FlashForward
Casting News

Now that it's been picked up for a full season, expect FlashForward to announce a few casting notes for early 2010 and beyond.

First case in point: Paula Newsome will come aboard the show early next year. The actress - who has guest-starred on Bones, NCIS and played a prominent role on the short-lived Women's Murder Club - will play a doctor on the drama.

No word yet on how this character wil tie in to the rest of the story, but Olivia does work at a hospital, so anything is possible.

Over the next couple weeks, FlashForward will be casting for a pair of contrasting character.

For the season's sixth episode, viewers should expect a professional killer to appear. Here's how the casting call for this character reads:

[TOUGH GUY] - a fairly big guy, professional killer. 5' 10". No lines in this episodes but role will recur with lines in future.

Conversely, a priest will be featured on episode 10. This related casting note:

[PRIEST] Open Age, Open Ethnicity, Male or Female. Presides over a funeral service. Co-Star.

Michael Ealy has landed a recurring role on FlashForward.

The actor - most recently seen in an episode of Hawthorne, but best known as the lead in the underrated Showtime mini-series Sleeper Cell - will debut on the drama's 10th episode.

Not a lot is known about his role, except for this: his character will cause problems for Joseph Fiennes' Mark Benford.

FlashForward will reunite Ealy with Sonya Walger, who played his love interest on Sleeper Cell.

No major FlashForward spoilers, but a bit of news regarding this wildly anticipated new show:

First, the series is casting for a recurring character. He'll first appear in episode eight and appears to be a bodyguard of some kind. How do we know? The official ABC casting notice says this is a non-speaking role...

[GARY] 40s, Caucasian. Hard, aggressive. A middle-management guy, he's committed to doing whatever the higher-ups need, even if it takes him into morally questionable territory. Please note in current script this is a Non-Speaking role, but with the strong possibility of returning in future episodes.

Secondly, producer David S. Goyer spoke about the show recently.

In the first part of his interview, he explains the planned timeline of events; in part two, he dishes on his inspiration for making FlashForward into a TV show.

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Our apologies to Supernatural fans that were looking forward to Genevieve Cortese reprising her role as Ruby this season. The actress won't return to the show.

But that's because she's landed a recurring role on FlashForward, ABC's mysterious, promising new drama. The actress will play Tracy Stark, the daughter of Aaron Stark (Brian F. O'Byrne).

FlashForward spoiler alert:Tracy was thought to have been killed in Iraq a couple years ago, but Aaron will see visions of his supposedly late daughter when he flashes forward on the series premiere.

The latest casting addition for FlashForward is almost as mysterious as the show itself.

Keir O'Donnell - best known for his role in Wedding Crashers - has joined the cast of the upcoming ABC drama. No word yet on what recurring character he'll play, but the actor joins an ensemble that includes Joseph Fiennes, John Cho and Sonya Walger.

O'Donnell also appeared in Paul Blart: Mall Cop and will have a part in The Runaways, the Joan Jett biopic starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning.

Dominic Monaghan was confirmed as a series regular on FlashForward earlier this month.

But, at Comic-Con last week, more details were revealed about the role the former Lost star would play on the new series.

Monaghan will portray Simon, "a game-changer character who f--ks up a lot of things," as described by producer/writer David Goyer.

As for why he signed on for FlashForward, the actor said:

"I want to play someone who's the opposite of [Lost's] Charlie. Simon is a man - this guy's not scared, he's capable, he's unflappable, he's smart, he's scary, he's everything that Charlie wasn't... it's important to me to continue to show an audience that I can play more."

Monaghan added that Simon is a "little hard to predict. He's a snappy dresser, capable and cocky."

FlashForward, one of the fall's most promising new shows, debuts on September 24.

FlashForward has landed an Oscar nominee.

Shohreh Aghdashloo has signed on for a recurring role on ABC’s new drama.

“It’s really exciting,” said the 24 alum and star of The House of Sand and Fog.

Aghdashloo, who wouldn’t reveal anything about her character, said that producers have taken extreme steps to keep the show's storylines and secrets quiet before its September 24 premiere.

“They didn’t even let me see the pilot in my home," she told TV Guide Magazine, adding that she watched it at her agent’s office with someone from ABC present to take the tape back after she was done.