Trek Alumni in New Series

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ABC has announced their new series for next fall. One of them is called Life on Mars which is based on the acclaimed BBC series of the same name. The "series focuses on a modern-day police detective who gets into a car crash and finds himself in 1973, where he's still a detective, but things are 35 years different." Colm Meanie will play Det. Gene Hunt (the character played by Philip Glenister in the BBC series). Life of Mars is currently scheduled to air on Thursday nights at 10 eastern.

 

I've seen the British series and it is excellent. Hopefully ABC won't mess it up.

 

If you know of any other Trek alumni who will be in new series, post it here.

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That sounds pretty cool. I'll have to check it out!

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He wasn't a regular but Kurtwood Smith did appear in a few episodes in different Trek series. You may remember him as Annorax in VOY's Year of Hell or as Thrax on DS9's Things Past or as the Federation President in STIV:TUC but you probably know him best as Red on That 70's Show. However you remember him, he will be part of the cast of a new CBS comedy called Worst Week. According to Zap2It, the series is about a magazine editor named Sam who has a great job and a beautiful fiance, but whenever he gets around her conservative parents, disasters tend to follow. Kurtwood Smith plays the fiance's father.

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Kurtwood Smith is great in everything he's in.

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Another Trek guest has landed a role in a new series. Saul Rubinek played Kiva Fajo in the TNG episode The Most Toys. He will be in the new SciFi series The Warehouse. According to SciFi, the series is about two FBI agents who saved the life of the President, finding themselves abruptly "promoted" and relocated to windswept South Dakota. Their new top-secret location is Warehouse 13 — a massive, secret storage facility that houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government over the centuries. In addition to searching the country for several missing objects discovered stolen from the Warehouse, their job is to monitor for new reports of supernatural and paranormal activity that could indicate the presence of another object they must investigate and safely bring back to the vaults of Warehouse 13. It sounds like Saul Rubinek's character will be the supervisor of the two relocated FBI agents.

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Not really "new" series but Robert Picardo becomes a full time cast member in the revamped season five of Stargate Atlantis.

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Another Trek guest has landed a role in a new series. Saul Rubinek played Kiva Fajo in the TNG episode The Most Toys. He will be in the new SciFi series The Warehouse. According to SciFi, the series is about two FBI agents who saved the life of the President, finding themselves abruptly "promoted" and relocated to windswept South Dakota. Their new top-secret location is Warehouse 13 — a massive, secret storage facility that houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government over the centuries. In addition to searching the country for several missing objects discovered stolen from the Warehouse, their job is to monitor for new reports of supernatural and paranormal activity that could indicate the presence of another object they must investigate and safely bring back to the vaults of Warehouse 13. It sounds like Saul Rubinek's character will be the supervisor of the two relocated FBI agents.

This sounds interesting. I guess this is where the Ark of the Covenent was stored......

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Christian Slater (Excelsior Communications Officer in STVI:TUC) and Alfre Woodard (Lily, ST:FC) will be starring in a new NBC series called "My Own Worst Enemy".

 

From Zap2It:

Premise of 'My Own Worst Enemy'

Christian Slater ("Bobby") makes his network series debut in this surreal drama about a man who shared two identities: Henry Spivey, a mild-mannered family man who works as an efficiency expert, and Edward Albright, a covert operative who speaks 13 languages and is trained to kill with his teeth. Each identity is unaware of the other, until the carefully constructed psychological wall between the two is breeched, thrusting both Henry and Edward into situations where they are ill-equipped to cope.

 

Also from Zap2It:

NBC's new series "My Own Worst Enemy" has added a little prestige to its cast in the form of Alfre Woodard.

 

Woodard, a multiple Emmy winner, will star opposite Christian Slater in the show, which is scheduled to air at 10 p.m. Mondays in the fall. The show centers on Slater's character, a middle-class suburbanite whose alter ego is a spy.

 

Woodard will play the supervisor of the spy part of Slater's character, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She will also have another side that has contact with the everyday Slater.

 

The cast for the Jason Smilovic-created show also includes Mike O'Malley, Saffron Burrows and Yara Martinez.

 

Woodard has won four Emmys, most recently for a guest spot on "The Practice" in 2003. She's been nominated numerous other times, including twice in 2006 for her season-long stint on "Desperate Housewives" and the CBS movie "The Water Is Wide."

 

Her credits also include "The Forgotten," "A Wrinkle in Time," "Miss Evers' Boys" and "St. Elsewhere."

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Ronald D. Moore's new series Virtuality has some new casting.

 

From Zap2It:

 

FOX Beams 'New Amsterdam' Star Into 'Virtuality'

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau joins Ronald D. Moore-scripted two-hour pilot

 

"New Amsterdam" fans may not have to look far to find star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.

 

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Coster-Waldau is sticking with FOX, taking a lead role in the network's two-hour sci-fi pilot "Virtuality."

 

Written by Ronald D. Moore ("Battlestar Galactica") and produced by Universal Media Studios and BermanBraun, "Virtuality" focuses on the 12-member crew of Phaeton, a starship that leaves Earth on a 10-year exploratory mission. The ship has been equipped with state-of-the-art virtual reality modules that let the crew escape their constrained surroundings. Then things start going wrong with the virtual reality, actual reality gets extra-complicated as well. Don't you hate it when that happens?

 

Coster-Waldau will play the ship's mission commander Frank Pike. One can only assume the name is a not-so-subtle tip-of-the-hat to the "Star Trek" franchise.

 

Previously announced stars for the pilot include James D'Arcy, Kerry Bishe, Jimmi Simpson, Joy Bryant, Sienna Guillory, Nelson Lee, Omar Metwally and Richie Coster.

 

Born in Denmark, Coster-Waldau played immortal police detective John Amsterdam on FOX's short-lived "New Amsterdam." His previous credits included "Firewall" and "Wimbledon."

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It's not a new series but Neal McDonough (Lieutenant Hawk, ST:FC) will be joining the cast of Desperate Housewives.

 

From Zap2It:

There's a new man on Wisteria Lane, and he looks an awful lot like Neal McDonough.

 

The star of Sci Fi's "Tin Man" is joining the cast of ABC's "Desperate Housewives" for its fifth season. He'll be a regular on the show, according to The Hollywood Reporter, playing a white-collar type who moves into the neighborhood.

 

He'll also be a possible love interest for Edie Britt (Nicollette Sheridan), last seen driving away after being frozen out by the rest of the housewives in the season's penultimate episode. Sheridan didn't appear in the season finale, but her absence from the show apparently won't be a prolonged one.

 

McDonough will be one of two new male characters on "Desperate Housewives" next season, which jumped five years into the future in May's finale. Gale Harold ("Queer As Folk," "Vanished") will have a recurring part as Ken, the guy who was kissing Susan ( Teri Hatcher) as the episode ended.

 

McDonough's TV credits include "Band of Brothers," "Boomtown," "Traveler" and "Medical Investigation." On the big screen, he's appeared in "88 Minutes," "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Minority Report."

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McDonough is a wonderful actor - and I'm glad he's found work - he's such a talented actor. Unfortunately he'll be playing in something I don't watch.

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Dumb show I do not blame you

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I love that show!

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I would say a case of too much exhust fumes. Need to work on the Roadrunner with doors open.

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ABC has announced their new series for next fall. One of them is called Life on Mars which is based on the acclaimed BBC series of the same name. The "series focuses on a modern-day police detective who gets into a car crash and finds himself in 1973, where he's still a detective, but things are 35 years different." Colm Meanie will play Det. Gene Hunt (the character played by Philip Glenister in the BBC series). Life of Mars is currently scheduled to air on Thursday nights at 10 eastern.

In case you didn't hear, ABC decided they wanted Life on Mars reworked after the pilot was shot. The only actor left from the original cast was the lead, Jason O'Mara. So if any of you were going to watch the new series because you wanted to see Colm Meanie, sorry but Harvey Keitel has taken his place in the role of Gene Hunt.