AppleTV+'s Wild Things; FOX's Memory of a Killer; Hulu's Untitled NFL Drama; Netflix's Nobody Wants This; and Starz's Fightland.
FOX's MEMORY OF A KILLER
- Gina Torres has booked a recurring role on the upcoming drama starring Patrick Dempsey and Michael Imperioli. She previously starred for seven seasons in USA's Suits and four seasons in FOX's 9-1-1: Lone Star.
- She will play Linda Grant, a mercurial, seasoned, and brilliantly tenacious FBI agent who becomes a major antagonist for Angelo (Dempsey). When Grant begins investigating one of Angelo's kills, it puts them on a collision course that will see Grant come perilously close to unmasking Angelo's many secrets and threatening everything he holds dear.
NETFLIX's NOBODY WANTS THIS
- Seth Rogen and Kate Berlant will guest star on the comedy's upcoming second season. Rogen's casting comes days after he won four Emmy Awards for directing, producing, writing and starring in AppleTV+'s The Studio, which has been renewed for a second season. Berlant previously starred in Prime Video's one-season comedy A League of Their Own.
- No details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing.
STARZ's FIGHTLAND
- Howard Charles, Nicholas Pinnock, Deborah Ayorinde, Charles Babalola, Anita-Joy Uwajeh, Tahirah Sharif, Tyler Conti and Richard Pepple will star in the upcoming drama created by Damione Macedon and Raphael Jackson Jr.
- Charles (The Musketeers, Whitstable Pearl) will play Maduka "Duke" Kilroy, a former heavyweight world champion who, after a traumatic tragedy, returns home to London to enact revenge.
- Pinnock (For Life, Long Bright River) will play Kingsley Marshall, a man with many enemies. He is a Jamaica-born, South London-bred criminal kingpin with his fingers in the worlds of boxing and gambling.
- Ayorinde (Them, Riches) will play Joy Marshall, Kingsley's wife who is trying to build her own empire.
- Babalola (Bancroft, The Outlaws) will play Ezekiel "Zeek" Marshall, Kingsley's brash and unpredictable son.
- Uwajeh (Vampire Academy, Kraven the Hunter) will play Cebella "Cece" Marshall, Kingsley's brilliant, business-savvy daughter who runs the Marshalls' gambling operation.
- Sharif (The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Tower) will play Kim Harper, a confident ring card girl entrenched in the London boxing world who befriends Duke upon his return to London.
- Conti (Tell Me Everything, Hollyoaks) will play Justin "Jay" Hall, Duke's best friend whose life has hit the skids in Duke's absence. Duke's return is a chance for Jay to rekindle their friendship, make amends and start anew.
- Pepple (The Rig, Cobra) will play Gary "Gazzer" Kilroy, Duke's estranged father, who runs a community boxing gym in Streatham, London, where he trains amateur fighters.
HULU's UNTITLED NFL DRAMA
- Chace Crawford has been cast as a series regular on the upcoming drama starring Christopher Meloni, William H. Macy and Mandy Moore. He currently stars in Prime Video's The Boys, which has been renewed for a fifth and final season.
- He will play the team's new General Manager.
APPLE TV+'s WILD THINGS
- Justin Theroux and Darius Fraser have joined the cast of the upcoming limited series starring Jude Law and Andrew Garfield. Theroux previously starred for three seasons in HBO's The Leftovers, two seasons in AppleTV+'s The Mosquito Coast, and in the HBO limited series White House Plumbers. Fraser guest starred on Paramount+'s The Good Fight and Peacock's Poker Face.
- Theroux will play Steve Wynn, who signed Siegfried (Law) and Roy (Garfield) to a five-year, $57.5 million deal to perform at his Mirage hotel.
- Fraser will play Toney Mitchell, an aspiring dancer who, while on the Las Vegas strip, worked his way into Siegfried & Roy's show and inner circle. Siegfried, Roy, and audiences were dazzled by him - a captivating performer with an ambiguous and oft-changing backstory. A lover at various times to both of the performers, he's more than a talisman of petty jealousy. Toney is a beacon of self-assurance and statue admired by Siegfried & Roy until his timely passing.
