VARIOUS PILOT NEWS, FEAT. GRACE PARK
03.01.10
It’s a pretty slow Monday morning, so here’s your hot Korean chick-themed pilot update: Grace Park, who co-starred in “The Cleaner” but is best known for her role on “Battlestar Galactica,” has been added to the cast of the reboot of “Hawaii Five-O.” The absolutely 100% believable character description:
The updated take on the original series centers on an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police headed by Steve McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin). Park will play Kona Kalakaua, the niece of squad member Chin Ho Kelly, played by “Lost’s” Daniel Dae Kim.
Kono is a beautiful and smart champion surfer who is about to graduate from the police academy when McGarrett recruits her to join his team. [THR]
She’s also, uh, descended from Hawaiian royalty! And she runs her own skydiving business!
In related news, Park is the third of “BSG’s” trio of hotties to get work for next season: Katee Sackhoff will play the lead in an ABC drama, while Tricia Helfer (giggety) has been added as a regular to TNT’s “Dark Blue.”
Finally, in other ill-advised remake news, Dermot Mulroney will play the lead in the new “Rockford Files,” where he will inevitably fall short of James Garner’s legacy. Luckily for Mulroney, the only people who remember James Garner as anything but the old man in The Notebook are my parents’ age.
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Awesome, I was just thinking that we need to remake more old shows.
I wonder how hard the white writers were laughing when they came up with Chin Ho Kelly.
Wait a minute. I remember Rockford, and I’m not…
Oh my god, I’m 40.
I’m starting a production company called, “Original Ideas.”
Think we have a chance?
Poor Daniel Dae Kim, back to playing the wrong nationality.
I’ll watch if she brings her BSG husband with her.
Helo. *dreamy sigh*
@Tim – isn’t that really just a spin off of your last venture, “New Shows and Stuff”?
The updated take on the original series centers on an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police
Dog the Bounty Hunter?
I’d get Park to show her Five-O Face.
(No, I wouldn’t.)
She’s also, uh, descended from Hawaiian royalty! And she runs her own skydiving business!
I bet she also knows kung fu. I can’t wait to watch this show with my Korean-born girlfriend and watch her go apoplectic at all the offensive racial stereotypes it’s guaranteed to contain.
/learned last night that using the word “comfort” in a Korean restaurant (even when used in an innocuous context such as “comfort food”) is not cool.
The fourth picture on the bottom has turned me into Kel:
Q: Who loves orange soda? A: Danger Guerrero loves orange soda.
Q: Is it true? A: I do I do I do I do-oo.
Bubba Smith doubts her commitment to the police academy.
Why, you smart mouthed Jasper! I remember James Garner in the “Rockford Files” just fine and I’m not as old as your parents! Never understood why the called it that when his name was Maverick…
Huh. What am I mad about?
Dermot thinks you’re all a bunch of greasy Nah-vujos.
Boomer? I hardly KNOW HER!
//yanked off stage by giant hook
I challenge anyone to find a more pompous name than Dermot Mulroney.
And you think Rockford Files is cool
But there are some things that you would change
If it were up to you
So think about your masterpiece
Watch the Rockford Files
Call to see if Paul can score some weed
“I challenge anyone to find a more pompous name than Dermot Mulroney.”
Is it my imagination or did his name used to be Dylan McDermott?
@Enrico: I’ll take David Ogden Stiers for the block.
Lenny FTW
Whatever and ever…..
You whippersnappers know nothing about real TV. When the Rockford Files and Mannix and Quincy ruled the airwaves. Re-make them AT YOUR OWN RISK!