{"id":5976,"date":"2016-04-19T10:28:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T14:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-lines-up-dramas-with-naomi-watts-eric-mccormack\/"},"modified":"2016-04-19T15:07:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T19:07:18","slug":"netflix-lines-up-dramas-with-naomi-watts-eric-mccormack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-lines-up-dramas-with-naomi-watts-eric-mccormack\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramas Starring Naomi Watts, Eric McCormack Set for Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">Watts will star in the 10&#215;1-hour psychological thriller <em>Gypsy<\/em>, 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&#8217; lives. The series is set to premiere in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">Netflix and Canada&#8217;s Showcase have kicked off production on the sci-fi series <em>Travelers<\/em>. Shooting on location in Vancouver, the time-traveling sci-fi drama is produced by Peacock Alley Entertainment, in association with Showcase and Netflix.\u00a0<em>Travelers<\/em> will premiere exclusively on Netflix outside of Canada, everywhere the service is available, later this year. The series will debut on Showcase in Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">McCormack stars as FBI Special Agent Grant MacLaren, who is the leader of a team of &#8220;travelers&#8221; 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 <em>Stargate SG-1<\/em> and creator of related franchises <em>Stargate: Atlantis<\/em> and <em>SGU.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">&#8220;My old friend Brad Wright has created a fantastic, complex story with some very rich and complicated characters, and I\u2019m awfully happy to be one of them,\u201d said McCormack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be working with Showcase and Netflix and are so proud that <em>Travelers<\/em> was originally developed at the CFC Prime Time TV Program with Canadian writers,\u201d said Wright. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to work with this amazing cast led by Eric McCormack. It&#8217;s all a dream come true for a Scarborough boy like me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[786,225,787,88,788],"class_list":["post-5976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-eric-mccormack","tag-gypsy","tag-naomi-watts","tag-netflix","tag-travelers","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dramas Starring Naomi Watts, Eric McCormack Set for Netflix - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-lines-up-dramas-with-naomi-watts-eric-mccormack\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dramas Starring Naomi Watts, Eric McCormack Set for Netflix - 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