillan plays Eliza Dooley (get it?) who hires Cho’s Henry Higenbottam (facepalm) to remake her social media image. Levine will play Terrance, an employee at Henry’s firm who is the son-in-law of the company’s owner. While the series debuts on September 30, the pilot is available online through ABC as of this writing (Deadline).

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