{"id":2250032,"date":"2026-01-25T20:35:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2250032"},"modified":"2026-01-25T20:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:35:46","slug":"the-tv-series-that-cost-pierce-brosnan-his-first-chance-to-star-as-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-tv-series-that-cost-pierce-brosnan-his-first-chance-to-star-as-james-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"The TV Series That Cost Pierce Brosnan His First Chance To Star As James Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000112\/\">Pierce Brosnan<\/a> first played the definitive super spy, James Bond, in 1995&#8217;s &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0113189\/\">GoldenEye<\/a>.&#8221; Brosnan proved the perfect candidate to help revitalize the franchise in the post-Cold War era. However, this wasn&#8217;t the first time Brosnan was connected to James Bond. He had been producer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0110482\/\">Albert R. Broccoli<\/a>&#8216;s top choice to play Bond in 1987&#8217;s &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093428\/\">The Living Daylights<\/a>,&#8221; but was prevented by his starring role in the TV series &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083470\/\">Remington Steele<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brosnan had played the title role on the series \u2014 one of the best TV shows that will make you nostalgic for the &#8217;80s \u2014 since it debuted in 1982. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierce Brosnan first played the definitive super spy, James Bond, in 1995&#8217;s &#8220;GoldenEye.&#8221; Brosnan proved the perfect candidate to help revitalize the franchise in the post-Cold War era. However, this wasn&#8217;t the first time Brosnan was connected to James Bond. He had been producer Albert R. Broccoli&#8216;s top choice to play Bond in 1987&#8217;s &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2250033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2250032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The-TV-Series-That-Cost-Pierce-Brosnan-His-First-Chance.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250034,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250032\/revisions\/2250034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}