Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Casting News - FX Announces Premiere Date for 'The Strain' Season 2; 'The Catch' to Recast Male Lead; Plus 7 More Updates!

Casting News - May 19, 2015

ABC's The Catch & Wicked City; ABC Family's Recovery Road; AMC's Fear the Walking Dead & Hell on Wheels; CBS's Under the Dome; FX's American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson & The Strain; and NBC's Heartbreaker.



AMC's FEAR THE WALKING DEAD
  • Ruben Blades (Safe House) has joined the cast of the upcoming drama series as a series regular. He will play Daniel, the father to the character played by Mercedes Mason.
FX's AMERICAN CRIME STORY: THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON
  • Evan Handler (Californication) and Cheryl Ladd (Ray Donovan) have been cast on the upcoming anthology series starring Cuba Gooding Jr. Handler will play Alan Dershowitz, another member of O.J. Simpson's (Gooding Jr.) "Dream Team" legal defense. Ladd will play Linell Shapiro, the wife of attorney Robert Shapiro (John Travolta).
NBC's HEARTBREAKER
  • Don Hany is exiting the upcoming drama series starring Melissa George for creative reasons. In the original pilot, he played Dr. Jessie Shane, the new Chief of Surgery at the hospital.
ABC's WICKED CITY
  • The midseason anthology drama is recasting three of its main roles for creative reasons, with Adam Rothenberg, Anne Winters and Darrell Britt-Gibson all leaving the cast. Rothenberg played Jack Roth, one of the two cops at the center of the main investigation. Winters played Vicki, Jack's wife. Britt-Gibson played Diver, a paparazzo specializing in crime scene photography.
CBS's UNDER THE DOME
  • Frank Whaley (Ray Donovan, Like Sunday) has landed a recurring role on the drama's upcoming third season. He will play Dr. Marston, a brilliant doctor and scientist with questionable motives.
ABC FAMILY's RECOVERY ROAD
  • Roberto Urbina (Che, Narcos) has been cast in a recurring role on the upcoming drama's first season. He will play Asa, an edgy and mysterious character.
ABC's THE CATCH
  • The midseason drama starring Mireille Enos is making some major cast change. Damon Dayoub and Bethany Joy Lenz are leaving the project as the creative team is making changes to their characters. In the original pilot, the duo played the con artist team of Kieran and Zoe who targeted Alice (Mireille Enos).
FX's THE STRAIN
  • The vampire drama will return for its second season on Sunday, July 12 at 10/9c. The new season stars Corey Stoll, David Bradley, Mía Maestro, Kevin Durand, Jonathan Hyde, Richard Sammel, Miguel Gomez and Max Charles.
AMC's HELL ON WHEELS
  • Reg Rogers (The Knick) and Tzi Ma (24) have joined the cast of the drama's upcoming fifth and final season. Rogers will play James Strobridge, a tough-as-nails construction superintendent for the Central Pacific Railroad who lost an eye to a blasting accident but hasn't lost his temper or sense of humor. Ma will play Tao, the "head man" for a group of Chinese railroad workers who is a highly capable man but harbors a secret and goes out of his way to avoid attention.