Chasing Life Adds Ed Asner and Marion Ross

TV veterans Ed Asner and Marion Ross (Happy Days) have been tapped to guest-star on ABC Family's newest drama Chasing Life, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Asner and Ross will play the grandparents of Italia Ricci's April Carver, a twentysomething journalist who recently discovered she has terminal cancer. 

Unlike some ailing TV protagonists, as far as we know, April has not entered in to the drug business with a former student.