‘The Mysteries of Laura’ season 2 casts ‘Necessary Roughness’ alum for recurring role
We feel like we really have not seen enough of Callie Thorne on TV since the end of “Necessary Roughness,” and with that in mind we consider the following bit of casting news all the more welcome.
As first reported by Entertainment Weekly, Thorne is being cast for a major recurring role on the upcoming second season of “The Mysteries of Laura,” and will be playing the part of someone in Captain Nancy Santiani who is almost all-business, and is going to have multiple clashes with Laura (Debra Messing). Despite being relatively young for her position, she works hard in order to earn the respect of some of her fellow peers. They may not always get along, but Laura and Santiani may still have something in common thanks to elements of their personal lives.
Hearing about this news further corroborates some early reports about the upcoming second season of the show, namely the desire to take it a little bit further away from the latest events of Laura’s family life and focusing more on the police work. While the family will still be there, we do feel like this is primarily still a mystery show, and we feel like with Messing’s comic timing one of the best routes to go here would be to make this show more similar to a “Bones” or a “Castle” than anything else.
The new season of “The Mysteries of Laura” will come on NBC at some point in September. Given that there is some more time to go before we make it there, we imagine that we’ll have some more news to report soon enough.
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Michael Goldman
July 29, 2015 @ 8:41 pm
Absolutely Unreal. NBC doesn’t have enough money to pay Kelli Giddish decently or enough money to bring back Danny Pino for Law & Order SVU, yet they have more money to bring in Ms. Thorne? This network may be more out of control than our Government. This show was a pity renewal. Had NBC not renewed it for 13 episodes, every new show from the last fall season(2014-15) would have been cancelled. How many people’s jobs were saved by renewing this show(not counting the cast and people who make it)? There’s a reason that it may be the WORST TV NETWORK out there. There must be people who are MADLY IN LOVE WITH DEBRA MESSING working at NBC. She is the MOST OVERPAID ACTRESS IN TELEVISION. I may be the only person who sees the stupidity of what is going on with this show. I guess I’ll just have to keep pointing this out until someone at NBC wakes up.
Lisa
July 30, 2015 @ 4:14 pm
I can’t believe this corny show got a renewal Debra Messing must have serious dirt on the NBC execs This show has boring writing with boring characters There is nothing fresh and exciting about this show It is taking air time from a couple of the NBC pilots that I was interested in I was hoping one of them would get picked up When I was watching MOL I felt like I should be in a retirement home eating tapioca pudding and getting my diaper change I am gonna tune in for the new medical drama Rosewood on fox which airs at the same time Even if it sucks just as bad I still hope it slaughters MOL in demo and viewers and NBC will finally put a bullet in this crappy show
Michael Goldman
July 30, 2015 @ 7:53 pm
It was the only 2104-15 fall show on NBC to get any kind of renewal(13 episodes). NBC totally and completely disrespects SVU(going on 5 seasons now of total disrespect) but bends over backwards for a show that was supposedly a guaranteed cancellation? Until Mysteries of Laura is gone from the airwaves, I will ripping this show constantly until NBC cancels it. Thank you for agreeing with me and an intelligent response by you.