CBS' Elsbeth; Hulu's Untitled NFL Drama; MGM+'s American Hostage; and Netflix's Monster & Unaccustomed Earth.
CBS' ELSBETH
- Tony Hale, Dianne Wiest and Lois Smith will guest star on the drama's upcoming third season. Hale previously starred for five seasons in FOX/Netflix's Arrested Development and seven seasons in HBO's Veep, winning two Emmy Awards for the latter. Wiest has received three Academy Award nominations - winning twice for her roles in Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway. Smith has received three Tony Award nominations - winning in 2020 for her featured performance in the play The Inheritance.
- Hale will play Craig Hollis, a FinTech CEO who has become increasingly paranoid about the current "eat the rich" zeitgeist. As a precaution, he's built a fancy safe room underneath his luxurious townhouse that turns out to be an imperfect method of murder.
- Wiest will play the Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot, who is responsible for keeping her convent running and keeping the sisters safe. When a blasphemous pop star threatens to upend their happy life and displace the sisters, Mother Constance sets out to save the convent by any means necessary.
- Smith will play Delores Feinn, the cantankerous longtime supporter of the Pigeon Press who has promised to leave the poetry journal a great deal of money in her will... if she ever dies.
NETFLIX's MONSTER
- Billie Lourd and Jessica Barden have been cast in recurring roles on the upcoming fourth installment of the anthology drama starring Ella Beatty. Lourd previously starred for two seasons in FOX's Scream Queens and five seasons in FX's American Horror Story. Barden starred for two seasons in Netflix's The End of the F***ing World and recurred on HBO's Dune: Prophecy.
- Lourd will play Emma Borden, Lizzie's (Beatty) older sister.
- Barden will play Nance O'Neill, a stage actress whose close friendship with Lizzie created a rift between her and Emma.
MGM+'s AMERICAN HOSTAGE
- Giovanni Ribisi will play the co-lead opposite Jon Hamm in the upcoming anthology drama created by Shawn Ryan and Eileen Myers. He currently stars in the Avatar and Horizon: An American Saga film franchises. He previously starred for three seasons in Prime Video's Sneaky Pete and in the Showtime limited series Waco: The Aftermath.
- He will play Tony Kiritsis. Unpredictable, temperamental and charming, his honesty is disarming. He's an unmarried, failed everyman at the end of his rope after his mortgage lender plans to foreclose on his property. He takes the head of the mortgage company, Dick Hall, hostage via a shotgun rigged to shoot Dick in the head if Tony is jostled or pulled. Tony informs the cops of his plan, but what he really wants is to tell his story, live, to the one person he trusts to hear him out, beloved radio news anchor Fred Heckman (Hamm) on local WIBC radio. As the public begins to hear the oddly charismatic Tony's side of the story, he begins to become a folk hero, despite his criminal actions, but are there skeletons in his closet that paint a darker picture?
HULU's UNTITLED NFL DRAMA
- Chloe Bennet is set as a series regular on the upcoming drama starring Christopher Meloni, William H. Macy and Mandy Moore. She previously starred for seven seasons in ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and in the Hulu limited series Interior Chinatown.
- She will play Hank's (Macy) youngest daughter.
NETFLIX's UNACCUSTOMED EARTH
- Justin Bartha, Jayant Kripalani, Parveen Kaur, Swayam Bhatia and Palomi Ghosh have joined the cast of the upcoming drama starring Freida Pinto and Siddharth. Bartha previously starred in the National Treasure and The Hangover film franchises. Kripalani starred in the Indian films The Hungry and I Want to Talk. Kaur starred for four seasons in NBC/Netflix's Manifest. Bhatia starred for two seasons in Disney+'s The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers and recurred on HBO's Succession. Ghost starred in the Netflix limited series Typewriter.
- Bartha will play Adam Weiss, Ruma's (Sarayu Blue) affable husband, a sci-fi author and a proud stay-at-home dad to Hema (Iyla Sundarsingh McKaig). He loves his family, and despite his artistic dreaminess, can often be the grounding voice of reason to his high-powered wife and emotional 16-year-old daughter.
- Kripalani will play Pranab Mukherjee, a Bengali Marxist who immigrated to the United States in his 20s. He is a retired professor who now spends his days enjoying his garden, his family, and his books. When his wife passed away a year ago, he thought he would be on his own forever, but he unexpectedly and inexplicably fell in love with a new woman... and is hiding it from his disapproving children.
- Kaur will play Nina Singh, a brilliant and driven Harvard med student, on her way to being valedictorian, with both beauty and ambition. Newly engaged to the man of her dreams, Amit (Siddharth), she's determined to build a perfect life. When doubts arise, she realizes her fiancé may not be the man she thought she knew.
- Bhatia will play Sudha Menon, Hema's best friend and confidant. She is funny, confident, queer, and has never met an opinion she would not share.
- Ghost will play Anjali Menon, the formidable dance teacher to the local Indian community, and one of Ruma's close friends. She lost her husband a decade back, and has built back her life, her work, and her place in this community inch by inch, with tenacious grit. She has a rocky, combative relationship with her kids, but is genuinely trying her best.
