Saturday, May 30, 2015

Casting News - Penny Johnson Jerald Departing 'Castle'; Colin Donnell Joins 'Chicago Med'; Plus 2 More Updates!

Casting News - May 30, 2015

ABC's Castle; FX's American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson; HBO's Vice Principals; and NBC's Chicago Med.





NBC's CHICAGO MED
  • Colin Donnell (Arrow, The Affair) has joined the cast of the upcoming midseason drama as a new series regular. He will play a new pediatric physician at the hospital.
HBO's VICE PRINCIPALS
  • Kimberly Hebert Gregory (Devious Maids) has joined the cast of the upcoming comedy starring Danny McBride as a series regular. She will play Dr. Belinda Brown, the confident and powerful new principal at Lincoln High School. She replaces Da'Vine Joy Randolph who was originally cast in the role.
FX's AMERICAN CRIME STORY: THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON
  • Rob Morrow (Numb3rs, Texas Rising) has been cast on the upcoming anthology series starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. He will play Barry Scheck, the co-founder of the Innocence Project who is called upon by O.J.'s (Gooding Jr.) defense team for his DNA expertise.
ABC's CASTLE
  • Penny Johnson Jerald took to Twitter last night to announce that she will not be returning for the procedural's upcoming eighth season. Her exit is expected to be one of several creative changes heading into the new season. She joined the drama at the start of the fourth season as Captain Victoria Gates.