John Stamos cast in 'Scream Queens' Season 2

LOS ANGELES, June 17 (UPI) -- John Stamos is headed for Scream Queens Season 2.

Fox announced the 52-year-old actor's casting and a premiere date for the new season in a press release Thursday.

Season 2 will take place in a hospital and feature Stamos in a series regular role. The Fuller House star will play Dr. Brock Holt, the hospital's "brilliant, but secretive, head surgeon."

Stamos joins returning stars Emma Roberts, Abigail Breslin, Lea Michele, Jamie Lee Curtis, Keke Palmer, Billie Lourd, Glen Powell and Niecy Nash, who will reprise their Season 1 characters.

"I think it'll be dark. I think it's going to be very dark," Curtis said of the new season to E! News in May. "[There's] a lot of darkness in hospitals -- dark hallways, scary rooms, sharp objects, a lot of blood, disinfectants."

"I don't know how [my character] can get any darker than [she] did in Season 1 but hey, whatever [series creator] Ryan Murphy wants me to do I am totally down with," Michele added. "I get to be even crazier this year than I was last year, if you can believe it!"

Scream Queens Season 2 will premiere Sept. 20. Stamos also plays Uncle Jesse on Fuller House, which started filming a second season this week.