“Dexter: Resurrection” is finally putting a face to the New York Ripper: Emmy Award winner Brian Cox (“Succession”) has boarded Season 2 of the Paramount+ revival as a series regular.
Per Paramount+, “though no longer active as a killer,” the New York Ripper has “found a new way to live into his infamy by continuing to taunt the survivors of his long-ago murder spree.”
Cox is best known for Golden Globe-winning turn as media tycoon Logan Roy on HBO’s acclaimed family saga “Succession,” which wrapped its four-season run in 2023. He took home the 2001 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for his Hermann Wilhelm Goering in TNT’s “Nuremberg.”
“Dexter: Resurrection” Season 1 is available to stream on Paramount+ via the Paramount+ Premium Plan. A Season 2 premiere date has not yet been announced.
In other casting news…
* Dennis Quaid is set to lead the NASCAR drama “Thunder Road,” currently in development at AMC. Per Deadline, the potential series, penned by John Fusco (“Marco Polo”), is a “multi-generational saga of the Whitlock family, whose legacy in stock car racing is as deep as the family’s ties to the southern hill country roots that shaped them.”
* AMC’s “Dark Winds” has added Noel Fisher (“Shameless”) and Devin Sampson-Craig (“Rez Ball”) to its Season 5 cast. According to Deadline, Fisher will recur as Michael Jorie, “a dangerous killer with a warped sense of righteousness and piety to his beliefs,” while Sampson-Craig will play Daniel Ironwater, Jr., “a skilled ranch-hand whose time in Vietnam has left him conflicted and heading down the wrong path.”
* Daryl McCormack (“Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery”) will star opposite Dakota Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård in Apple TV’s untitled thriller series from Emmy Award creator Alex Cary (Homeland), Deadline reports. The drama stars Fanning as “an undercover Treasury agent in a multi-billion dollar international conglomerate… who becomes conflicted between her mission and a belief that her principal target — the heir (McCormack) apparent to all that corrupt power — is at his core a good man and worthy of her love.”
* Michaela Coel’s forthcoming HBO/BBC drama “First Day on Earth” — about “a British-Ghanaian novelist (Coel) who is on the run from herself, her life, her partner, and that weird guy at her book talk” — has cast Fisayo Akinade (“Heartstopper”) in a supporting role. He joins fellow co-stars Thandiwe Newton, Maxine Peake, Danny Sapani, and Ncuti Gatwa.
* The Shane Gillis Netflix comedy “Tires” has added four new guest stars to Season 3: Rachel Blanchard (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”) as Phil’s “eccentric” girlfriend Bonnie; Garret Dillahunt (“Raising Hope”) as Frank’s “scary” brother Thatch; Anjelica Bette Fellini (“Teenage Bounty Hunters”) as “chaotic spitfire” Cara; and Matt Walsh (“Veep”) as Tire World employee Claude.