Joe Morton & Catherine Tate Join Fox’s ‘Going Dutch’

Rosy Cordero
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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy Award-winning actor Joe Morton (Scandal, Our Kind of People) and Catherine Tate (Doctor Who, The Office) have joined the FOX Entertainment comedy series Going Dutch cast in heavily recurring roles opposite series star and executive producer Denis Leary.

The single-cam comedy follows arrogant loudmouth U.S. Army “Colonel Patrick Quinn” (Leary), who after an epically unfiltered rant, is reassigned to the Netherlands, where he is punished with a command position at the least important army base in the world. After serving with distinction in every warzone of the last three decades, he now finds himself in charge of a base with no guns, no weapons, and no tactical purpose.

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Instead, it has a Michelin-star level commissary, top-notch bowling alley, and the best (and only) fromagerie in the U.S. Army. Surrounded by a diverse group of underdogs, the colonel tries to reinstall military discipline and professionalism with the help of the base’s previous interim leader, who happens to be his estranged daughter Captain Maggie Quinn (Taylor Misiak).

In addition to Leary and Misiak, Morton and Tate join previously announced cast members Danny Pudi, Laci Mosely, Hal Cumpston and Dempsey Bryk.

Morton will play General Davidson, the Colonel’s long-standing nemesis. The current lead-holder of their decades-long pissing contest, Davidson has been able to advance beyond the Colonel thanks to his willingness to engage in politics and kiss rings in ways that Quinn could never. Bitter and jealous of the Colonel’s battlefield success, Davidson’s been waiting for years for the Colonel to mess up and, when he finally does, he jumps on the opportunity for revenge. Davidson specializes in psyops, so he’s designed the Colonel’s punishment to be the most humiliating possible: relegating him to a remote non-combat service base currently run by the Colonel’s estranged daughter.

Tate will play Katja Vanderhoff, a smart, attractive Dutch woman with a PhD in intersectional feminism. Katja is the head of the city’s Chamber of Commerce and the local brothel owner. She is straightforward and emotionally available, yet enigmatic. She’s designed her life to be exactly what she wants, and then happily lives her life completely on her terms, which is why she’s surprised to be romantically drawn to a stubborn, narcissistic, aggressive loudmouth like the Colonel. But she won’t let her attraction to him compromise who she is or what she’s built. For them to be together, the most intractable man on earth must be willing to change.

Going Dutch, wholly owned by FOX Entertainment, comes from FOX Entertainment Studios, writer/executive producer Joel Church-Cooper (Brockmire) and executive producers Denis Leary and Jack Leary (Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll) through their production company Amoeba. The series is distributed by FOX Entertainment Global and is scheduled for a midseason premiere on FOX.

Morton is best known for portraying Rowan / Eli Pope in Shonda Rhimes’ ABC series Scandal. Other recent TV credits include FOX’s Our Kind of People, CBS’s God Friended Me, Netflix’s The Politician and Crackle’s Inside The Black Box. In film, Morton is widely known as the mute alien in the title role of John Sayle’s The Brother From Another Planet, and as the ill-fated scientist in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Notable film credits also include Speed, Of Mice and Men, and Cyborg’s dad, Dr. Silas Stone, in Batman vs. Superman and Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League. He is repped by TalentWorks, Vanguard Management Group and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka.

Tate is an award-winning actor and writer who recently starred in Enfield Haunting at the Ambassadors Theatre and created, wrote, and produced the BBC series Queen of Oz. In 2022 she also led Netflix’s Hard Cell and starred in Warner Bros’ The Nan Movie. She is widely recognized for her role as Donna Noble in Doctor Who, her portrayal of Nellie Bertram in NBC’s hit series The Office and leading her eponymous BBC series, The Catherine Tate Show. Additional credits include Big School (BBC), The Bad Mother’s Handbook (Netflix), and voicing Magica De Spell in Disney’s DuckTales reboot. Tate is represented by The Artists Partnership and UTA.

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