THE HUB

Beverly Hills just landed one of its most recognizable Housewives yet. Leah Remini is joining The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season 16 as a full-time cast member, bringing the actress, producer and famously outspoken television personality into the Bravo universe. Remini is expected to begin filming in Los Angeles this week, joining a season that's already in production. She becomes the second major newcomer announced for Season 16 following Million Dollar Listing Los A

Chelsea Hamilton might want to keep looking over her shoulder. Sorry girl. Brianna Roberts has returned to Beyond the Gates as Allison Bailey, bringing one of Chelsea's most terrifying chapters back into the picture just as some very suspicious things have started happening around Fairmont Crest. Allison was introduced as someone Chelsea believed she could trust, but that relationship eventually took a disturbing turn. Her obsession with Chelsea was exposed after she kidnappe

Salem is getting another familiar face from the soap world. General Hospital and The Young and the Restless alum Brytni Sarpy has officially joined the cast of Days of Our Lives. The Peacock soap announced the casting on August 24, sharing a photo of Sarpy outside her dressing room at the show's Burbank studio. There's just one rather important detail DAYS isn't sharing yet: who she's playing. For now, Sarpy's character is being kept under wraps, leaving plenty of room for sp

Dan Stevens is officially stepping into some very big metallic shoes. The Downton Abbey and Legion star has been cast as Alex Murphy and his cyborg alter ego RoboCop in Prime Video’s upcoming RoboCop series, giving the long awaited television adaptation its first major casting announcement. The casting is a pretty exciting choice for a franchise that has been trying to make its way back to television for years. Stevens has already shown that he can handle drama, comedy, actio

Talk about keeping it in the family! Ben McKenzie is joining CBS’ Sheriff Country Season 2 as a guest star, and his co-star just happens to be his real-life wife, Morena Baccarin. Yep, the former Gotham co-stars are sharing the screen again, but this time they're trading Gotham City for Edgewater. McKenzie will play Sheriff Jim Wade, a neighboring sheriff who arrives to assist Mickey Fox, played by Baccarin, with a dangerous case. Wade's appearance is set for the Season 2 pre

Hogwarts just got a very unexpected new professor. Kit Harington is officially joining HBO’s Harry Potter Season 2 as Gilderoy Lockhart, replacing Nicholas Hoult, who has exited the series due to scheduling conflicts. And yes, we are talking about Kit Harington of Game of Thrones fame stepping into the shoes of one of the most hilariously self-obsessed characters in the entire Harry Potter story. HBO’s television adaptation has not even premiered its first season yet, but Se

Firehouse 51 might want to start printing some new name tags because Chicago Fire is bringing in even more fresh blood for Season 15. Matthew Daddario is officially joining the NBC drama as a new firefighter candidate, marking a return to television for the Shadowhunters favorite and adding another new face to a season that is already shaping up to look considerably different. Details surrounding Daddario's character are being kept suspiciously close to the vest. We don't hav

Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs are officially sharing the small screen again, and somewhere Max Black is probably already making a joke about it. Nine years after 2 Broke Girls ended its six season run on CBS, Behrs is set to guest star alongside her former costar in the Season 3 premiere of ABC’s Shifting Gears. The casting reunites the actresses who spent six seasons playing unlikely best friends Max Black and Caroline Channing, and while this is not the revival fans have spen

The internet (rumor) is talking about Orlando Jones being cast as Papa Legba in the upcoming thirteenth season of American Horror Story. Talk about a casting choice that makes total sense while simultaneously giving us all the chills. While Deadline reports he is in this season, his character details are not mentioned. There are some leaks online if you look closely enough. So, let's just say allegedly? The announcement, which dropped on August 13, 2026, hints that the long-s

If your Tuesday nights have felt a little emptier lately, blame network television's favorite revolving door. Jesse Lee Soffer is heading to CBS with Strike Force, a brand-new law enforcement drama currently in development. Jesse loves a badge but hey—the man looks good in tactical gear, so who are we to judge? The Dream Team Reunites (Again) This isn’t just another generic procedural thrown at the wall to see what sticks. Strike Force brings Soffer back together with writer

Fox just gave us a major reason to keep our eyes on Memory of a Killer as it gears up for its second season, and the casting department is not playing around. Smooth-talking veteran Boris Kodjoe, coming off his high-stakes run on Station 19, has officially signed on for a recurring role in the network's sleek psychological thriller. For a show that already thrives on deep-seated trauma and high-octane secrets, adding Kodjoe to the mix feels like pouring premium fuel onto an a

Move over, Kenneth Branagh. There is a new fraudulent blonde in town, and the casting directors for HBO’s Harry Potter series are absolutely not playing around. In a move that has the internet collectively gasping, Nicholas Hoult has officially signed on to play the wonderfully vain, deeply incompetent Professor Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter Season 2. If you had “Nicholas Hoult teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts” on your 2026 bingo card, please go buy a lottery ticket

The halls of Oregon’s most famously underfunded hospital are getting a massive dose of comedy royalty. According to a fresh report from Deadline, Damon Wayans joins the St Denis Medical Season 3 premiere as a guest star, staging a highly anticipated on-screen reunion with his former In Living Color castmate David Alan Grier. The mockumentary series, which has quietly turned into one of network television's most reliable comedy engines, is clearly looking to start the new seas

Put on your favorite Sunday dinner sweater and grab the cannolis, because the procedural heavens have answered our prayers. Just when we thought CBS was done playing musical chairs with the Reagan family tree, the network dropped a bombshell that has the internet collectively gasping. Yes, friends, the rumors are true: Will Estes is officially bringing Jamie Reagan back on Boston Blue Season 2, and we have the behind-the-scenes receipts to prove it. The news broke via Donnie

In news that has sent the sports-romance fandom into an absolute tailspin, Justice Smith and Charlie Gillespie have officially signed on the dotted line to join the cast of Heated Rivalry Season 2. For anyone who spent Season 1 hyper-fixated on the intense, enemies-to-lovers tension between Shane and Ilya, brace yourselves. The universe is expanding, the stakes are rising, and the casting department just hit an absolute home run—or, well, a game-winning goal. When the televis

Daytime television is famous for its revolving door, but Genoa City just delivered a spin that has everyone dizzy. If you tuned into CBS this week hoping for the usual slow-burn soap drama, you were instead met with a swift exits-stage-left. It is official, soap fans: Tamara Braun and Lucas Adams are really gone from Young and the Restless, and their sudden departures leave a massive void in the current canvas. For months, viewers watched the slow buildup of Sienna Bacall (Br

Just when Port Charles was finally getting interesting, the soap opera gods decided to wake up and choose violence. Word on the daytime street is that Chris L. McKenna is out at General Hospital. Multiple soap news outlets, including Soap Opera Network, are reporting that the actor is slated to exit the canvas this fall, with his character, Jack Brennan, allegedly set to be killed off. Talk about a plot twist nobody asked for. While neither ABC nor McKenna has dropped an offi

If Viola Davis signs on to a television series, it immediately becomes one to watch. If she stars and executive produces it? Paramount+ has officially greenlit Ascent, a brand-new original thriller that will see the EGOT-winning actress leading what already sounds like one of the streamer's biggest upcoming projects. Created by Oscar-nominated writer John Logan (Skyfall, Gladiator, Penny Dreadful), Ascent is shaping up to be a sleek, high-stakes character drama with plenty of

The expanding live-action DC Universe is taking some wild swings under its new leadership, and honestly, we are absolutely here for it. Comedy favorite Mary Holland has officially signed on as the female lead for the upcoming HBO Max Superman spinoff series according to Deadline. Centering on everyone's favorite Daily Planet photographer, Jimmy Olsen, this new project has caught our interest. A Fresh Take on Metropolis Instead of a traditional superhero drama, the series, rep

HBO is doing that thing again where they assemble a cast so ridiculously talented it almost feels like bragging. Just when we thought Mark Ruffalo’s gritty Philadelphia-suburb crime drama couldn’t pack any more punch, the network went ahead and dropped a casting bomb. Emmy winner Jharrel Jerome is officially joining the cast of Task Season 2, and honestly, our watchlists are already screaming. Whew. Jerome is set to play Jordan Barnes, the son of a DEA agent portrayed by none