Billy Dee Williams Visiting Private Practice

TV Guide is reporting that Billy Dee Williams is going to be paying the Oceanside Wellness Center a visit during the second season of ABC’s Private Practice. In what is being described by setsiders as a very moving role.

Williams will play a patient of Taye Diggs’ Dr. Sam Bennett. The storyline: Williams’ character has been dutifully caring for his lady as she sings the blues (his wife is addled by dementia-type symptoms), yet he has been doing so with selfless disregard for his own declining health.