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Parminder Nagra And Robert Forster Join Fox/J.J. Abrams Pilot ‘Alcatraz’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday December 10, 2010 @ 5:47pm PSTTags: Alcatraz, Alcatraz Casting, Alcatraz Pilot, JJ Abrams Alcatraz, TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: ER alumna Parminder Nagra is set for a lead role on Fox’s pilot Alcatraz. Also in negotiations to join in the J.J. Abrams-produced pilot is veteran Robert Forster. The drama project, from Warner Bros. TV, Abrams’ Bad Robot and executive producer/showrunner Liz Sarnoff, chronicles the efforts of a cop (Sarah Jones) and team of FBI agents tracking down a group of missing Alcatraz prisoners and guards who reappear in the present day. Sam Neill was just cast as Emerson Hauser, a head of a government agency. Nagra will play his lab technician, Lucy. Forster, who was nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in Jackie Brown, will play Ray Archer, a retired detective who is now owner/bartender of a cop hangout bar. Following her breakthrough performance in the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham, Nagra joined NBC’s medical drama ER, on which she co-starred for six seasons, until the show’s end in April 2009. She is with Gersh and 3 Arts. Forster, who recurred on NBC’s Heroes as Peter and Nathan Petrelli’s dad Arthur, is with Don Buchwald & Assoc.

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Sam Neill To Star In J.J. Abrams’ ‘Alcatraz’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday December 10, 2010 @ 12:46pm PSTTags: Alcatraz, Alcatraz Casting, JJ Abrams Alcatraz, Sam Neill, Sarah Jones Alcatraz, TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Neill is set to star opposite Sarah Jones in the J.J. Abrams-produced Fox pilot Alcatraz. The drama project, from Warner Bros. TV, Abrams’ Bad Robot and executive producer/showrunner Liz Sarnoff, chronicles the efforts of a … Read More »

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Two More Board J.J. Abrams’ Pilot ‘Alcatraz’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday December 1, 2010 @ 6:00am PSTTags: Alcatraz, Alcatraz Casting, Alcatraz Pilot, Fox Alcatraz, JJ Abrams, JJ Abrams Alcatraz, TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Following the casting of Lost alum Jorge Garcia in the J.J. Abrams-produced Fox pilot Alcatraz, Abrams has recruited two more actors who have appeared on his previous series – Jonny Coyne and Jason Butler Harner – for the  pilot. … Read More »

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J.J. Abrams’ Fox Pilot ‘Alcatraz’ Casts Lead

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 30, 2010 @ 9:37am PSTTags: Alcatraz, Alcatraz Casting, Alcatraz Pilot, JJ Abrams, JJ Abrams Alcatraz, Sarah Jones Alcatraz, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Jones (Sons of Anarchy) has landed the lead in the J.J. Abrams-produced Fox pilot Alcatraz. The drama project, from Warner Bros. TV and Abrams’ Bad Robot, centers on a group of missing Alcatraz prisoners and guards who … Read More »

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‘Alcatraz’ Drama Picked Up To Pilot At Fox

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 22, 2010 @ 2:33pm PDTTags: Alcatraz, Alcatraz Pilot, Elizabeth Sarnoff Alcatraz, Fox Alcatraz, Fox Pilots, JJ Abrams, JJ Abrams Alcatraz, TV, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

It’s been a quick greenlight for Alcatraz, the JJ Abrams-produced drama, which landed at Fox with a pilot commitment a week ago. I hear the project, described as “a show about mysteries, secrets and the most infamous prison of all time: Alcatraz,” has been picked up to pilot by the … Read More »

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JJ Abrams TV Drama ‘Alcatraz’ Lands At Fox

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 15, 2010 @ 7:00pm PDTTags: Alcatraz, Alcatraz Pilot, Elizabeth Sarnoff Alcatraz, Fox Alcatraz, Fox Pilots, JJ Abrams Alcatraz, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

The network that gave us Prison Break is heading back to prison. Fox has picked up Alcatraz, the J.J. Abrams produced drama about the San Francisco Bay island. The project, which was written on spec and recently taken … Read More »

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Hot Property: JJ Abrams, Elizabeth Sarnoff To Shop ‘Alcatraz’ Drama

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 1, 2010 @ 10:49am PDTTags: Alcatraz, Bad Robot, Elizabeth Sarnoff, Elizabeth Sarnoff Alcatraz, JJ Abrams, JJ Abrams Alcatraz, JJ Abrams Bad Robot, Warner Bros. TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: JJ Abrams and Lost executive producer Elizabeth Sarnoff are heading to another island. I hear Abrams and his Warner Bros. TV-based Bad Robot are about to take out to the networks Alcatraz, a drama spec script written by Sarnoff. Read More »

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