June 9th, 2009 | 0 Comments
After becoming Showtime’s most-watched series premiere ever, the network has giving Nurse Jackie a second season. The show was seen by 1 million viewers, then gathered another 350,000 watchers during its same-night repeat for a total of 1.35 million viewers. That surpasses the prior same-night series premiere record holder, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, which opened to about 950,000 viewers last year. The season debut of Weeds served as lead-in, garnering a total of 1.7 million across two showings, down just a bit from last year.
June 3rd, 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.
Army Wives (Lifetime)
Shelby Lynne will appear in an August episode, playing a country music singer whom Roxy adored while growing up, but now is “down and out,” Brigid Brannagh (Pamela) says “Roxy ends up befriending her – and then she sings a little ditty at the Hump Bar, which is pretty cool.”
Appearing in the episode immediately following is Gilmore Girls actress Kelly Bishop. She’ll be playing the wife of a late, great state senator, in town to attend a building-naming ceremony. Charged with entertaining the special guest, Claudia Joy and Denise come to realize the not-so-weeping widow’s secret – that she’s a cougar!
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May 27th, 2009 | 0 Comments
John Lithgow is joining the cast of Dexter, the network announced. Lithgow will appear in all 12 episodes of the show’s upcoming fourth season, playing Walter Simmons, Miami’s latest serial killer and Dexter’s new nemesis.
Simmons is described as an unassuming, mild-mannered suburbanite who has been living a duel life as one of America’s most prolific and deadliest serial killers, dubbed the “Trinity Killer” because he likes to kill in threes. He relocates to Miami after being tracked by FBI Special Agent Frank Lundy (Keith Carradine). Dexter is brought on to assist in the investigation and becomes obsessed by his skill and ability to evade capture for almost three decades.
The fourth season of Dexter premieres September 27 on Showtime.
May 13th, 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.
How To Make It In America (HBO)
Eddie Kaye Thomas has joined HBO’s upcoming comedy series How to Make It in America as a regular. Thomas guest-starred on the pilot, which revolves around Ben and his friend Cam, enterprising twentysomethings who hustle their way through New York determined to achieve the American dream. Thomas plays a guy who went to high school with Ben. He now runs a hedge fund and is extremely rich but wants to be cool at any price.
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April 29th, 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.
Burn Notice (USA)
Ben Shenkman as been cast for the third season as the man who can make Michael’s burn notice disappear forever. Shenkman will play the recurring role of Tom Strickler, a smooth-talking, gregarious freelance spy broker who offers to cancel Michael’s (Jeffrey Donovan) burn notice in exchange for an unspecified and potentially lethal job. Shenkman’s signed for a minimum of four episodes, the first of which will air midway through the show’s third season (debuting in June).
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April 22nd, 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.
Burn Notice (USA)
Michael Weston has been cast to guest star opposite Jeffrey Donovan in a season 3 episode. Weston will play Spencer, an unbalanced MIT grad who turns to Michael Weston (Donovan) when he uncovers a plot to sell the names of undercover spies. He thinks aliens are behind it.
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