Jack Davenport is set as the lead in ABC’s drama pilot Sea Of Fire. The Smash alum, who fielded multiple pilot offers, joins recently cast female lead Jennifer Carpenter in the project based on a Dutch format. Young Australian actress Isabelle Cornish (Home & Away) also has been cast in the pilot,which chronicles the fallout from three teenage girls starring in a pornographic film, which tears their families apart and leads to a disappearance, a murder and host of other secrets boiling under the surface in a small town. Davenport stars as the easy-going local Sheriff Marty Kesowich. Already deeply concerned over his suicidal and befuddled wife, Marty counts himself lucky to have a seemingly perfect daughter, cheerleader and straight-A student Merel (Cornish). But he’s shocked to learn that Merel is not at all the paragon he imagined. After Merel’s close friend Jane goes missing, Marty fears that his daughter had some involvement, and when FBI Agent Leah Pierce (Carpenter) joins the case, Marty is torn between pursuing the investigation fully or covering up the increasingly damning evidence against his child. Sea Of Fire hails from writer Jenna Bans, Sony TV, ABC Studios, Scripted World and Mandeville.
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Although its premisse isn't great, the cast so far is interesting.
ReplyDeleteI'm really excited for this show and I hope it gets picked up. Isabelle is really pretty, I hope she's a good actress.
ReplyDeleteI really like Jack and Jennifer so the cast for this show is at least good.
ReplyDeleteThis. I'm not sold on the premise yet (or its chances of surviving on ABC) but the cast is shaping up nicely.
ReplyDeleteYeah it doesn't seem very ABC in fact it seems more like a cable drama. I am kind of intrigued to hear Jack's American accent, he always seems to play a Brit and I'm so used to that.
ReplyDeleteI'm worried this will be next season's "Last Resort", because it really doesn't seem very ABC, it sounds more like a cable drama and I'm worried it won't get the viewers their other dramas get and will get cancelled, regardless of quality. I'm very interested in hearing Jack's American accent, hopefully it's decent enough to not be distracting, LOL. I do love his regular accent, shame he'll have to hide it.
ReplyDeleteWhile I would watch almost anything that includes Jack Davenport, I'm not really looking forward to hearing him speak in an American accent since his English accent lends itself, very nicely, to the sexy timbre of his voice.
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