Casting News: Y&R Adds Roger Howarth, Hilary Duff's Hulu Return And More

The Young and the Restless is giving Roger Howarth another on-screen life to live.

The CBS soap has tapped the daytime vet for a story arc set to air later this year, TVLine has confirmed. He will begin taping in September, but details regarding his character and storyline have not been disclosed. (Deadline was the first to report the news.)

Howarth is perhaps best known for his turn as Todd Manning on ABC's One Life to Live (1993-2013), which earned him a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Leading Actor in a Drama Series in 1994. He went on to star as Paul Ryan in CBS' As the World Turns (2001-10), before taking over as Dr. Austin Gaitlin-Holt on ABC's General Hospital (2012-23).

In other casting news...

* Hilary Duff (How I Met Your Father) will headline the drama series Pretty Ugly, based on Kirker Butler's 2015 novel of the same name, which is currently in development at Hulu. According to Deadline, she will inhabit the role of Miranda Miller, a pushy pageant mom whose single mission in life is to make her daughter the most successful child beauty queen in the country.

* Mireille Enos (The Killing) will star opposite Jon Hamm in MGM+'s forthcoming anthology series American Hostage. Per Deadline, she'll play Barbara, Hamm's on-screen wife, who is described as "formidable in her own right, intelligent and perceptive" as she helps her husband through a life-or-death crisis.

* Netflix's as-yet-untitled series set in the Extraction film universe has added May Calamawy (Moon Knight), Waleed Zuaiter (Gangs of London) and Ed Speleers (Star Trek: Picard), per Deadline.

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