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‘Undercovers’ Star Gugu Mbatha-Raw Set As Female Lead In Fox’s Pilot ‘Touch’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 10, 2011 @ 1:36pm PDTTags: Danny Glover, Fox, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kiefer Sutherland, Tim Kring, Touch, TV Castings
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: They kicked butt on their previous shows, now they’re going toe-to-toe. British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the breakout star of J.J. Abrams’ short-lived NBC spy dramedy Undercovers, has landed the female lead opposite 24 alum Kiefer Sutherland in the Fox drama pilot Touch, written by Tim Kring. The project, which is considered a lock for a midseason series order, centers on Martin (Sutherland), who discovers that his genius son Jake (David Mazouz) is communicating with him through a complex series of numbers and may even be able to predict events before they happen. Mbatha-Raw will play Clea Hopkins, a social worker with Child and Family Services, who is evaluating Martin’s living situation to determine whether or not his son Jake should remain in the home. Mbatha-Raw completes the pilot’s core four-member cast, which also includes Danny Glover. Mbatha-Raw, repped by CAA, Principal and UK’s Curtis Brown, will next be seen in Larry Crowne.

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TCA: ‘Undercovers’ Producers Reluctant Trailblazers For Casting Two Black Leads

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday July 30, 2010 @ 4:58pm PDTTags: Boris Kodjoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, NBC Undercovers, Race Relations, TCA, TV Casting, Undercovers

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

Is a spy drama with two black actors as the male-female romantic leads a revolution for network television? At TCA today, the producers of NBC’s upcoming Undercovers, which is just such a show — hemmed and hawed in answering the question that really shouldn’t be a question in 2010 but, well, still is.

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