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Jinkys! "Scooby-Doo" Star to "ER"
The Mystery Machine has pulled up to County General.
Linda Cardellini, the big-screen Scooby-Doo's resident Velma, will join the cast of NBC's ER this fall, the network confirmed Tuesday.
Cardellini will play a single-mom nurse named Samantha Taggart.
E! Online TV columnist Kristin Veitch has reported the long-running drama series had been on the lookout for an actress to play a feisty R.N. in the vein of Julianna Margulies, who turned in Nurse Carol Hathaway's scrubs after the 1999-2000 season.
The 28-year-old Cardellini has no prior TV medical experience. She has proven her book smarts, though, as the utterly sensible Velma Dinkley in 2002's Scooby-Doo. She'll rejoin the mystery-solving Scooby gang in the 2004 sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.
Cardellini is best known to prime-time audiences as an angst-ridden high-schooler in the cult-fave comedy-drama, Freaks and Geeks, which aired on NBC in the 1999-2000 TV year.
Other newbies joining Cardellini on the ER staff are Parminder Nagra, late of the indie hit Bend It Like Beckham, and Glenn Howerton, star of the Fox castoff That '80s Show. Nagra's third-year med student will be a regular character; Howerton, as a second-year resident, will be seen on a recurring basis.
ER embarks on its 10th season September 25. Cardellini's Nurse Samantha will tend to patients starting with the fifth episode. The show's writers are considering having the character play doctor with Goran Visnjic's Luka Kovac, the Hollywood Reporter says.
Last week, Noah Wyle, the lone ER cast member to stay on full-time staff since the show's 1994 premiere, reupped through the 2004-2005 season. Wyle's workload this coming season, however, is expected to be lighter, although it's not know how much lighter, as the new dad bonds with baby.
In other fall TV news, Andrea Thompson, who turned in her NYPD Blue badge to play news anchor with CNN, is headed back to make-believe prime time.
Thompson has been cast as technical specialist Nicole Duncan on 24, Fox announced Monday. The role is described as recurring. She'll debut with the November 11 episode; 24 returns for its third season on October 28.
Thompson played Detective Jill Kirkendall on NYPD Blue from 1996-2000. The self-described news junkie quit the series to take a TV anchor job at a local station in Albuquerque, New Mexico. From there, she moved to CNN Headline News in 2001, a hire that irked journos who, unlike Thompson, had graduated from high school and declined to pose for "artistic" portraits in the buff. Thompson left the network in March 2002.
Post-CNN, Thompson recently hooked up with Hollywood Is Calling, a new service that offers to brighten, say, your granny's day by having Lorenzo Lamas, Thompson, or one of 20-plus celebrities ring up the old gal and just say hi.
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