August 12th, 2009 | 0 Comments
The Casting Call brings together the latest casting news to keep you informed on who is showing up on which show. Find out who is joining your favorite show as a series regular, a recurring character, a guest star or special cameo. The Casting Call could reveal upcoming story-lines, so be aware, there may be spoilers ahead.
24 (Fox)
Bashar Rahal has landed a multi-episode arc on Fox’s 24. On the upcoming eighth season, he will play a general from the Islamic Republic of Kamistan who is involved in a conspiracy against President Hassan (Anil Kapoor).
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August 11th, 2009 | 0 Comments
TVGuideMagazine.com is reporting that Callum Keith Rennie, who played Leoben Conoy on Battlestar Galactica, has signed on for the new season of 24. He joins former Galactica co-star Katee Sackoff (Starbuck) for the eighth season of Fox’s hit drama set to premiere in January 2010. Rennie will be playing Vladimir Laitanan, a Russian syndicate mobster who debuts around episode six or seven. Expect him to be involved in some way with 24’s other new villain, Eastern European mobster Bazhaev, played by Jurgen Prochnow.
Along with Battlestar Galactica, Rennie recently played Harper’s Island killer John Wakefield.
August 11th, 2009 | 0 Comments
King of the Hill will finish its 13 season run on Fox with an hour-long finale. Fox executives had indicated last week during the Television Critics Association press tour that they would not air any more new episodes of the animated series. The finale is scheduled to air September 13 at 8:00 PM/ET. This leaves four new episodes that Fox is leaving in the can, with no plans of airing. Hopefully, they will start releasing the remaining seasons on DVD.
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August 10th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Fox has given a put pilot order to “Ridealong,” a Chicago-set cop show from The Shield’s Shawn Ryan. Set in Chicago, Ridealong will move the inner law-enforcement workings away from the police stations. The show will center on three groups of police officers – ranging from uniformed beat cops to the female chief of police.
Ridealong will mostly take place on the streets of Chicago, with the central lead character a Polish-American cop who plays up his heritage. Ryan plans to make Chicago a major part of the show, mining the colorful history of the city, including the exploits of gangster Al Capone and Richard Daley’s political machine and explore the intertwined worlds of police and politics in present-day Chicago.
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August 7th, 2009 | 0 Comments
The Casting Call brings together the latest casting news to keep you informed on who is showing up on which show. Find out who is joining your favorite show as a series regular, a recurring character, a guest star or special cameo. The Casting Call could reveal upcoming story-lines, so be aware, there may be spoilers ahead.
CSI: NY (CBS)
Skeet Ulrich has signed on for three episodes this season. Ulrich will play a complex and deeply disturbed killer. The arc will send the CSIs all over New York City on one of the wildest cases of their careers. The three episodes will begin airing October 7. The killer character harkens back to Ulrich’s role in Scream, the horror mystery that helped make him a star.
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August 5th, 2009 | 1 Comment
24 has found a new villian in Jürgen Prochnow. For 24’s eighth season, Prochnow will play Bazhaev, the ruthless head of an Eastern European organized crime syndicate.
“He’s essentially a Godfather,” says executive producer Howard Gordon, who teases that President Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin) could likely make a return in the new season. “He’s out there somewhere.”
Prochnow is best known as the submarine commander of 1981’s Das Boot as well as appearing in several other movies including Dune, Beverly Hills Cop II , Judge Dredd, Air Force One and The Da Vinci Code.
