Casting News - March 31, 2014
ABC's Scandal; AMC's The Walking Dead; CBS' Extant; IFC's Comedy Bang! Bang!; Netflix's The Killing; and USA's Royal Pains.
CBS' EXTANT
- Scandal star Joshua Malina has booked a guest starring role on the upcoming summer drama. He will play Dr. Scott Beack, the lead doctor in an emergency room who will deliver some chilling news to Molly Woods (Halle Berry).
USA's ROYAL PAINS
- Diane Farr (Numb3rs, Rescue Me) will appear on an upcoming episode of the drama's upcoming sixth season. She will play Annie, a private investigator who is stricken by mysterious symptoms during an investigation that may compromise her ability to do the job and effectively ruin her career.
ABC's SCANDAL
- Sebastian Roché (The Originals) will appear in several episodes of the drama series beginning in the next episode - airing on April. No details were immediately released on who he will be playing on the hit drama.
NETFLIX's THE KILLING
- Resurrection co-star Frances Fisher has landed a major recurring role on the upcoming fourth and final season of the drama series. She will play the estranged mother of Linden (Mireille Enos) who abandoned her as girl to the foster care system. When she reappears in Linden's life, she's happy, well-mannered and well put-together, having "built a stable life" with a new, middle-class family.
AMC's THE WALKING DEAD
- A day after the series' fourth season finale, the drama has upped Alanna Masterson, Christian Serratos and Andrew J. West to series regular status for Season 5. They play Tara, Rosita and Gareth respectively.
IFC's COMEDY BANG! BANG!
- The scripted late night talk show will return for its expanded 20-episode third season on Thursday, May at 10:30/9:30c. The season's first ten episodes will air through July 10. The remaining ten episodes return October 16 - December 18.
