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UPDATED: Torchwood star John Barrowman has landed the last series regular role on KJ Steinberg and Shonda Rhimes’ ABC period drama pilot Gilded Lilys. Set in 1895, it centers on the Lilys, who are looking to revive their family’s fortunes by opening the most lavish hotel in New York history. Barrowman, best known for his role as Captain Jack Harkness on Torchwood, will play playboy brother Julius Lily. After one modestly rated season on Starz, the cult British sci-fi drama was quietly shelved. While it hasn’t been officially cancelled per the pay cable network, there are currently no plans for a new season, and Gilded Lilys has Barrowman in first position. The pilot reunites Barrowman with ABC and ABC Studios after doing an arc on the network and the studio’s dramedy Desperate Housewives in 2010. He is with WME and UK’s Gavin Barker Assoc.
Ally McBeal alum Greg Germann is set to co-star opposite Mary McCormack in Kari Lizer’s ABC comedy pilot, aka The Unprofessional. The multi-camera comedy, from Warner Bros. TV, centers on Hilary Pfeiffer-Dunne (McCormack), a high-powered executive who, having dominated the corporate America for years, now faces the biggest challenge of her life when she finds herself unemployed and acting as a full-time mom to her two teenagers. Germann, repped by APA and The Collective, will play Hilary’s frequently traveling husband and the father of their 2 kids who is much more easy going than Hilary, but equally successful. He has recently recurred on Showtime’s House Of Lies.
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There are only white people in this show
Well, know there’s a gay one… That’s a kind of minority, ha ha.
Just one? Hah!
I wonder if Capn Jack’s character will be a closeted gay guy who poses as a “playboy” as cover? Hmm…
Anyway, I can hardly believe they won’t cast any black characters. That would be such a missed opportunity.
“Torchwood” was cancelled?!
News to me that Torchwood was cancelled. But I’m glad, the last season was awful. Happy to see Barrowman move onto new things. I just wish it wasn’t a Shonda show.
Uhm, try fact checking!? Torchwood was not cancelled. It’s more of a miniseries each season now. Both Davies and Starz said they would do another season when they’re ready.
Oh cmon, that was obviously face-saving BS. The ratings were horrible and creatively, it was junk. Even Starz has some standards.
This article definitively states that Barrowman “is no longer tied to Torchwood.” Maybe someone will do the show without him and without Starz.
Russell T Davies is caring for his partner who was diagnosed with brain cancer this past year. All of RTD’s projects have been on hold. BBC Worldwide is also having budget issues with all of its shows (which is why the next series of Doctor Who is being stretched out over 2012 and 2013 into the 50th anniversary special that will air in late 2013.) My guess is that Torchwood will return after that,and give the BBC and Davies time to get their unrelated issues addressed. So it makes complete sense for JB to take a role now, in America, where he is better known than he was before his Desperate Housewives arc (which he filmed between these last two series of Torchwood.
Starz will never touch Torchwood again. The show might well be back in some form someday, but not on Starz, most likely not on any American channel as an original production.
“Best known for her role”? Nope. I think you mean his.
Wow, I can’t believe Torchwood got cancelled. Last I saw, Albrecht said that it would be back when RTD had a new idea in mind. It did way better than other shows on Friday, especially the poorly rated Boss, which got a Season 2 before it even premiered. Weird, since it was coproduced by the BBC and the cost was manageable.
Yeah, as Jmacgrath says. Torchwood has certainly never been cancelled. It’s never been an ongoing show, in the American model. It’s a British show, which (typically, and in this case) means they produce a handful of episodes every few years when the creative team feels it has something new to say.
Right now the show’s creator, Russel T Davies, has some personal issues so he’s taking time off of TV writing. When he’s ready to write more, he will. When he does, there will be a new series. Whether that’s five episodes or thirteen depends on the whims of the moment.
Whilst the point re RTD’s partner is certainly true, Torchwood is in limbo and as far as I am aware no-one knows whether it will be recommissioned or not. Saying there will be a new series is no more accurate than saying there won’t be one.
Personally, I hope Torchwood is gone. The show died with CoE. Miracle Day was poor, barely recognisable as Torchwood & best forgotten.
This one just moved from “probably watch” to “must see”.
Women rule the television. That’s why I don’t watch it.
Women rule TV because men stopped watching, ya know.
Great! Germann will be hilarious in this role.
He’s the best character in House of Lies.
Hope he’ll be able to do both!!!
Mary McCormack can be funny? No hating here — She’s a nice enough actress — Just not a very funny one. Sounds dreary.
Mary is a “nice enough actress” but not funny? Her Tony Award nomination for a purely comic role in Boeing-Boeing might say otherwise.
Looking forward to Germann back on regularly. He is SO AWESOME on House of Lies. He needs his own show.
Oh, fcol. Gilded Lilys: ABC sees the success of UK period drama ‘Downton’ and rushes on board with its own period series.
CBS sees how brilliant and original the modernised BBC ‘Sherlock’ is and can’t wait to copy it in ‘Elementary’!
Can’t US networks come up with some original ideas of their own, instead of stealing/copying from British and other overseas shows?
I hope both pilots sink like stones.