{"id":472606,"date":"2026-02-13T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/472606\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:23:07","slug":"david-boreanaz-to-star-in-the-rockford-files-reboot-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/472606\/","title":{"rendered":"David Boreanaz to star in The Rockford Files reboot pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sure, you think\u00a0The Rockford Files<\/a>\u00a0is cool\u2014but there are some things you\u2019d change. (If it were up to you.) Like, for instance: What if, instead of James Garner, perpetually down-at-the-heels Los Angeles gumshoe Jim Rockford was played by Angel\u00a0and\u00a0SEAL Team\u00a0star David Boreanaz, instead?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s apparently the thinking over at NBC, where (per Deadline<\/a>) the classic \u201970s detective show is being rebooted with a new pilot, with Boreanaz set to star. And, hey, we get it: Boreanaz has low-key had one of the best runs on TV of the modern era, at least in terms of sheer consistency. (Excepting a single gap year between the end of Angel\u00a0in 2004 and the start of\u00a0Bones\u00a0in 2005, there hasn\u2019t been a season of television where David Boreanaz wasn\u2019t starring on a series since 1997.) That being said, part of us does have some mild doubts about whether the\u00a0SEAL Team\u00a0vet will be able to capture one of Jim Rockford\u2019s most beloved traits, i.e., his ability to get the shit convincingly kicked out of him on a fairly regular basis. (Part of what set the original Rockford\u00a0apart when it debuted back in 1974 was that its formerly incarcerated hero was just as likely to come out on the wrong side of a fight as the right one, with Garner excelling at playing a guy who relied far more on his mouth than his fists.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Rockford\u00a0reboot pilot is being written by Mike Daniels, and produced by Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly, and Universal Television. The logline for the new series should be pretty familiar to fans of the original show, which ran from \u201974 to 1980 (with Garner reprising the role for a number of TV movies for CBS in the 1990s). To wit: \u201cNewly paroled after doing time for a crime he didn\u2019t commit, James Rockford (Boreanaz) returns to his life as a private investigator using his charm and wit to solve cases around Los Angeles, with his charmingly gruff exterior masking a strong moral core. It doesn\u2019t take long for his quest for legitimacy to land him squarely in the crosshairs of both local police and organized crime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sure, you think\u00a0The Rockford Files\u00a0is cool\u2014but there are some things you\u2019d change. (If it were up to you.)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-472606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}