ABC Announces Premiere Date for Mid-Season Supernatural Drama Resurrection
A small town sees its deceased loved ones inexplicably return from the dead.
ABC is getting reading to debut another set of new series at mid-season, including a supernatural-tinged drama we have our eye on: Resurrection will premiere Sunday, March 9 (9/8c).
That will put it right after Once Upon A Time, which seems like a logical move. (We’re still trying to figure out why ABC didn’t just do the same with Once Wonderland.) Revenge will follow at 10/9c.
Here’s how the network describes the show’s intriguing premise:
The people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones suddenly start to reappear. An 8-year-old American boy (Landon Gimenez) wakes up alone in a rice paddy in a rural Chinese province with no idea how he got there. Details start to emerge when the boy, who calls himself Jacob, recalls that his hometown is Arcadia, and an Immigration agent, J. Martin Bellamy (Omar Epps), takes him there.
The home he claims as his own is occupied by an elderly couple, Henry (Kurtwood Smith) and Lucille Langston (Frances Fisher), who lost their son, Jacob, more than 30 years ago. While they look different, young Jacob recognizes them as his parents. Those closest to the family try to unravel this impossible mystery, including Sheriff Fred Langston (Matt Craven), whose wife Barbara, drowned 30 years ago while trying to save Jacob. But this boy, who claims to be the deceased Jacob, knows secrets about his own death that no one else knows — secrets that Fred’s daughter, Maggie Langston (Devin Kelly), will begin to investigate and discover to be true.
Resurrection stars Omar Epps (House) as J. Martin Bellamy, Matt Craven (Crimson Tide, A Few Good Men) as Fred Langston, Devin Kelley (Chernobyl Diaries, The Chicago Code) as Maggie Langston, Frances Fisher (Titanic) as Lucille Langston, Kurtwood Smith (That ’70s Show) as Henry Langston, Sam Hazeldine (The Raven) as Caleb Richards, Samaire Armstrong (Entourage, The O.C.) as Elaine Richards, Mark Hildreth (Dragon Ball Z) as Tom, and Landon Gimenez as Jacob. (Click on the image above to see the cast photo.)
Stay tuned to SciFi Stream for more on the show in the months to come.
