The Casting Call 11.20.09

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: Miami (CBS)
Lucy Hale (Privileged) has signed on for a guest role. She will play a famous pop star that turns up dead. Hale’s episode is scheduled to air in January 2010.

Delta Blues (TNT)
Sam Hennings, Robyn Lively and Leonard Earl Howze have landed co-starring roles opposite Jason Lee on TNT’s George Clooney produced pilot. The show centers on Dwight Hendricks (Lee), a Memphis police officer who lives with his mother and moonlights as an Elvis impersonator. Hennings will play Dwight’s partner Whitehead. Lively will play Charlene, Dwight’s ex-wife whose catering company is contracted by the MPD. Howze will play a detective who works closely with Dwight and Whitehead. He is managed by Krirzer Levine Wilkins Griffin.

Facing Kate (USA)
Ethan Embry has joined USA Network’s pilot. The show centers on Kate (Sarah Shahi), an attorney-turned-professional mediator trying to balance her new work relationships and those with her family. Embry will play Kate’s brother and confidant who gave up a law career to be a stay-at-home father.

Law and Order: SVU (NBC)
Kathy Griffin has joined the show in a guest role. She will play a lesbian activist in the February 10 episode.

Private Practice (ABC)
Melissa McCarthy has signed on for a guest role. She will play a pregnant woman who is a patient of midwifery expert Dell (Chris Lowell). McCarthy’s episode is scheduled to air in January.

Rizzoli (TNT)
Lorraine Bracco is returning to series television with a role in TNT’s drama pilot. Bracco will play Rizzoli’s mother Angela, who despite her tough Boston exterior is a beautiful woman, loyal wife and mother of three.

The Quickening (A&E)
maury Nolasco (Prison Break) is set to co-star opposite Radha Mitchell in A&E’s drama pilot. The centers on Maggie Bird, a homicide detective assigned to a desk job after it is discovered that she has a bipolar disorder. Nolasco will play a homicide detective who briefly was married to Maggie and remains emotionally connected to her.