The 'Breaking Bad' alumna lands a female lead role in the potential new series, while the former 'Magic City' star joins the cast of the CBS show as a new series regular.
- January 30, 2015
AceShowbiz -
Anna Gunn is recruited for "Criminal Minds" spin-off. The two-time Emmy winner, who recently starred on FOX's "Gracepoint", has landed a female lead role on the potential new series and will star opposite Gary Sinise, various sites report.
The new "Criminal Minds" spin-off will focus on a division of the FBI that helps American citizens encountering trouble abroad. "CSI: NY" alum Sinise will play Jack Garrett, the leader of the team.
"Criminal Minds" showrunner Erica Messer will pen the script and executive produce the pilot along with Mark Gordon and Nick Pepper. The pilot will air as a planted episode in the mothership series. Filming will begin in mid-February.
In other casting news, Jeffrey Dean Morgan has signed up for "Extant". The actor, who is also set to star on History's miniseries "Texas Rising", joins the cast for season 2 as a series regular.
He will play JD Richter, a "roguish... free-wheeling, hard-drinking" mercenary/bounty hunter. His character is further described as being "fearless/bordering on reckless, mostly because he's got nothing to lose. He is the Everyman who thought he had seen everything until Molly Woods (Halle Berry) enters his life."
Mystery thriller "Extant" will return with its second season this summer.
