According to Variety, Steven Pasquale (FX’s Rescue Me) is set to star opposite Neve Campbell in the upcoming ABC series Avalon.
What’s Happening:
- The announcement of Pasquale’s casting comes just one day after Campbell’s, with Campbell set to play the lead role in the show.
- Avalon heralds from David E. Kelley (Big Sky, Big Little Lies) and Michael Connelly, based on a short story written by the latter.
- The show received a straight-to-series order from ABC, and takes place in the city of Avalon on Catalina Island, where L.A. Sheriff’s Department Detective Nicole “Nic” Searcy (Campbell) heads up a small office. Catalina has a local population that serves more than 1 million tourists a year, and each day when the ferries arrive, hundreds of potential new stories enter the island. Detective Searcy is pulled into a career-defining mystery that will challenge everything she knows about herself and the island.
- Pasquale will play Detective William Claypool, a Los Angeles County Sheriff detective. Described as intelligent, head strong and good-humored, Claypool is called to Catalina to investigate a terrifying discovery on the island.
- Kelley is writing the pilot of Avalon and will also executive produce. Connelly is also an executive producer alongside Dana Calvo, who will serve as showrunner.
- Ross Fineman of Fineman Entertainment and Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson of A+E Studios will also executive produce, as will Matthew Tinker of DEK Productions. The series is produced by A+E Studios and 20th Television.
- The show is slated to debut during the 2022-2023 season on ABC.