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The NiceGirlsTV CASTING COUCH

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This week the casting couch features a handful of actors who will be showing up on a returning fan favorite series, two upcoming new series and a returning cable favorite:

Patrick Fischler

Patrick Fischler

Character actor Patrick Fischler (Lost and Mad Men) will appear on Suits, playing A. Eliot Stemple, a Harvard Law School classmate of Harvey’s (series lead Gabriel Macht) with whom he has a unique (and tense) history. Suits will be back with the rest of its current, third season on the USA Network in early 2014.

Joel Gretsch

Joel Gretsch

Actor Joel Gretsch (The 4400 and V) has joined the cast of the new Lifetime drama Witches of East End that will debut this Sunday, October 6. He will play Victor, a mysterious doctor who has an unknown connection to the Beauchamp family of witches.

Jimmy Jean-Louis

Jimmy Jean-Louis

Actor Jimmy Jean-Louis (who played the “Haitian” on Heroes) will appear in a multi-episode arc on Arrow, playing a character called “The Captain”, a mysterious and deadly associate of Professor Ivo (Dylan Neal from Cedar Cove and Blood Ties) who has a connection to a Season 2 mystery called “Amazo”. Arrow will air its season premiere on The CW on October 9.

RJ Mitte

RJ Mitte

Actor RJ Mitte (Breaking Bad) will have a recurring role on the ABC Family drama Switched at Birth, playing Campbell, a pre-med college student paralyzed by a snowboarding accident who works at the free clinic alongside Daphne (series lead Katie Leclerc). Switched at Birth will be back with more new episodes in January 2014 on ABC Family.

Halle Berry

Halle Berry

Actress Halle Berry will star in the straight-to-series CBS drama Extant from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin TV and CBS TV Studios. The series that will most likely air in 2014 will follow an astronaut (Berry) returning from a year-long solo space mission who tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life. Her experiences in space and home lead to events that ultimately change the course of human history.

Please come back next week for more casting announcements.

Using her favorite online handle, Rueben is an East Coast-bred gal who is now a permanent Californian and a lifelong tv-oholic. She watches at least 25 TV shows a week, goes to the movies as often as possible, listens to music every waking moment, reads every day and “plays” on the internet every chance she can. Some of her current favorite TV shows are Outlander, Sweet Magnolias, Wednesday, The Mandalorian, The Equalizer, Fire Country, Miss Scarlet and the Duke, The Rookie, Cobra Kai, Virgin River, The Witcher, Leverage: Redemption and School Spirits.  She is looking forward to the season premieres of Hudson & Rex on UPtv and Skymed on Paramount+ as well as the return of fall TV albeit starting in February. Follow her at @ruebenrambling or contact her at rueben@nicegirlstv.com.