Linus Roache is joining Law & Order to fill the role of Sam Waterston, who's being promoted to fill the role of Fred Thompson, who's quit the show in hopes of filling the role of George Bush, even though Oprah Winfrey wants the job filled by Barack Obama.
Anyway, British Linus will play the executive assistant District Attorney, now that Sam's longtime DA and problem drinker Jack McCoy is getting the top job (and Sam is possibly reduced to a role that includes one or two short scenes an episode).
For Linus, who appeared in Batman Begins, the job is something of a demotion. Five years ago, he played the top dog, US Attorney General Robert F Kennedy, in the Fx movie, RFK.
Jeremy Sisto, who once played Jesus in a TV movie-- and appeared with Linus in the shortlived NBC series, Kidnapped-- is also set to walk through the show's revolving door. The new season, set for early 2008 on NBC, will be Law & Order's 18th. Producer Dick Wolf is shooting for 20.
Linus had appeared in the pilot for the new Fox show,
(See one woman's tribute to Linus Roache here.)
Comments (2)
Another freaking brit!?
Couldn't any of Jack's previous assistants (not dead, not a judge) come back to be the DA? How about Bebe Neuwirth? I really liked her in that cancelled L&O series.
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Posted on July 18, 2007 10:34 AM
But Linus is such a brilliant actor!
Actually, yeah, why not cast Bebe or any one of the many fab women from that spinoff that failed to generate enough of a following...
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Posted on July 19, 2007 5:18 PM