The Casting Call 10.23.09

October 23rd, 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.

Community (NBC)
Lauren Stamile (Grey’s Anatomy) is joining the show in a possibly recurring role. She has been cast as Professor Slater, a Greendale Community College statistics teacher and love interest for Jeff (Joel McHale). When Slater rejects his advances, Jeff is forced to seek out romance advice from Senor Chang (Ken Jeong) – a move sure to end in disaster, especially as Annie (Alison Brie) plans a Day of the Dead party for their Spanish class. Stamile will appear in the Halloween episode scheduled to air October 29.

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Premiering Tonight 09.30.09

September 30th, 2009 | 0 Comments

The 2009 Fall Season is upon us and that signals the return of Premiering Tonight. Welcome to Premiering Tonight, highlighting all the new and returning shows premiering on the Fall 2009 schedule.

Premiering tonight on TV are the season premieres of Hank, The Middle and I Didn’t Know I was Pregnant.

Hank – 8:00 PM/ET on ABC
Kelsey Grammer returns to television with a new sitcom. Grammer plays Hank Pryor, a business giant in the sports-retail arena who gets benched in a force-out, and, in the opener, takes his family back home to Virginia to try to rebuild his career and adjust to simply being a father and husband.

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The Casting Call 08.26.09

August 26th, 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.

Hank (ABC)
Melissa McCarthy is joining the ABC sitcom as a recurring character. McCarthy is playing Dawn, the wife of David Koechner’s Grady and sister-in-law to Kelsey Grammer’s Hank.

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The Casting Call 07.24.09

July 24th, 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.

Gary Unmarried (CBS)
Brooke D’Orsay has been cast as a new regular character. D’Orsay will play a manager of a radio station owned by her father where Gary (Jay Mohr) is painting and Clean (new regular Keegan Michael Key) works.

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ABC Announces 2009 Fall Lineup

May 19th, 2009 | 29 Comments

Stephen McPherson, president, ABC Entertainment Group, outlined ABC’s plans for next season and unveiled the network’s 2009-10 fall schedule before the advertising and media communities at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. New fall and midseason series include Cougar Town, The Deep End, Eastwick, Flash Forward, The Forgotten, Hank, Happy Town, The Middle, Modern Family, Shark Tank and V.

Better Off Ted, Castle, Scrubs and True Beauty join previously announced returning series America’s Funniest Home Videos, The Bachelor, Brothers and Sisters, Dancing with the Stars, Desperate Housewives, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Grey’s Anatomy, Lost, Private Practice, Supernanny, Ugly Betty, Wife Swap and 20/20.

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ABC Picks Up The Forgotten, Eastwick, Hank And The Middle

May 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments

ABC handed out a series pickup to the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced drama The Forgotten, along with the drama Eastwick, Hank, starring Kelsey Grammer, and The Middle, starring Patricia Heaton.

Written by Mark Friedman, The Forgotten revolves around a team of amateur detectives working on cases of unidentified victims. The cast includes Anthony Carrigan, Michelle Borth, Bob Stephenson, Rochelle Aytes, Rupert Penry-Jones and Reiko Aylesworth. Friedman and Bruckheimer are executive producing.

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