{"id":466352,"date":"2026-02-13T13:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/466352\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:54:16","slug":"david-boreanaz-will-star-in-rockford-files-reboot-at-nbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/466352\/","title":{"rendered":"David Boreanaz Will Star in \u2018Rockford Files\u2019 Reboot at NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/nbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nbc_1\" data-tag=\"nbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a>\u2019s Rockford Files reboot has found its leading man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/david-boreanaz\/\" id=\"auto-tag_david-boreanaz_1\" data-tag=\"david-boreanaz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Boreanaz<\/a> has signed on to star in the pilot as private eye James Rockford. He\u2019ll take on a role made famous by James Garner in the original Rockford Files, which ran from 1974-80 and continued later with several TV movies. Boreanaz will also be a producer on the pilot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/rockford-files-reboot-nbc-pilot-1236472884\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ordered the pilot<\/a> in January as part of a spate of pickups as the network stages its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/nbc-trying-pilot-season-again-1236476510\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mini-revival<\/a> of the traditional pilot season. NBC has ordered eight pilots so far, up from just three last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLike the original, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-rockford-files\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-rockford-files_1\" data-tag=\"the-rockford-files\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Rockford Files<\/a> will center on the recently paroled (for a crime he didn\u2019t actually commit) private investigator Jim Rockford who \u201cuses his charm and wit to solve cases around Los Angeles,\u201d per the show\u2019s logline. \u201cIt 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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBoreanaz has played a private investigator before in his career \u2014 albeit a supernatural one. The original premise of Angel, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff centered on his character, was that the vampire moved to Los Angeles and opened a detective business. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBoreanaz most recently starred in SEAL Team, which ran for seven seasons on CBS and Paramount+. Prior to that he spent 12 years as FBI agent Seeley Booth on Fox\u2019s Bones. He broke out as the tortured, ensouled Angel on Buffy, then toplined Angel, which ran from 1999-2004. He is repped by CAA, Visionary Entertainment and Felker Toczek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMike Daniels (Sons of Anarchy, NBC\u2019s The Village) is writing The Rockford Files and will executive produce with Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman. Chris Leanza is co-EP, and Boreanaz is a producer. The pilot comes from Universal Television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBC\u2019s Rockford Files reboot has found its leading man. 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