Braugher's Back!
Former Homicide: Life on the Street Emmy winner Andre Braugher was reluctant to return to primetime TV, in the ABC medical drama Gideon's Crossing, debuting Oct. 10 (10 pm/ET). So reluctant, executive producer Paul Attanasio didn't think he'd be interested.
"There wasn't really any opportunity to get him for this," offers Attanasio, who was behind the 1997 hit mob movie Donnie Brasco, "because he had told everyone he would never do series television again." Luckily, Braugher read Attanasio's script and was blown away. "I just think there's nobody who's as fun to write for," admits the auteur, who wrote the pilot with Braugher in mind. "He's my favorite actor."
In his latest TV role, Braugher plays a doctor overseeing residents (played by Eric Dane, Russell Hornsby, Ravi Kapoor, Sophie Keller, Hamish Linklater and Rhona Mitra) at a teaching hospital. The series, explains Attanasio, focuses on "how