None of the female cops inhabiting the current TV landscape may be quite as unapologetically outspoken and abrasive as Jane Timoney on Prime Suspect.
"She's a tough New York broad," executive producer Sarah Aubrey tells TVGuide.com. "She doesn't have a lot of her rougher edges smoothed off and that works for her in her own way. It's fascinating to watch a character say everything you're thinking and not really care about the consequences."
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You don't have to tell Scott Porter that a show like Friday Night Lights — the football drama that won Emmys, a Peabody and inspired a catchphrase ("clear eyes, full heart, can't lose!") — doesn't come around often. He already knows.
"It was a lightning-in-the-bottle moment of magic with Friday Night Lights and I know that I can never do that again. So to do something starkly different, but still try and capture that same type of magic and create and own a character was great," Porter says. "I wanted a show to be able to call my own again."
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Porter's second chance comes courtesy of Hart of Dixie, The CW's new drama following a city slicker doctor, Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson), whose career forces her to move to the South where she encounters alligators, Southern belles and a...
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Friday Night Lights executive producer Peter Berg is joining Prime Suspect — in front of the camera, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Berg, 47, will appear in one episode as ...
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Friday Night Lights may be coming to a theater near you — again.
Executive Producer Peter Berg, who directed the original film on which the NBC series is based, confirms to TVGuide.com that he is...
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Toby Stephens will star opposite Maria Bello in NBC's remake of Prime Suspect, Deadline reports.
In the update, Bello stars as detective Jane Timoney, who needs to prove herself in the male-dominated New York precinct. Stephens will play her live-in boyfriend with an ex-wife who doesn't want their son staying over with him and Jane.
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