Thursday, April 3, 2014

Casting News - David Meunier to Recur on 'Legends'; OWN Orders More 'The Haves and the Have Nots'; Plus 6 More Updates!

Casting News - April 3, 2014

ABC's Astronaut Wives Club & Castle; Netflix's Untitled KZK Drama; OWN's The Haves and the Have Nots & Single Moms Club; Showtime's Ray Donovan; TNT's Legends; and WGN America's Manhattan.




ABC's ASTRONAUT WIVES CLUB
  • The 10-episode drama which was set to bow this summer on July 24 has now been pushed back to launch during the 2014-15 midseason. The scope of the series is being expanding to include details and wives from the Gemini and Apollo astronaut missions - which means the core arc of the season is being re-worked.
ABC's CASTLE
  • Warehouse 13 vet Eddie McClintock has booked a guest role on the upcoming sixth season finale of the drama. He will play Rogan O'Leary, a small town hustler who is infamous for his lying, cheating and scheming and who has a complicated past with Beckett (Stana Katic).
TNT's LEGENDS
  • Justified vet David Meunier has landed a major recurring role on the new drama series. He will play Richard Hubbard, a high school chemistry teacher and family man who leads a quiet life with his wife and daughter. But when he and his family are abducted by gunmen, the shocking secret of his past is revealed, much to the dismay of his loved ones.
OWN's THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS
  • The cable network has picked up an additional 20 episodes of the hit drama series for a total of 56 through 2015.
OWN's SINGLE MOMS CLUB
  • The cable network has also announced that the debut season of the new drama series also from Tyler Perry will be comprised of 20 episodes and will debut in the fall.
SHOWTIME's RAY DONOVAN
  • Omar J. Dorsey (Rake, Eastbound & Down) will recur on the second season of the drama. He will play Cookie Brown, a powerful music business entrepreneur recently released prison.
WGN AMERICA's MANHATTAN
  • Newcomer Carole Weyers has landed a multi-episode arc on the upcoming drama series. She will play Elodie, a French switchboard operator at Los Alamos.
NETFLIX's UNTITLED KZK DRAMA
  • Enrique Murciano (Without a Trace) and Katie Finneran (The Michael J. Fox Show) have joined the cast of the new drama series in recurring roles. Murciano will play Marco, Meg's (Linda Cardellini) boyfriend, a member of the county sheriff's department. Finneran will play Belle, Kevin's (Norbert Leo Butz) red-haired, witty wife.