Gil Bellows (11.22.63) and James Paxton (Texas Rising) have signed on to USA Network’s new dramatic series, Eyewitness. The network also announced Tattiawna Jones (Strange Empire) and Matt Murray (Kevin From Work) will be recurring guest stars. Julianne Nicholson (Black Mass) and Tyler Young (Empire) were previously announced to star in the crime thriller based on the Norwegian drama.
Eyewitness is executive produced by Adi Hasak, Jarl Emsell Larsen, and Scott Peters. The series will explore “a grisly crime from the point of view of the eyewitness.”
Per USA Network’s offial announcement, Paxton will play Lukas Hallenbeck, a young teenaged boy who seems to have it all – popularity, motocross stardom, and the hottest girl in school. But beneath the surface, he’s deeply conflicted about his sexuality. When he meets Philip (Young) – a classmate who’s more comfortable in his skin – Lukas starts a journey towards self-acceptance that is interrupted when the boys witness a quadruple murder. His sanity begins to slip as he’s hunted by the killer and haunted by the fear of being outed as gay and losing everything he has.
Bellows is playing Gabe, a small-town veterinarian whose decency, integrity and compassion rescued Helen from her self-destructive cycle of living. But the pressures of fostering Philip amidst Helen’s shocking homicide case threaten to tear the marriage apart.
Jones is set for the role of Kamilah, an unapologetic FBI agent who suddenly finds her loyalty to her job and troubled sister at odds. When Kamilah’s own case intersects with Sherriff Hellen Torrance’s, they forge a friendship that leads her to question everything she thought she wanted.
Murray will be featured as Tony, Helen’s bright-eyed and bushy-tailed deputy with big dreams, whose life is forever changed when a grisly crime happens in his small town.
