TV roundup: Kerry Washington on The Simpsons, Jay Baruchel’s new show

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Kerry Washington is Bart Simpson’s new permanent clergyman on The Simpsons. The singer will voice Rayshelle Peyton on a charcterised sitcom. She replaces Mrs. Krabappel, whom Marcia Wallace uttered until her genocide in 2013. Since then, guest-stars Willem Dafoe and Sofia Vergara have played Bart’s teachers, as good as expel unchanging Harry Shearer as Ned Flanders. “What an unusual bequest to be a partial of! And we suspicion a thought of personification Bart’s clergyman was so funny,” Washington told Entertainment Weekly. “I used to be a clergyman in NYC open schools. And my mom is a late teacher. Teaching is, to me, a dedicated profession.”

Peregrym takes mangle from FBI

Missy Peregrym is holding a mangle from a CBS play FBI to go on maternity leave. The Montreal-born actress, who plays Special Agent Maggie Bell, is awaiting her second child with father Tom Oakley. In her final part before a break, Peregrym’s impression helped constraint and kill a militant though became trapped in a lab with an open bin of sarin gas. She was saved, though now needs a poignant time to recover. “There are not usually earthy injuries though maybe some romantic ones, and that might impact how she sees a universe and how she handles cases,” showrunner Rick Eid told TVLine.

Disabled performers take a spotlight

A docuseries centring on performers with disabilities will première on Apr 27. Breaking Character will promote on a not-for-profit channel AMI-tv, and tide on AMI.ca and a AMI-tv app. Over a 10-episode initial season, it follows 6 people as they navigate a Canadian party industry. They are: wheelchair user and performer Tai Young; small chairman and actor Alexia Vassos; legally blind comedian Dan Barra-Berger; hard-of-hearing actor Caeden Lawrence; deaf actor and filmmaker Catherine Joell McKinnon; and indication and musician Rachel Romu, who has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.