{"id":493503,"date":"2026-06-11T02:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/493503\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T02:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:14:08","slug":"baywatch-adds-john-beckwith-to-recurring-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/493503\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Baywatch’ Adds John Beckwith To Recurring Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Another new face is coming to Baywatch<\/a>. John Beckwith<\/a> (Song Sung Blue) has booked a heavily recurring role opposite Jessica Belkin<\/a> on Fox<\/a>\u2018s upcoming reboot of the famous lifeguard action drama.<\/p>\n

\n\tBeckwith\u00a0will play Julian, an extremely handsome, compassionate, and sophisticated Ph.D. student who\u2019s part of an ocean research team brought in to help Baywatch. Sparks fly and white-hot chemistry grows when Charlie (Belkin) rescues him, only to find herself drowning in his bright blue eyes.<\/p>\n

\n\tStephen Amell stars\u00a0<\/a>in the series lead role of Hobie Buchannon, wild child from the original series and now a Baywatch Captain, following in the footsteps of his legendary father, Mitch. Hobie\u2019s world is turned upside down when Charlie (Belkin), the daughter he never knew, shows up on his doorstep, eager to carry on the Buchannon family legacy and become a Baywatch lifeguard alongside her dad. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlongside Amell and Belkin, the series stars Shay Mitchell (Trina), Hassie Harrison (Nat), Thaddeus LaGrone (Brad), Brooks Nader (Selene) and Noah Beck (Luke).\u00a0 In heavily recurring roles,\u00a0OG series star David Chokachi reprises his role of Cody Madison, Livvy Dunne guest stars as junior lifeguard Grace and Mary McDonnell as Gayle. Original series stars Erika Eleniak, Michael Bergin\u00a0and Kelly Packard\u00a0will guest-star and reprise their roles as lifeguards Shauni McLain, Jack J.D.\u00a0Darius and April Giminski.<\/p>\n

\n\tFox Entertainment and Fremantle are co-producing, with Matt Nix serving as showrunner and exec producing alongside premiere episode director McG, Michael Berk, Greg Bonann, Doug Schwartz, Dante Di Loreto and Mike Horowitz. Fox Entertainment Global holds all domestic rights, with Fremantle managing all international sales.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Baywatch reboot is scheduled to launch on Fox during the 2026-2027 season.<\/p>\n

\n\tBeckwith\u00a0made his feature film debut as Eddie Vedder alongside Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson in Focus Features\u2019 Song Sung Blue. He\u2019ll next be seen starring in the independent film Grind, written and directed by Peter Collins Campbell. He previously appeared in Ryan Murphy\u2019s Feud: Capote and the Women, directed by Gus Van Sant, as well as a recurring role on Showtime\u2019s Three Women. Beckwith\u00a0is repped by\u00a0Innovative and Linden Entertainment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Another new face is coming to Baywatch. John Beckwith (Song Sung Blue) has booked a heavily recurring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[30080,93,30081,61,60,30001,211803,141823,282],"class_list":["post-493503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-baywatch","tag-entertainment","tag-fox","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jessica-belkin","tag-john-beckwith","tag-stephen-amell","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}