Casting News - May 12, 2014
BBC America's Broadchurch; FOX's Gotham; NBC's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt; TV Land's The Exes.
FOX's GOTHAM
- After guest-starring in the pilot, Cory Michael Smith, Victoria Cartagena and Andrew Stewart-Jones have been promoted to series regular on the new drama series. Smith plays Edward Nygma, a brilliant but socially awkward forensic scientist who's destine to become The Riddler. Cartagena and Stewart-Jones both play detectives in the major crimes unit of the Gotham Police Department, Renee Montoya and Crispus Allen respectively.
NBC's UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT
- 30 Rock alum Jane Krakowski has joined the cast of the midseason comedy series created by fellow 30 Rock vets Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. She will play a rich Upper West Side mom who hires Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) as a nanny. Her casting came together very quickly after FOX passed on Krakowski's comedy pilot Dead Boss last week.
BBC AMERICA's BROADCHURCH
- David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker, Andrew Buchan and Arthur Darvill are set to reprise their roles on the upcoming second season of the hit ITV drama. They play Alec Hardy, Ellie Miller, Beth Latimer, Mark Latimer and Paul Coates, respectively. Secrecy currently surrounds the plot of the second season.
TV LAND's THE EXES
- The fourth season of the hit sitcom will now premiere on Wednesday, November 5 at 10:30/9:30c., and not August 13 as was originally planned.
