More Television Work Coming to DC

(Washington, DC) More television series work is coming to the District. Business is making a comeback after the lull incurred by security measures put into place following September 11, 2001, which limited or restricted filmmaking in some of the city's most popular locations.

The staff at the District's Office of Motion Picture and Television Development (OMPTD) have learned to work within the confines of heavy security imposed after September 11 so that the city may get its fair share of the lucrative production dollar. The city will be featured as the "silent star" this fall on Fox Television's Bones, NBC-TV's E-Ring and ABC-TV's Commander in Chief. Filming for these series took place last spring for broadcast this fall.

Commander in Chief
Created by the acclaimed writer/director of the Oscar-nominated film,The Contender, the series focuses on Mackenzie Allen, who has a lot on her plate. She has twin teenagers and a six-year-old at home, an ambitious husband at the office, and she is about to become the first female President of the United States. Geena Davis, Harry J. Lennix, Ever Carradine, Kyle Secor, Julie Ann Emery, Donald Sutherland star.

E-Ring
CSI Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Oscar-nominated director Taylor Hackford, and actors Dennis Hopper and Benjamin Bratt join forces in this drama set inside the Pentagon. It's a hub of highly explosive conflicts between American military heroes and the civilians to whom they report--a world where crises can escalate into life-and-death climaxes, for individuals or entire nations. Viewers witness critical decisions by intelligence officers in the war room and the execution of these decisions by covert special ops on the battlefield.

Bones
Emily Deschanel stars in this drama pilot about a team of forensic anthropologists who solve crimes using evidence supplied by skeletal remains. She'll play Temperance Brennan, the leader of the team in this 20th Century Fox Television-based project. David Boreanaz and Michaela Conlin also star in the pilot, which comes from executive producers Barry Josephson and Hart Hanson and is based on the Brennan novels by Kathy Reichs.