TV Casting: DR. DEATH, SHAMELESS, Q’orianka Kilcher & Jennifer Landon in YELLOWSTONE, & More

TV Show Casting for Dr. Death, Shameless, Yellowstone, and More

Dr. Death, Shameless, Yellowstone, and other TV productions have made recent TV show casting, TV movie casting, and TV directing news. These shows and movies air on:  The CW, Netflix, Fox, NBC, Showtime, AMC, and Amazon Prime. Beware of spoilers in these casting announcements.

Paramount Network

Yellowstone

Q’orianka Kilcher has been cast in Season 3 as Angela Blue Thunder, “a Native American and political opponent of Tom Rainwater. Thunder is described as a woman with pain in her past and unadulterated fury in her present. Convinced that Rainwater’s management of the casino has been a catastrophe, she shows up in his office, ready to punish the world (and Tom Rainwater) for all the things it did to her.”

Jennifer Landon has been cast in Season 3 as Teeter, “a new wrangler on the Yellowstone Ranch. Teeter is a snuff dipping, sunbaked, expert wrangler.”

Amazon Prime

The Lord of the Rings

Markella Kavenagh has been cast as character named Tyra.

The Lord of the Rings‘ plot synopsis: The series will be set during the Second Age of Middle Earth.

J.A. Bayona will be directing the first two episodes of the TV adaptation.

The CW

Supergirl

Jennifer Cheon Garcia has been cast as Midnight, a villain who is the  physical manifestation of darkness…”released from an other-wordly prison to enact revenge against the person who put her there.”

Supergirl: Season 5 will begin to air on The CW on October 6, 2019.

Netflix

Away

Talitha Bateman has been cast as Alexis Logan, “Emma and Matt’s teenage daughter who must now come of age with her father facing life-changing health challenges and her mother in space.”

Ato Essandoh has been cast as Kwesi, “a British-Ghanaian botanist and the mission’s only rookie astronaut.”

Mark Ivanir has been cast as Misha, “a veteran Russian cosmonaut and the ship’s engineer.”

Ray Panthaki has been cast as Ram, “an Indian astronaut and the crew’s medic, co-pilot and second-in-command.”

Vivian Wu have been cast as Yu, “a Chinese taikonaut and the crew’s geologist and chemist.”

They join already cast Hilary Swank and Josh Charles.

Away‘s plot synopsis: loosely based on the article by Chris Jones, “Away centers on Emma Green (Swank), an American astronaut who must leave her husband Matt (Charles) and teenage daughter (Bateman) behind to command an international space crew embarking upon a treacherous mission. It is a series about hope, humanity and how we need one another if we are to achieve impossible things.”

Jessica Goldberg is writing the screenplays for the TV series. Ed Zwick is directing the first episode.

Madam C.J. Walker

Tiffany Haddish has been cast as Lelia, “the smart and feisty daughter of Sarah Breedlove and her late first husband. Raised by her single, hard-working mother, she is eager to be independent. After falling in love and marrying the feckless John Robinson, she frequently finds herself coming to her husband’s defenses.”

Carmen Ejogo has been cast as Addie, “a hairstylist and former friend of Sarah Breedlove. She is a savvy business woman herself, who parlays her good looks and social standing into a profitable African American hair care business. Fiercely competitive, when she quickly dismisses Sarah’s ambitions to be one of her sales women, charting a course to become Sarah’s nemesis and rival.”

Blair Underwood has been cast as Chares James Walker, “Sarah’s husband. He’s incredibly supportive and encouraging of his wife’s hair product business, which he helps her run. CJ has a way of calming Sarah down and soothing her worries, but he grows concerned about her increasing stress over the ups and downs of her business.”

Garrett Morris has been cast as Cleophus, CJ’s father and a former slave who comes to live with CJ and Sarah. He gets along well with Sarah and helps in her hair product business.”

Kevin Carroll has been cast as Ransom, “a Pullman porter whose many degrees include law and patents from Columbia University. When he agrees to help Sarah with her hair product patents and becomes the company lawyer, he does his best to pull her back from what he feels is a risky expansion and efforts.”

Madam C.J. Walker‘s plot synopsis: based on the biography by A’Lelia Bundles, “This is the untold and highly irreverent story of black hair care pioneer and mogul Sarah Breedlove a.k.a Madam C.J. Walker and how she overcame hostile turn-of-the-century America, epic rivalries, tumultuous marriages and some trifling family to become America’s first black, self-made female millionaire.”

Nicole Asher wrote the screenplays for the TV mini-series. Kasi Lemmons is directing the first episode.

Behind Her Eyes

Simona Brown has been cast as Louise, a single mother and secretary.

Tom Bateman has been cast as David, a psychiatrist.

Eve Hewson has been cast as Adele, wife of David.

Behind Her Eyes‘ plot synopsis: based on the book by Sarah Pinborough, “Behind Her Eyes tells the story of Louise, a single mother and secretary who is stuck in a modern-day rut. On a night out, she meets and kisses David in a bar, a successful young man, who turns out to be her new boss. To complicate matters, she meets Adele, a new friend in town, who turns out to be married to David. As she becomes obsessed with the couple and entangled in the web of their marriage, they each reach out to her. But only when she gets to know them both does she begin to see the cracks: Is David really the man she thought she knew and is Adele as vulnerable as she appears? Just what terrible secrets are they both hiding and how far will they go to keep them?

Steve Lightfoot and Angela LaManna wrote the screenplays for six-part TV mini-series.

Unspecified TV Station

Dr. Death

Jamie Dornan has been cast as Dr. Christopher Duntsch, “a rising star in the Dallas medical community. Young, charismatic and ostensibly brilliant, he was building a flourishing neurosurgery practice when everything suddenly changed. Patients entered his operating room for complex but routine spinal surgeries and left permanently maimed or dead.”

Alec Baldwin has been cast as Robert Henderson, “a quiet, deliberative and methodical neurosurgeon who believes wholeheartedly both in the system in which he rose through the ranks and that anything worth doing shouldn’t be rushed. It should be gotten right.”

Christian Slater has been cast as Randall Kirby, “a vascular surgeon who is brash, impulsive and more than willing to burn that system to the ground in the name of justice. There’s a time and a place for deliberation and there’s a time and a place to just get things done.”

Dr. Death‘s plot synopsis: “Dr. Death explores the twisted mind of a sociopath and the gross negligence of the system designed to protect the most defenseless among us. It tells the disturbing true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch (Dornan), a rising star in the Dallas medical community. Young, charismatic and ostensibly brilliant, he was building a flourishing neurosurgery practice when everything suddenly changed. Patients entered his operating room for complex but routine spinal surgeries and left permanently maimed or dead. As victims piled up, two fellow surgeons (Baldwin and Slater) and a young Assistant District Attorney set out to stop him.”

Fox

Empire

Vivica A. Fox, who was previously cast as Candace, Cookie’s older sister, has been upped to a series regular cast member.

Jussie Smollett, who played Jamal Lyon on the series, will not be returning for the sixth and final season.

Empire: Season 6 will begin airing on Fox on September 24, 2019.

Showtime

Shameless

Rachel Dratch has been cast as Paula, “the corrupt parole officer for Ian (Cameron Monaghan) who uses her power over him and her other parolees to run an elaborate insurance scam.”

Anthony Alabi has been cast as Mavar, “who steps in to be a much needed role model for Liam (Christian Isaiah) as Liam explores his racial identity outside of the Gallaghers. A former college athlete, Mavar now sells used cars, mentors local youth and sings in the church choir.”

Shameless: Season 10’s plot synopsis: “The tenth season of the William H. Macy starrer from Warner Bros. TV picks up six months after last season’s finale with Frank (Macy) using his leg injury to collect as many prescription drugs as possible and his exploits leading him to an old friend. Meanwhile, Debbie (Emma Kenney), emboldened by the $50,000 left to her by Fiona, has stepped in as the new matriarch, ruling over the Gallagher household with an iron fist. Lip (Jeremy Allen White) navigates his relationship with a newly affectionate Tami (Kate Miner). Carl (Ethan Cutkosky) has to decide what to do with his life as he finishes military school and heads back to the South side. Liam (Isaiah) is committed to learning more about black history and culture under the tutelage of V (Shanola Hampton) as Kev (Steve Howey) faces an identity crisis. Gallavich returns this season as Ian (Monaghan) and Mickey (Noel Fisher) rekindle their romance in prison as both cellmates and lovers.”

Shameless: Season 10 will begin airing on Showtime on November 3, 2019 at 9 pm.

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