TVLine Items: Hacks Season 3 Guest Cast, James Badge Dale Joins Jessica Chastain Drama and More
Hacks will deliver Max comedy with a bevy of guest stars slated for the upcoming season.
Helen Hunt, Christina Hendricks, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Bucatinsky, George Wallace and Tony Goldwyn are all set to appear in Season 3, TVLine has learned. Character details remain TBA.
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This comes after it was previously announced that Megan Stalter and Paul W. Downs, who’ve appeared as Kayla and Jimmy, respectively, since Season 1, were upgraded to series-regular status. Downs co-created the show with Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky, and serves as a co-showrunner, EP, writer and director in addition to acting.
Season 3 takes place one year later, as “Deborah Vance (played by Jean Smart) is riding high off the success of her standup special, while Ava (Hannah Einbinder) pursues new opportunities back in Los Angeles,” according to its official description.
Production on Season 3 kicked off in December 2022 but then paused in February 2023, as series lead Jean Smart underwent and recovered from an undisclosed heart procedure. Filming resumed in mid-March but paused again for the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. As announced back in January, Hacks’ long-awaited third season is officially set to release on Max this spring.
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* James Badge Dale (Hightown, 1923) will recur in the Apple TV+ limited series starring Jessica Chastain as a top investigator who infiltrates an online hate group to bring down the country’s most violent men, Deadline reports. Details on Dale’s character have not yet been revealed.
* Catherine McCormack (Slow Horses) has joined Lockerbie, Peacock and Sky’s five-part series about the terror attack on Pan Am Flight 103, in the role of Jane Swire, wife of Dr. Jim Swire (Colin Firth). Also joining the cast are Sam Troughton (Chernobyl), Mark Bonne (Shetland), Andy Nyman (A Small Light), Ardalan Esmaili (Codename: Annika) and Selwa Jghalef.
* David Dastmalchian (of CBS’ MacGyver reboot and an upcoming arc on The Rookie) will star opposite Alexander Skarsg?rd in the upcoming Apple TV+ sci-fi series Murderbot, adapted from Martha Wells’ bestselling books, per Deadline. He will play Gurathin, the taciturn scientist who views the titular robot-human hybrid as a threat.
* Tubi has released a trailer for the BBC import Borders, premiering Friday, March 8 and centering on a group of Black inner-city teens who land at one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious boarding schools:
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