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Melissa Fumero is back on the force:\u00a0The “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”\u00a0veteran will play a cop opposite Matthew Gray Gubler in the CBS procedural “Einstein,”\u00a0Variety<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n Fumero will co-star as\u00a0Teri, a\u00a0detective inspector for the New Jersey state police who works with Gubler’s Lewis Einstein, the brainy\u00a0great-grandson of Albert Einstein.\u00a0“Sharp and disciplined, Teri demands a lot from her colleagues and even more from herself, and feels conflicted about working with Professor Einstein,” per the official character description.<\/p>\n “Einstein”\u00a0\u2014 which earned a series order at CBS<\/a> in April 2025 and was later delayed a year<\/a> \u2014 stars Gubler as Lewis Einstein, who “spends his days as a comfortably tenured professor until his bad boy antics land him in trouble with the law and he is pressed into service helping a local police detective solve her most puzzling cases.” It’s set to debut during the 2026-27 TV season.<\/p>\n Fumero is best known for playing NYPD detective\u00a0Amy Santiago on the Fox comedy “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,”\u00a0which wrapped up a eight-season run in 2021. She also recently starred in the one-and-done NBC mystery<\/a> “Grosse Pointe Garden Society.”\u00a0Her other TV credits include “Blockbuster,”\u00a0“Based on a True Story,”\u00a0and “One Life to Live.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n In other casting news…<\/p>\n
Dominik Bindl\/Getty Images<\/p>\n *\u00a0Betty Gilpin (“GLOW”) has joined the cast of Ethan Hawke’s FX series “The Lowdown”\u00a0for the upcoming second season, according to\u00a0Deadline<\/a>. Gilpin will play a character named Ginger in what is described as a “major role.”<\/p>\n *\u00a0Paramount+’s “Tulsa King”\u00a0spin-off “Frisco King,” starring Samuel L. Jackson, has added four to its cast:\u00a0Asa Germann (“Gen V”), Kai Caster (“Yellowstone”), Lilah Pate (“Outer Banks”) and Savanna Gann (“His & Hers”).<\/p>\n *\u00a0Billy Zane (“The Boys”) will recur in Season 2 of the Apple TV golf comedy “Stick,”\u00a0Deadline<\/a> reports. No character details have been released.<\/p>\n *\u00a0Molly Griggs (“The Residence”) has joined Damon Wayans Jr. in the NBC drama pilot “Puzzled.” She’ll play\u00a0Quinn Abbott, “a tightly wound Atlanta PD detective.”<\/p>\n
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