CBS All Access' Untitled Good Wife Spinoff; FOX's Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Empire & Star; and Lifetime's UnREAL.
CBS ALL ACCESS' UNTITLED GOOD WIFE SPINOFF
- Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey) has joined the cast of the upcoming spinoff of the hit drama The Good Wife. She will play Maia, Diane's (Christine Baranski) goddaughter who joins her firm after passing the bar, and is a key part of Diane's plan for the future.
LIFETIME's UNREAL
- Stacy Rukeyser has been named the new showrunner on the drama's upcoming third season. She replaces Carol Barbee, who served in the role for the second season and won't be returning for the third. Rukeyser has been with the drama created by Marti Noxon and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro since the series began.
FOX's STAR
- Darius McCrary (Family Matters, The Leftovers) has booked a recurring role on the upcoming drama starring Queen Latifah. He will play Otis Leecan, a nasty piece of work who's obsessed with his foster daughter Simone (Brittany O'Grady). He will do everything in his power to drag her back from Atlanta after she runs away. He's clever, manipulative and dangerous. But he's met his match in Simone and her sister Star (Jude Demorest).
FOX's EMPIRE
- Frank Whaley (Luke Cage, Ray Donovan) has landed a recurring role on the drama's third season. He will play Edison Cruz, a talented, brilliant and relentless right-wing blogger who poses an unforeseen threat to Angelo's (Taye Diggs) rising popularity in the New York mayoral election with his vicious attacks and rhetoric.
FOX's BROOKLYN NINE-NINE
- Jimmy Smits (NYPD Blue, 24: Legacy) will appear in an upcoming episode of the comedy's fourth season. He will play Amy's (Melissa Fumero) father, a no-nonsense retired cop who loves his daughter very much. Jake (Andy Samberg) will do anything to impress him.
