More Casting News for ABC's Poe

Last week we reported on the casting of Chris Egan as Edgar Allan Poe in ABC's re-imagining of the author as sleuth.

Now we're learning (via Inside TV) that Natalie Dormer (The Tudors) has been cast as the young owner of the newspaper for which Poe writes, which she inherits from her father after his suspicious death. She'll be Poe's partner in crime(-solving), as it were.

Poe (the series title) is expected to be on the network's Fall 2011 schedule.