EXCLUSIVE: Yasha Jackson (The Flight Attendant) is about as a lead reverse Michaela McManus in ABC’s nationwide parks drama pilot from Rashad Raisani and A+E Studios.
Written and government produced by Raisani, the as-yet untitled drama is a “soapy” procedural set on this planet of nationwide parks. It revolves across the tangled, messy lives of the brokers who work for the ISB — an elite law-enforcement unit accountable for fixing all critical crimes that happen in our nation’s 81,000 sq. miles of protected land.
Jackson will play Tiffany, a brassy, humorous Park Service Agent, a helicopter pilot and Audrey’s (McManus) shut buddy. Proud to be queer, Tiffany all the time says precisely what she means and she or he enjoys taking self-important bureaucrats down a peg or two. She and Audrey’s different finest buddy, Lisa, are fascinated to see how the conflict between Audrey’s ex Clay and her current fiancé Keldon will end up.
McManus’s Audrey is a good looking however fully unaffected younger Park Service agent, a “wild at coronary heart rule breaker” with an enormous coronary heart and self-deprecating humorousness who loves the wilderness. Amazingly intuitive, Audrey can measurement up a criminal offense scene like a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. Her mom was killed by the notorious Wild Flower Killer when she was simply 11, and she or he has been raised ever since by Hugh, who’s now her boss. When a younger man is killed in Yosemite, it seems that her mom’s assassin has grow to be energetic once more after a few years, and Audrey is decided to deliver him to justice.
Raisani will exec produce with A+E Studios’ Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson. The corporate is producing with twentieth Tv.
Jackson can at the moment be seen reverse Kaley Cuoco on HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, which is streaming its second season. Jackson lately appeared on the second season of the HBO Max anthology collection Love Life, reverse William Jackson Harper. Her different earlier credit embrace recurring roles on Manifest, The Daring Kind, Ray Donovan and Blue Bloods. On the movie aspect, she appeared in Paramount’s Clifford The Large Pink Canine, and co-starred within the romantic comedy The Hating Sport reverse Lucy Hale. Jackson is repped by Paradigm, Genuine Expertise & Literary Administration and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.
