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Casting News: Lifetime's Lucifer Reunion, Prison Break Addition and More
Lucifer alumni Lesley-Ann Brandt and Aimee Garcia are set to star with Taye Diggs (Private Practice) in the Lifetime movie Terry McMillan Presents: His, Hers & Ours, due out later this year.
The premise: Single father Darius (played by Diggs) discovers his teenage daughter in bed with her boyfriend Chase, and wastes no time kicking him out. However, a knock at the door changes everything — it's Chase's mother, Kelly (Brandt), furious and ready for confrontation. Buuuuut… forced to spend time together due to their children's relationship, Kelly and Darius slowly develop feelings for each other.
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Diggs and Brandt will both also serve as executive producers on the TV-movie, while Garcia will play Sofia, Kelly's best friend who grows suspicious of the budding relationship.
In other recent casting news…
* Hulu's Prison Break reboot has added Priscilla Delgado (A League of Their Own) as Cheyenne, a prison inmate and the girlfriend of a prisoner in the men's unit just a floor away; Deadline first reported on the casting.
* NBC's single-cam comedy pilot set at a Native American community center in Oakland, Calif. has cast Jana Schmieding (Rutherford Falls), Bobby Wilson (Reservation Dogs), Wes Studi (Reservation Dogs) and SNL vet Rachel Dratch, per Variety.
* Presenters for this Sunday's Tony Awards, airing live on CBS starting at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT, include Aaron Tveit, Adam Lambert, Alex Winter, Allison Janney, Ariana DeBose, Ben Stiller, Bryan Cranston, Carrie Preston, Charli D'Amelio, Danielle Brooks, Jean Smart, Jesse Eisenberg, Katie Holmes, Keanu Reeves, Kelli O'Hara, Kristin Chenoweth, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Lea Michele, Lea Salonga, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Michelle Williams, Oprah, Rachel Bay Jones, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Samuel L. Jackson, Sara Bareilles and Sarah Paulson.
* Country stars Cody Johnson and Ashley McBryde will host this year's CMA Fest, airing Thursday, June 26 at 8/7c on ABC (and streaming on Hulu the following day).
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