Casting for Fall Shows

So I started this post sometime last week and never got around to finishing it. And I just kept accumulating links with casting updates I found interesting. Oh, it's that time of year again. Thanks, Upfronts!

Trixie the Whore settles on Caprica! So, I'm not a huge fan of Battlestar Galactica. I've mentioned this, it's not the show's fault. I am keeping up with the final season, though, and really do want to start with the first episode of this spinoff/prequel. And now Paula Malcomson, Deadwood's Trixie (aka Trixie the Whore for legal documents) who is one of my favorite characters ever, is taking the lead.

But guess who else just landed on Caprica? Eric Stoltz. You know I can't stop the very bad pun that I'm sure  will repeatedly be made in cheestastic cyberspace. Now, that's some kind of wonderful. Ouch, that one hurt. Oh, and Esai Morales jumped on board too.

Morena Baccarin just landed a role in a new ABC legal drama. Which means most of Serenity's crew will be on the telly next fall. Adam Baldwin is, of course, Casey on Chuck (that's Major John Casey to you, blogger). Summer Glau is badass terminator Cameron on The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I actually didn't know Jewel Staite was on Stargate:Atlantis, never could get into either series, but good for her. And earlier, the gods of TV smiled when Nathan Fillion won the lead in ABC's Castle (which made me too giddy for words because (A) I cannot watch that Housewives tripe, not even for Dana Delaney or Felicity Huffman and (B) the one time I did this season, Capt. Tightpants was wearing Dockers and the full body shudder I had at the sight was actually quite painful--he was not meant to wear pleated kahkis). And  Alan Tudyk was cast in a new sitcom  for NBC. So that leaves Gina Torres (she guests so often that she's always on the small screen anyway--ooh, maybe on Whedon's Dollhouse? ), and Sean Maher from the core Firefly cast. Ron Glass guests on Shark as a judge, but I think renewal looks ify for it, so let's add him to the list.

My favorite casting updates have been for 90210 The New Class. Yeah yeah, new showrunners who are rewriting the pilot, still produced by Rob Thomas and his fabulous team. Whatever. I am still not looking forward to watching it, yet, I know I will be unable to resist the pilot. It really is quite tragic. And I now partially blame Josh Schwartz. I just can't trust that this show will be as heinous as it seems, that it doesn't have a tiny chance of being a little awesome. XOXO damn it. Plus, I earned my TV Snark Badge because of the original, so I have to at least see the pilot.

Anyway, Tristan Wilds was cast in the lead role. Last time we saw him, he was taking over Omar's trade as Michael on The Wire. Well, this will be a change of pace, and quality, but I guess it could be good for his career? It will definitely show that the kid has range.

But that's not the fun news. Jennie Garth finally caved (coughreceived the correct number of zeros on her paycheckcough) and joined the cast, reprising Kelly Taylor in a recurring guest role. What's so fabulous about that? Well, first of all, it means there probably won't be a lot of Tori Spelling-Donna Martin redux reflux. They won't want too many Gen-Xers returning, right? But what about the fabulous? Kelly will be West Bev's new guidance counselor. And that, my friends, is the stuff TV dreams are made of. Le mopey-sideburn-sigh. I wish Remake Rob was still heavily involved because he would have so much snarky fun with Kelly's history.

Kelly is the perfect counselor. What hasn't she either been a victim of, experienced, or encounterd with her friends and family? Drug abuse, drug addiction, parental drug addiction, alcoholism, parental alcoholism, drunk driving, Emily Valentine, rape, date rape, questionable Halloween costumes, drive-by shootings, victim of [insert crime] ("He was carjacked" is still my favorite excuse for anything), vintage Porsches, blended families, pervy hip-hopping step-siblings, spousal abuse, child abuse, arson, third-degree burns, stalking, kidnapping, infidelity, Color Me Badd, teen sex, pre-marital sex, post-marital sex, no-marital sex, birth control, abstinence, unplanned pregnancy, bitches from Minnesota, weddings, shotgun weddings, calling off weddings, cheating, SAT regulations, dyslexia, joining a cult, rehab, being Spring Queen, Alzheimer's, HIV, Cancer, schizophrenia, amnesia, nose jobs, eating disorders, perils of pre-prom champagne, murder, explosions, guns, the mob, living under the sanctimonious eye of a self-righteous, know-it-all boyfriend who just needed to get over himself and should've gone to Washington a lot sooner. Whew. I've left out so much, I know, sorry. Oh, and there's also the plethora of career paths Kelly jumped onto, usually with no prior experience just like the girls on The Hills. She'll be the greatest high school guidance counselor since Buffy Summers. Geez, she definitely beats my freshman counselor who worked part-time guiding young lives with her home-ec degree, and we didn't even have a home-ec class, but that's okay because her major was just a reason to go to college so she could join a sorority and find a husband. I wish I was kidding.