{"id":662721,"date":"2026-10-23T02:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662721\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T02:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:54:10","slug":"sam-heughan-joins-viola-davis-in-ascent-cast-the-watcher-adds-madelaine-petsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662721\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Heughan Joins Viola Davis In Ascent Cast, The Watcher Adds Madelaine Petsch"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Sam Heughan is losing the kilt and joining Viola Davis in his next TV project.<\/p>\n

The “Outlander”\u00a0alum will star alongside Davis in the Paramount+\u00a0drama series “Ascent,”\u00a0the streamer has announced. “Ascent”\u00a0is billed as “a character-driven thriller set in the dangerous world of global corporate crisis and damage control.”\u00a0Heughan will play Conal, who is “one of Ascent Ventures’ top agents. A lethally charming and natural chameleon, Conal uses social cunning and ruthlessness to get the job done, and he always gets a thrill out of completing a mission.”<\/p>\n

Davis will star as Catriona, “an elite corporate fixer, who must weaponize the ruthless skills that have made her indispensable to billion-dollar clients when her estranged daughter is in danger.”\u00a0Her casting was announced back in August<\/a>. John Logan (“Penny Dreadful”)\u00a0created the series and will serve as showrunner.<\/p>\n

Heughan is best known for playing Scottish hero Jamie Fraser in the Starz time-travel fantasy “Outlander,”\u00a0which wrapped up an eight-season run in May<\/a>. He’s also set to star with Anna Kendrick and J.K. Simmons in the geopolitical thriller “Embassy,”<\/a>\u00a0coming soon to MGM+.<\/p>\n

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Netflix’s “The Watcher”\u00a0has added\u00a0Madelaine Petsch (“Riverdale”) to its Season 2 cast\u00a0as a series regular, along with\u00a0Evan Adams,\u00a0Owen Painter (“Wednesday”), and\u00a0Quintessa Swindell (“Prime Target”). Season 1 stars Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale will return as well<\/a>, joined by Isabel Gravitt and Margo Martindale.
\nApple TV’s upcoming thriller “Disavowed,”\u00a0starring James Marsden<\/a>, has added Sebastian Koch (“Homeland”) to its cast, per Deadline<\/a>. The series stars Marsden as a\u00a0CIA case officer who “is abruptly fired in the middle of a global hunt for an elusive assassin responsible for killing his colleague”\u00a0and “decides to go after the $15 million federal bounty on the assassin’s head.”
\nNetflix’s “Pagans,” starring Steven Yeun<\/a>, has added four to its cast: Logan Kim (“The Walking Dead: Dead City”) as Nate, Marin Ireland (“His & Hers”) as Janelle, Intae Kim (“How to Get Away With Murder”) as Casey, and newcomer Sabine Grace as Alice.<\/p>\n


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