TV CASTINGS: Laura Fraser Joins Showtime Pilot 'Homeland,' Two Added To 'True Blood'

EXCLUSIVE: Scottish actress Laura Fraser has landed a lead role on Showtime's drama pilot Homeland. Additionally, In Treatment standout Dane DeHaan has joined HBO's vampire drama True Blood as a recurring, while Rebecca Wisocky has been cast for a key guest spot in the fourth season premiere.

Homeland, from?24 executive producers Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, centers on Marine Sergeany Scott Brody, who returns home eight years after going missing in Iraq, and Carrie Anderson (Claire Danes), a driven CIA officer who suspects he might be plotting an attack on America. Fraser (A Knight's Tale) will play?Jessica Brody, Scott Brody's smart, strong wife. Production on the pilot, whose cast also includes Mandy Patinkin, is slated to begin Jan. 10 in Charlotte, N.C.

On True Blood, DeHaan will play Timbo, one of the teens Jason (Ryan Kwanten) takes care of in Hotshot. The part extends DeHaan's relationship with HBO. He plays Jesse on the current season of the network's drama In Treatment.?Wisocky (90210) will play Queen Mab, who is described as an elegant beauty who presides over a fantasy land and also has a temper. Wisocky will next be seen in Atlas Shrugged.

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TV CASTINGS: Female Additions To HBO's 'Veep', TNT's 'Perception' And FX's 'Wilfred'

EXCLUSIVE: Anna Chlumsky is set to co-star opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus in HBO's comedy pilot Veep. In a recasting, Dorian Brown (ABC Family's Roommates) has landed a lead on FX's new comedy series Wilfred starring Elijah Wood, while Kelly Rowan (The O.C.) has gotten a lead role in the TNT drama pilot Perception.

Veep, from British comedian, writer and director Armando Iannucci, centers on?former Senator Selina Meyer (Louis-Dreyfus) who becomes Vice President. Chlumsky, repped by Innovative and Liebman Entertainment, will play her responsible and insecure chief of staff Amy. This is the second DC-set pilot for Chlumsky. Last year, she co-starred in CBS' House Rules, playing an aide to the Speaker of the House. She also co-starred in Iannucci's politically themed 2009 feature In the Loop.

Wilfred, based on the acclaimed Australian series of the same name, revolves around?a guy, Ryan (Wood), the girl next door (Fiona Gubelmann), and mixed-breed dog, Wilfred (co-creator Jason Gann). Brown, repped by Domain and and McKeon/Myones, will play Ryan's controlling and condescending older sister, an obstetrician. She replaces Andrea Savage who played the role on the pilot.

Perception centers on Dr. Geoffrey Pierce (Eric McCormack), an eccentric and brilliant university professor in neuropsychiatry who helps the FBI solve complex cases. Rowan will play?Pierce's best friend and intellectual equal.

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Show castings: "nurse Jackie',"shameless ".

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday, October 23, 2010 @ 4: 42 pm PDT

After a memorable turn as Peter Facinelli lesbian mothers on the first season of nurse Jackie Blythe Danner and Swoosie Kurtz, producers of the show decided to bring the characters for a further period of guest in the upcoming third season. However, Danner was not available because it is shooting a film, Judith Light was exploited for the role...Robert Knepper adds to the chain of wicked, he played on television, including heroes and Prison Break list.it arc 2 dramatic episodes coming from ShowTime engineer, he will play a goon who is hunt alcoholic partiarch William Macy character as a result of a scam, they should go together.

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TV CASTINGS: "the Council of the FX players Alabama", "Valley of the death of MTV" and "Nikita CW".

Mindy sterling (Austin Powers in Goldmember) and Natahsa Legerro (last comic standing) display driver FX Alabama cocréée value half-hour comedy starring Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, cocréateurs and stars of Reno 911! where sterling had a minor role.?The Alabama is defined a thousand years in the future for the vessel United Nations peacekeeping: Alabama began six years in their seven-year mission to keep the peace and to uphold the Treaty between the planets in their jurisdiction: sector g-187. The show will follow crew visit hostile planets, meet exotic life forms, and try to have sexual relations between them in their bunk tiny, metal.?Lennon played captain Glen French acting, Garant parts # 2, a robot which is the second command. DSA-repped Sterling plays doc doctor ship agent; and Legerro plays Roxy Sexbot. Cast in the pilot project is Brandon Johnson. Production begins later this month in Los Angeles.

?Actor/actor Bryan Callen (Hangover, how I met your mother) asked an advance on new sets of Death Valley, MTV cops - type false chronicling the adventures of dark comedy of cops in 'UTF' (Undead Task Force).Callen plays Captain Jim Dashell...Noah Bean (damages) joined first series of CW Nikita as a recurrent, playing Ryan Fletcher, a CIA agent case and analyste.Il with Gersh and street Antrim.

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