Dramas Starring Naomi Watts, Eric McCormack Set for Netflix

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix has unveiled two new original series coming to the service: a time-traveling sci-fi drama starring Eric McCormack and a psychological thriller featuring Naomi Watts.

Watts will star in the 10×1-hour psychological thriller Gypsy, a new series from Universal Television, Working Title and writer Lisa Rubin. She will play Jean Holloway, a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients’ lives. The series is set to premiere in 2017.

Netflix and Canada’s Showcase have kicked off production on the sci-fi series Travelers. Shooting on location in Vancouver, the time-traveling sci-fi drama is produced by Peacock Alley Entertainment, in association with Showcase and Netflix. Travelers will premiere exclusively on Netflix outside of Canada, everywhere the service is available, later this year. The series will debut on Showcase in Canada.

McCormack stars as FBI Special Agent Grant MacLaren, who is the leader of a team of “travelers” living 100 years in the future who go back in time to carry out missions in the 21st century. The series is written, created and produced by Brad Wright, co-creator of Stargate SG-1 and creator of related franchises Stargate: Atlantis and SGU. 

“My old friend Brad Wright has created a fantastic, complex story with some very rich and complicated characters, and I’m awfully happy to be one of them,” said McCormack.

“We’re thrilled to be working with Showcase and Netflix and are so proud that Travelers was originally developed at the CFC Prime Time TV Program with Canadian writers,” said Wright. “We’re excited to work with this amazing cast led by Eric McCormack. It’s all a dream come true for a Scarborough boy like me.”