Scott Bakula will lead the NCIS spinoff set in New Orleans as Special Agent Pride.
The character is described in casting notes as being "warm" and "driven to do what's right", while also embodying the city itself and being perfectly suited to the "unique region".
Based on the book series by Executive Producer Vicki Iovine, this one hour dramedy follows a best-selling author of a self-help book series who is secretly hiding her separation from her husband as she starts to navigate her life as a single woman in her 40's in Los Angeles. She starts to side with and take advice more from her divorced friends rather than her married ones and it leads her to some unexpected and life-changing experiences.
The show stars Greg Kinnear as a brilliant but self-destructive lawyer. The pilot will air on Fox and is a remake based on the Australian series of the same name.
At long last, Emily Owens feels like she is an actual grown-up. She can finally put her high school days as the geeky-girl-with-flop-sweats behind her; she's graduated from medical school and is now a first-year intern at Denver Memorial Hospital, where she'll have the chance to work with world-famous cardiologist Dr. Gina Beckett - and where, not-so-coincidentally, her med-school crush Will Rider is also an intern.