Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Casting News - Michaela Watkins to Topline Hulu's 'Casual'; Kylie Minogue Visits 'Young & Hungry'; Plus 2 More Updates!

Casting News - February 3, 2015

ABC Family's Young & Hungry; FOX's Scream Queens; Hulu's Casual; and NBC's Welcome to Sweden.





FOX's SCREAM QUEENS
  • Newcomer Billie Lourd has joined the star-studded cast of the upcoming comedy anthology series. Like all the previous casting, no character details were immediately made available.
NBC's WELCOME TO SWEDEN
  • Scream star Neve Campbell has booked a four-episode arc on the comedy's upcoming second season. She will play Diane, an American transferred to Stockholm to work as head of marketing at a bank.
ABC FAMILY's YOUNG & HUNGRY
  • Singer Kylie Minogue will appear in at least two episodes of the comedy's upcoming second season. She will play Shauna, a charming a quick-witted tech reporter who hits it off with Josh (Jonathan Sadowski).
HULU's CASUAL
  • Trophy Wife alum Michaela Watkins has been cast as the female lead on the upcoming single camera family comedy. Tara Lynne Barr (Aquarius) has also joined the cast today. Watkins will play Valerie Cole, a newly divorced therapist who moves in with her bachelor brother to coach each other through the crazy world of dating while also raising a teenager, Valerie's daughter Laura (Barr), who has taken on the role of adult in the new household.