Monday, July 21, 2025

Casting News - Jake Johnson to Play Male Lead in 'Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed'; Plus 3 More Updates!

Casting News - July 21, 2025

AppleTV+'s Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed & Ted Lasso; FOX's Memory of a Killer; and Paramount+'s School Spirits.





APPLE TV+'s MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED
  • Jake Johnson will play the male lead opposite Tatiana Maslany in the upcoming dramedy created by David J. Rosen. He previously starred for seven seasons in FOX's New Girl and two seasons in HBO Max/Starz's Minx. He also stars in the Spider-Verse animated film franchise.
  • He will play Karl, Paula's (Maslany) ex-husband.
PARAMOUNT+'s SCHOOL SPIRITS
  • Ci Hang Ma and Miles Elliot have been promoted to series regulars on the drama's upcoming third season. Both of whom started recurring on the drama during its second season. Moreover, Jennifer Tilly, Ari Dalbert and Erika Swayze have been cast in recurring roles in the upcoming episodes.
  • Ma plays Quinn, a teenage spirit who died in a bus accident on the return from a competition with the high school's marching band.
  • Elliot plays Yuri, a teenage spirit who has spent his afterlife ignoring the other ghosts. He died in the school's greenhouse in the 1970s.
  • Tilly (Bullets Over Broadway, Chucky) will play Dr. Deborah Hunter-Price. Dalbert (Inhumans, Friendship) will play Kyle. Swayze (Davey & Jonesie's Locker, Workin' Moms) will play Livia.
APPLE TV+'s TED LASSO
  • Juno Temple and Brendan Hunt have officially closed new deals to return to the comedy for its upcoming fourth season - joining Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein and Jeremy Swift. Furthermore, new cast additions include Grant Feely, Tanya Reynolds, Jude Mack, Faye Marsay, Rex Hayes, Aisling Sharkey and Abbie Hern.
  • In the fourth season, Ted (Sudeikis) returns to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet: coaching a second division women's football team. Throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learn to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would.
  • Temple plays Keeley Jones while Hunt plays Coach Beard.
  • Feely will take over as Henry, Ted's son. No details were revealed about the characters the other six new additions will play this season.
FOX's MEMORY OF A KILLER
  • Odeya Rush will co-star on the upcoming drama starring Patrick Dempsey and Michael Imperioli. She previously starred in the films Lady Bird, Dumplin', Let It Snow, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Umma and Dangerous Waters.
  • She will play Maria, Angelo's (Dempsey) daughter. Married young and pregnant, it seems she's chosen a quiet life. But something stirs in her - a yearning for adventure. Might she be a chip off the old hitman block? Angelo is Maria's everything, so when his mind begins to falter, she's right there by his side to care for him. As she gets closer and closer to her father, she'll find that being close to Angelo is a dangerous place to be.