Former 911 star Peter Krause has boarded Protection, a drama about a law enforcement family targeted by a killer. He’ll play Mike Thornhill, a former Secret Service agent who’s now an assistant director of intelligence.
NBC has been on a casting run in the past week, also signing David Boreanaz (The Rockford Files), Damon Wayans Jr. (Puzzled) and Emily Deschanel (an untitled drama about a criminal profiler) to lead roles in pilots. There’s also an odd trend developing with NBC’s casting: All four drama leads, plus Jane Lynch in a comedy pilot, were series regulars on Fox shows in the 2010s.
Protection is one of eight pilots NBC has ordered so far as part of a planned effort to increase its output in the old-school development method (it produced just three pilots last year). The drama…
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