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'Tarzan' Co-Star Swings to ABC's 'Secret Service'
(Monday, February 09 09:39 AM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - See Jane run. Run, Jane, Run. Run far away from "Tarzan."
Sarah Wayne Callies, who first had to deal with having her character's name stripped from the title of The WB's "Tarzan" and then with the show's swift demise, has landed the lead in a new ABC drama.
The Hawaiian-born Callies will topline ABC's "The Secret Service," playing a young woman balancing her personal life and marriage with her duties as a secret service agent. The Hollywood Reporter describes the series as a "character-driven procedural." And any similarities to "Alias" probably aren't entirely accidental, as "Secret Service" comes from former "Alias" producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman-Counter, as well as Francie Calfo.
Callies went from virtual unknown to WB poster girl with the short-lived "Tarzan." Her earlier credits include "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and the first incarnation of Dick Wolf's unsuccessful "Dragnet" revamp.
Eva Longoria, a veteran of Wolf's updated (but equally viewer-anemic) "L.A. Dragnet" has also landed on her feet with an ABC drama pilot. Longoria will play one of the leads in "Desperate Housewives," which takes a dark, but humorous look at four women living on a cul-de-sac in an anonymous town.
Longoria, who also did a stint on "The Young and the Restless," will play a former model whose decaying marriage leads her to begin an affair with her 16-year-old gardener.
Both ABC pilots come from Touchstone TV.
'Tarzan' Co-Star Swings to ABC's 'Secret Service'
(Monday, February 09 09:39 AM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - See Jane run. Run, Jane, Run. Run far away from "Tarzan."
Sarah Wayne Callies, who first had to deal with having her character's name stripped from the title of The WB's "Tarzan" and then with the show's swift demise, has landed the lead in a new ABC drama.
The Hawaiian-born Callies will topline ABC's "The Secret Service," playing a young woman balancing her personal life and marriage with her duties as a secret service agent. The Hollywood Reporter describes the series as a "character-driven procedural." And any similarities to "Alias" probably aren't entirely accidental, as "Secret Service" comes from former "Alias" producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman-Counter, as well as Francie Calfo.
Callies went from virtual unknown to WB poster girl with the short-lived "Tarzan." Her earlier credits include "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and the first incarnation of Dick Wolf's unsuccessful "Dragnet" revamp.
Eva Longoria, a veteran of Wolf's updated (but equally viewer-anemic) "L.A. Dragnet" has also landed on her feet with an ABC drama pilot. Longoria will play one of the leads in "Desperate Housewives," which takes a dark, but humorous look at four women living on a cul-de-sac in an anonymous town.
Longoria, who also did a stint on "The Young and the Restless," will play a former model whose decaying marriage leads her to begin an affair with her 16-year-old gardener.
Both ABC pilots come from Touchstone TV.
