Eammon Walker to Join Stockard Channing in NBC Pilot 17th Precinct
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Stage and screen star Eamonn Walker will join Tony and Emmy Award winner Stockard Channing in the NBC pilot 17th Precinct, according to Deadline.com.
The show will combine cop drama with supernatural elements, and is set in the fictional town of Excelsior.
Walker appeared opposite Denzel Washington in the Broadway production of Julius Caesar and is best known for his work on the television series Oz.
Channing is currently starring Off-Broadway in Other Desert Cities. She won a Tony Award for Joe Egg, and received additional Tony nominations for Pal Joey, The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun and The Lion in Winter. She won Emmy Awards for The West Wing and The Matthew Shepard Story, and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe when she recreated her role in the film version of Six Degrees of Separation.
