Friday, January 24, 2014

Casting News - Stephen Fry Joins '24: Live Another Day'; 'Grey's Anatomy' Adds 'Greek' Vet; Plus 3 More Updates!

Casting News - January 24, 2014

ABC's Grey's Anatomy & Nashville; FOX's 24: Live Another Day & Brooklyn Nine-Nine; and VH1's Hit the Floor.





VH1's HIT THE FLOOR
  • Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Adam Senn and Brent Antonello have joined the cast of the basketball drama series as new series regulars for its second season. O'Keefe will play Lionel Davenport, the estranged wife of Pete Davenport (Dean Cain) who cares less about basketball or dancing than getting under his skin. Senn will play Zero, a superstar basketball player traded to the Los Angeles Devils. Antonello will play Jude, an ambitious junior sports agent who wants to be Oscar's (Don Stark) right hand man.
ABC's GREY'S ANATOMY
  • Greek vet Paul James is joining the medical drama in a potentially recurring role in the second half of its tenth season. The only character details released are that he will play someone who comes to the hospital to assist with research.
ABC's NASHVILLE
  • Charlotte Ross (NYPD Blue) will guest star in a March episode of the musical drama. She will play a sober alcohic who used to work as a back-up singer for Rayna (Connie Britton) and shares a connection with Deacon (Charles Esten).
FOX's BROOKLYN NINE-NINE
  • Kyle Bornheimer (Family Tools) is heading to the Golden Globe-winning comedy series for an early March episode. He will play Teddy, a cop from another precinct who used to date Santiago (Melissa Fumero). The two reconnect during a NYPD training exercise.
FOX's 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY
  • British actor-writer Stephen Fry has been tapped for a major recurring role on the event series update on 24. He will play Prime Minister Trevor Davies, a strong and charismatic leader whose friendship with President Heller (William Devane), and the Anglo-American alliance itself, comes under tremendous pressure because of personal and political crises.