Casting News: 30 Rock Reunion On Reggie Dinkins, Game Of Thrones Star's Horror Series, And More

Tracy Morgan will be joined by a pair of "30 Rock" pals this season on "The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins."

Jane Krakowski has signed on to guest-star in a Season 2 episode of Morgan's NBC comedy, according to The Hollywood Reporter, along with fellow "30 Rock" alum Scott Adsit. Krakowski will play Angela Broyer, "northern New Jersey's interior decorator to the stars," while Adsit will play Ed Sommers, who "always plays Santa in the neighborhood Christmas tree lighting ceremony." (Krakowski and Adsit played Jenna and Pete on "30 Rock," alongside Morgan's Tracy Jordan.) 

Also guest-starring in Season 2: Edi Patterson ("The Righteous Gemstones"), as HOA head Lisa; Jason Mantzoukas ("Brooklyn Nine-Nine"), as music producer Peter Za; and André De Shields ("Elsbeth") as Arthur's documentary mentor Vernon Bellow.

"Reggie Dinkins" — starring Morgan as a disgraced football star and Daniel Radcliffe as the documentary filmmaker chronicling his comeback — returns for Season 2 next Monday, November 2 at 8:30 p.m. (Get the scoop on its return in TVLine's Fall TV Preview.)  

• Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ("Game of Thrones") will star in "The Black Tapes," an eight-episode supernatural horror series ordered at MGM+. Based on the hit podcast, the series will star Coster-Waldau as psychiatrist Dr. Richard Strand, who teams up with a scientist "to debunk paranormal cases of hauntings, possessions, disappearances, and sinister legends — the infamous black tapes."
• Oscar winner Amy Madigan ("Weapons") has joined Viola Davis and Sam Heughan in the cast of the Paramount+ thriller "Ascent." She'll play Rachel, a former executive at Ascent Ventures and the lifelong mentor of Davis' character Catriona.
• Hulu's drama pilot "Young Americans," co-starring Scott Foley, has added five to its cast, per Deadline: Billie Boullet ("A Small Light"), Sam Rechner ("Heartbreak High"), Mia Isaac ("The Perfect Couple"), newcomer Oscar Winter, and Lauren Mei ("Summer Camp Island").
• Bill Nighy ("Ride or Die") has joined Caitríona Balfe in the cast of Alfonso Cuarón's Apple TV series "Ascension," Variety reports. The series stars Balfe as a documentary filmmaker who begins following a mysterious cult and "finds unexpected refuge in its teachings – until she discovers something far more insidious beneath."