A recovering gambling addict makes his living providing protection on the rough edges of the gambling world, but when he comes to the aid of a female friend, he soon finds himself over his head.
A remake of the 1987 film “Heat,” a recovering gambling addict finds work providing protection to his friends.
A&E adds a Lost alum to Big Mike, ABC asks Detmer to Man Up, while Washington & Short go into Crisis, and McDonlad exits, CW reteams the O.C. powers with Rachel Bilson to find the Hart Of Dixie, while Zooey Deschanel gives TV a spin with Liz Meriwether, and USA adds a couple familiar faces to the front of their new pilots Wild Card, and Eden!
ABC adds another to Cougar Town, CBS adds a pair to Good Wife, CW reels in another for One Tree Hill, while Fox lands a lead for Locke & Key, HBO returns to musical comedy, and USA taps a lead for a new pilot, and a recurring for a long-runner.
FOX picks up a father/son dating comedy, HBO gets documental with the Tropic Thunder gang, NBC gets into drug trouble, girl trouble and aging trouble, while USA hands out pilot commitments to a trio of new shows, and Community gets a few more episodes thanks to that spectacular Halloween episode!
Logline: A young, two-hander involving a genius fresh from college who shows up to his first day of work at a high-tech government job to find everyone in the office murdered; the keys to his own survival are unraveling the mystery of the codes he’s forced to memorize and trusting the sexy hitchhiker he just met who is much more than she appears…