Brian Cox will be Santa, Simone Ashley gets her own rom-com, and more of the week in casting news

Spring is officially here, and with that air of growth and renewal comes a whole slate of new and exciting projects on the horizon. There were a lot of casting announcements this week, coming from returning series like You and Nine Perfect Strangers, to brand new productions like Netflix’s Black Doves and Peacock’s The Good Daughter.

Read on for The A.V. Club’s roundup of this week’s most exciting casting news.

Brian Cox will be the voice of Santa

Brian Cox will be taking his voice talents to Netflix for the animated Christmas flick That Christmas, streaming later this year. Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whitaker, and the recently Oscar-nominated Bill Nighy round out the cast as Ms. Trapper, Mrs. Williams, and the aptly-named Bill, respectively, as residents of a seaside town thrown into flux during the holiday season. [Drew Gillis]