Donald Sutherland, Josh Charles
Donald Sutherland has joined the cast of the CBS drama pilot The Eastmans, playing — wait for it — the wealthy and wily patriarch of a large family. Of doctors. Ergo, Sutherland's character is a distinguished cardiologist, whereas Dirty Sexy Money's Tripp Darling gave people heart attacks.
He'a also the husband of Jacqueline Bisset, who became an Eastman earlier this week.
In other CBS pilot news, Josh Charles (Sports Night) will play ...
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Josh Charles by Steve Granitz/ WireImage.com
Josh Charles (In Treatment) has joined the parade of high-profile guest stars dropping in on Law & Order: SVU.In one of the coming season's new episodes, Charles and Teri Polo will play the parents of a young man who stands accused of a sure-to-be-sexual crime.Charles and Polo of course previously costarred as lovahs on the late, great Sports Night. — Mickey O'ConnorCraving scoop? E-mail Mickey and Matt at mega_scoop@tvguide.com. The Mega Buzz column answers your questions every Wednesday.
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Bridget Moynahan and Campbell Scott, Six Degrees
It was a long six months ago that Six Degrees debuted on ABC. Spinning the separate-yet-sometimes-intertwined stories of a half dozen New Yorkers — played by Jay Hernandez, Bridget Moynahan, Erika Christensen, Dorian Missick, Campbell Scott and Hope Davis — the J.J. Abrams-produced drama opened strong in its cushy post-Grey's Anatomy ti
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Josh Charles, best known for his turns on Sports Night and in the film Dead Poet's Society, joins ABC's Six Degrees starting April 13, TVGuide.com has learned. Charles will play a man from Whitney's (Bridget Moynahan) past who will shake things up for the duration of the season, which resumes this Friday at 9 pm/ET. As part of a Six Degrees feature posting tomorrow, executive producer Stuart Zicherman describes Charles' character as "flawed, and you're not sure what he's up to," and says that he arrives on the scene in "a very McDreamy sort of way." Whoa, Mer sleeps with him, too?! She's shameless, really.For more on Six Degrees' return, watch for Friday's Interviews & Features.
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