'SPARK' STEAMPUNK SERIES
LENA OLIN, TOM BRITTNEY CAST
TV news for you today, new stars are being added to the cast of ABC's fantasy series
SPARK pilot!
Lena Olin (Welcome To Sweden) and gorgeous
Tom Brittney (The Syndicate) will play mother and son in this lavish drama series of passion, greed and hope in a Steampunk reality, circa 2016. Set in an alternate history where gas and coal fuel the world, the drama centres on the battle for power between two rival families and a rebellious young woman with a spark of invention that could level both their empires.
Olin will play Hazel Stockton who now controls the powerful Stockton
Coal Company using her wealth more altruistically than her arch rivals
at Lavelle Gas — but despite her philanthropic outreaches to the city’s
poor, she still craves absolute power, and is not above using strong-arm
tactics to achieve
it. However, when deadly sabotage starts claiming
innocent lives across the city, she denies any involvement to her son
Aiden, Captain of the Investigative Division of the Watch, who is
investigating the incidents.
Tracy Ifeachor will play one of the
forensic investigators.
'REAL GOOD PEOPLE' SITCOM
ROSS KIMBALL JOINS NICK ZANO
CBS is rounding up cast for their new multi camera sitcom
REAL GOOD PEOPLE! Ross Kimball has joined the cast which already has
Nick Zano and
Lenora Crichlow! It centres on a conservative small-town family forced to reconcile their values when they discover their children’s lives are less than perfect. As 'Deadline' reports, Kimball will play Beau, the eldest son, a good ol’ boy who adores his momma and worships his father, but didn’t inherit their strong moral compass.
NBC'S 'GOOD PLACE' SITCOM
MANNY JACINTO JOINS TEN DANSON AND KRISTEN BELL
In other sitcom news, beside the info that
Freeform has just renewed
YOUNG & HUNGRY for the 4th season (starts shooting
today), NBC
is adding new faces into the cast of their new comedy
GOOD PLACE! Manny
Jacinto is the latest to join
Ted Danson and
Kristen Bell in the sitcom
that centres on Eleanor (Bell), a woman from New Jersey who comes to
realize that she hasn’t been a very good person. She decides to turn
over a new leaf by learning what it actually means to be “good” or
“bad,” and then trying to make up for her past behavior. Jacinto will
play the sweet and good-natured Jason.
town where he grew up to confront the past. Haunted by death, trauma and unfulfilled love, he soon learns the disturbing truth about the river running alongside the house his estranged father still lives in. 
town where he grew up to confront the past. Haunted by death, trauma and unfulfilled love, he soon learns the disturbing truth about the river running alongside the house his estranged father still lives in. 
