A few days ago, we reported that Thea would have a new love named Alex interest this season on Arrow.  Today it’s been announced Parker Young of Enlisted has been cast in the role.  Meanwhile, the Wrap has reported that Hannibal and True Blood alum, Rutina Wesley will join the cast as well. Parker Young is a native of Tucson, Arizona.  He broke into television and film in 2008 with a role on Days of Our Lives.  After several smaller roles on series like Mad Men and CSI: NY he landed a role on the series Suburgatory in 2011.  In 2014 he took a role on the Fox comedy, Enlisted. …

Along with Flash and Arrow, iZombie returns to the CW on Oct 6th and joining the cast is television journeymen, Robert Knepper. Knepper is likely best known for his role on Prison Break as Theodor Bagwell aka “T-Bag” but his acting career started in 1986 with a role on The Paper Chase.  Knepper would go on to appear on dozens of television shows in the 80s and 90s including: The Twilight Zone, Tour of Duty, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Law & Order and Murder, She Wrote.  More recently, he had a recurring role on Heroes and Stargate: Universe and appeared in the film RIP’d with Ryan Reynolds.  CW fans…

With the final push toward the Fall TV season underway it’s time for the networks to fire up the hype machine for the general public.  Today, Fox released these two new posters for Gotham: Both posters feature the full cast, including new villains James Frain and Jessica Lucas as “Theo and Tabitha Galvan.  Both posters also feature the Gotham skyline inverted implying that things will be turned upside down.  Where they differ is that one features this season’s tagline: “Rise of the Villains.”  While the other uses the cast to create an image that I’m sure I’ve seen before but just can’t place… Included with these posters are cast pictures…

The latest “Ask Ausiello” column at TVLine has gone up with plenty of news for a lot of upcoming television series, including Arrow and Gotham. First up for Gotham is some casting news: In addition to the departure of Jada Pinkett-Smith from the series, Victoria Cartenga (Renee Montoya) and Andrew Stewart-Jones (Crispus Allen) will not be continuing as series regulars in Season Two.  This may not mean that the pair is off the show, it could mean that they’ve been reclassified as recurring guest stars.  Staying in the GCPD, with Michael Chiklis joining the cast as Captain Barnes some have speculated trouble for Zabryna Guevara (Captain Sarah Essen.)   Ausiello says…

While we still don’t know the details of Season Four of Arrow it’s become clear that Shadowspire will play a big role.  Joining their ranks is Falling Skies actor, Ryan Robbins. Robbins began his acting career in 1997 with a role in the film, Horsey.  Since then, he has acted in over a dozen television series in addition to his role on Falling Skies such as: Dark Angel, Dead Like Me, The Battlestar Galactica mini-series/pilot, The Twilight Zone and even an episode of Smallville.  He has also appeared in numerous films including a part in Walking Talk with future Arrow co-star, Neal McDonough.   He will appear later this year in…

He was teased during San Diego Comic Con and now Supergirl has their Reactron in Chris Browning. Browning is an experienced TV and film actor, after breaking into acting with roles on Silk Stalkings and In Living Color in 1991, Browning has had dozens of appearances on series like: In the House, As the World Turns, CSI and Graceland.  Most might know Browning from his run on Sons of Anarchy and the CW series, The 100.  He’s also appeared on numerous films, such as 3:10 to Yuma opposite two other DC actors; Christian Bale and Russell Crowe.  (imdb) Created by Paul Kupperberg and Carmine Infantino, Reactron is a villain that…

So if you were like me when you read that Jimmy Akingbolawas going to join Arrow’s cast in season four, you hit your favorite search engine and looked up Akingbola and saw a picture like this: Then you looked up Baron Reiter and saw he was also known as Baron Blitzkrieg then clicked over into the pictures and saw this: Yep, that’s a swastika.  Baron Blitzkrieg is a Nazi.  So if you were like me, you probably said “Huh?”  Marc Guggenheim’s got you covered.  The Arrow Executive Producer wants to make it clear; they have not cast a black man as a Nazi.  “We wanted a really great villain for…

Production for Gotham season two is well under way, allowing fans a glimpse into what they can expect from year two of Jim Gordon’s war on crime.  For the most part, the best glimpses come from casting news and we have a doozy with Michael Chiklis joining the cast. After attending Boston University, Chiklis moved to New York City and established a theater career.  However his career in television and film has been defined by two types of roles: Cops and Tough Guys.  His first television role was on Miami Vice playing (Cop) Det. Jeffrey Whitehead.  He had a run on the series Wiseguy as mobster (and Tough Guy)”Carlo Spoletta.” …

With the constant flow of Supergirl, Flash and Arrow news as well as the fandom earthquake that was the Batman v Superman comic-con trailer one would not be blamed if they forgot that iZombie is also returning to the CW this fall.  Production is underway and as we all know that means casting announcements. Meet Adam Rose… Whoops, wrong one.  Meet this Adam Rose.   Adam’s first high profile role was in the Woody Allen film Deconstructing Harry starring Robin Williams.  After several one-off roles on television including Malcolm in the Middle and The Sopranos Adam landed on Veronica Mars where he played “Max.”  Since then, he’s continued working in television…

Yesterday, we reported that the producers of Supergirl were expanding her universe to include other powered heroes.  Today we have a possible candidate.  TVLine is reporting today that Lucy Lane will be introduced in episode three. Lucy Lane is the younger sister of world-famous reporter, Lois Lane.  Lucy was introduced in Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen issue thirty-six in 1959.  At the time, she was an airline stewardess with an on-again/off-again romance with Jimmy.  In 1986, she was reintroduced in John Bryne’s Man of Steel issue five as an air traffic controller.  After a romance with Jimmy Olsen before eventually dating and marrying another Daily Planet employee named Ron Troupe. She…