Casting News: Titus Welliver on Dark Winds, Days Recasts a DiMera and More
The ever-busy actor — who, not long after he ended his run as TV’s Harry Bosch, joined the MGM+ crime drama The Westies — apparently will first slip in a visit to the acclaimed AMC drama, according to a photo from the set Welliver posted on social media.
There’s no word yet on Welliver’s role — TVLine has reached out to AMC for character details — but the photo and his caption (“back on the chain…”) seem to indicate he’s playing a Season 4 prisoner of some sort. Dark Winds concluded its third season in April; check out our finale recap here.
Welliver is best known to TV fans for his starring role in Prime Video’s crime drama Bosch, which ended a seven-season run in 2021, and its spinoff Bosch: Legacy, which wrapped up earlier this year. He also guest-starred in an April episode of CBS’ The Equalizer with an eye towards getting his own spinoff, but it failed to earn a series pick-up. His other TV credits include Deadwood, The Good Wife and Sons of Anarchy.
is run as The Young and the Restless’ Phillip “Chance” Chancellor IV — has joined Peacock’s Days of Our Lives as a recast Chad DiMera, Deadline was first to report. Billy Flynn previously filled the Days role (and his episodes are still airing), and now plays Y&R’s Aristotle Dumas, aka Cane Ashby. Floyd will first air as Chad in April 2026.
* Timothy Olyphant, who can next be seen playing a “synth” in FX’s Alien: Earth, is the latest addition to the cast of Peacock’s adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s The Five-Star Weekend. He joins previously announced cast members Jennifer Garner, Regina Hall, Chloë Sevigny, Gemma Chan and D’Arcy Carden.
Jimmy Kimmel is about to embark on his annual summer vacation — and ABC has enlisted a rebel spy to fill in as host.
Diego Luna will preside over Jimmy Kimmel Live! the week of Monday, June 23. According to Deadline, the Andor star’s guests will include Adria Arjona, Ariela Barer, David Corenswet, Nicholas Hoult, Dolores Huerta, Heidi Klum, Patton Oswalt, Emma Stone and Alan Tudyk, as well as musical guests Good Charlotte, Hermanos Gutiérrez and NEZZA.
Additional guest hosts confirmed to sub in this summer include Anthony Anderson, Nicole Byer, Alan Cumming, Chris Distefano, Fortune Feimster, Jelly Roll and Kumail Nanjiani.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! airs weeknights at 11:35/10:35c.
* Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights, Nashville) is set to recur in HBO‘s untitled Steve Carell comedy, Deadline reports. The gig reunites Britton with series co-creator Bill Lawrence, who previously co-created ABC’s Spin City (on which Britton co-starred as Winston administration accountant Nikki Faber in Seasons 1-4).
* Celebrity panelists for the new season of ABC’s Match Game (premiering Wednesday, July 23, and now hosted by Martin Short) include Adam Pally, Amy Sedaris, Ana Gasteyer, Andrea Martin, Anthony Anderson, BD Wong, Beanie Feldstein, Cara Delevingne, Caroline Rhea, Constance Zimmer, Ego Nwodim, Jackie Tohn, Jim Belushi, Joel Kim Booster, Joel McHale, Kal Penn, Kevin Nealon, Lamorne Morris, Pete Holmes, Randall Park, Selena Gomez, Thomas Lennon, Tituss Burgess,Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Von Miller and Ziwe Fumudoh.
