STEPHEN DORFF SEASON 1 CONCLUDED WITH HIGHEST-AUDIENCE RETENTION ACROSS ALL NEW FOX DRAMA FOR THE 2019/2020 SEASON TO DATE from eOne, Fox Entertainment and Cedar Park Entertainment
S1: 13 × 60 MIN
#1 IN PRIMETIME SLOT From Director and Executive Producer David Ayer (Training Day, ACROSS ALL DEMOS INCLUDING P2+, ADULTS 25-54 AND 18-34 End of Watch) and starring Stephen Dorff True( Detective, Star), Deputy blends the spirit of a classic Western with a modern-day attitude and emotionally driven, visceral storytelling. Featuring an ensemble of ambitious and complicated human beings who won’t rest until justice is served, Deputy brings a gritty authenticity to the modern cop drama. SEASON ARC The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is one of the largest police forces in the world, but when the elected Sheriff dies, an arcane rule in the county charter, forged back in the Wild West, suddenly thrusts the most unlikely man into the job. That man is Bill Hollister (Dorff). A fifth- generation lawman, Bill is only interested in justice; his soul wears a white hat. The bad guys don’t stand a chance, but neither do the politicos in the Hall of Justice. Under Bill’s command is a county-wide crew of LA’s finest, including Deputy Cade Ward (Brian Van Holt, The Bridge), a former Marine stationed in Afghanistan, eight years sober and one of Bill’s few confidantes; Deputy Brianna Bishop (Bex Taylor-Klaus, The Killing, 13 Reasons Why), the whip-smart, sarcastic driver in charge of Bill’s security detail; Deputy Joseph Harris (Shane Paul McGhie, What Men Want), the son of Bill’s fallen partner; and Deputy Charlie Minnick (Danielle Moné Truitt, Rebel) a former teacher who joined the sheriff’s department after enduring a tragedy. The dangers associated with the job often lead the police to LA County General Hospital, where Bill butts heads with Dr. Paula Reyes (Yara Martinez, Jane the Virgin), the hospital’s chief trauma surgeon – and his wife.
SHERIFF BILL HOLLISTER’S JOURNEY
Given a job he never wanted, in an unfamiliar sea of politics, Bill quickly learns that doing what is expected and doing what is right are two different things, and that his innate, dogged pursuit of justice is the only skill the job truly requires.
Throughout the first season, we will watch the ripple effect of Bill’s new position as Sheriff of Los Angeles County. He’ll face obstacles, both personal and professional and there will be both moments of victories and moments of setbacks.
As a street cop, Bill has always had thoughts about the leadership of the Sheriff’s department – now he is the leadership. He thinks the department has lost its way, and this is his opportunity to fix it.
Bill has 108 days to effect change – and he’ll take big swings to do so, without considering the fallout. Eventually, policies he thought would be embraced by the public and the LASD end up creating turmoil… Bill’s goals as Sheriff weren’t that different than his goals as a street cop – to catch bad guys and protect the innocent. But as Sheriff, the world of politics and backstabbing and press conferences is much more complicated. EPISODE 101 – EPISODE 108 – ‘GRADUATION DAY’ ‘10-8 SELFLESS’ Bill Hollister is a career lawman who’s very comfortable kicking down doors, When a homeless veteran is beaten to death, Cade finds himself but utterly lost in a staff meeting. When the LA County Sheriff drops dead, battling emotions from his past. Meanwhile, Bill is thrust into the Bill becomes acting Sheriff of Los Angeles County, in charge of 10,000 sworn complex and divisive issue of homelessness in Los Angeles County. deputies policing a modern Wild West.
EPISODE 109 – EPISODE 102 – ‘10-8 ENTITLEMENTS’ ‘10-8 OUTLAWS’ When a series of break-ins hit affluent West Hollywood homes, Struggling to come to terms with the new responsibilities of his role as Sheriff, Bill fights to brings justice to the victims regardless of economic Bill refuses to stay out of the field. When a group of jewel thieves go on a status. London struggles to gain influence with power players robbery spree just 48 hours into his tenure as Sheriff, Bill tests the limits of his and potential donors and Bishop reveals a personal struggle. political power in order to protect the city...
EPISODE 110 – EPISODE 103 – ‘10-8 SCHOOL TIES’ ‘10-8 DEPUTY DOWN’ When one of Charlie’s mentees from the local library After a mysterious shooting leaves one of their own injured, Bill and the team gets mixed up with a gang, Charlie ropes in the whole embark on a manhunt to find the shooter. Meanwhile, when Undersheriff team to help save her life. As Bill’s term draws to an London tries to take control of the department, Bill reminds him who is in charge. end, other players continue to enter the race for power. Meanwhile, Cade and Teresa are struggling to deal with an unforeseen situation with their foster children. EPISODE 104 – ‘10-8 FIRESTONE’ While enforcing an unsanctioned raid on a human trafficking ring in Los Angeles, EPISODE 111 – Bill finds himself faced with a woman from his past. Charlie is assigned to patrol ‘10- 8 PAPERWORK’ with Joseph and Jerry does Bill a favor in order to get on his good side. When Charlie and Joseph arrest a man on his way to a major drug deal, they end up bringing a bigger fight than expected back to the station. Meanwhile, Cade and Teresa continue to deal with the complication in the adoption of EPISODE 105 – their foster children. ‘108 BLACK & BLUE’ When Joseph’s childhood friend is wrongfully accused by the LAPD, he involves Bill in his mission to find the truth. Paula’s hospital puts her in charge of making staff cuts in order to meet its budget requirements. EPISODE 112 – ‘10-8 AGENCY’ Charlie, Joseph and Carter investigate a case that becomes more complicated at every turn, while EPISODE 106 – Bishop and Cade make a connection to a homicide ‘10-8 SEARCH AND RESCUE’ they never expected. Still suffering flashbacks from With resources tied up across the county due to a wildfire emergency, a car the hospital takeover, Paula tries to find closure. crash in the Angeles National Forest leads Bill and the LASD on a life or death search and rescue mission for an abducted girl. EPISODE 113 – ‘10-8 BULLETPROOF’ EPISODE 107 – When informants for the Sheriff’s Department start ‘10-8 DO NO HARM’ turning up dead all over Los Angeles, everyone has While Paula does her monthly volunteer work at the prison hospital, she finds to work together to find the leak in the department. herself being forced to perform a life-saving surgery at gunpoint. Bill must Meanwhile, Teresa and Cade deal with a major work to ensure the safety of all those involved including his own wife. setback in the custody battle for their foster children. SHERIFF BILL HOLLISTER STEPHEN DORFF (True Detective, Somewhere, Blade)
Bill’s the last person we’d expect to become The Los Angeles County Sheriff, but he may be exactly the Sheriff we need right now… A 20-year veteran of the LA Sheriff’s Department, Bill might as well have stepped through the batwing doors of an 1850’s saloon into modern Los Angeles. Bill has a moral code and apolitical worldview unlike anything else on TV right now. Bill is a man of action. A man of his word. A man of honour. With a highly developed sense of justice. His loyalty lies with the underdog, the oppressed. Bill’s new job has upended his life, put a strain on his marriage, but Bill’s come to realize that he can make a real difference as Sheriff. Root out corruption in the department. Protect the innocent. Give a voice to the powerless. The job of Sheriff fell into Bill Hollister’s lap. He never wanted to be the Sheriff. But he charges forward like he always has in life – by breaking protocol with a work man’s ethic and a cowboy’s mentality. His initial hope is that he can fix this place up and get back to normal life. But along the way, Bill learns that job he never thought he wanted might be the job he was destined to have.
“DEPUTY IS A CLASSIC, YET VERY MODERN TAKE ON A WORLD I’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE ON NETWORK TV“ STEPHEN DORFF C A S T & CHARACTERS
YARA MARTINEZ (Jane The Virgin) SHANE PAUL MCGHIE (Unbelievable)
DR. PAULA REYES DEPUTY JOSEPH HARRIS A strong-willed and prominent trauma surgeon and Bill’s wife. Bill may call the shots up on the Joseph is the son of Bill’s old partner, who was killed in the line of duty. The tragedy and eventual 10th Floor of The Hall of Justice, but Paula is the CEO of the Hollister Family. Bill seeks Paula’s mystery of his father’s death has led Joseph to the LA Sheriff’s Department. Thankfully, after the wisdom and sensitivity and values her counsel above all others. pilot, Joseph has finished his rotation in the dank Men’s Central Prison and begins his stint on patrol, policing sunny Los Angeles County, from the Pacific to the high desert. Though being the ‘Sheriff’s wife’ isn’t a title she signed up for, Paula is supportive of Bill’s new position. But, as Bill gets deeper into his role, the pressures of the job test their partnership in Joseph expects to be able to follow in his dad’s footsteps. But we’ll quickly see Joseph ways Paula never anticipated. The pair won’t always see eye-to-eye, especially when Bill is forced struggling to balance his relationships and his work. Joseph sees things he doesn’t agree to take political stances or moves that Paula doesn’t agree with. with under Bill’s purview as Sheriff. As his relationship with Bill withers, he loses his mentor and builds alliances and friendships within the other deputies.
BRIAN VAN HOLT (The Bridge) MARK MOSES (Mad Men)
DETECTIVE CADE WARD UNDERSHERIFF JERRY LONDON A former Marine Sniper who served in Afghanistan. With the humour and attitude of a California surfer This overbearing bureaucrat is a ‘political apex predator’ who is openly contemptuous of Hollister and now 8 years sober, Cade works Majors – The Delta Force of LA Sheriff’s Department – a team and itching to drive him on the force. London spends the season in an extended chess match of elite cops who look and think like criminals, so they can blend in hunting LA’s most dangerous. against Bill who he believes is unfit to be Sheriff. He was meant to be the next Sheriff; he’d spent his career preparing for the position. Now, London must find a way to oust Bill. Cade and his wife Theresa (Natalia Cigliuti, This Is Us) are fostering two children who we meet in the pilot. They’ve put having their own biological child on hold in order to give these kids a stable Eventually, London can’t deny that Bill has found success as Sheriff. Bill becomes a more home. When their biological Grandma wants custody of the children, Cade falls off the wagon and sophisticated opponent than he ever anticipated which means London will have to play an even puts everything and everyone around him in jeopardy. smarter game of chess.
BEX TAYLOR-KLAUS (13 Reasons Why, The Killing) DANIELLE MONÉ TRUITT (Rebel)
DEPUTY BRIANNA BISHOP DEPUTY CHARLIE MINNICK A former intelligence analyst at the Pentagon, Bishop serves as Sheriff Bill Hollister’s right Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Minnick began her career as a public school teacher. One afternoon, she hand. Bishop speaks the local dialects and knows the terrain. In many ways, Bishop and Bill’s watched as her students were shot and killed from a drive-by. Minnick is haunted by the relationship is the heart of Deputy. Although they couldn’t be more different, the two are memory knowing that she may have been able to save the children from this tragedy. perfectly matched as they strengthen each her. Bishop has Bill’s ear the way no one else does Now, Deputy Minnick is a different person. She’s a force to be reckoned with who knows and she uses this power for good, pointing him towards the important issues at hand. that in the Sheriff’s Department her reputation is everything.
Off the clock, we will see Bishop let down her professional guard as she navigates her When Charlie takes over as Joseph’s training officer, she takes the job very seriously. They’re not relationship with girlfriend Genevieve. Separately, Bishop will start exploring the complexities friends or confidantes. Minnick has a different style of teaching now: keep your eyes open, stay of her own gender identity. As she comes to accept new facets of herself, how will her vigilant and you’ll stay alive. relationship with Genevieve as well as her job within the Sheriff’s Department be affected? CREATIVE TALENT
D A V I D KIMBERLY C H R I S JOHN W I L L PANCHO AYER A N N LONG COVENY BEALL MANSFIELD (End of Watch, (Kingdom, (Yellowstone, ( A q u a m a n , (Sharp Objects, Suicide Squad) HARRISON Mr. Mercedes) Longmire) Training Day) Run) (Criminal Minds, Star)
DIRECTOR, SHOWRUNNER, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, CREATOR PRESIDENT, GLOBAL EXECUTIVE PRODUCER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER WRITER SCRIPTED PROGRAMMING, TELEVISION, eOne
American film Director, Producer, and Kimberly Ann Harrison is the Showrunner Chris Long is the Co-founder and CEO Born in Pittsburgh into an Irish/Italian Will Beall is a former LAPD detective Pancho Mansfield is President of Global Screenwriter David Ayer has earned a and Executive Producer of FOX’s new of Cedar Park Entertainment. Cedar family that loved television and movies, who is the creator behind the Training Scripted Programming, Television for reputation for telling gritty stories that drama Deputy. Beginning her career Park is an independent studio that John Coveny is the youngest of five Day and Deputy TV series. He’s served Entertainment One. Pancho oversees, connect with audiences worldwide. as an assistant on Friends, Kimberly Long co-founded with director/writer/ children. Upon setting foot in LA, as an executive producer for Angel City on a global basis, all aspects of the Most recently, Ayer directed Netflix’s then spent 10 years working on the producer David Ayer, that develops Coveny quickly learned that living and executive story editor and writer studio’s original scripted slate and hit feature film Bright which was the acclaimed CBS series Criminal Minds. film, documentary, and TV projects the dream requires a lot of reality: for Castle. manages development and production highest viewed Netflix film ever on the While there, she developed her skills for multiple platforms. The company employment as a writer in Hollywood efforts across eOne’s territories, He began his writing career with the service and the #1 movie on Netflix to not only create fresh content in debuts with The Tax Collector, a was not “overnight.” His first big break including crucially acclaimed and hit 2006 novel L.A. Rex. Beall’s feature in every country over its release the procedural world, but to keep the David Ayer-directed feature film set to as staff writer came on Fox’s Fastlane. series Sharp Objects (HBO), The Rookie film writing credits include 2018’s (over 190 countries). audience guessing and on the edge release in 2019. Long was the Senior Next, he landed on a new show called (ABC), Designated Survivor (Netflix), Aquaman, starring Jason Momoa and of their seats. Kimberly carried on Vice President of Original Content and The Closer for TNT and has been Cardinal and Mary Kills People (Hulu), Previously, Ayer directed the 2016 Amber Heard, 2013’s Gangster Squad, that tradition on the hit Fox series, Production for AT&T, the world’s largest writing ever since. Ransom (CBS), You Me Her (Audience global blockbuster Suicide Squad, which starring Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Star, writing the most episodes of any pay TV provider. He was responsible Network), and Private Eyes (ION). he also wrote, starring Will Smith, Jared He co-created both Trust Me for TNT, Emma Stone and Josh Brolin, single writer throughout the span of for overseeing all original content, Leto, and Margot Robbie about super- as well as the successful modern All You Need is Kill, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Next up for Pancho is Phoebe Waller the series and further developing her which includes the AUDIENCE Network. villains who form a defensive task force Western, Longmire, which ran six L.A. Rex and the upcoming remake Bridge’s (Killing Eve, Fleabag) highly- knack for bombastic storytelling. She Long launched the original series to save the world, which took in more seasons and is still streaming on of Logan’s Run. Beall resides in anticipated new comedy-drama series looks forward to cultivating stories and Rogue, Full Circle, Kingdom, BKB, than $745 million at the box office. Netflix. Prior to joining Deputy as Los Angeles. Run for HBO (USA), starring 2-time authentic characters on Deputy that The Fighting Season, Almost There, an Executive Producer, Coveny Emmy®-winner Merritt Wever (Godless, will have a positive thought-provoking You Me Her, ICE and Audience Music. completed a ride on Season 2 of Nurse Jackie) and Domnhall Gleesen impact on our society. Yellowstone for Paramount Television. (Star Wars: The Last Jedi).
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