LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:

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Steven Pasquale is bound for two episodes of "The Good Wife" as "one of the top campaign managers in the country who Eli Gold (Alan Cumming) is trying to convince to run Alicia's (Julianna Margulies) possible campaign" (Deadline.com); Ernie Hudson will recur on Lifetime's "The Lottery" as "a former Attorney General who uses his access to get the truth about his son (August Richard)" (Deadline.com); Alexandra Shipp will succeed Zendaya Coleman in Lifetime's biopic "Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B" (@WendyWilliams); Jaime Pressly will recur on "Mom" this fall as "a newly sober woman who at times is more than Christy (Anna Faris) can handle" (THR.com); Ryan Sands will guest on the season premiere of "Castle" as "a Hamptons police sergeant who helps Beckett investigate the most difficult case of her career" (TVLine.com); and Josie Loren is bound for "The Mentalist" as "the newest addition to Patrick Jane's FBI crew, a rookie fresh out of the FBI Academy" (TVLine.com).