Deadline is reporting that comedian Patton Oswalt and actress Rosemarie DeWitt are both joining Season 2 of Aaron Sorkin's HBO series, The Newsroom, in recurring roles.

Oswalt, who worked with DeWitt previously on Showtime's United States of Tara, will play Jonas Pfeiffer, the new Vice President of Human Resources of ACN, while DeWitt will play Rebecca Halliday, a litigator who’s been hired to defend ACN in a multimillion-dollar wrongful-termination suit.

DeWitt and Oswalt from United States of Tara.

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