Casting around

Sasha Alexander(Dawsons Creek, NCIS) is joining the cast of The Nine (Channel Five).......Ryan O Neal is joining Bones(SKY One)while David Duchovny is on board to direct an episode....Liev Schreibner, a very fine actor, will dep for William Peterson in CSI (Channel Five)next year while he takes some time off, and presumably can replace him is and when Grisson ups and leaves which he keeps talking about.....Bryan Cranston (Malcolm In The Middle) will play Barney's dad in How I Met Your Mother (BBC2).......Susannah Thompson will join NCIS (FX, Channel Five) as a love interest to Mark Harmon.....