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EXCLUSIVE: Re: Uniting, a feature debut from Laura Adkin which reteams The Flash stars Jesse L. Martin and Michelle Harrison, is set to world premiere at the Austin Film Festival this coming weekend, and we've got a first-look clip, check it out above. The story sees six best friends from college…

“My name is Alec Mercer, and I was brought in because I know people and why they do inexplicable things.” So explains Jesse L. Martin’s Alec at the beginning of the first trailer for NBC drama series The Irrational. The Law & Order alum returns to NBC to take on more crime-solving duties, listing…

NBC has picked up drama pilot The Irrational, starring Jesse L. Martin, to series. The Irrational, from Arika Lisanne Mittman, was ordered to pilot in February and signs were looking good for a series order. As Deadline previously reported, a mini writers room was set up in the fall to produce a…

Universal TV has added three new actors to The Irrational, the NBC pilot starring Jesse L. Martin as Alec Baker, a professor of behavioral science who lends his expertise to an array of high-stakes cases. Travina Springer will play Kylie, who is described as a creative free spirit and Alec's younger sister, with whom…

Jesse L. Martin has been tapped as the lead of NBC’s drama pilot The Irrational as he is leaving the CW’s The Flash after eight seasons. While Martin no will longer be a series regular on the Berlanti Prods./Warner Bros. TV-produced The Flash, he is expected to appear in multiple episodes of the DC drama in its…

Will Detective Ed Green be making a return appearance on NBC’s revival of Law & Order? Jesse L. Martin, who played the character for nine seasons on the original show, hinted in an interview Thursday on CBS’ The Talk that it’s a possibility. "I couldn't possibly say. I certainly hope so," Martin replied when asked…

EXCLUSIVE: The Flash original cast members Jesse L. Martin, Candice Patton and Danielle Panabaker have closed new deals with series producer Warner Bros. Television to continue on the CW drama in its upcoming eighth season. The trio joins star Grant Gustin, whose current contract already goes through next season…

EXCLUSIVE: Vancouver-based Flat Head Films has set The Flash stars Jesse L. Martin and Michelle Harrison for actor-writer-director Laura Adkin's (It’s A Disaster) debut feature film Re: Uniting. The film follows six best friends from college, now in their 40s, who reconnect for their 25 year reunion weekend. As…

Law & Order alum Jesse L. Martin is set to co-star opposite Grant Gustin in the CW pilot The Flash, based on the DC comic. The project, from Warner Bros TV and Berlanti Productions, is an origin story about Barry Allen aka The Flash (Gustin), a Central City assistant police forensics investigator who arrives in…

Focus Features International will sell worldwide rights to the untitled biopic that Julien Temple will direct with Rent and Law & Order‘s Jesse L. Martin starring as the iconic soul singer with the sweet voice and troubled personal life. Script is by Matthew Broughton, and In Bruges‘ Brendan Gleeson will play the role…

After years of gestation and obstacles for a slew of competing projects, a Marvin Gaye feature biopic will be made after all. I’ve learned that Jesse L. Martin will play the Motown legend in the Julien Temple-helmed Sexual Healing, which is slated to start filming in later this month in Europe. Brendan Gleason is set…

Law & Order alum Jesse L. Martin is set to star opposite Martin Henderson in the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced NBC drama pilot The Secret Lives Of Husbands And Wives. It is described as thriller-dramatic soap that centers on a murder and the secrets and lies within a tightly woven group of three suburban couples and…