Casting

The second installment of Dirty John has found its leads.  Multiple outlets confirm that Amanda Peet and Christian Slater are set to take over the leads roles from Connie Briton and Eric Bana who starred in Dirty John’s previous season.  The second season of the true-crime anthology subtitled The Betty Broderick...

Edgar Ramirez joins The War Has Ended.  The Carlos and The Assassination of Gianni Versace star joined the cast of The War Has Ended from writer and director Hagar Ben-Asher.  Ben-Asher told Variety that the drama set in Poland in 1945 “is about a world reconstructing itself, finding its moral codes,...

Welcome to the fam Ray Romano! Romano is officially the first in One Day at a Time’s lineup of guest stars. The casting reunites him with Everybody Loves Raymond executive producer, Mike Royce.  Per the official character description, Romano is set to play Brian, “a 2020 US Census taker who comes...

Universal's movie adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen has cast The Hate U Give's Amandla Stenberg to play the role of Alana. Dear Evan Hansen opened on Broadway in 2016 and it won six Tony Awards including Best Actor in a Musical for Ben Platt and Best Musical. The musical's about...

Colman Domingo is getting ready to direct a film about the romance between Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr., and he found a perfect duo to lead it. Sydney Sweeney and David Jonsson are getting ready to play lead roles in the period drama Scandalous, which will mark Domingo’s...

Rachel Bilson is returning to Fox. The O.C. alumna has joined the dramedy pilot tentatively titled  Lovestruck. Bilson is set to play the female lead, aka the bride in the wedding night series. Bilson’s bride is described as a “bolt of pure sunshine,” sweet and thoughtful yet assertive.  She joins the...

A new Edie Falco-led drama is coming thanks to CBS. Multiple outlets confirm that the network has picked up the cop drama titled Tommy for the 2019-2020 season. The Sopranos alum will star as the first female chief of police of Los Angeles. The series hails from Homicide creator Paul Attanasio, Amblin...

Joss Whedon’s HBO sci-fi drama rounds out its ensemble cast.  The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator and The Avengers writer/director has added Olivia Williams (Miss Austen Regrets), James Norton (Grantchester), Tom Riley (Dark Heart), Ann Skelly (Death and Nightingales), Ben Chaplin (The Children Act), Pip Torrens (The Crown), Zackary Momoh...

Rachel Maddow has been cast in The CW’s Batwoman series, The MSNBC host has been cast in the role of Vesper Fairchild — a TV and radio figure who once had a romantic relationship with Bruce Wayne. “We consider Vesper Fairchild to be the sardonic Voice of Gotham. In addition to...

The Oscar-winning actor joins the cast of Apple’s Slow Horses.  Gary Oldman is set to star in the forthcoming espionage drama series based on Mick Herron's book series. According to Variety, the show follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 – Slough...