In television casting news, NBC’s Chuck has cast Robin Givens (Queen of Media, Nikita), and Supernatural alum, Lauren Cohan. Cohan, who has recently appeared on the CW’s Vampire Diaries, will have a recurring role as Vivian, “a sophisticated socialite who is currently studying at Oxford and is the daughter of a criminal mastermind.” Givens will play “a powerful agency bigwig who makes an intriguing offer to Casey (Adam Baldwin).” Both of these characters should appear on the show in March.
Starz/BBC’s Torchwood: Miracle Day has tapped Six Feet Under’s Lauren Ambrose (pictured second from right) as recurring character, Jilly Kitzinger, “a public-relations maven whose charming demeanor masks a steely will. In ‘Torchwood: Miracle Day,’ she’ll line up the most important client of her career — and as the season progresses she comes to find out just how important that client is.” The new season of Torchwood is currently in production in Los Angeles.
Fox’s adaptation of the comic, Locke & Key, has added Nick Stahl (The Speed of Thought, Sin City) to their cats. Stahl will play Duncan Locke, brother to Nina Locke’s (Miranda Otto) murdered husband, Rendell Locke, who “strangely has few memories of his time growing up in Keyhouse.”
Locke & Key follows Nina and her three children, Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode “who survive an unspeakable horror and attempt to rebuild their lives at Keyhouse, their family home in Lovecraft, Massachusetts. At Keyhouse, the Lockes discover all sorts of supernatural abnormalities in the mansion, including doors that lead into different worlds and grant the kids with special powers.”
[Source] TVLine, TVSquad, Deadline
