The Fits spinoff has added three extra actors to its roster for season 1.
A month after ET confirmed Bryan Greenberg can be becoming a member of the Los Angeles-based collection, Deadline solely reported that John Amos of Good Occasions and Coming to America, Victoria Justice from Victorious and Kevin Weisman of Alias will every seem as visitor stars on the present.
In response to the outlet, Amos will play himself as a consumer of the agency on the heart of the present, whereas Justice will painting Dylan Pryor, a younger film star. Weisman will act as Lester Thompson, a hotshot who has lately been charged with homicide and should comply with authorized recommendation to keep away from jail time.
The up to date casting checklist comes after Greenberg, finest recognized for his position in One Tree Hill, was introduced as a collection common for Fits: L.A. Manufacturing has already begun in Vancouver, the town the place the unique Fits filmed a majority of episodes throughout its 9-season run.
Within the Fits spinoff, Greenberg will play Rick Dodsen, Ted Black’s (Stephen Amell) protege within the leisure division of Black Lane Regulation. Greenberg’s casting got here a month after it was introduced that Amell joined the solid to play the position of former New York prosecutor who reinvents himself to symbolize probably the most highly effective shoppers in Los Angeles.
Earlier this yr, ET confirmed that NBC has ordered the pilot for the spinoff of the massively in style collection that starred Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Meghan Markle, Sarah Rafferty and Gina Torres.
Fits: L.A. will even star Josh McDermitt as Stuart Lane, Lex Scott Davis as Erica Rollins, Troy Winbush as Kevin and Alice Lee as Leah.
The logline for the collection reads, “[Ted’s] agency is at a disaster level, and so as to survive he should embrace a job he held in contempt his whole profession. Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who take a look at their loyalties to each Ted and one another whereas they cannot assist however combine their private {and professional} lives. All of this is happening whereas occasions from years in the past slowly unravel that led Ted to go away behind every little thing and everybody he beloved.”
Fits creator Aaron Korsh, together with David Bartis, Doug Liman and Gene Klein, are set to govt produce the collection. Victoria Mahoney will direct its pilot episode.
Deadline was first to report that Korsh was engaged on creating a brand new authorized drama that may not be a reboot of the unique present, however slightly in the identical vein of the CSI and NCIS franchises.
Fits: L.A. is the second spinoff of the unique collection, which aired from 2011 to 2019 and skilled a resurgence lately because of its arrival on Netflix. Pearson, which adopted Torres’ Jessica Pearson as she navigated legislation and politics in Chicago, was canceled in 2019 after one season.
The unique Fits solid lately reunited on the 2024 Golden Globes, sans Markle.
“It is so good to see outdated mates once more,” Rafferty advised ET forward of the ceremony, with Macht agreeing, “It is thrilling. I am going to see a few of my solid members from the present. I am going to see some mates from some films that I’ve made years in the past. It’s good to be included within the night.”
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