Casting News - March 11, 2026
AMC's Dark Winds; CBS' Ghosts & Matlock; FOX's Baywatch; FX's The Lowdown; and MGM+'s Bosch: Start of Watch.
AMC's Dark Winds; CBS' Ghosts & Matlock; FOX's Baywatch; FX's The Lowdown; and MGM+'s Bosch: Start of Watch.
FX's THE LOWDOWN
- Tommy Lee Jones has joined the cast of the drama's upcoming second season. He has received four Academy Award nominations - winning in 1994 for his supporting role in The Fugitive. He has also received two Emmy Award nominations - winning in 1983 for his performance in the NBC limited series The Executioner's Song. His casting today marks his first TV role since starring in the HBO film The Sunset Limited in 2011.
- No details were immediately announced about the character he will be playing.
CBS' MATLOCK
- Gina Rodriguez will guest star in the drama's upcoming second season finale. Her casting reunites her with showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman after previously working together for five seasons on The CW's Jane the Virgin.
- No details were immediately announced about the character she will be playing.
- On the casting, Urman said, "My heart is exploding with happiness that Gina will be joining the show for the season two finale. She is pure magic and our collaboration on Jane was a highlight of my life. Having her on Matlock is a dream come true."
AMC's DARK WINDS
- Martin Sensmeier has been cast as a new series regular on the drama's upcoming fourth season. He previously recurred on Paramount Network's Yellowstone and NBC's La Brea. He will next be seen in the second season of Prime Video's The Terminal List.
- He will play Terry Bai, a Vietnam vet turned racetrack worker with ties to Chee (Kiowa Gordon) from middle school.
FOX's BAYWATCH
- Shay Mitchell will co-star on the upcoming drama starring Stephen Amell. She previously starred for seven seasons in ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars, in the first season of Netflix's You, and two seasons in Hulu's Dollface.
- She will play Trina, a former lawyer who walked away from a top-tier firm to dedicate herself to lifeguarding full-time. She is the sharpest mind on Baywatch. Passionate and dedicated, she tends to follow her heart... even if she often uses her considerable intelligence to second-guess herself.
CBS' GHOSTS
- Christopher Jackson and James Austin Johnson will guest star in upcoming episodes of the comedy's fifth season. Jackson previously starred for six seasons in CBS' Bull and two seasons in HBO Max's And Just Like That. Since 2021, Johnson has been a cast member of NBC's Saturday Night Live.
- Jackson will play Anthony, an HR rep at Mahoning Capital who calls in Trevor's (Asher Grodman) fake employee alter ego, "Michael Jackson," after questionable stripper-gram behavior.
- Johnson will play Joe, the local historical expert who helps Sam (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) navigate the process of declaring Woodstone a historical monument.
MGM+'s BOSCH: START OF WATCH
- Azita Ghanizada, William Fichtner and Kathleen Wilhoite have landed recurring roles on the upcoming drama starring Cameron Monaghan and Omari Hardwick. Ghanizada previously recurred on Freeform's Good Trouble, CBS' United States of Al and NBC's Suits LA. Fichtner currently stars in AMC's Talamasca: The Secret Order, which aired its first season last fall. Wilhoite recurred on CBS' CSI: Vegas and Hulu's Murdaugh: Death in the Family.
- Ghanizada will play Stacy, an ambitious, razor-sharp lawyer drawn to the thrill of criminal power. As a key operator behind the scenes, her budding romance with master thief Cory Harbor (JD Pardo) pulls her deeper into a dangerous world between professional ambition and personal risk.
- Fichtner will play Calhern, a respected defense attorney turned power broker in Los Angeles' criminal underworld.
- Wilhoite will play Helen, Bosch's (Monaghan) devoted foster mother, whose recent loss of her husband has left a deep wound.