Jericho Gets a Visit from Esai Morales

NYPD Blue alum Esai Morales has joined CBS' Jericho in the recurring role of Col. Hoffman, a career military man and Iraq War veteran who has not heard from his wife since the day of the attacks. Morales, who most recently costarred on Fox's short-lived Vanished, is set to appear in six of Jericho's seven episodes ordered for mid-season.Anybody else remember when Esai got up in Sean Penn's grill in juvie prison? Good times.For more CBS casting news, see the Ausiello Report's CSI: Miami Exhumes Rory Cochrane and CSI: NY Collars Ex-Creek Stud.

Matt Mitovich

July 23, 2007 at 10:41 a.m. PT

NYPD Blue alum Esai Morales has joined CBS' Jericho in the recurring role of Col. Hoffman, a career military man and Iraq War veteran who has not heard from his wife since the day of the attacks. Morales, who most recently costarred on Fox's short-lived Vanished, is set to appear in six of Jericho's seven episodes ordered for mid-season. Anybody else remember when Esai got up in Sean Penn's grill in juvie prison? Good times. For more CBS casting news, see the Ausiello Report's CSI: Miami Exhumes Rory Cochrane and CSI: NY Collars Ex- Creek Stud.