Casting

Continuing/Returning Shows

Devious Maids. Telenovela star Cristián de la Fuente has been added to the third season of Marc Cherry’s (Desperate Housewives) Lifetime comedy drama as a series regular who shares a past with one of the maids. (THR)

Upcoming Shows

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Kevin Michael Richardson (Family Guy, The Simpsons) will be taking over for Vin Diesel in voicing Groot in the Disney XD animated series based on the hit film. Richardson previously voiced the character in a 2014 episode of Marvel’s Avengers Assemble. (THR)

Outsiders. Gillian Alexy (McLeod’s Daughters) has joined the new WGN drama from producer Paul Giamatti about a power struggle among the close knit clans of Appalachia. (Deadline)

Pilots (by star)

Whoopi Goldberg. The View co-host will co-star across from comedian Jermaine Fowler (Orange is the New Black) in the ABC multi-camera comedy pilot Delores & Jermaine. She’ll play a former cop and the grandmother of Jermaine (the show is inspired by his life), a young man with a lot of ideas, but no plans. She’s got the discipline he’s got the youthful energy. You get the picture. (Deadline)

Marcia Gay Harden. The Miller’s Crossing star and Oscar winner for Pollock currently appearing on ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder has booked the CBS medical pilot Code Black based on the documentary of the same name about the busiest E.R. in LA County. She’ll play a new doctor whose life experience gives her an edge over the younger residents. (TVLine)

Josh Peck. The former Nickelodeon child star (Drake & Josh, Red Dawn) will star opposite John Stamos in the latter’s as-yet-untitled single-camera FOX comedy pilot. Stamos plays a confirmed bachelor whose lifestyle gets upended when he finds out he’s a father. Peck plays the kid. (Deadline)

Jaimie Alexander. “Lady Sif” from Thor: The Dark World and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been cast in the NBC mystery thriller pilot Blindspot as a woman who wakes up inside of a duffle bag in Times Square with no clothes, no memory and only a series of tattoos that might be clues to her predicament. (THR)

Skylar Astin. Fresh off his show Ground Floor getting cancelled, the Pitch Perfect star has landed the lead in the untitled NBA comedy pilot on ABC. He’ll play the un-basketball savvy translator for a talented Botswanan rookie who doesn’t speak English. (THR)

Continuing and Returning Shows

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights) who plays Bobbi “Mockingbird” Morse has been promoted to series regular on the ABC/Marvel joint. (TVLine)

Castle. Linda Park (Star Trek: Enterprise) will partner up with Stana Katic’s unwilling NYPD detective Kate Beckett as a “hot shot Hong Kong cop” on the ABC crime drama. (TVLine)

Nashville. Christina Aguilera has landed a multi-episode arc on ABC’s music drama as “a chart-topping pop princess” who wants to break into country music. (TVLine)

Chicago Fire. Warren Christie (Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce) has booked a recurring role with the option to become a regular on the next season of the CBS drama as a new squad member and childhood friend of Severide (Taylor Kinney). (Deadline)

Devious Maids. Nathan Owens (Days of Our Lives) has been cast as a regular in the Lifetime drama’s third season. He’ll play a military vet returned to civilian life. (Deadline)

Upcoming Shows

Casual. The Jason Reitman single-camera comedy for Hulu has cast Tommy Dewey (The Mindy Project) as the male lead next to Michaela Watkins. They’ll play a pair of dysfunctional siblings – a divorced mom and her bachelor brother is a bachelor – who move in together. (Deadline)

Apocalypse Slough. The UK series (coming to NBC) about a group of people waiting beneath the town of Slough for a comet to come and wipe everything out has added Lloyd Owen (Apollo 18) to the cast as the U.S. President. (Deadline)

Chicago Med. Law & Order’s S. Epatha Merkerson has been cast in a lead role in Dick Wolf’s Chicago Fire spinoff. She’ll play the head of the hospital where the show will take place. (Deadline)

Pilots (by star)

Zach Gilford. The Friday Night Lights actor has been cast in ABC’s untitled drama pilot from Jenna Bans, one of the producers of Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy, about the return of a politician’s son who had been missing and presumed dead for over ten years. Gilford will pay the older brother. (Deadline)

Ed Oxenbould. The star of Alexander and the Terrible Blah Blah Blah… has been cast in ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot Chev & Bev reuniting Vacation’s Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo as a pair of retired baby boomers who wind up having to raise their grandchildren. Oxenbould will play the oldest grandson. (Deadline)

Nadine Velazquez. The My Name is Earl co-star has a lead role in the NBC drama pilot Love is a Four Letter Word which “chronicles the collision of race, sexuality and gender roles when three diverse couples put modern marriage to the test.” She’ll play a Cuban American unaware that her wife is thinking about getting back with her ex-husband. (Deadline)

Daniel London. The Minority Report actor will reprise his film role as Wally the Caretaker in FOX’s pilot adaptation of Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi thriller. (Deadline)

Natalie Martinez. The Under the Dome and CSI: NY actress will play the lead opposite Will Yun Lee (Hawaii Five-O) in NBC’s mystical martial arts drama pilot Warrior set in “a grounded, contemporary multicultural and sometimes magical milieu” where “a damaged heroine works undercover with physical and spiritual guidance from a mysterious martial arts master to bring down an international crime lord.” (Deadline)

Lance Gross. The Crisis star has also joined the aforementioned NBC pilot Warrior as an Interpol agent and former Navy SEAL who aids the heroine (Natalie Martinez). (Deadline)

Vanessa Williams. The Ugly Betty vet will co-star opposite Kevin Connolly in FOX’s comedy pilot Fantasy Life about the host of a fantasy football show. She’ll play the Senior Vice President of Programming at Connolly’s sports network. (Deadline)

Annie Potts. The Designing Women/Ghostbusters alu mwill co-star in ABC’s multicamera comedy pilot Family Fortune about a North Carolina gym teacher (comedian Fortune Feimster) who comes out of the closet to her family and friends. Potts will play Feimster’s southern belle mother. (THR)

Miranda Cosgrove. The iCarly star will costar in the untitled Suzanne Martin comedy pilot for NBC about two parents hose retirement plans go sour when their two daughters move back home. Cosgrove will play the youngest daughter, a socially awkward Ph.D. in astrophysics. (THR)

Jemaine Clement. The Flight of the Conchords‘ co-star has booked a guest/recurring role in Sarah Jessica Parker’s HBO comedy pilot Divorce co-starring Thomas Haden Church and Molly Shannon. He’ll play a literature professor and friend to Parker who is going through a long divirce with Church. (Deadline)

James Franco will star in the 9-episode Hulu series adapted from Stephen King’s terrific 2011 thriller 11/22/63 from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot productions. He’ll play Jake, an English teacher who discovers a time portal and uses it to travel back in time to try to stop the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Unfortunately, he discovers that the past has a knack for staying the way it is and that he might be making things worse than they already are.

Bridge Carpenter (Friday Night Lights) is writing the screenplay and will co-produce along with Franco. Hulu greenlit the project back in September after plans for a Jonathan Demme feature film fell through.

via: TVLine

Continuing/Returning Shows

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Drea de Matteo (The Sopranos) will guest-star in an upcoming episode of ABC’s slice of the Marvel universe sometime this season as “a Gifted woman with a grudge to bear against S.H.I.E.L.D.” (TVLine)

Person of Interest. Katheryn Winnick (Vikings) will guest-star on the CBS sci-fi crime drama as “a resourceful, relentless bounty hunter who enjoys her job of chasing down bad guys perhaps a bit too much.” (TVLine)

Upcoming Shows

Criminal Minds spinoff. Daniel Henney (Revolution) has been added to the cast of the as-yet-untitled CBS spinoff starring Gary Sinise as the leader of a group of FBI agents tasked with getting US citizens out of jams in foreign countries. The show will be “seeded” into an upcoming episode of the main show sometimes this season. (Deadline)

Pilots (by star)

Eric McCormack. The Perception and Will & Grace star will co-star in the FOX comedy drama pilot Studio City as the drug dealing songwriter father of a young singer. (THR)

Rob Lowe. The West Wing, Parks and Recreation star has been cast in the FOX single-camera comedy pilot The Grinder as a TV lawyer who returns home to run his family’s law firm after his hit show ends. (TVLine)

Continuing/Returning Shows

The Americans. Emmy-winner Margo Martindale (Justified) is coming back for an episode of FX’s spy drama this season as ex-KGB supervisor Claudia. (TVLine)

Once Upon a Time. Agnes Bruckner (24, Private Practice, The Anna Nicole Story) will appear in three episodes of ABC’s fairy tale drama, but no one will say who she’s playing or when she’ll be on. (THR)

Ash v. Evil Dead. Ray Santiago (Meet the Fockers) and Dana DeLorenzo (Growing Up Fisher) have been cast in the Starz TV sequel to the cult horror trilogy as Ash’s (Bruce Campbell reprising his role from the films) sidekicks. (THR)

Pilots (by star)

Laverne Cox. The Orange is the New Black co-star has grabbed a supporting role on the CBS legal drama pilot Doubt from Grey’s Anatomy writer-executive producers Tony Phelan and Joan Rater. The show tells the story of a successful defense attorney who becomes romantically involved with a client who may or may not be a murderer. Cox will play “a transgender Ivy League-educated attorney, as competitive as she is compassionate. She’s described as fierce, funny and the fact that she’s experienced injustice first hand makes her fight all the harder for her clients.” (Wrap)

Ken Jeong. The Community co-star has had his comedy pilot Dr. Ken greenlit by ABC. He plays “a frustrated HMO doctor juggling medicine, marriage and parenting, and succeeding at none of them.” (Deadline)

Ava DuVernay. The director of the Academy Award-nominated Selma has signed on to direct CBS’ crime drama pilot For Justice about a female agent in the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division of the FBI based on James Patterson’s novel The Thomas Berryman Number. (The Wrap)

Continuing/Returning Shows

Mistresses. Jennifer Esposito has signed on to be a series regular on the ABC drama as ” an uber-fabulous and larger-than-life woman with a wicked sense of humor and style. Calista is the creative director of a luxury fashion brand and has the high-class socialite lifestyle that goes with it. A look beneath the surface reveals a lonely woman whose fun eccentricities cloak a darker, more devious nature. Calista will become Joss’ (Jes Macallan) friend, mentor and surrogate sister — drawing Joss deeper and deeper into a world of secrets and betrayal.” (THR)

Jane the Virgin. Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) will guest star on the CW’s freshman hit as “a woman who will play a vital role in Jane (Gina Rodriguez) and Rafael’s (Justin Baldoni) blossoming relationship. (Wrap)

Person of Interest. Daily Show vet Aasif Mandvi has landed a more serious role guesting on the CBS drama as a “bright but demanding” tech CEO. (THR)

Upcoming Shows

Shannara. The cast continues to grow for MTV’s series based on Terry Brooks’ book series about a magical family living thousands of years after the end of civilization. Brooke Williams (Spartacus: Blood & Sand) and Marcus Vanco (Unbroken) have joined the cast as well as “Australian soap star” Daniel MacPherson. Williams will play an elf handmaiden and best friend to Amberle (Poppy Drayton), one of the main characters. Vanco will play a man who has mysterious visions and may be “key to saving the Four Lands.” (THR)

Mr. Robinson. Meagan Good (Deception) has replaced previously cast Lenora Crichlow (A to Z) in a recurring role in NBC’s as-yet-unscheduled sitcom with Craig Robinson (The Office, Hot Tub Time Machine) as a music teacher. Good will play a Wall Street trader turned English teacher. (THR)

Continuing/Returning Shows

The Flash. Emily Kinney (The Walking Dead) has been cast in episode 18 of the CW comic book show as Brie Larvan, a female version of the villain Bertram Larvan, aka Bug-Eyed Bandit, who has built an army of mechanical insects to do bad things. (The Wrap)

Extant. Another Walking Dead veteran, David Morrissey, will join the CBS sci-fi drama Extant when it returns this summer. He’ll play the head of the Global Security Commission who just so happens to share a past with Halle Berry. (Deadline)

Bones. Linda Lavin (Alice) will guest on an upcoming episode of the David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel FOX crime drama as a criminal courts judge. (TVLine)

Forever. Cuba Gooding Jr. will play a love interest for Alana de la Garza in a multi-episode arc on the ABC fantasy-drama. (EW)

Devloping Series

Chicago Med. The potential Chicago Fire spinoff has added Yaya DaCosta (Whitney) to the cast as a nurse dating the parent series’ Taylor Kinney. The new show and its cast will be seeded in Episode 19 of this season’s Chicago Fire on CBS. (Deadline)

Upcoming Shows

Vice Principals. The great Walton Goggins (Justified) and Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire, Agent Carter) have joined the cast of Danny McBride’s HBO comedy about the inner workings of a high school. Goggins will co-star opposite McBride as one of the vice principals and Whigham will play the new husband of McBride’s ex-wife (Busy Phillips). (Deadline)

Angie Tribeca. Amy Smart (Shameless, Justified) and David Koechner (Anchor Man, The Office) will guest on the Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation) cop show spoof on TBS. Smart will play a call-girl who catches the eye of Angie’s partner played by Hayes MacArthur (Go On) and Koechner will play the police commissioner who is also the former partner of Angie’s boss played by Jere Burns (Justified). (TVLine)

Continuing/Returning Shows

Rogue. Richard Schiff (West Wing), Sara Carter (Falling Skies) and Bianca Lawson (Witches of East End) will all join the Season 3 cast of the DirecTV drama starring Thandie Newton and Cole Hauser. “Schiff will play Marty Abrams, a Chicago power broker whose law firm Ethan Kelly (played by Cole Hauser) is tasked to infiltrate, while Carter has been cast as Harper Deakins, Road To Hope Charity Eventa federal agent investigating the death of a reporter who was poking into Abrams’ business.” Lawson meanwhile will play the half-sister of the character to be played by Derek Luke as previously reported. (TVLine)

Pilots (by actor)

Adam Canto. The Following villain has joined the cast of the NBC pilot The Curse of the Fuentes Women as a man who walks out of the ocean to reinvigorate the lives of the four women of the title. (Deadline)

Colin Hanks. The Fargo (TV) co-star and spawn of Tom Hanks will co-star in the CBS comedy pilot Life in Pieces described by the source as the story of “one family told through separate stories of its different family members.” Hanks will play the youngest sibling who is about to have a child of his own. (THR)

Continuing/Returning Series

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Luke Mitchell (Tomorrow People) has been cast as an Inhuman who will help Skye (Chloe Bennet) understand her past in ABC’s Marvel show. For you non-nerds, The Inhumans go back to 1965 and the Stan Lee days of The Fantastic Four. They’re a race of superhumans created by the alien Kree (don’t ask) at the beginning of the Kree-Skrull War (also don’t ask). The mythology of the Inhumans is being developed for the Marvel flick scheduled for 2018. (THR)

New Girl. Damon Wayans Jr. has decided not to return to his role as Coach in FOX’s Zooey Deschanel sitcom next season. Fans of the show will recall he was in the pilot, but his show Happy Endings prevented him from sticking with the series. After Happy ended, he signed on to New Girl as a guest and worked his way up to regular this season. (TVLine)

Upcoming Series.

American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson. Courtney B. Vance (The Preacher’s Wife) will play Johnny Cochran in Ryan Murphy’s true crime show for FX. Previously announced cast include John Travolta as Robert Shapiro, David Schwimmer (Friends) as Robert Kardashian, Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story: Freakshow) as Marcia Clark and Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire) as O.J. Honestly, I can’t believe we’re still talking about this goddamn thing in 2015. (TV Line)

Pilots

Divorce. Thomas Haden Church (Sideways, Wings) will play the male lead opposite Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City) in HBO’s comedy pilot about… wait for it… a divorce. Molly Shannon (Saturday Night Live) and Talia Balsam (Mad Men) are also on board as Parker’s friends. (THR)

Warrior. Will Yun Lee (Hawaii Five-O) has joined NBC’s martial arts drama pilot from David DiGilio (Crossbones) . “In a grounded, contemporary multicultural and sometimes magical milieu, a damaged heroine works undercover with physical and spiritual guidance from a mysterious martial arts master to bring down an international crime lord.” He’ll play “a deadly and dangerous martial arts expert who is head of a Japanese crime syndicate where he enjoys considerable power, wealth and respect.” (Deadline)

Shaq, Inc. Meryl Hathaway (The Comeback) and Miles Fisher (Psych) will be the leads along with Shaquille O’Neal in the TruTV pilot based loosely on Shaq’s post-NBA dealings in the business world. Matty Cardarople (Selfie) and Carl Anthony Payne (Martin) are also on board. Do I have to be the first one to point out that the only thing Shaq is worse at than shooting free throws is acting? Also, what’s TruTV? (Deadline)

How We Live.Chris Klein (American Pie), Lindsay Price (Eastwick) and Jared Gertner will be the three leads in the NBC single-camera comedy pilot about a man (Klein) and his wife (Price) who move to the suburbs and he starts blogging about the lives of those around him like some kind of David Attenborough anthropologist. Did they come up with this idea in 2006? (Deadline)

Continuing/Returning Series

The Mindy Project. Mindy Kaling’s FOX sitcom is getting a visit from one of the girls from Litchfield prison: Laverne Cox. The Emmy-nominated Orange is the New Black co-star will guest in an upcoming episode as the cousin of Tamra (Xosha Roquemore). (E!)

Stalker. MIra Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) will have a recurring role in the CBS crime drama as an FBI agent who once ran the very unit central to the show. (Deadline)

Gotham. Milo Ventimiglia (Gilmore Girls, Heroes) has signed on to FOX’s DC super hero show in a recurring part as a serial killer called “The Ogre.” (THR)

Rogue. Derek Luke (Antwone Fisher, Trauma) is coming to Season 3 of DirecTV’s drama starring Thandie Newton and Cole Hauser. He’ll play a gang leader. (Deadline)

Pilots

Untitled Dana Klein comedy pilot. Jenna Elfman (Dharma & Greg) has been cast in the lead of FOX’s untitled comedy pilot from Dana Klein (Friends). She’ll play “a working mom who is in constant competition with her perfect, stay-at-home sister-in-law.” (Deadline)

Brothers in Atlanta. Finesse Mitchell (Saturday Night Live) has been added to the cast in a recurring role on this HBO comedy pilot executive produced by Lorne Michaels (Saturday Night Live). Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon) will co-write and co-star as struggling entertainers in Atlanta. As previously reported, Jaden Smith (Pinkett/Smith-spawn) and Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live) will have recurring roles. (Deadline)