Friday, November 18, 2016

Casting News - Justin Bartha Joins 'The Good Fight'; 'Dr. Ken' Sets Another 'Community' Reunion; Plus 7 More Updates!

Casting News - November 18, 2016

ABC's Dr. Ken; Amazon's I Love Dick; CBS All Access' The Good Fight; Freeform's Famous in Love & Pretty Little Liars; NBC's Timeless; Netflix's House of Cards, Narcos & Stranger Things; and TNT's The Last Ship.



NETFLIX's NARCOS
  • Curtiss Cook (House of Cards) has been cast in a recurring role on the drama's upcoming third season. He will play Gilbert Mills. No additional character details were immediately made available.
NETFLIX's HOUSE OF CARDS
  • James Martinez (Low Winter Sun, Queen of the South) has booked a recurring role on the drama's upcoming fifth season. He will play Alex Romero, a cunning and progressive congressman from Arizona.
NBC's TIMELESS
  • Joel Johnstone (The Astronaut Wives Club, Getting On) will appear in an upcoming episode of the drama's first season. He will play Dr. Henry Howard "H.H." Holmes, who is considered to be one of America's first documented serial killers. His infamous "Murder Castle" will play a central role in an episode that sees the team travel to Chicago 1893 during The World's Fair.
TNT's THE LAST SHIP
  • Tyrant alum Sibylla Deen has landed a recurring role on the drama's upcoming fourth season. She will play Lucia, a cunning survivor of the plague with a special interest in the fate of the world. She is disciplined but also ruthless and unforgiving and has an ax to grind with Chandler (Eric Dane).
AMAZON's I LOVE DICK
  • Newcomer Sherry Cola has joined the comedy's upcoming first season in a recurring role. She will play one of Dick's (Kevin Bacon) art school students. She stars in a series of viral videos for the web series Luber posing as a driver for an Uber-like service who raps to the chagrin of her clients.
ABC's DR. KEN
  • The hit comedy is staging yet another Community reunion for its second season. This time Gillian Jacobs will guest star in an upcoming episode. She will play Erin, the attractive new intern at the hospital who is studying under Ken (Ken Jeong). When Erin's admiration for Ken veers into flirtatious territory, Allison (Suzy Nakamura) becomes jealous.
NETFLIX's STRANGER THINGS
  • Brett Gelman (Married, Another Period) has been cast on the drama's upcoming second season. He will play Murray Bauman, a disgraced journalist-turned-conspiracy theorist who is investigating a cold case in Hawkins.
FREEFORM's FAMOUS IN LOVE and PRETTY LITTLE LIARS
  • The cable network has set spring premiere dates for two of its original drama series. The final ten episodes of Pretty Little Liars will begin on Tuesday, April 18 at 8/7c. followed by the series debut of Famous in Love starring Bella Thorne at 9/8c.
CBS ALL ACCESS' THE GOOD FIGHT
  • Justin Bartha (The Hangover, The New Normal) has joined the upcoming drama as a series regular. He will play Colin, a rising star in the State's Attorney's office and Chicago's most eligible bachelor. Romantic sparks begin to fly when he finds himself going up against Lucca (Cush Jumbo) in the courtroom.