Monday, April 6, 2015

Casting News - Eliza Dushku Joins 'Banshee'; Taraji P. Henson Books 'Person of Interest' Return; Plus 4 More Updates!

Casting News - April 6, 2015

ABC's Forever; CBS' The Big Bang Theory, Extant & Person of Interest; Cinemax's Banshee; and NBC's Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. & Law & Order: SVU.




CBS' PERSON OF INTEREST
  • Taraji P. Henson will reprise her role as Detective Carter on the April 14 episode of the drama's fourth season. Despite being killed off halfway through the third season, Carter will appear in flashbacks when Reese (Jim Caviezel) starts looking into a cold homicide case that Carter was never able to solve.
ABC's FOREVER
  • John Noble (Fringe, Sleepy Hollow) will guest star in the finale of the drama's first season. He will play Aubrey Griffin, the world's foremost expert of antiquities and adventure who concludes that the Roman dagger in the hands of a dead museum curator is actually the knife that killed Emperor Julius Caesar.
CBS' THE BIG BANG THEORY
  • Christine Baranski and Laurie Metcalf will reprise their respective roles as Beverly Hofstadter and Mary Cooper during the April 30 episode of the comedy's eighth season.
CINEMAX's BANSHEE
  • Eliza Dushku (Dolhouse, Tru Calling) has been cast in a recurring role on the drama's upcoming fourth season. She will play Agent Veronica Dawson, a tough, sexy and shockingly reckless FBI profiler with no shortage of personal demons who joins forces with Hood (Antony Starr) to hunt down a killer.
NBC's CHICAGO FIRE, CHICAGO P.D. and LAW & ORDER: SVU
  • Dallas Roberts (The Good Wife, The Walking Dead) has been tapped to appear in an upcoming crossover event between the three dramas set to air on April 28 and 29. He will play Greg Yates, a charismatic doctor who becomes the prime suspect in a string of brutal rape/murders.
CBS' EXTANT
  • CSI: NY alum Melina Kanakaredes will appear in at least two episodes of the drama's upcoming second season. She will play Dorothy, a tightly-wound, by-the-book circuit court judge who also happens to be JD's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) estrange wife.