The Weekly Round-Up for June 27 to July 1

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

TELEVISION

Starz has canceled the drama Camelot after airing only one season.

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actress Jennifer Finnigan has been cast in the female lead of the USA Network pilot called Wild that is about people behaving badly at night in Las Vegas and two very different lawyers, Will Garratt (Ben Lawson) and Eliza Evans (Finnigan), who solve their problems before morning. Actor Edi Gathegi (The Twilight Saga and X-Men: First Class) has already been cast as the duo’s resourceful investigator.

Actor Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) has signed on to the Aaron Sorkin HBO series More As This Story Develops, playing a supporting role in the drama, which is set behind the scenes at a sensationalist news program. He will join Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Sam Waterston and Olivia Munn. The series is set to debut in 2012.

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

The cast for the 8-part mini-series called World Without End, which is the follow-up to The Pillars of the Earth mini-series has been announced. Among the cast are: Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City), Miranda Richardson (Rubicon), Ben Chaplin (The Water Horse), Peter Firth (MI5), Charlotte Riley (The Duchess) and Tom Weston-Jones (Enlightenment). The mini-series is based on the novel by Ken Follett, which centers on Caris (Riley), a visionary woman who, with her lover Merthin, builds a community that stands up to the Crown and the Church. Nixon will play the beautiful and deadly schemer Petranilla, Richardson will play the strong and determined Mother Cecilia, Chaplin will play the mysterious Sir Thomas Langley, and Firth will play the ruthless Earl Roland. Also cast in the project are Rupert Evans (Hellboy) as the duplicitous Godwyn; Nora von Waldstaetten (Carlos) as streetwise peasant girl Gwenda; Oliver Jackson-Cohen (The Raven) as the rough and dangerous Ralph; Megan Follows (Heartland) as Maud, a lady fallen from grace; and Sarah Gadon (Cosmopolis) as the attractive and intelligent Philippa.

CASTING SCOOP

Veteran actor Scott Wilson (Dead Man Walking) and actress Lauren Cohan (Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries) will play the father/daughter team of Hershel and Maggie Greene on the second season of The Walking Dead when it returns this fall on AMC.

Actor Russell Hornsby (Lincoln Heights and this falls NBC series Grimm) will guest star in an upcoming episode of the new USA series Suits, playing Quentin Sainz, someone from Jessica’s (Gina Torres) past whose company’s breakthrough drug for ALS patients may have unexpected deadly side effects. Also on tap to guest star in the same upcoming episode is actress Sharon Leal (Hellcats) who will appear as Lisa Parker, a consultant for the company that is being sued for falsifying the results of their drug trials to the FDA.

NBC has signed Kelli Giddish (Chase) and Danny Pino (Cold Case) as two new series regulars who will play detectives on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Actress Michelle Trachtenberg (Buffy and Gossip Girl) will guest star on Weeds this season, playing Emma, a low-level, pot-dealing rival to Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) who catches Silas’ (Hunter Parrish) eye.

Actor Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down) will have a multi-episode arc in Hawaii Five-0 when it returns for its second season this fall, playing a former Detroit Homicide Detective who’s now the head of Hawaii’s Internal Affairs. After McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) was arrested in the Season 1 finale for the murder of Governor Jameson (Jean Smart), the IA unit will definitely have their hands full.

Veteran actor Bruce Davison will appear in the season finale of Drop Dead Diva, which just started its new season this past weekend. Davison will play Cyrus Maxwell, a long-sitting and well-respected judge who requests that Jane (Brooke Elliot) take on the case of a death row inmate.

Actor Ed Begley Jr. will guest star on the TNT police drama Rizzoli & Isles, playing Dr. Pike, an assistant medical examiner called in by Dr. Maura Isles (Sasha Alexander) from Western Massachusetts to cover a murder case. Pike, an egotistical, officious, anal-retentive guy, thinks he should have Maura’s job and quickly makes himself at home.

Actor Joe Manganiello (True Blood) will guest star in an upcoming episode of White Collar, playing an ex-con who moves in across the street from Peter and Elle Burke (Tim DeKay and Tiffani Thiessen), bringing trouble to their neighborhood. There is no word as to how many episodes Manganiello will be seen in, but he won’t appear until the latter half of the season.

Actress Dichen Lachman (Dollhouse) has landed a series regular role on the Syfy version of Being Human. She will play Izumi, a reclusive, centuries-old vampire who causes upheaval when she returns to her old Boston stomping grounds. Dichen will next be seen in Torchwood: Miracle Day, when it premieres on Starz on July 8.

Actor James Tupper (Grey’s Anatomy and Men in Trees) will take over for Marc Blucas as the father of Emily Van Camp’s character in this fall’s new ABC drama Revenge. Blucas played the dad to Emily Thorne (Van Camp) via flashbacks in the original pilot, but with Blucas part of the cast of the new USA Network series Necessary Roughness, Tupper will step in, as the flashbacks will continue on through the series.

Actor Russell Tovey (the UK original Being Human) is set to guest star in the second episode of the BBC One drama series Sherlock, playing a man who recruits the titular detective and his assistant Dr. Watson (Martin Freeman), after he suffers from an upsetting childhood experience.

NOTE: The weekly calendar and the box office news will appear separately this week.