Vikings

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Film casting

• Harrison Ford joins Anchorman 2
• Rebecca Hall joins Johnny Depp and Paul Bettany in Transcendence
• Damon Wayans Jr and Jake Johnson to star in Let’s Be Cops
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan joins Solace

UK TV

• Derek gets a second series
• Sunday ratings: the Beeb beats ITV

US TV

• Fox renews The Following, New Girl, Raising Hope and The Mindy Project
• Sunday ratings: The Bible gets 13.1m viewers, Vikings gets 6.2m…
• …Red Widow starts low

US TV casting

• Chloe Sevigny to recur on The Mindy Project
• Scott Bakula to guest on Two and a Half Men
• Eamonn Walker, Lee Tergesen to guest on Copper
• Marisa Ramirez to recur on Blue Bloods
• Ramon Fernandez to recur on Revolution, Kaley Ronayne to recur on Army Wives

New US TV shows

• NBC pushes Seed-alike Donor Party because it can’t find a lead
• TNT adapting Claire DeWitt book series

New US TV show casting

• Kyle MacLachlan joins NBC’s Believe
• James Cromwell joins ABC’s Betrayal remake, Megalyn Echikunwoke and Cedric Sanders join ABC’s Influence, Rick Donald joins Friends With Better Lives
• Naveen Andrews joins ABC’s Reckless, Alexis Carra joins ABC’s Mixology
• Samaire Armstrong and Sam Hazeldine join ABC’s The Returned, Lenora Crichlow joins ABC’s Cullen brothers comedy
• Ryan McPartlin joins TBS’s Do It Yourself, Scoot McNairy joins AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire
• RZA to co-star in Fox’s Gang Related
• Megan Dodds to star in NBC’s I Am Victor, Vinette Robinson joins NBC’s Assistance
• Humphrey Ker joins NBC’s Holding Patterns
• Emma Booth joins ABC’s Gothica
• Lucien Laviscount joins The CW’s The Selection, Megan Follows joins Reign
• Gloria Reuben, Enrico Colantoni and Marsha Mason to co-star in TNT’s Geena Davis pilot
• Annie Ilonzeh joins NBC’s Hatfields & McCoys