David Sutcliffe will return to ABC’s Private Practice says the Hollywood Reporter. Sutcliffe, who guest starred on the medical drama in the fall, will appear in 11 episodes next season, reprising his role as Officer Kevin Nelson, a new love interest for Dr. Addison Montgomery.
ABC’s Women’s Murder Club will produce three more original episodes this season after a last-minute deal with Robert Nathan to come on board as showrunner. He replaces co-creators/co-showrunners Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain who, along with executive producer R. Scott Gemmill, were let go earlier this month. A pickup of additional episodes by ABC hinged on finding a new showrunner. With Nathan at the helm, Women’s Murder Club will go into production on three fresh episodes to begin airing on ABC as soon as April. There are no plans for any significant creative changes to the series, a procedural focused on the four women who partner together to solve crimes.
Andrea Roth - aka Denis Leary’s (ex-)wife on Rescue Me - is joining the cast of ABC’s Lost in a recurring role. Details about her character are being kept under wraps, but a recent Lost casting notice went out for a female character in her mid-thirties described as “a tough, no-nonsense and beautiful” therapist who has a tendancy to be “overly controlling and obsessive.” There has been no talk of how many episodes Roth will appear in, but it shouldn’t interfere with her role in Rescue Me, if it returns for a fifth season. FX hasn’t officially renewed the show for a fifth season. Assuming that it will be back, production will likely resume in early ‘08 - which would leave Roth plenty of time to squeeze in Lost.
Traveler star Logan Marshall-Green has landed the lead on NBC’s cop drama pilot Blue Blood, from writer Neil Tolkin and director Brett Ratner, says The Hollywood Reporter. The network has also ordered two additional scripts from the project, produced by 20th Century Fox TV and studio-based Little Engine and Rat TV. Based on Edward Conlon’s memoir,
Blood is an ensemble show about NYPD rookie cops assigned to street patrol. The show centers on one of the cops, Ed (Marshall-Green), a Harvard graduate. Blood, which will be filmed in New York, is being executive produced by Tolkin, Ratner and Little Engine’s Gina Matthews and Grant Scharbo.
Matt Keeslar and Natalie Morales have been tapped to star in ABC Family’s comic-inspired drama pilot The Middleman, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Mary Pat Gleason also has been cast in the one-hour project, which is based on Medium writer-producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach’s graphic novels for Viper Comics, which were illustrated by Les McClaine. The project was ordered to pilot last month. Middleman centers on Wendy Watson (Morales), a twenty-something struggling artist recruited by a secret agency to fight comic-book-type villains. Keeslar will play the title character, a superhero who serves as her guide. Gleason will play Ida, the robotic gatekeeper and veteran assistant to Keeslar.
Carly Pope has landed a recurring role on Fox’s “24,” says The Hollywood Reporter. On the Imagine TV/20th Century Fox TV-produced thriller, which will be set in Washington this season, she will play Samantha Roth, the girlfriend of the president’s (Cherry Jones) son who might be connected to his disappearance. Pope co-stars on FX’s drama Dirt as Garbo.
Former Wings star Steven Weber is joining the cast of ABC’s Brothers and Sisters for an arc as a love interest for Rachel Griffiths’ soon-to-be-single Sarah. Weber’s character, Graham Finch, is a private consultant who is brought in to help expand the Walker family business. And although Sarah is initially resistant to the idea, she ultimately succumbs to his charms.
Lauren Stamile has landed a major recurring role on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. Stamile, who has done numerous guest-starring appearances in addition to co-starring on WB Network’s Off Centre, will play opposite Patrick Dempsey, but the producers are keeping mum on a potential onscreen romance.
Kal Penn, Olivia Wilde and Peter Jacobson, three of the new interns House brought on to fill the positions left by the departures of Cameron, Chase and Foreman (played by Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer and Omar Epps), are staying on as series regulars. The original plan was for just two of the new arrivals to stay on as regulars, but the ratings have prompted producers to add a third regular from the intern pool.
Elisabeth Rohm and Ryan Devlin have come aboard ABC’s Big Shots.On Rohm will play Alex Mason, a TV stock analyst and love interest to Amerimart COO James Walker (Michael Vartan). Devlin will play Zack Wells, a new intern at Reveal Cosmetics who sparks the interest of Cameron Collinsworth (Peyton List).