Morena Baccarin Heist Thriller Nabs NBC Series Pickup – The Hollywood Reporter
A day after NBC launched its fall season, the community is setting its sights on midseason — and past — with a sequence order for The Endgame.
Picked as much as pilot earlier this yr, the financial institution heist thriller from writers Nicholas Wootton and Jake Coburn stars Morena Baccarin. Produced by Common Tv, the sequence is from Julie Plec and her My So-Known as Firm banner.
It’s unclear if The Endgame might be for a potential midseason bow or if it could air as a part of the community’s 2022-23 broadcast season. The information comes as broadcast networks shift to a year-round improvement mannequin, a response to final yr’s international manufacturing shutdown that utterly worn out pilot season. As an alternative, NBC picked up a small variety of scripted originals for fall and had a variety of its remaining pilots, together with these ordered in early 2020 and at the beginning of this yr, in competition for a potential midseason debut. An episode depend for The Endgame has not but been decided.
NBC’s present slate consists of comedies American Auto and Grand Crew in addition to dramas LaBrea and Atypical Joe, the latter of which debuted Monday night time. (LaBrea launches subsequent week.) The 2 comedies are awaiting premiere dates as NBC has but to agency up its midseason plans. The community, which canceled all of its bubble reveals together with Manifest and Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, just lately scrapped Legislation & Order: For the Protection, which threw wrench into its fall and midseason plans.
As for The Endgame, right here’s how NBC describes the sequence: “A pulse-pounding, high-stakes thriller about Elena Federova, a really just lately captured worldwide arms seller and good felony mastermind who even in captivity orchestrates a variety of coordinated financial institution heists, and Val Turner, the principled, relentless and socially outcast FBI agent who will cease at nothing to foil her formidable plan.” Baccarin performs Elena. The solid additionally consists of Ryan Michelle Bathe, Kamal Angelo Bolden, Casta Ronin, Noah Bean, Jordan Johnson-Hinds and Mark D. Espinoza.
The drama hails from Common TV, the place Plec relies with an total deal. Plec’s My So-Known as Firm topper Emily Cummins additionally exec produces alongside Andrew Schneider and Justin Lin, with the latter having additionally directed the pilot.
The Endgame is Plec’s newest sequence pickup since she moved her total deal from her longtime dwelling at Warner Bros. TV, the place she stays an exec producer of The CW’s Legacies and Roswell. For Common TV, she additionally has Peacock’s Vampire Academy.
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