The Casting Call 12.04.09

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 (CBS)
Country music group Rascal Flatts has signed on to appear in an episode to air sometime next year. In the episode titled Unshockable, the band members will be playing themselves. One of the guys will become the victim of a crime. The other two band members will be suspects jeopardizing the future of the band.

Delta Blues (TNT)
Abraham Benrubi, Celia Weston and DJ Qualls have joined the cast of TNT’s pilot Delta Blues, executive produced by George Clooney. The Show centers on Dwight Hendricks (Jason Lee), a Memphis police officer who lives with his mother (Weston) and moonlights as a tribute artist. Benrubi will play Sgt. J.C. Lightfoot, a 6-foot-5 Caucasian man with a braided ponytail who is only one-eighth Chickasaw but lives by his tribe’s wisdom and dispenses sage quotations to the rest of the Memphis detectives. Qualls will play a cop and Dwight’s protege.

Private Practice (ABC)
Rosanna Arquette has landed a guest role on ABC’s medical drama. She will play the bohemian mother of Dink (Stephen Lunsford), who happens to be Maya Bennett’s new boyfriend. Maya is the daughter of Sam (Taye Diggs) and Naomi (Audra McDonald). Arquette is scheduled to appear in one episode airing in early February.

Rules of Engagement (CBS)
Jaime Pressly (My Name Is Earl) is set to guest star on CBS’ Rules of Engagement. She will play a potential surrogate mother for Jeff and Audrey. No word on when Pressly’s episode will air.

The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Danica McKellar has landed a guest role on the CBS comedy. You might remember McKellar from the Wonder Years. She played Winnie Cooper, Kevin’s neighbor crush. She will play Abby, a grad student at Cal Tech who is a love interest for one of the characters. McKellar’s episode is scheduled to air January 11.

True Blood (HBO)
Theo Alexander and Grant Bowler (Ugly Betty) have landed recurring roles on Alan Ball’s vampire drama. Alexander will play Talbot, an “intensely beautiful” vampire, the boyfriend of Russell Edgington (Denis O’Hare), the vampire king of Mississippi. Talbot has an acerbic sense of humor and loves to cook despite vampires’ inherent lack of cooking talents. Bowler will play Coot, a werewolf, the menacing ringleader of a biker gang.