"Big Shots" - Vartan's return to ABC

[Alias_Gay]

Vartan Takes on New 'Alias'

Michael Vartan is headed back to ABC for his first post-"Alias" series job.

Vartan headlines the latest batch of actors taking pilot-season roles, as he's joining an ABC drama about a group of friends with high-powered corporate jobs. Gabrielle Union ("Night Stalker"), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ("Firewall") and Melissa Sagemiller ("Sleeper Cell") have also signed onto pilots, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The Vartan pilot comes from Jon Feldman ("Reunion," "Tru Calling") and follows the lives of four newly minted or about-to-be CEOs. The former "Alias" star will play the newly installed chief executive of a big company and the "moral center" of the series.

Since ending his run on "Alias" last season, Vartan has filmed two movies: the horror flick "Rogue" and the drama "Jolene," both of which are due for release later this year. His credits also include "Monster-in-Law" and "One Hour Photo."

Also at ABC, Union has signed on to "Football Wives," an adaptation of the British hit "Footballers Wives." The "Bring It On" and "Running with Scissors" star will next be seen in the Tyler Perry movie "Daddy's Little Girls."

Danish actor Coster-Waldau has taken the lead role in FOX's drama "New Amsterdam," about a New York city cop who's an immortal and has thus been working his beat for a couple hundred years. Lasse Hallstrom ("The Cider House Rules") is directing the pilot, which was created by Christian Taylor ("Six Feet Under") and Allan Loeb.

Sagemiller, meanwhile, has joined the cast of "Life," an NBC drama about a cop (Damian Lewis, "Band of Brothers") who rejoins the force after serving time for a crime he didn't commit. Her credits include "The Guardian" and "Sorority Boys."

 

[Xtremelimits08]

ahh so hes going to be on a new series!!!!! thats fricken awesome!

 

[undercover_spy]

Omg, that's way too weird for me. I don't know if I'm going to be able to cope with that. Hopefully it's a good show, but it'still weird. He'll always be Vaughn to me

 

[Xtremelimits08]

yea i agree it will be weird because the whole time im watching it im gunna be waiting for him to pull a gun on someone or....waiting for jen to show up....

 

[phoenix shotgun 47]

that's so awesome!!! he's going be back on tv!
it will be kinda werid though. i'll always see him as vaughn...

ETA: here's a link to some excerpts from the pilot vartanho.com

 

[Alias_Gay]

Big Shots
Drama

Premise: Four top executives lean on one another for help in their personal and professional lives.

Stars: Michael Vartan ("Alias"), Dylan McDermott ("The Practice"), Josh Malina ("The West Wing"), Christopher Titus ("Titus"), Jessica Collins ("The Nine"), Paige Turco ("Rescue Me," "The Agency"), Wendy Moniz ("The Guardian"), Nia Long ("Are We Done Yet?"), Peyton List ("Day Break"), Amy Sloan ("Gilmore Girls")

Studio: Warner Bros. TV

Producers: Jon Harmon Feldman ("Reunion"), Charles McDougall ("Desperate Housewives")

Love Dylan McDermott and having Vartan back on ABC is awesome

And the show get the after-"Grey's Anatomy" timeslot of Thursday at 10pm ...

 

[dandan]

its awesome and he looks so hot
hes like the quiet hot confident one who ROCKS

 

[beachdreaming10]

Looks even better if thats possible now that the hair has grown out some more.

 

[Alias_Gay]

should be a great show and a big hit following "Grey's Anatomy"

 

[Point Blank]

Is there a start date for this yet? Sometime in the autumn, I suppose?

 

[beachdreaming10]

September 27th.

 

[Mountaineer]

I've watched Big Shots and it is an okay show, but it will never live up to Alias. Big Shots is kind of like Desperate Housewives, but it's about men talking about their troubles instead of women talking about theirs. I only watch it because it has Michael Vartan in it.