Selleck Rolls to Las Vegas
Magnum is headed to Vegas.
It may sound like an ill-conceived 1980s TV sweeps stunt, but Tom Selleck—best known for playing Hawaii-based private investigator Thomas Sullivan Magnum—is returning to series television as a regular on NBC's Las Vegas next season.
According to the Peacock, the 62-year-old Emmy winner will take on the role of a charismatic self-made billionaire with a mysterious past who takes over ownership of the fictional Montecito Resort & Casino.
"We have been honored and blessed to have had an actor of the magnitude of James Caan for the last four years and we've come up with four aces as legendary icon Tom Selleck has agreed to join the cast," executive producer Gary Scott Thompson said in a press release.
Selleck's signing comes two months after series star James Caan announced he would exit Las Vegas after four years. However, NBC said Wednesday that Caan would be back as Ed Deline, the casino's surveillance chief, for one last hurrah on the show's season premiere next fall.
While it hasn't been burning up the Nielsens, averaging about 9 million viewers in its regular Friday night 9 p.m. time slot, NBC picked up Las Vegas for a fifth season earlier this year.
But the network said two lead characters wouldn't be back: Caan, who had complained about the show's credulity-stretching storylines, and Nikki Cox, who was apparently let go as a cost-cutting measure. The rest of the shows principals will be back: Josh Duhamel, Molly Sims, James Lesure and Vanessa Marcil.
They'll join Selleck, who won an Emmy in 1980 for his starring role on CBS' Magnum, P.I. After that show's demise in 1988, he split his time between feature films (3 Men and a Baby, Runaway, In & Out), TV movies (Monte Walsh, Crossfire Trail, the Jesse Stone series) and guest-starring roles (a four-episode arc on Boston Legal as Candice Bergen's ex-husband, an Emmy-nominated turn as Monica's doctor boyfriend).
Most recently Selleck lent his voice to the character of Cornelius in Disney's latest animated hit, Meet the Robinsons, and will star in the latest Jesse Stone crime caper, Sea Chance, which premieres on May 22 on CBS.
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