The parade of actors looking to take leading roles on TV shows just increased by one as Michael Clarke Duncan has signed on to co-star in The Locator, a spin-off of US series Bones.
Like its parent series, the new show is based on a book. This time it’s Richard Greener’s series The Locator about former military policeman Walter Sherman, who has the ability to find anything. He’s certainly got the right name, then.
US network Fox is still looking for an actor to take the title role, but Clarke Duncan has agreed to play the second lead, Leo, the tough-as-nails cowboy philosopher who works with Sherman on his cases.
The spin-off (“The Locator” is still just a working title, apparently), will be introduced via a “backdoor pilot”, i.e. the characters crop up on the original show to get viewers familiar with them, then head out on their own adventures. So expect to see Clarke Duncan and whoever ends up playing Sherman acting alongside Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz of Bones.
Despite notching up a load of guest star appearances on everything from Two and a Half Men to Chuck and CSI, Clarke Duncan has never been the lead on a series before. And even though chances are it'll be more of a procedural than something like The Sopranos or Breaking Bad, we’ll watch…