Friday, January 8, 2016

Casting News - 'Grey's Anatomy' Ups Giacomo Gianniotti to Regular; 'Rectify' to End with Season 4; Plus 7 More Updates!

Casting News - January 8, 2016

ABC's Grey's Anatomy & Once Upon a Time; AMC's Fear The Walking Dead, The Night Manager & Turn: Washington's Spies; CBS' Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, CSI: Cyber, Elementary & Rush Hour; History's Six; NBC's The Blacklist; Starz's The Girlfriend Experience; and SundanceTV's Hap & Leonard, The Last Panthers, Rebellion & Rectify.


ABC's GREY'S ANATOMY
  • Giacomo Gianniotti has been promoted to series regular on the drama's current twelfth season. He joined the drama at the end of the eleventh season as recurring. He plays Dr. Andrew DeLuca, one of the new interns who has become a love interest for Maggie (Kelly McCreary).
STARZ's THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE
  • The premium cable network will make the entire first season of the drama series from executive producer Steven Soderbergh available on Starz Play and On Demand on Sunday, April 10. The drama stars Riley Keough, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Paul Sparks, Kate Lyn Sheil and Amy Seimetz.
CBS' CRIMINAL MINDS: BEYOND BORDERS, CSI: CYBER, ELEMENTARY and RUSH HOUR
  • The broadcast network has announced some changes to its upcoming spring schedule. The series premiere of Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders has been pushed back two weeks to Wednesday, March 16 at 10/9c. The move happens so CSI: Cyber can air two special episodes on Wednesdays on March 2 and 9. Meanwhile, Elementary will move to Sundays at 10/9c. beginning March 20. Taking its place Thursdays at 10/9c. will be new series Rush Hour starting Thursday, March 31.
AMC's FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, THE NIGHT MANAGER and TURN: WASHINGTON'S SPIES
  • The cable network is employing a familiar strategy for the upcoming 15-episode second season of Fear the Walking Dead - by splitting it into two halves with the first set to begin on Sunday, April 10 at 9/8c. and the second airing later in 2016. Meanwhile, Turn: Washington's Spies will kick off its third season on Monday, April 25 at 10/9c. while the debut of six-part miniseries The Night Manager will open a new night of programming on Tuesday, April 19 at 10/9c.
SUNDANCETV's RECTIFY
  • The cable network has announced that the upcoming fourth season of the hit drama starring Aden Young will be its last. The news came from the Television Critics Association's winter press tour.
SUNDANCETV's HAP & LEONARD, THE LAST PANTHERS and REBELLION
  • The cable network has also announced premiere dates for a number of scripted series: Hap & Leonard starring James Purefoy, Michael Kenneth Williams and Christina Hendricks will begin on Wednesday, March 2 at 10/9c.; The Last Panthers starring Samantha Morton and John Hurt will debut Wednesday, April 13 at 10/9c.; and Rebellion will air as a miniseries event from April 24-26 at 9/8c.
ABC's ONCE UPON A TIME
  • Wes Brown has been tapped to replace Sage Brocklebank as Gaston on an upcoming episode of the drama's fifth season. The episode will once again explore Belle's (Emilie De Ravin) life before Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) entered it.
NBC's THE BLACKLIST
  • Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones will guest star on an upcoming episode of the drama's third season. She will play a woman who mistakes Red (James Spader) for a guy from her spin class and shamelessly hits on him.
HISTORY's SIX
  • Colombian actor Juan Pablo Raba (Narcos, The 33) has been cast on the upcoming drama series from William and David Broyles. He will play Ricky "Buddha" Ortiz, one of the veterans of SEAL Team Six.