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With its “Weekly casting roundup,” CliqueClack brings you a summary of the TV casting news released throughout the week, be it the addition of a series regular, a new recurring cast member, a guest star or even someone making a cameo.
Be warned, the casting news after the jump may contain slight spoilers about the roles the actors will play.
This week, we have casting news for the following TV series: Army Wives, Boston Legal, Damages, Desperate Housewives, Eli Stone, Ghost Whisperer, Greek, iCarly, Private Practice, Pushing Daisies, Reaper, The New Adventures of Old Christine, The Office and Worst Week.
- Crossing Jordan‘s Ivan Sergei will appear in the season finale of Army Wives as one of Betty’s long-lost nephews. The character is set to make waves with Roxy. [Source: TV Guide Online]
- René Auberjonois will return for episode 10 of Boston Legal this fall. [Source: The Ausiello Files]
- Get this, Zeljko Ivanek, whose character shot himself in season one of Damages, will return for several episodes in season two! [Source: The Ausiello Files]
- Steven Weber will guest star in at least one episode of Desperate Housewives. He’ll play a college professor who is dating one of the female characters. [Source: The Ausiello Files]
- Rachael Harris will play a reporter interviewing Bree in a Desperate Housewives set to air in November. [Source: The Ausiello Files]
- Kerr Smith, better known for his role on Dawson’s Creek, will guest star as one of Posner’s hard-core legal eagles on Eli Stone. [Source: TV Guide Online]
- The Guiding Light‘s Tom Pelphrey will guest star in the October 17 episode of Ghost Whisperer. [Source: Mega Buzz]
- Actor/singer/songwriter Jesse McCartney is set to join ABC Family’s Greek in a recurring capacity. He’ll play one of Calvin’s old friends Andy, a freshman job who’ll be torn with rushing for the KT and OX houses. McCartney’s first episode on the show will air in 2009. [Source: The Ausiello Files]
- Ken Marino, who appeared on The CW’s Reaper last season, will guest star on Greek as a summer camp counselor. [Source: Zap2It]
- American Idol‘s David Archuleta will make his acting debut on iCarly. The young singer will play a character who takes part in a singing competition. Original, eh? [Source: Zap2It]
- ER‘s Ming Na will appear in Private Practice‘s fifth episode. In the installment, the actress will play one of Violet’s friends. [Source: TV Guide Online]
- Orlando Jones, Michael Weaver and Ivana Milicevic will guest star as band of Norwegian detectives who bear striking similarities to Pushing Daisies‘ Emerson, Ned and Chuck. [Source: The Ausiello Files]
- Armie Hammer will appear on Reaper as Morgan, the Devil’s son. [Source: Watch with Kristin]
- Will & Grace‘s Megan Mullally will play a homophobe who owns Christine’s gym in a November episode of The New Adventures of Old Christine. [Source: The Ausiello Files]
- There are plans to bring David Denman back as Roy for one of the next five episodes of The Office. [Source: Watch With Kristin]
- Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis will guest star as Melanie’s paternal grandmother, June Clayton, in an upcoming episode of CBS’s Worst Week. [Source: CBS via The Futon Critic]
- Also guest starring in Worst Week is Fred Willard. The veteran actor will appear in two episodes of CBS’s new series as Sam’s father. Playing his wife will be Connie Ray. [Source: Entertainment Weekly]
If you want to learn more about the actors and their roles, click on the source links at the end of each entry.
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Thanks for the Worst Week casting scoop. I have not laughed this hard at television in years and years. Picking two more dead-pan dry types will only add to my enjoyment. I can imagine Olympia’s lines now. Yay!!