Castle & Shipton (TV series)

Castle & Shipton is an American crime-comedy-drama television series which is set to air on ABC at midseason 2018. It is a spinoff of the parent series Castle The series was produced jointly by Beacon Pictures and ABC Studios.

Created by Andrew W. Marlowe, it primarily traces the lives of Alexis Castle (Molly Quinn), daughter of best-selling mystery novelist Rick Castle, and colleague Hayley Shipton (Toks Olagundoye), a MI6 agent-turned-security-specialist, as they open a new branch of Castle Investigations in Los Angeles and form an investigative team that works with a special unit of the police to solve unusual crimes in the City of Angels.

Premise
Following the events of Castle's eighth season, but prior to the epilogue of it, Richard Castle's daughter Alexis, and Private Investigations co-worker Hayley Shipton relocate Castle's Investigations to Los Angeles to make their own way, renaming it Castle/Shipton Investigations. They form a team consisting of one of Hayley's old Scotland Yard allies from London, a young ambitious fan of Castle's Derrick Storm & Nikki Heat series, a white-hat hacker and crime scene/tech analyst, and an former law student looking to pave his own path in the world. Together they work in co-operation of a team of L.A.P.D. detectives, in the department's High Priority Unit, often solving unorthodox mysteries like Castle, Kate Beckett, and company before them.

Castle Investigations

 * Molly C. Quinn as Alexis Castle, daughter of best-selling novelist Richard Castle


 * Toks Olagundoye as Hayley Shipton, a security specialist former affiliated with Scotland Yard and MI6


 * Joel Kinnaman as Richie Draper, Hayley's former Scotland Yard co-worker.


 * Alyson Stoner as Jordan McGinty, a young amateur detective, and an ambitious fan of Richard Castle and his work.


 * Shad Moss as Cyler Hawkins, a white-hat hacker crime scene/tech analyst formerly of the SDPD who now works in the private sector.


 * Andre Kim as Dexter Liang, a 19-year-old college graduate and former third year law student looking to follow his own path.

LAPD (High Priority Unit)

 * Michael Kelly as Detective Henry Kegan, a hard-nosed, 18-year veteran of the L.A.P.D.


 * Darius McCrary as Sergeant Damon Williams, the second in command at the L.A.P.D.'s High Priority Division.


 * Mitchel Musso as Detective Charlie Serano, a young new detective in the precinct and a love interest of Alexis.


 * Josie Loren as Detective Imogen "Imo" Asher, a recent transfer from Narcotics Division.


 * Kathy Nijamy as Captain Pamela Ridley, the stern head of the High Priority Unit.

Recurring

 * D.B. Sweeney as Lieutenant Kyle Seeger, the Robbery/Homicide detective Alexis' father and stepmother met while chasing a fuigitive in L.A. before.


 * T.R. Knight as Orson Lowbeck, the L.A. county medical examiner.


 * Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle


 * Stana Katic as Captain Kate Beckett