"Breaking Bad" star Betsy Brandt has been cast as Michael J. Fox's TV wife.
NBC is eyeing the series, which has already been ordered for a full season, for fall. Brandt will play the wife of Fox's character, a New York news anchor coping -- like Fox -- with Parkinson's disease. He'll also have the usual sitcom troubles, like juggling family and his career.
Brandt's "Breaking Bad" husband, Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) also struggled with health problems: Brandt's character nursed him back to health after he was shot and had to re-learn to walk.
She joins a cast that also includes Connor Romero and Jack Gore as the couple's children, Katie Finneran as the sister of Fox's character, and "The Wire" star Wendell Pierce as his boss.
The second half of the fifth and final season of "Breaking Bad" will air this summer. Both "Breaking Bad" and the Fox show come from Sony Pictures Television.
The as-yet-untitled series is written by "Cougar Town" scribe Sam Laybourne and "Easy A" director Will Gluck.
