The Red Line TV-Show Review 2019 Cast Crew
Creators: Caitlin Parrish, Erica Weiss
Stars: Howard Charles, Vinny Chhibber, Emayatzy Corinealdi
Noah Wyle has been chosen to play a leading role in the CBS pilot program "Red Line", which Variety has learned.
In the pilot, after a white policeman in Chicago shoots and kills a black doctor by mistake, the program follows three different families who have connections to the case as the story is told from each perspective.
Wyle will play Daniel Calder, described as a dedicated high school teacher who mourns the loss of his innocent African-American husband who was shot dead by a white police officer. Daniel is now a single father of his adopted daughter, Jira.
He joins the previously announced cast members, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Noel Fisher, Michael Patrick Thornton and Aliyah Royale.
Wyle is perhaps best known for playing Dr. John Carter in the long-running medical drama "ER." He also starred in the TNT sci-fi series "Falling Skies," as well as the film franchise "The Librarian" by TNT and the subsequent television series. It is also scheduled to appear in the upcoming Amazon series "The Romanoffs," which comes from the creator of "Mad Men" Matthew Weiner.
The network has ordered four other one-hour dramas: "God Friended Me", the reboot of "Magnum P.I.", "The Code" and "The Red Line".
"Magnum P.I." You will see Jay Hernandez take over the role originally played by Tom Selleck. The series follows Thomas Magnum, a former decorated Marine Seal who, upon returning home from Hawaii from Hawaii, again uses his military skills to become a private investigator. The series will also star Perdita Weeks, Zachary Knighton, Stephen Hill.
Peter Lenkov, the writer and producer behind the current CBS reboots of "Hawaii Five-O" and "MacGyver," will be the writer and executive producer. Eric Guggenheim, executive producer and writer of Lenkov's "Hawaii Five-O", will also write and executive produce. John Davis and John Fox of Davis Entertainment will also be executive producers along with Danielle Woodrow. Justin Lin will direct the pilot and executive production. CBS Television Studios will co-produce with Universal Television.
"God Friended Me" is described as a humorous and edifying series about an open atheist whose life is disrupted when he is "friend" by God in social networks. Unwittingly, he becomes an agent of change in the lives and destinies of others around him. The series stars Brandon Micheal Hall, fresh out of the ABC comedy "The Mayor," along with Violett Beane, Suraj Sharma, Javicia Leslie and Joe Morton.
Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt wrote the script and will be the executive producers. Marcos Siega directed the pilot and will also be an executive producer. Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter of Berlanti Productions will also be executive producers. Warner Bros. Television is the studio.
"The Code" focuses on the brightest minds of the military when faced with the toughest challenges in our country, inside and outside the court, where every attorney is trained as a prosecutor, defense attorney, investigator and marine. It stars Anna Wood, Ato Essandoh, Phillipa Soo, Raffi Barsoumian. Mira Sorvino and Dave Annable were previously chosen in main roles, but those roles will now be recast.
The series is based on a telegraphy game by Craig Sweeny, with the story of Sweeny and Craig Turk. Sweeny will serve as showrunner. Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman will also be executive producers. Marc Webb directed the pilot and will also be an executive producer. CBS Television Studios will produce.
"The Red Line", by writers and executive co-producers Caitlin Parrish and Erica Weiss, comes from Warner Bros. Television. After a white policeman in Chicago shoots and mistakenly kills a black doctor, the program follows three different families who have connections to the case as the story is told from each perspective. Ava DuVernay, Berlanti and Schechter are also executive producers. It stars Noah Wyle, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Aliyah Royale, Noel Fisher, Michael Patrick Thornton, Vinny Chhibber, Howard Charles and Elizabeth Laidlaw.
Finally, CBS also ordered the multi-camera comedy "Fam". In the series, a woman's dreams of an honest life with her new fiancé and her outstanding family fall apart when her younger half sister in a younger landing gear comes to live with her to escape her father's train accident. It stars Nina Dobrev, Tone Bell, Odessa Adlon, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Sheryl Lee Ralph. Corinne Kingsbury will serve as a writer and executive producer. Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor, Bob Kushell and Wendi Trilling will also be executive producers. CBS Television Studios will produce with Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment. Scott Ellis will serve as the director and executive producer of the pilot.
These raise to nine the total orders of CBS for the next season. The network had previously ordered the multi-camera comedies "Welcome to the Neighborhood" and the untitled project Damon Wayans Jr. for the series. The network also gave direct orders to the series for the reactivation of "Murphy Brown" and the new procedure of Dick Wolf "FBI".
A project that was not included in these orders was the adaptation of "Confidential de LA" of the network. The sources say that the pilot was well received but that it was considered too dark for the station. The project may be purchased by cable or transmission, with CBS All Access as the most logical option.
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