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Matt Barr and Justin Johnson Cortez have a lot to tease following the premiere of the CW’s Walker Independence at the ATX Festival in Austin. The pair star as Hoyt Rawlings and Calian, respectively, in the CW Walker prequel spinoff which was recently picked up to series. Barr brings a certain swagger to Hoyt, a…

ATX festival-goers were treated to the first episode of the upcoming CW series, Walker spinoff prequel Walker Independence on Saturday morning ahead of a panel with executive producer Jared Padalecki and stars Katherine McNamara, Matt Barr, and Justin Johnson-Cortez. The Walker prequel, written by Seamus Fahey based…

Ahead of the Season 2 premiere of CBS‘ Blood & Treasure on July 17, it was announced that the series will move exclusively to Paramount+. The first two episodes will drop on premiere night with new episodes streaming weekly on Sundays. It’s unlikely the action-adventure drama will be renewed for a third season. Series…

EXCLUSIVE: Katie Findlay is set as a series regular opposite Matt Barr and Katherine McNamara in the CW's Walker: Independence pilot, executive produced by Walker's Jared Padalecki. The Walker prequel pilot, written by Seamus Fahey based on a story by him and Anna Fricke, and directed by Larry Teng, is set in the late…

EXCLUSIVE: Wu Assassins star Lawrence Kao is set as a lead opposite Matt Barr in CBS Studios' CW pilot Walker: Independence, executive produced by Jared Padalecki. Walker: Independence, a prequel to the CW/CBS Studios series Walker, is set in the late 1800s and follows Abby Walker, an affluent Bostonian whose husband…

EXCLUSIVE: How’s this for a strong lineage? Matt Barr, who played 2020s Hoyt Rawlins on the CW’s Walker, also will play 1800s Hoyt Rawlins in the network’s pilot Walker: Independence. Barr has been been tapped as the male lead in the project, executive produced by Walker‘s Jared Padalecki. Walker: Independence, a Walke…

Amid strong ratings, CBS has ordered a second season of its hit summer action-adventure series Blood & Treasure, from CBS TV Studios and Propagate. The series, which premiered May 21, is currently the No. 1 new summer scripted series with 5.71 million viewers. It has improved its time period by +17% over the same time…

EXCLUSIVE: After a lengthy search, Matt Barr (Valor) has been tapped as the male lead opposite Sofia Pernas in Blood & Treasure, CBS' hourlong serialized action-adventure series set to premiere in summer 2019. Written by Matthew Federman & Stephen Scaia, Blood & Treasure, which hails from CBS Television Studios…

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Barr, the male lead of the CW/CBS TV Studios military drama Valor, has been tapped as a star of another the CW/CBS TV Studios project, drama pilot Skinny Dip, from writers Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner and Keshet Studios. Written by Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner based on the novel by Carl Hiaasen…

Christina Ochoa (Animal Kingdom) is set as the female lead opposite Matt Barr in Valor, the CW's serialized military drama/conspiracy thriller pilot written by writer-musician Kyle Jarrow and directed by Michael Robin. In Valor, the boundaries between military discipline and human desire are tested on a U.S. Army base…

Glenn Fleshler (True Detective) has booked a series regular role on HBO’s Barry, a half-hour comedy pilot starring, directed and co-written by Bill Hader. It centers on an ex-Marine (Hader) who works as a low-rent hitman in the Midwest. Lonely and dissatisfied in his life, he begrudgingly travels to Los Angeles to…

Matt Barr (Parkland) has booked a lead role in in TNT's Untitled Miami Project executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay. Written by Masters Of Sex creator/executive producer Michelle Ashford, the serialized character drama is set in the wild and unpredictable world of the Florida drug trade in the…