Casting Couch: Famke Janssen Cops to NBC Role

David Shore and Peter Blake have found their leading lady and it's Phoenix herself: Famke Janssen.

The untitled NBC pilot from David Shore, creator and exec producer of House, and House writer Peter Blake is a light drama/police procedural revolving around a female detective and her colleagues in Los Angeles. (Thank god, not another Manhattan-set cop drama.)

Famke Janssen (Nip/Tuck, X-Men) has been cast in the lead role of Christie Winters, a "beautiful" female cop in her 30s who "dresses well" and who gets paired with a new partner in African-American detective Luis Nelson. Fittingly, Christie meets her new partner at a crime scene on Mulholland Drive. (Again, thanks for the LA setting.)

Of course, this being a light, female-driven drama, expect some romantic hijinx as well as homicides, as poor Christie, though a great cop, is hopeless at dating. (Though I find it hard to believe that anyone that looks like Janssen is ever starved for company.)

The pilot, from NBC Universal TV, still is in dire need for a title. Let's just hope it's not "Lonely Winter Nights."

Comments

The CineManiac said…

Sounds like it could really go either way, and with Famke it's usually either hit or miss, so I guess we'll have to wait and see. But we all know a good title can change everything.
Travis

1/30/2007

Anonymous said…

...a "beautiful" female cop in her 30s who "dresses well..."

Wow. What an original and facinating concept. How do they think these up?

1/31/2007

Anonymous said…

Love Famke but this sounds kinda lame. Haven't we seen enough cops shows already?

1/31/2007

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