Boris Kodjoe has been cast in the ABC’s pilot ‘Georgetown,’ an ensemble drama about young staffers on Capitol Hill.
The hourlong project, written by Will Fetters, is described as a sexy soap centered around the young people behind the power brokers of Washington, DC. It centers on Andrew Pierce (played by Jimmy Wolk), an effortlessly charming and brilliant Yale graduate and the youngest Presidential speech-writer on record who was once idealistic but is now cynical as he sees how compromise has eroded the administration’s promise.
Kodjoe will play the Democratic president’s fiercely intelligent senior adviser, stated Deadline.com.
Kodjoe’s last TV series, the J.J Abrams‘ NBC spy drama ‘Undercovers,’ which paired him with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, was cancelled in 2010 after low ratings. Only 11 of 13 episodes were aired.
Also cast in ‘Georgetown’ are Katie Cassidy, who will play Nikki, a smart and quick-witted junior staffer in the White House Communications Office with connections to the First Lady; and Daisy Betts, who will play Samantha, an idealistic young staffer with the Democratic President, and daughter of a political dynasty who shares a romantic history with Andrew. Joe Mazzello, who was recently featured in ‘The Social Network,’ plays Peter, another junior White House staffer who lives with his best friends Andrew, Nikki and Sam, while Condola Rashad, daughter of Phylicia Rashad and Ahmad Rashad, is an ambition lesbian journalist reluctantly working the Style segment of PoliticalCapitol.com when she’d rather be covering hard(er) news. Kevin Zegers will play Monty, an incredibly wealthy stockbroker from a well-connected family and an old rival of Andrew’s who has just proposed to an old girlfriend of Andrew’s. Wendy Crewson is Senator Caroline Wallace, the GOP minority leader.
This is the third TV series Kodjoe will be in. For five seasons (2000-2004), the Austrian-native and former fashion model played courier-turned-sports agent Damon Carter on the Showtime television drama series ‘Soul Food,’ opposite his wife Nicole Ari Parker.
Parker will also be returning to television in the A&E’s hourlong pilot ‘Big Mike,’ which stars Greg Grunberg as a plus-size detective with the San Diego Police Department. Parker will play lieutenant Grace Peterson, Mike’s boss
