TV Castings For 4/30/14: Sarah Silverman Joining Showtime’s ‘Masters of Sex’

Pilots

Joel Johnstone and Kenneth Mitchell have been cast in ABC’s The Astronaut Wives Club, the true story of the women behind NASA’s early astronauts and the struggles they face when their lives and families are catapulted into the spotlight overnight. Sam Trammell joins Amazon’s Cocked, about an estranged son who must return to work with his father and brother at his family’s gun manufacturing company after a corporate rival, run by their uncle, moves to take them over. Meg Ryan will voice the Mother in Fox’s How I Met Your Dad, which tells the story from a female point of view, and revolves around a new group of friends in New York,

Current Series

Helena Mattsson will recur in season 2 of ABC’s Mistresses. Willa Fitzgerald is set to recur in season 6 of USA’s Royal Pains. Sarah Silverman has joined the second season of the Showtime’s Masters of Sex. Cloris Leachman and Barry Bostwick will guest star in Season 4 of TNT’s Franklin & Bash.

Event Series

David Costabile joins USA’s Dig that follows an FBI agent stationed in Jerusalem who, while investigating a murder of a woman archaeologist, uncovers a conspiracy 2000 years in the making that threatens to change the course of history.