Thursday, October 27, 2016

Casting News - Jim Gaffigan Joins FX's 'Fargo'; 'Bones' Final Season Gets January Premiere Date; Plus 7 More Updates!

Casting News - October 27, 2016

ABC's American Crime; CBS All Access' Untitled Good Wife Spinoff; FOX's Bones; FX's Fargo; Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale; MTV's Teen Wolf; NBC's Timeless; Netflix's Friends From College; and OWN's Greenleaf.




FX's FARGO
  • Jim Gaffigan (The Jim Gaffigan Show) has joined the cast of the drama's upcoming third season as a series regular. He will play Donny Mashman, a police deputy who works alongside Gloria Burgle (Carrie Coon).
NETFLIX's FRIENDS FROM COLLEGE
  • Billy Eichner (Billy on the Street, Difficult People) has landed a recurring role on the upcoming comedy created by Nicholas Stoller and Francesca Delbanco. He will play Dr. Felix Forzenheim, a fertility doctor to Ethan and Lisa who becomes romantically involved with Max. As Max and his friends relive their college days, he loses his patience and provides the group with sorely needed, sometimes-biting outsider commentary.
FOX's BONES
  • The 12-episode twelfth and final season of the hit drama starring Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz will premiere on Tuesday, January 3 at 9/8c. The premiere will follow the time slot debuts of New Girl at 8/7c. and The Mick at 8:30/7:30c.
NBC's TIMELESS
  • Jacqueline Byers (Roadies) an Sam Strike (EastEnders) are set to play infamous criminals Bonnie and Clyde in an upcoming episode of the hit drama. In the episode, Lucy (Abigail Spencer), Wyatt (Matt Lanter) and Rufus (Malcolm Barrett) encounter the pair when they travel to the 1930s South. 
CBS ALL ACCESS' UNTITLED GOOD WIFE SPINOFF
  • Paul Guilfoyle (CSI) and Bernadette Peters (Mozart in the Jungle) have booked recurring roles on the upcoming spinoff of The Good Wife. Guilfoyle will play Henry, Maia's (Rose Leslie) father, a wildly successful financial advisor who is phenomenally wealthy and universally loved. Peters will play Lenore, Maia's mother who came from a tough working-class background and is a natively brilliant financial whiz. Lenore expanded Henry's fortune through their family's private investment firm that is the envy of the financial world. 
ABC's AMERICAN CRIME
  • White Collar alum Tim DeKay has been cast in a recurring role on the drama's upcoming third season. He will play a relative to the character played by Cherry Jones. All other character details are being kept under wraps.
OWN's GREENLEAF
  • After recurring throughout the first season, GregAlan Williams and Lovie Simone have been promoted to series regular status on the drama's upcoming second season. Williams plays Robert "Mac" McCready, Lady Mae's (Lynn Whitfield) brother and former chief counsel at Calvary Fellowship World Ministries. Simone plays Zora Greenleaf, the spirit daughter of Jacob (Lamman Rucker) and Kerissa Greenleaf (Kim Hawthorne) and her cousin Sophia's (Desiree Ross) best friend.
HULU's THE HANDMAID'S TALE
  • Ever Carradine (Shameless, Goliath) has booked a recurring role on the upcoming drama starring Elisabeth Moss. She will play Naomi Putnam, a proud, imperious woman whose handmaid has just had her baby. She invites a group of wives over to admire the new baby girl, and her performance in the odd ceremony represents her taking credit for birthing a child.
MTV's TEEN WOLF
  • Sibo Mlambo (Black Sails) will appear in a recurring role on the drama's upcoming sixth and final season. She will play Tamora Monroe, the new humanities teacher and guidance counselor at Beacon Hills High. She's charismatic, smart and inspires students with her passion - a passion that can get too intense.