Mark-Paul Gosselaar to play Bow's dad on ABC's Black-ish spinoff Mixed-ish

Deadline

The Saved by the Bell alum has landed a new TV role one month after Fox canceled his vampire drama The Passage. In a recasting, Gosselaar will replace Anders Holm as the father of 12-year-old Bow, played by Arica Himmel. Holm played young Bow's dad in a Black-ish backdoor pilot episode for Mixed-ish that was originally supposed to air last season. Instead, the episode will air with Gosselaar next season. In Mixed-ish, Tracee Ellis Ross' Black-ish matriarch recounts growing up when her "parents Paul (Gosselaar) and Alicia (Tika Sumpter) decide to move from a hippie commune to the suburbs to better provide for their family," according to Deadline. "As her parents struggle with the challenges of their new life, Bow and her siblings navigate a mainstream school in which they’re perceived as neither black nor white." Gosselaar happens to be "mixed-ish" himself, with Dutch and Indonesian heritage.