{"id":521988,"date":"2026-03-06T07:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521988\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:02:13","slug":"jacki-weaver-joins-the-rockford-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521988\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacki Weaver joins The Rockford Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAussie icon joins David Boreanaz in NBC drama reboot.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Jacki Weaver has been cast in the reboot of The Rockford Files, led by David Boreanaz for NBC.<\/p>\n<p>She will play Karma, \u201cRockford\u2019s long-time trailer park neighbor, she\u2019s tough, outspoken activist and think-tank analyst.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The character was not present in the original series which starred James Garner as the private detective from 1974-1980.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver\u2019s recent US roles include Yellowstone, Hello Tomorrow, Perpetual Grace, LTD, Blunt Talk alongside Australian credits Australia: An Unofficial History, Bloom, Penguin Bloom, and Memoir of a Snail.<\/p>\n<p>An Australian broadcaster is yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/jacki-weaver-the-rockford-files-reboot-cast-nbc-1236680626\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aussie icon joins David Boreanaz in NBC drama reboot. Jacki Weaver has been cast in the reboot of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-521988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}