David Boreanaz’s new NBC reboot of a 52-year-old detective collection, The Rockford Information, formally units a SEAL Crew reunion.
The Rockford Information aired on NBC for six seasons from 1974 to 1980, starring James Garner because the personal investigator Jim Rockford, and earlier this 12 months, the fashionable reimagining of the basic collection solid David Boreanaz within the lead function as the long-lasting detective. Now, his first co-star has been solid.
Through Selection, NBC’s reboot of The Rockford Information has solid Michaela McManus, reuniting with David Boreanaz, as they beforehand starred collectively within the widespread CBS/Paramount+ navy drama SEAL Crew. Moreover, Greg Mottola, recognized for Confess, Fletch (2022) and Peacemaker (2022–), is hooked up to direct the pilot episode.
The present’s official logline reads, “Newly paroled after doing time for a criminal offense he did not commit, James Rockford returns to his life as a non-public investigator utilizing his attraction and wit to resolve circumstances round Los Angeles. It would not take lengthy for his quest for legitimacy to land him squarely within the crosshairs of each native police and arranged crime.”
In The Rockford Information reboot, McManus will play Kate, “an East Hollywood detective whose romantic relationship to Rockford bought sophisticated after he publicly accused fellow officers of framing him.” This is not the primary time McManus and Boreanaz have portrayed a pair, as she beforehand appeared as his estranged spouse, Alana Hayes, on SEAL Crew.
The Rockford Information reboot represents a return to NBC for McManus, who beforehand portrayed Assistant District Legal professional Kim Greylek in a number of seasons of Legislation & Order: SVU. Her different tv credit embody One Tree Hill, The Orville, You, and he or she at the moment stars within the Fox drama Reminiscence of a Killer.
Equally, Boreanaz has loads of expertise enjoying members of regulation enforcement, having starred as a vampire-turned-private investigator in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its spin-off Angel (1999–2004), FBI Particular Agent Seeley Sales space, a murder investigator, in Bones (2005–2017), and staff chief Jason Hayes in SEAL Crew (2017–2024).
The Rockford Information reboot is written by Mike Daniels, recognized for NBC’s The Village, and is produced by Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly (Elementary), and Chris Leanza.
- Launch Date
-
1974 – 1980-00-00
- Administrators
-
William Wiard, Lawrence Doheny, Ivan Dixon, Jerry London, Reza Badiyi, Russ Mayberry, Jackie Cooper, Lou Antonio, Corey Allen, Jeannot Szwarc, Stephen J. Cannell, Alexander Grasshoff, Arnold Laven, Harry Falk, John Patterson, Stuart Margolin, Alexander Singer, Bernard L. Kowalski, Bernard McEveety, Bruce Kessler, Charles S. Dubin, Christian I. Nyby II, Dana Elcar, Hy Averback
- Writers
-
Gordon T. Dawson, Rudolph Borchert, Don Carlos Dunaway, Edward J. Lakso, David Taylor, Donald L. Gold, Rogers Turrentine, Walter Dallenbach, Lester Wm. Berke, William R. Stratton, Jo Swerling Jr., Leigh Brackett, Mitch Lindemann, Robert Hamner, Zekial Marko, Howard Berk, Shel Willens, Eric Kaldor, Gloryette Clark
-
James Garner
Jim Rockford
-
Noah Beery Jr.
Joseph “Rocky” Rockford
