Homeland is adding a Smashing new cast member.
Raza Jaffrey — who played Karen’s boyfriend Dev on the NBC musical drama — will heavily recur on Season 4 of the Showtime series, per The Hollywood Reporter.
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The actor will play Aasar Khan, a decorated lieutenant-colonel in the Pakistan intelligence service who butts heads with Carrie.
Additionally, Michael O’Keefe (King & Maxwell) will recur as deputy station chief John Redmond, who serves as No. 2 to Corey Stoll’s character.
Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…
* USA Network has picked up the comedy Sirens for a 13-episode second season.
* Starz has renewed its new drama Power for Season 2 after airing only one episode to date.
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* Orange Is the New Black‘s Dascha Polanco, who plays Daya, is getting bumped up to series regular for Season 3, per our sister site Deadline.
* Beauty and the Beast has promoted Nicole Gale Anderson (AKA Catherine’s sister) to series regular, reports Deadline.
* Longtime CSI co-showrunner Carol Mendelsohn is stepping down, leaving Don McGill as the CBS procedural’s sole showrunner, per The Hollywood Reporter.
* DirecTV’s upcoming original series Kingdom (fka Navy St.) will premiere Oct. 8 at 9/8c, reports Deadline.
* The El Rey Network has unveiled a trailer for its new series Matador, chronicling the unlikely rise of a professional soccer player who comes to be known as much for his antics off the field as his moves on it.
Yes to Sirens.
-Is anyone else having having issues with the comment sections? Some pages have it others don’t.
Yep, I’ve noticed it too. For me, it seems to only be the “what to watch” posts.
‘Tis being investigated, yes.
Me too. But it shows me there have been comments made. I wonder if they are still working out some details or better yet changing some things on the new site.
what about Playing House? funniest new show on TV. Sure hope it’s renewed!
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Good for Sirens it’s pretty funny. Have they even had Cats sister on this season? I can’t remember the last time she was even on.
I assumed Diaz was a regular already. Glad to hear it. Is Matt McGorry going to be sticking around now that he’s a regular on How To Get Away With Murder?
More relevant to HOMELAND is the fact that Raza Jeffrey was a member of the ensemble on the long-running British spy drama SPOOKS (which aired in the U.S. under the name M.I.-5).
(And coincidentally, his ex-wife, Miranda Raison, is showing up on 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY as an aide to the Prime Minister.)
Really hope that the upcoming 15th season of CSI may end up being its last.