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Anyone who misses Sheldon’s dad will be able to get a quick fix this season on Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage. Lance Barber, who played George Sr. for seven seasons on Young Sheldon, is expected to reprise his role sometime this season. At a press conference Thursday for the comedy, Georgi…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Melissa Leo, Jacob Scipio and Lou Llobell are boarding André Øvredal’s untitled horror movie for Paramount and Walter Hamada’s 18hz. Former Warner Bros production executive Hamada is producing the pic via his production company as part of his first-look deal with…

Timothy Olyphant (Justified, Daisy Jones & the Six) is set to star alongside Anya Taylor-Joy in Lucky, the new limited drama based on the New York Times bestselling novel and Reese"s Book Club pick by Marissa Stapley. Lucky follows a young woman (Taylor-Joy) who left behind the life of crime she…

EXCLUSIVE: Fola Evans-Akingbola, Ward Horton and Albert Jones are being promoted to series regulars for the upcoming third season of Netflix’s The Night Agent, Deadline can reveal. On the action thriller series based on Matthew Quirk’s novel, Evans-Akingbola plays secret service agent Chelsea…

James Norton has been tapped to portray Ormund Hightower in Season 3 of HBO’s House of the Dragon, Deadline has learned. Ormund, who was referenced in Season 2 but never appeared on onscreen, is then nephew of Otto (Rhys Ifans), cousin to Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and Gwayne (Freddie Fox) and the…

EXCLUSIVE: O-T Fagbenle (The Handmaid"s Tale, Presumed Innocent) and Sian Clifford (Fleabag, The Ballad of Wallis Island) have joined as series regulars and Ronny Chieng (The Daily Show, Crazy Rich Asians) in a recurring role in Peacock"s upcoming comedy, The Miniature Wife. Details regarding their…

EXCLUSIVE: Eric Bana is set to join the cast of the Netflix survival thriller Apex starring Charlize Theron. Taron Egerton is also on board, with Baltasar Kormákur directing. Jeremy Robbins penned the script, which is described as Free Solo meets Silence of the Lambs and follows a rock climber…

EXCLUSIVE: The BET+ Original series Churchy has cast Jasmine Luv in a recurring role for Season 2. Guest stars will include Kirk Franklin and Keith Lee among others. Inspired by/drawing from/from the mind of standup comedian "KevOnStage" Fredericks, Corey Carr Jr.’s (Fredericks) life takes an…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has added 12 to the cast of its holiday family comedy, The Man with the Bag. They are Michael Cyril Creighton (Only Murders in the Building), Liza Koshy (upcoming Naked Gun), Kyle Mooney (SNL), Berkeley James (The Neighborhood), Ken Jeong (The Hangover franchise)…

EXCLUSIVE: Amid the second season launch of his Netflix series The Recruit, Noah Centineo has inked a deal to produce and star in Listen, a new thriller that Brian Birch will direct from his original script, in his feature debut, for Will Smith’s Westbrooks Studios, Bound Entertainment, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Clayton Cardenas (Mayans M.C., The Cleaning Lady) has joined the cast of Taylor Sheridan’s Mayor of Kingstown in a recurring role for Season 4 from Paramount+. He will portray ‘Deputy Warden Torres’, the right-hand man to the prison’s new Warden at Anchor Bay Prison. Mayor of King…

UPDATED: A recent taped conversation between two Atlanta casting directors — one of whom admits to devoting only four seconds to watching self-tapes — has renewed fears among actors who believe their auditions are not being taken seriously. On a recent filmed installment of the Act Up podcast…