Continuing/Returning Shows
Arrow. Doug Jones (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth) has been cast as Jake Simons aka Deathbolt on the CW/DC super hero show (TVLine)
Upcoming Shows
Madoff. Richard Dreyfuss will star as Bernie Madoff in what ABC is calling a closed-ended drama about the fraud committing stock broker. The show will be based on ABC correspondent Brian Ross’ book The Madoff Chronicles. (THR)
Guardians of the Galaxy. Will Friedle (Boy Meets World, Batman Beyond, Kim Possible) will voice Star-Lord (played by Chris Pratt in the live action film) for Disney XD’s animated adaptation. (TVLine)
Pilots (by star)
Stephan James. The Selma co-star has been cast in a lead role in Unveiled, Mark Burnett (Survivor) and Roma Downey’s (Touched by an Angel) guardian angel drama for NBC. He’ll play a young guardian angel who doesn’t yet understand human suffering. (Deadline)
Larenz Tate. The House of Lies vet has booked a co-starring role in the NBC drama pilot Game of Silence starring David Lyons who plays an up-and-coming attorney whose violent past threatens to short circuit his career. Tate plays one of the childhood friends who knows Lyons’ secrets.
Michael Raymond-James. And the Sons of Liberty star will also play one of the friends on the same show as above. (Deadline)
Sullivan Stapleton. The Strike Back star has been cast as the male lead opposite Jaimie Alexander (Thor) in the NBC mystery drama pilot Blindspot about a woman who wakes up inside of a duffle bag in Times Square with no clothes, no memory and only a series of tattoos that might be clues to her predicament. He’ll play an FBI agent called in to investigate when one of her tattoos is his name (duhn duhn DUHNNNN!) (THR)