It's casting season and many, many actors are incredibly lucky to find a spot for the tuns of pilots that networks are looking at to pick up for next fall. Some are stolen away from currently airing shows, thereby questioning that show's faith (does Adam Scott's departure mean the end for Party Down?), others haven't been on the air for a while and are making a big return, at least, they hope so. In case you've been living under a rock, examining creatures on the bottom of the ocean or just simply had a life, here are the casting updates you missed.- Kyle "Worst Week" Bornheimer has been tapped for a role in an untitled comedy pilot for CBS. The multicamera series is penned by How I Met Your Mother's Carter Bays and Craig Thomas
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer have landed lead roles in TBS' hourlong comedy pilot Franklin and Bash about two street lawyers who are recruited by a top-ranking law firm
- Rob Morrow (Numb3rs) proves this Friday's episode will be a series finale by moving on to ABC's Bruckheimer legal drama The Whole Truth
- Coby Bell (The Game) joins Burn Notice as a series regular in season 4. Bell will play Jesse Garcia, a cocky, smooth and sexy counter intelligence expert
- Tom Cavanagh landed the title role in the ABC pilot Edgar Floats. Cavangh will star as a police psychologist who moonlights as a bounty hunter
- Sendhil Ramamurthy, better known as Mohinder from Heroes joins Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham and Peter Gallagher in the USA drama Covert Affairs
- Dania Ramirez, another Heroes grad, got a recurring role on Entourage
- Lennie James has been added to the HBO comedy Hung as a recurring role for it's second season
- Kevin Johnson landed a recurring role on FX's Sons Of Anarchy
- Felicia Day (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog) will star in Red, Syfy's reimagining of the Little Red Riding Hood story, in which she'll be a werewolf-hunting descendent of the little innocent girl with the red hood
- Kevin Dunn will co-star on HBO's Luck alongside Kerry Condon and Tom Payne, playing a prodigious masanthrope who is the ringmaster of a syndicate of misfits
- Nick Nolte is in talks for the horse drama on HBO that already has Dustin Hoffman as a star
- Brittany Snow landed the lead on David E. Kelley's NBC dramedy pilot Kindreds, a show that follows a curmudgeonly former patent lawyer and her group of misfit associates at a storefront law firm. Snow will play her assistant
- Sarah Wynter joins ABC's dramedy pilot Cutthroat as a Hollywood mom whose life is in shambles
- Gabourey Sidibe, recent Oscar nominee for her titlerole in 'Precious', signed on to Showtime's new series The Big C as a recurring guest star. She will play a student in Laura Linney's lead role's class
That's a wrap folks. A lot of big names joined new shows or currently running shows. Are you getting hyped up for summer/fall yet? Or are you worried that your favorite show might be canceled now it's stars are getting secundary contracts?
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