Casting News: an impressive casting for the new Apple TV+ comedy, Narcos: Mexico is loaded with new names, …

Casting News: an impressive casting for the new Apple TV+ comedy, Narcos: Mexico is loaded with new names, ...

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Good Girls – NBC
Jonathan Silverman (Significant Mother) has been selected to play a recurring role during the fourth season of Good Girls. He will play Dave, a pencil pusher for the Secret Service, who finds his raison d’être when he goes out on the field. He will do everything in his power to bring down the Good Girls, those three mothers who robbed a supermarket and then had a series of setbacks. (Source)

The Afterparty – Apple TV+
Apple TV+ has announced the names of the four-star cast for its new comedy The Afterparty. Tiffany Haddish (The Carmichael Show), Sam Richardson (Veep), Zoë Chao (Love Life), Ben Schwartz (Space Force), Ike Barinholtz (The Mindy Project), Ilana Glazer (Broad City), Dave Franco (Privileged), Jamie Demetriou (Miracle Workers) and John Early (Search Party) will star in the series created by Chris Miller et Phil Lord. Each episode will cover the same after party from the perspective of a different character each time. The format of the eight episodes and the narration style will be adapted to the individual personality of each narrator. (Source)

Women Of The Movement – ABC
Niecy Nash (Reno 911) is joining Adrienne Warren in the cast of Women Of The Movement. The series will revisit the story of Mamie Till-Mobley (Adrienne Warren), a mother who spent her life seeking justice for her son who was tortured to death in Mississippi and who became one of the most iconic symbols of the civil rights movement in the United States. Niecy Nash will play Alma, the grandmother of Emmett, the young man who was tortured to death. She will help Mamie in her search for the truth and will do everything to protect her family. (Source)

The Prince – HBO Max
The animated series The Prince, a satire of the British Royal Family, has added a name to its voice cast: Dan Stevens. The actor, known for his role as David Haller in Legion, will be voicing the characters of Prince Charles and Prince Philip.. (Source)

Black Lightning – The CW
Chantal Thuy is being promoted to series regular for the fourth season of Black Lightning. She will be back in her role as Grace Choi, a role she has been repeatedly playing since season 1. (Source)

Ozark – Netflix
The fourth and final season of Ozark is welcoming Alfonso Herrera (Queen of the South) et Adam Rothenberg (Ripper Street) as series regulars. Bruno Bichir (Party of Five), CC Castillo (Outer Banks) et Katrina Lenk (Tommy) will be appearing as recurring characters. It should be noted that Felix Solis and Damian Young have also been promoted as series regulars for the final round of episodes of the Netflix series. (Source)

Walker – The CW
The Walker Texas Ranger reboot will be featuring an actor from Grey’s Anatomy: Alex Landi. He will intervene as a recurring character in the CW series and will play Bret, Liam’s fiancé, Liam being the character played by Keegan Allen. Bret is really in love with Liam but he imagines himself living in Manhattan rather than Austin. (Source)

Love, Victor – Hulu
There will be two new members in the cast for the second season of Love, Victor: Ava Capri (T@gged) and Anthony Keyvan (Alexa & Katie). The former will play a close friend of Benji while the latter will play an LGBTQ student who is just starting to come out of the closet. (Source)

The Equalizer – CBS
Adam Goldberg (Taken) will be part of the reboot ofThe Equalizer for the American network CBS. He will join Queen Latifah and play Harry Keshegian, a paranoid computer technician who has every reason to panic, as he is aware of real conspiracies thanks to his past as a hacker. (Source)

The Morning Show – Apple TV+
Hasan Minhaj (Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj) has been chosen to be part of season 2 of The Morning Show. He will play Eric, a charismatic young man and a rising star from The Morning Show team. (Source)

Stuck With You – UMC
Vivia A. Fox (Empire) will join the second season of Stuck With You as a guest-star. She will portray the character of Terry Parker, an entertainment industry tycoon who, along with her husband Blue Parker (Isaac Keys), co-wrote a successful new book on relationships. A book that challenges Candace and Luvell’s status in that field. (Source)

Triage – ABC
ABC’s new medical drama, Triage, has chosen Kathleen Robertson (Murder in the First) to co-star with Parisa Fitz-Henley and Michael Healy. She will play the role of Virginia Sawyer, the Chief of Surgery at the New York Trinity. She is passionate, willing and eager to boost her daughter’s career. As a result, she is having her daughter study under the direction of Dr. Finley Briar (Parisa Fitz-Henley). (Source)

The Shrink Next Door – ABC
Will Ferrell et Paul Rudd are teamed up with Kathryn Hahn (Crossing Jordan) and Casey Wilson (Happy Endings) in the series The Shrink Next Door. Inspired by true events, The Shrink Next Door tells the story of the bizarre relationship between psychiatrist to the stars, Dr. Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf (Paul Rudd) and his long-time patient Martin “Marty” Markowitz (Will Ferrell). Over the course of their relationship, Ike slowly takes over Marty’s life, reaching as far as moving into his home in the Hamptons and persuading Marty to name him chairman of the family business. Kathryn Hahn will play Marty’s younger sister Phyllis, while Casey Wilson will play Ike’s wife Bonnie. (Source)

Dopesick – Hulu
Cleopatra Coleman (The Last Man on Earth) is joining the Dopesick miniseries that will be released on Hulu. She will play Grace Pell, a shameless and funny young woman who is not afraid to be herself amongst the world of the coal miners. Dopesick will follow the struggle against opioid addiction through the eyes of a mining community in Virginia. (Source)

Narcos: Mexico – Netflix
Luis Gerardo Méndez (Club de Cuervos), Alberto Guerra (Guerra de Idolos), Luisa Rubino (Caer en tentación) and Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio aka Bad Bunny are joining season 3 of Narcos: Mexico. Several other actors will join the series including Alejandro Furth (Barry), Lorenzo Ferro (El marginal), José Zúñiga (Madam Secretary), Diego Calva (Le détenu), Kristen Gutoskie (Chicago Fire) et Beau Mirchoff (Good Trouble). (Source)

Clarice – CBS
Clarice, the prequel series to The Silence of the Lambs has added four new names to its cast: Marnee Carpenter, Jayne Atkinson (Criminal Minds), Shawn Doyle (The Expanse), Tim Guinee (Homeland). Marnee Carpenter will play the role of Catherine Martin, a woman who was rescued from Buffalo Bill’s cellar by Clarice (Rebecca Breeds). Jayne Atkinson will portray Ruth Martin, the new Attorney General and Catherine’s mother. Shawn Doyle will play Clarice’s therapist at Quantico and Tim Guinee will portray Novak, the leader of a secessionist militia. (Source)

Published on 15 November 2020
Last update : 8 December 2020

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