Casting call: 'Big Bang Theory,' 'Family Guy,' 'Covert Affairs'

"The Big Bang Theory" will be back in Black in the fall.

The CBS comedy has cast "Daily Show" contributor and comedian Lewis Black for a guest appearance in the season's second episode, the network says. He'll be playing a professor of entomology whose department is under the budget ax and whose family life is falling apart.

That's not the biggest issue, though: The real problem is that Sheldon (Jim Parsons) keeps pestering him to settle a bet with Wolowitz (Simon Helberg) about a cricket. So it sounds like we're in for some of Black's trademark inchoate rage.

"Family Guy" isn't exactly a bastion of conservative thought, so what the heck could induce Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove to do guest voice work on the show?

Creator Seth MacFarlane tells the Hollywood Reporter's Live Feed that it's for an episode that finds Brian the dog becoming upset that he no longer has stuff to complain about now that Barack Obama is president. He switches parties and comes under the thrall of Limbaugh and Rove, the political maven of the Bush White House.

'Family Guy' tends to be very liberal because it's written by liberals," MacFarlane says. "So we thought, let's give the other side some face time."

USA's pilot "Covert Affairs" is adding a Cutthroat Bitch to its cast.

Anne Dudek, whose character on "House" was dubbed that by Dr. House (Hugh Laurie), has joined Piper Perabo and Christopher Gorham in the show, the HR says. She'll be playing the sister of Perabo's character, a CIA trainee.

Dudek has also had recurring parts on "Mad Men" and "Big Love."

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