Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Casting News - Rachel Brosnahan to Lead Season 2 of 'Presumed Innocent'; Felicity Huffman Joins 'Doc'; Plus 4 More Updates!

Casting News - June 10, 2025

AppleTV+'s Presumed Innocent; CBS' Boston Blue; FOX's Doc; Peacock's The Five-Star Weekend & M.I.A.; and Prime Video's Carrie.





FOX's DOC
  • Felicity Huffman has been cast as a new series regular on the drama's upcoming second season. She previously starred for eight seasons in ABC's Desperate Housewives, three seasons in ABC's American Crime and in the Netflix limited series When They See Us.
  • She will play Dr. Joan Ridley. Double-boarded in internal medicine and surgery, she's the kind of doctor who never has to raise her voice. Incredibly charming and charismatic with a wicked sense of humor that masks her ferocious ambition. She proudly describes herself as an "old-school broad." She drinks whiskey, smokes the occasional Marlboro red, and treats herself to solo steak dinners. Joan was Dr. Amy Larsen's (Molly Parker) med school professor and early mentor - and Amy was her standout student. Their dynamic is layered, charged, and deeply rooted in mutual respect, with just enough friction to keep it honest which is why Michael (Omar Metwally) offers her the open Chief of Internal Medicine job at Westside, succeeding Dr. Richard Miller (Scott Wolf). While it's true that she's here to help Amy, and the rest of the department, she also has a secret that's motivating her even more.
APPLE TV+'s PRESUMED INNOCENT
  • Rachel Brosnahan will star in and executive produce the upcoming second installment of the anthology drama. She previously starred for five seasons in Prime Video's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, winning an Emmy Award for her lead performance in 2018. She will next star as Lois Lane in the upcoming film Superman from James Gunn.
  • No details were immediately announced about the character she will be playing and the overall plot of the new season.
PEACOCK's M.I.A.
  • Tovah Feldshuh, Loretta Devine, Tyler Perez and Paul Ben-Victor have landed recurring roles on the upcoming drama starring Shannon Gisela. Both Feldshuh and Ben-Victor currently recur on Netflix's Nobody Wants This, which returns for its second season later this year. Devine starred for three seasons in NBC's The Carmichael Show and three seasons in Netflix's Family Reunion. Perez recurred on CBS' Code Black and ABC's Abbott Elementary.
  • No details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing.
PRIME VIDEO's CARRIE
  • Kate Siegel (The Fall of the House of Usher), Michael Trucco (Average Joe), Katee Sackhoff (The Mandalorian), Rahul Kohli (iZombie), Crystal Balint (Allegiance), Danielle Klaudt (Riverdale), Heather Graham (Chosen Family), Tim Bagley (Will & Grace), Tahmoh Penikett (Devil in Ohio), Mapuana Makia (Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.), Rowan Danielle, Naika Toussaint (Under the Bridge), Delainey Hayles (Interview With the Vampire) and Cassandra Naud (Influencer) have booked recurring roles on the upcoming limited series starring Summer H. Howell.
  • No details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing.
CBS' BOSTON BLUE
  • Gloria Reuben has joined the cast of the upcoming Blue Bloods spinoff starring Donnie Wahlberg, Sonequa Martin-Green, Ernie Hudson and Maggie Lawson. She previously starred for six seasons in NBC's ER, two seasons in TNT's Raising the Bar, and two seasons in Freeform's Cloak & Dagger. She also recurred on USA's Mr. Robot and Showtime's City on a Hill
  • She will play Mae Silver, Boston's District Attorney and the matriarch of a blended family of law enforcement professionals. The widow of a judge who was murdered on the courthouse steps, she endeavors to put family ahead of work whenever possible. Her daughter is Detective Lena Silver (Martin-Green); her stepdaughter Sarah (Lawson) is the Police Superintendent; her son Jonah is a rookie cop; and her father is Reverend Peters (Hudson). Mae is accustomed to making decisions and standing by them.
PEACOCK's THE FIVE-STAR WEEKEND
  • Gemma Chan will co-star on the upcoming drama starring Jennifer Garner, Regina Hall and Chloë Sevigny. She previously starred for three seasons in AMC's Humans. She also starred in the films Crazy Rich Asians, Raya and the Last Dragon and Eternals.
  • She will play Gigi Ling.