TV Casting: GOTHAM, SHAMELESS, Anne Hathaway in THE AMBASSADOR’S WIFE

The Group (TBS)

Michael Cassidy has been cast in a lead role opposite Wyatt Cenac in TBS comedy pilot The Group. He will play Jonathan Walsh, the charismatic and wildly successful young CEO of Walsh Media, a massive conglomerate. While Jonathan strives to appear like a down-to-earth guy, he is infatuated with status and the trappings of success. He is Wyatt’s boss and also considers himself to be Wyatt’s close friend.

Shameless (Showtime)

Will Sasso (The Three Stooges) has booked a recurring role on Showtime dramedy Shameless. He will play Yanis, a big and imposing blue-collar Chicago neighbor of Kev (Steve Howey) and V (Shanola Hampton), who’s in a conflict with the new members of the neighborhood who are part of the gentrification. He deliberately spends most of the day revving his motorcycle and making sexual threats.

The Player (NBC)

Nick Wechsler has joined the cast of NBC’s Las Vegas-set thriller The Player…Wechsler will play Nick, the boyfriend of Cassandra (Charity Wakefield), a good guy with morals caught in the web of century-old conspiracy.

Gotham (Fox)

The DC Comics supervillain known as Firefly will touch down in Season 2 of Fox’s Batman drama — but, in a canon-tweaking twist, the traditionally testosterone-tinged Big Bad will be female. Michelle Veintimilla (Lifetime’s Those Who Kill) will play the infamous firestarter — and her human alter ego Bridgit Pike — in two late fall episodes.

Enslaved by her brothers, a notorious gang of arsonists, Bridgit Pike is forced into the family business. When she catches the eye of Selina Kyle, the young Cat Woman and the soon-to-be-Firefly team up to put Bridgit’s firestarting skills to good use. But after a deadly encounter with the Pike Brothers, the meek Cinderella is transformed into a vengeful supervillain, hell bent on destroying those who have wronged her.

12 Monkeys (Syfy)

Syfy’s “12 Monkeys” has added…David Marciano and…David Dastmalchian for guest roles in season two

The pair will debut in episode six of the sci-fi thriller’s second season, in scenes set in 1975. Marciano will play NYPD detective John Damato, who is pulled into the case of a serial killer who has a dangerous affiliation with the Army of the 12 Monkeys, an organization behind the death of 7 billion people in the present day. Damato teams up with heroes Cole (Aaron Stanford) and Ramse (Kirk Acevedo) as they travel back in time to track the killer and find out what he knows.

Dastmalchian will appear as Kyle Slade, a Vietnam vet whose mind is connected to time in a unique way. Slade is pursued not only by the 12 Monkeys, but by Cole and Ramse, since he may be the key to putting an end to a conspiracy that spans centuries.

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