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EXCLUSIVE: Former Orange Is the New Black star Jackie Cruz has booked a recurring role on the upcoming third season of NBC's Good Girls. Written and executive produced by Jenna Bans, Good Girls stars Christina Hendricks, Retta and Mae Whitman as suburban moms who are tired of trying to make ends meet and decide it's…

EXCLUSIVE: Gina Yashere is getting a second full-time job on the new CBS comedy series Bob ♥ Abishola. Yashere, who co-created the series with Chuck Lorre, Al Higgins and Eddie Gorodetsky, serves as a writer and producer on the show. She also had a scene-stealing guest starring turn in the pilot as Kemi, Abishola’s…

EXCLUSIVE: In an art-imitates-life casting, DeVaughn Nixon (Prom, Marvel’s Runaways) has been tapped to play his dad, Norm Nixon, in HBO’s pilot about the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers. Written by Max Borenstein (Godzilla), the Untitled Showtime Lakers Project is based on Jeff Pearlman's nonfiction book Showtime: Magic, Kar…

Jasmine Guy (A Different World, Harlem Nights), who guest-starred near the end of last season on Grey’s Anatomy, is returning to the ABC medical drama in a key recurring role opposite James Pickens Jr. on the upcoming 16th season. Guy plays Gemma, a woman who showed up at the Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital emergency…

Kiefer Sutherland and Boyd Holbrook are set to star in Quibi’s The Fugitive, a new take on the 1993 Harrison Ford film which was based on the 1960s TV series of the same name, from Scorpion creator Nick Santora, Thunder Road Films, 3 Arts Entertainment and Warner Bros. TV. Additionally, Stephen Hopkins (24, The Dark To…

EXCLUSIVE: One of the many mysteries surrounding the upcoming fourth season of This Is Us has been solved. The West Wing alum Tim Matheson will play Rebecca’s (Mandy Moore) father, Dave, in a key recurring role on NBC’s flagship drama series. This Is Us has been teasing the Meet the Parents aspect of Season 4…

EXCLUSIVE: Marilyn Manson is joining with the beautiful people of American Gods for the Starz series' third season. No stranger to the small screen, the Sons of Anarchy alum will play blood-thirsty Johan Wengren,  lead singer of the Viking death metal band Blood Death — well within the shock rocker's wheelhouse…

EXCLUSIVE: Justified star Timothy Olyphant is returning to FX with a key role in the upcoming fourth installment of the network’s anthology series Fargo, headlined by Chris Rock. Created, written, directed and executive produced by Noah Hawley, who also serves as showrunner, Season 4 is set in 1950 in Kansas City, MO…

J.K. Rowling's crime drama Strike will return to U.S. cable network Cinemax and has added a slew of actors for its next iteration. Live By Night's Robert Glenister and Peaky Blinders' Natasha O'Keeffe have joined the series, which is based on Rowling's best-selling Cormoran Strike crime novels written under the…

EXCLUSIVE: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina‘s Abigail Cowen is set to lead the ensemble cast of Netflix’s live-action young adult series Fate: The Winx Saga, inspired by the Italian animated franchise, from original series producer Rainbow Group and Archery Pictures. Principal photography on the six-episode series has…

Apple has given a formal green light to Mosquito Coast, a drama series from Luther creator Neil Cross starring Justin Theroux. The series, directed by Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), is based on the 1981 novel The Mosquito Coast by Justin’s uncle, Paul Theroux. Mosquito Coast stars Justin Theroux as an…

CSI alum Gary Dourdan will take on the lead role of Adam Turner in Memoria, an indie sci-fi drama written by Alice Del Corso. Production-Finance company, Buffalo 8, has come on board to executive produce the project. Philip Thomas Morelli is directing the film, which is set in the near future where a special high-tech…