Casting Notes: ‘Alice’ drops by ‘Bones’, ‘The Flash’ Puts Female Spin on Old Villain, and more

Continuing/Returning Shows

The Flash. Emily Kinney (The Walking Dead) has been cast in episode 18 of the CW comic book show as Brie Larvan, a female version of the villain Bertram Larvan, aka Bug-Eyed Bandit, who has built an army of mechanical insects to do bad things. (The Wrap)

Extant. Another Walking Dead veteran, David Morrissey, will join the CBS sci-fi drama Extant when it returns this summer. He’ll play the head of the Global Security Commission who just so happens to share a past with Halle Berry. (Deadline)

Bones. Linda Lavin (Alice) will guest on an upcoming episode of the David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel FOX crime drama as a criminal courts judge. (TVLine)

Forever. Cuba Gooding Jr. will play a love interest for Alana de la Garza in a multi-episode arc on the ABC fantasy-drama. (EW)

Devloping Series

Chicago Med. The potential Chicago Fire spinoff has added Yaya DaCosta (Whitney) to the cast as a nurse dating the parent series’ Taylor Kinney. The new show and its cast will be seeded in Episode 19 of this season’s Chicago Fire on CBS. (Deadline)

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