Scoop: Veronica Mars' Ryan Hansen to Romance Kate Walsh in Bad Judge

Kate Walsh is getting some Dick Casablancas.

Ryan Hansen has joined the cast of Walsh’s new NBC comedy Bad Judge as a series regular, TVLine has learned.

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The Veronica Mars vet will play Gary, a psychiatrist who has an on-again, off-again relationship with Walsh’s hard-living, sexually unapologetic judge, Rebecca.

Hansen — who is set to reprise his role of Dick C in the CW’s upcoming web-based Veronica Mars spin-off — replaces Bones‘ Mather Zickel, who portrayed Gary in the pilot but left the project for creative reasons.

Bad Judge premieres Thursday, Oct. 2 on NBC.