Saturday Night Live alum Finesse Mitchell is set as a series regular opposite Eden Sher in the Sue Heck spinoff, a half-hour single-camera comedy that received a pilot production commitment at ABC, Deadline has confirmed. The p[roject hails from The Middle creators/executive producers Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline…

Saturday Night Live alum Finesse Mitchell will take the stage in his first stand-up special Finesse Mitchell: The Spirit Told Me To Tell You, premiering Friday, October 19 at 10 PM ET/PT on Showtime. Directed by Devon Shepard and shot at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California, the hour-long special will feature…

Saturday Night Live alum Finesse Mitchell has been tapped for a recurring role on HBO’s new comedy pilot Brothers In Atlanta, written by and starring former Late Night With Jimmy Fallon writers/performers Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin and executive produced by Lorne Michaels. Maya Rudolph and Jaden Smith also…

James Martinez (Breaking Bad, Aquarius) has joined the cast of USA Network’s drama pilot Queen Of The South, based on the popular telenovela La Reina Del Sur. He will recur as Gato Fierros, a right-hand man of drug lord Cesar Guemes, who seems to delight in making his victims suffer before he does away with them. The…