Casting News - October 3, 2025
ABC's Scrubs; CBS' The Neighborhood; HBO's The Comeback; NBC's Chicago Med & St. Denis Medical; Netflix's The Age of Innocence & The Body; and Prime Video's Joseph of Egypt.
ABC's Scrubs; CBS' The Neighborhood; HBO's The Comeback; NBC's Chicago Med & St. Denis Medical; Netflix's The Age of Innocence & The Body; and Prime Video's Joseph of Egypt.
ABC's SCRUBS
- Robert Maschio, Phill Lewis, Vanessa Bayer, Joel Kim Booster, Ava Bunn, Jacob Dudman, David Gridley, Layla Mohammadi and Amanda Morrow will appear in recurring roles on the upcoming comedy revival. Maschio recurred on all nine seasons of the original series while Lewis guest starred on three seasons. Bayer previously starred for seven seasons in NBC's Saturday Night Live. Booster currently stars in AppleTV+'s Loot, which returns for its third season later this month. Bunn will guest star on the upcoming second season of Netflix's A Man on the Inside. Dudman starred for two seasons in Netflix's Fate: The Winx Saga. Gridley recurred on TNT's The Last Ship and The CW's All American. Mohammadi recurred on Paramount+'s Lioness. Morrow guest starred on NBC's Law & Order: SVU.
- Maschio and Lewis will reprise their roles as Todd and Hooch respectively, surgeons at Sacred Heart Hospital.
- Bayer will play Sibby, who runs a wellness program for faculty and staff at Sacred Heart.
- Booster will play Dr. Eric Park, an attending at Sacred Heart.
- The hospital's new intern class will feature Bunn as Serena, Dudman as Asher, Gridley as Blake, Mohammadi as Amara, and Morrow as Dashana.
HBO's THE COMEBACK
- John Early, Barry Shabaka Henley, Abbi Jacobson, Tony Macht, Brittany O'Grady, Zane Phillips and Julian Stern have scored recurring roles on the comedy's upcoming third and final season. Early previously starred for five seasons in TBS/HBO Max's Search Party. Henley starred for five seasons in CBS' Bob Hearts Abishola. Jacobson starred for five seasons in Comedy Central's Broad City. Macht recurred on FX's Dying for Sex. O'Grady starred for three seasons in FOX's Star and in the first season of HBO's The White Lotus. Phillips recurred on Freeform's Good Trouble and Hulu's Mid-Century Modern. Stern is the son of series star Lisa Kudrow and will make his acting debut on the comedy.
- No details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing.
PRIME VIDEO's JOSEPH OF EGYPT
- Alexa Mansour, Shila Ommi, Christopher Maleki, Alonso Rappa, Johnny Visotcky and Jay Abdo have landed recurring roles on the upcoming limited series starring Adam Hashmi. Mansour previously starred for two seasons in AMC's The Walking Dead: World Beyond. Ommi starred for three seasons in AppleTV+'s Tehran. Maleki recurred on Showtime's Homeland and Peacock's Law & Order: Organized Crime. Rappa recurred on AMC's Dark Winds. Visotcky guest starred on CBS' NCIS: Origins. Abdo starred in the film Skeet.
- Mansour will play Asenath. Ommi will play Senebsen. Maleki will play Potiphar. Rappa will play Benjamin. Visotcky will play Zebulun. Abdo will play Bastis.
NETFLIX's THE BODY
- Kristina Bogic, Sara Boustany, Geena Meszaros, Nnamdi Asomugha, Louisa Krause, Shirley Chen, Jackson Kelly, Sofia Wylie, Kyra Pierce, Phallon Pierce, Marcel Ruiz, Orlando Norman and Gabby Windey have been cast on the upcoming drama created by Quinn Shephard.
- As series regulars, Bogic will play Anya Butler; Boustany will play Elise Zakaria; Meszaros will play Lisbeth Anderson; Asomugha will play Father Franklin; Krause will play Catherine Anderson; Chen will play Maddie Delaney; Kelly will play Leo Anderson; and Wylie will play Grace Franklin.
- In recurring roles, Pierce will play Bailey Bradley; Pierce will play Brit Bradley; Ruiz will play Tyler Santos; Norman will play Steven Maxwell; and Windey will play Coach Miller.
NBC's CHICAGO MED
- Gbenga Akinnagbe is set for a recurring role on the drama's eleventh season. He previously starred for three seasons in HBO's The Wire, two seasons in HBO's The Deuce and two seasons in FX's The Old Man.
- He will play David, Sharon Goodwin's (S. Epatha Merkerson) son.
NBC's ST. DENIS MEDICAL
- Kristen Schaal, Lauren Weedman, Frankie Quiñones, Lauren Lapkus, Tim Baltz, Jeremiah Brown and Jonah Beckett will guest star on the comedy's upcoming second season. Schaal previously starred for four seasons in FOX's The Last Man on Earth and two seasons in FX's What We Do In the Shadows. Weedman recurred on HBO Max's Hacks and ABC's Abbott Elementary. Quiñones starred for two seasons in Hulu's This Fool. Lapkus recurred on CBS' The Big Bang Theory and NBC's Good Girls. Baltz starred for four seasons in HBO's The Righteous Gemstones. Brown appeared on the seventh season of Peacock's Love Island. Beckett guest starred on HBO Max's The Sex Lives of College Girls.
- Schaal will play Ashley, a bookish sci-fi enthusiast who has a meet-cute with an unexpected member of the St. Denis family.
- Weedman will play Nurse Pam, a retired charge nurse who comes back to St. Denis to help out while they are understaffed. The excitement felt for the extra help soon dissipates as the staff is reminded of who Pam really is.
- Quiñones will play Leslie, a security guard at St. Denis who is very aware of the ins and outs of the hospital gossip.
- Lapkus will play a pregnant woman accompanying her husband to the hospital after a mishap at their gender reveal party.
- Baltz will play a father-to-be rushed into St. Denis after their gender reveal party goes awry.
- Brown will play Jeff, a handsome Ultimate Frisbee jock waiting for his roommate to get discharged from St. Denis.
- Beckett will Kyle, a college student whose mysterious illness is stumping the doctors at St. Denis.
NETFLIX's THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
- Fiona Glascott, Belinda Bromilow, Emma Shipp, Hayley Mills, Ryan Morgan, Will Tudor, John Light, Steven Pacey, Kel Matsena, Lucia Balordi, Elly Roberts, Jack Cutmore-Scott, Anna Madeley and Michael Cochrane have joined the cast of the upcoming limited series starring Camila Morrone, Kristine Froseth, Ben Radcliffe and Margo Martindale.
- Glascott (Julia, Fantastic Beasts) will play Augusta Welland, May's (Froseth) mother, who is maternal, loving and traditional.
- Bromilow (Doctor Doctor, The Great) will play Adeline Archer, Newland's (Radcliffe) mother, an independent, well-informed widow who prefers solitude.
- Shipp (Rivals, What It Feels Like For a Girl) will play Janey Archer, Newland's sister who is unmarried but desperately wants to change that.
- Mills (Wild at Heart, Unforgotten) will play Louisa Van Der Luyden, Adeline's cousin who is an influential and regal member of New York society.
- Morgan (Mix Tape, The Mongoose) will play Lawrence Lefferts, Newland's snide yet sociable friend.
- Tudor (Industry, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light) will play Sillerton Jackson, Newland's friend who is lofty and a gossip with secrets of his own.
- Light (Showtrial, Father Brown) will play Mr. Lovell Mingott, May and Ellen's (Morrone) uncle who is moral, pious, and community-minded.
- Pacey (MobLand, Nuremberg) will play Judge John Welland, May's father, Augusta's husband, and Ellen's uncle. He is learned, frail, accomplished, absent, selfish and unemotional.
- Matsena (Mad Heidi, Mix Tape) will play Ned Winsett, a working class hero who is a friend of Newland and editor at a radical women's magazine.
- Balordi (A Testa Alta) will play Nastasia, Ellen's ladies' maid who has become a close friend and confidant.
- Roberts (Sex Education, Black Cake) will play Edith Mingott, May and Ellen's sweet and unassuming cousin.
- Cutmore-Scott (Frasier, Death and Other Details) will play Julius Beaufort, an arrogant new money banker at the center of New York society with an interest in Ellen.
- Madeley (All Creatures Great and Small, 1949) will play Aunt Medora, Ellen's lively, amoral aunt and former guardian.
- Cochrane (The Arches, Downton Abbey) will play Henry Van Der Luyden, Adeline's cousin. A descendant from British royalty, he is regal, removed and old-fashioned.
CBS' THE NEIGHBORHOOD
- Amber Stevens West has booked a recurring role on the comedy's upcoming eighth and final season. She previously starred for four seasons in ABC Family's Greek, three seasons in NBC's The Carmichael Show and two seasons in Starz's Run the World.
- She will play Mercedes. High-drama, high-maintenance, fabulous, self-absorbed, and one of the stars of "Trophy Divas of Brentwood," Mercedes is all about Mercedes. She has hired Malcolm (Sheaun McKinney) to ghost write her romance novel, but she's concerned that it's not smutty enough to please her fan base. But when she's not out in public, Mercedes is actually much more grounded and a savvy businesswoman, not the monster she plays on TV.