Busy times continue for the industry, as everybody is shaping up to both end this season and start the next one. While most supporting actors hope for a lead in pilot season, others are just grateful they get a recurring spot. It's the endless circle of TV, and here's the latest...
- Another veteran of the cult-hit Battlestar Galactica landed a role on a new series. After Katee Sackhoff joined 24 and Grace Park signed on for CBS' Hawaii Five-O remake, it's now James Callis' turn to return to Sci-fi (or Syfy, if you wish). Callis is about to join the cast of Syfy's Eureka. Best known for his role as Dr. Gaius Baltar, Callis will now appear as Dr. Grant on the upcoming fourth season about the small little town full of nutty professors. Dr. Grant is a former resident of Eureka and now returns to shake things up and one of those things happens to be Allison Blake's romantic lovelife, causing friction with Sheriff Jack Carter. Eureka is slated to return July 9th.
- Marsha Thomason is coming back to White Collar in it's second season. Thomason, who starred in Las Vegas and appeared on Lost, played FBI agent Diana Lancing in the show's pilot, but was then replaced by Natalie Morales' character. For the second season, Morales will be leaving and Thomason will come back.
- Billy Brown has been added to FX's new drama series Lights Out as a regular. Brown, who most recently was seen in 'Star Trek', will play Raymond Reynolds, the current heavyweight champion and longtime rival of the main character, Patrick Leary.
- Gregg Henry is promoted to series regular on HBO's comedy Hung. The show centers around the well endowed high school basketball coach Ray who moonlights as a male prostitute. In it's first season, Henry played Ray's assistant coach.
- Colm Feore is about to sign a deal to co-star opposite Jeremy Irons on Showtime's upcoming drama series The Borgias. Set in 1492 Italy, the show focuses on a powerful crime family headed by Rodrigo Borgia. Feore, who recently recurred on 24, would play the role of Borgia's nemesis, Cardinal Giuliano Della Rovere.
- Mary Steenburgen has been cast in ABC's comedy pilot Southern Discomfort. The show centers on a father whose life is turned upside down when his grown kids move back in with him. Steenburgen will play his wife.
- Carly Pope and David Ramsey are set to star opposite Jimmy Smits in NBC's untitled John Eisendrath drama pilot. Ramsey will play Smits best friend since childhood.
- Ian Reed Kessler landed a lead on NBC's comedy Friends With Benefits as an oversexed womanizer.
- Lindsey Broad has signed on ABC's comedy pilot Who Gets The Parents? in which she'll play one of the adult children of a divorcing couple who were married for 30 years.
- Kerri Reno 911 Kenney joins FOX's Tax Man as a human resources rep.
- Xander Berkely has been added to CW's Nikita as the Machiavellian leader of the show's main star.
- Odette Yustman is set as the female lead on FOX's untitled Adam Goldberg comedy pilot. The single-camera comedy, directed by Seth Gordon, revolves around twentysomething geniuses who crack security systems. Yustman, who starred on October Road, will play a member of the team and an expert in safe cracking and demolition.
That's a wrap folks. Happy with the new additions? Glad to see the Battlestar-cast back to work? Getting more interested in the reboots? Just glad to see Steenburgen on the small screen again? I'm all of the above.
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