Fargo. Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons (Breaking Bad, Friday Night Lights) have been cast in lead roles in the upcoming 10-episode second season of FX’s Fargo. According to TV Line, Dunst will play “a small town beautician with big city dreams who is trying to figure out who she really is and what she really wants as she struggles with traditional societal expectations” and Plemons will play her husband, “a butcher’s assistant who wants to be supportive of his wife’s self-discovery, even if he doesn’t quite understand it.” As previously announced, Season 2 will take its lead from the Coen Bros.’ Fargo, Miller’s Crossing and The Man Who Wasn’t There. It will travel back to 1979 where it will follow Lou Solverson (Molly’s dad played by Keith Carradine in Season 1) as a 33-year-old state trooper in Sioux City.
Dancing with the Stars. E! News has confirmed that Len Goodman is leaving Dancing with the Stars and I have no doubt a stunned nation mourns this great loss.
Scream Queens. Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween, Trading Places) and Emma Roberts (American Horror Story, We’re the Millers) have joined the cast of Ryan Murphy’s new FOX show set to drop Fall 2015. Season 1’s 15-episode arc will examine a series of murders at a college campus. No other specifics yet. (TV Line)
Billions. Maggie Siff (Sons of Anarchy) joins Damian Lewis (Homeland) and Paul Giamatti (Sideways) in the cast of the Showtime pilot. According to TV Line, “Siff will play the central character of Wendy Rhoades, [wife of Giamatti’s character], who after graduating at the top of her medical school class and training as a psychiatrist is now an in-demand performance coach who counts some of the most powerful figures in the world of high finance among her clients.”
Irreversible. Annoying Apple guy (aka: iDouche) Justin Long will star in a single-camera comedy pilot for ABC. As Deadline notes, they already tried this one with David Schwimmer last season, but it was a no-go. The partly improvised show will focus on “a a somewhat eccentric, self-absorbed couple, and their trials and tribulations — most of which they bring upon themselves.”