TVLine Items: Yvette Nicole Brown Visits Frasier, Walking With Dinosaurs Returns and More

Yvette Nicole Brown is bringing some sibling rivalry to Frasier.

The Community vet will guest-star during Season 2 of the Paramount+ revival as the older sister of Toks Olagundoye’s character Olivia, our sister site Variety reports.

Brown’s Monica is described as “part haughty professor, part Nancy Drew.” As Olivia’s “brilliant, biting, and delightfully deadpan” sis, “she has everything Olivia has and everything Olivia wants – and never misses a chance to remind her.”

Brown joins Season 2 guest stars Peri Gilpin, who will recur as Dr. Crane’s former KACL sidekick Roz, and Kelsey Grammer’s real-life daughter, Greer Grammer, who will play Roz’s all-grown-up daughter Alice.

Ready for some more recent newsy nuggets? Well…

* The nature documentary Walking With Dinosaurs will return in 2025 on PBS and the BBC, 25 years after the original program aired Stateside on Discovery Channel, our sister site Deadline reports.

* Julianne Hough (Dancing With the Stars) and Utkarsh Ambudkar (Ghosts) will host the live pre-show The Tony Awards: Act One, available for free on Pluto TV beginning Sunday, June 16 at 6:30 pm ET/3:30 pm PT.

* Prime Video’s upcoming series The Better Sister, starring Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks, has added the following actors to its cast, per Deadline: Corey Stoll (Billions), Kim Dickens (Fear The Walking Dead), Maxwell Acee Donovan (That ’90s Show) and Bobby Naderi (Black Summer).

* Peacock has unveiled the cast of Love Island USA Season 6, premiering Tuesday, June 11:

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