Geoff Stults has grabbed the lead role in 'The Finder,' the 'Bones' spinoff.

According to Deadline Hollywood, Stults will play Walter Sherman, a former member of the military police who has the ability to find anything. The character is based on 'The Locator' books by Richard Greener.

Michael Clarke Duncan is set to play Stults' partner.

In other casting news ...

• Andy Garcia will voice a character on 'The Simpsons.' Garcia will voice a character in a parody episode of 'Ocean's Eleven.' [Entertainment Weekly]

• John Lithgow will play Barney's biological dad on 'How I Met Your Mother.' Lithgow, who won an Emmy for his work on 'Dexter,' will appear in a February episode. [Hollywood Reporter]

'The Good Wife' is hot. Don't believe us? Just ask its star, Emmy winner Julianna Margulies.

Margulies, who has already nabbed a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild award for her portrayal of Alicia Florrick on the CBS legal drama, claims tonight's episode (airing at 10PM) is the series' hottest one to date.

While promoting her new film, 'City Island,' in which she plays Joyce Rizzo, the crass wife of Vince (Andy Garcia), Margulies saved time to talk about 'The Good Wife,' her career aspirations for her son and the secret to being a successful working mother.

Read the interview after the jump.

Martha Stewart, rapper Ludacris and actor Andy Garcia sat down today for small talk and cognac on 'The Martha Stewart Show' (weekdays, syndicated). If this sounds like an odd group for a cocktail party, well, that's because it is.

Each of the celebs shared a little-known secret about themselves over a snifter of cognac. Ludacris said that he works so hard he actually raps in his sleep, Andy Garcia revealed he has a collection of some 30 conga drums and Martha Stewart admitted she's an insomniac who stays awake all night long watching movies.

Watch the video after the jump.

The father-daughter team of Andy Garcia and Dominik García-Lorido appeared on 'The View' (syndicated, ABC) Tuesday and talked about trust ("I think the only time I ever got in trouble was when I lied") and acting together (the pair co-star in 'City Island,' which opens March 19).

When asked by Whoopi Goldberg what it was like to act with her father, she said it was "pretty normal. We treat each other like any other actor." But that doesn't mean that she was above criticism. "'Hey, good job,' but he's like, 'you know, in this part of the monologue' ....."

Watch the video after the jump.

Have you noticed lately that the new faces cropping up on TV series in starring roles are often actors you've never seen before -- or if you have, it was in a supporting role of a feature or a foreign TV show? Think about it, Lee Pace as the Pie Man on Pushing Daisies, Jonny Lee Miller on Eli Stone, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in New Amsterdam, Michelle Ryan in Bionic Woman, all of these leads are relatively new faces. That's one way to cast series. Another is for big stars to take to TV, if not for the first time, than for a return.

In an interesting article at IGN.com, blogger Travis Fickett points out that there used to be a line of demarcation between the worlds of acting: film actors vs. television actors. But nowadays the stars are going back and forth a lot more fluidly.

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