Thursday, May 7, 2015

Casting News - Dave Coulier Joins 'Fuller House'; 'Shadowhunters' Taps Katherine McNamara for Lead Role; Plus 2 More Updates!

Casting News - May 7, 2015

ABC Family's Shadowhunters; CBS's Criminal Minds; IFC's The Spoils Before Dying; and Netflix's Fuller House.





ABC FAMILY's SHADOWHUNTERS
  • Katherine McNamara (Happyland, The Maze Runner) will play the lead role on the upcoming drama series. She will play Clary Fray, a beautiful, creative, intelligent and promising art student whose bright future is derailed when her mother is kidnapped and she learns her life has been a lie. She discovers a hidden Shadow World full of vampires, werewolves and other unthinkable danger that she quickly learns to navigate. As she is forced into action, she embraces her newfound powers and realizes that she will play the central role in this new world.
CBS's CRIMINAL MINDS
  • Jennifer Love Hewitt is leaving the cast of the veteran drama following a one-year run. Her exit comes as she wanted time off professionally to focus on her second pregnancy/child, due in July.
NETFLIX's FULLER HOUSE
  • Original Full House cast member Dave Coulier announced on his Instragram that he will appear on the sitcom's upcoming revival. Additionally, Mark Cendrowski (The Big Bang Theory) will serve as director on the new series.
IFC's THE SPOILS BEFORE DYING
  • The comedic miniseries and follow-up to last year's The Spoils of Babylon will premiere as three-night comedy event on July 8, July 9 and July 10 at 9/8c.