TV Casting: LEWIS AND CLARK, GIRLS, BROADCHURCH, UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT

Lewis and Clark, Girls, Broadchurch, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt have all made recent TV show casting news. These shows air on HBO, NBC, and ITV respectively.

Lewis and Clark (HBO)

HBO’s long-gestating six-hour miniseries Lewis And Clark has taken a big step towards fruition with the casting of Oscar-nominated Casey Affleck (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford) as Lewis…It chronicles the epic journey of the Corps of Discovery and its captains Meriwether Lewis (Affleck) and William Clark traversing uncharted territory on a mission to deliver President Jefferson’s message of sovereignty as they search for his fabled all-water route to the Pacific.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (NBC)

Jane Krakowski has joined the cast of upcoming NBC comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, from 30 Rock creator/star/executive producer Tina Fey and executive producer Robert Carlock. Krakowski will recur on the project, starring Ellie Kemper as the wide-eyed Kimmy who, after 15 years of living in a cult, decides it’s time to reclaim her life and heads to New York. Krakowski will play a rich Upper West Side mom who hires Kimmy as a nanny.

Broadchurch (ITV)

David Tennant will reprise his role as Detective Alec Hardy and Olivia Colman will be back as Detective Ellie Miller. Jodie Whittaker and Andrew Buchan, who play the parents of murdered schoolboy Danny Latimer, are also returning as is Arthur Darvill as local vicar Paul Coates.

Girls (HBO)

Marin Ireland (Homeland) has been added to the fourth season of HBO comedy Girls as recurring. I hear she will play the rich, sexual, beautiful but cold Logan, a classmate of Hannah’s (Lena Dunham) at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Ireland joins Desiree Akhavan and Peter Mark Kendall, who also will recur as students in the writing program.

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Source: Deadline