'Nash Bridges' Revival With Don Johnson in the Works at USA Network

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Original series creator Carlton Cuse is not attached.

Don Johnson is heading back to San Francisco.

Eighteen years after CBS' Nash Bridges signed off following a six-season run on CBS, NBCUniversal-owned cabler USA Network and IP owner Village Roadshow are teaming with the actor for a revival.

Johnson is set to reprise his role running San Francisco's Special Investigation Unit in what sources say is a two-hour TV special. Sources note that while the project is in its early development stages, Village Roadshow hopes that the special serves as a back-door pilot of sorts for a broader drama series.

Representatives for USA Network declined comment.

The revival will pick up with Nash Bridges, circa 2020, still running San Francisco's SIU and confronting a changing city, a new boss and a world in which police work focuses on modern data-crunching and predictive policing. Although the world around him has changed, Nash hasn't.

Bill Chais (The Practice, Shark, Franklin & Bash, Bull) and Johnson will co-create the special. Johnson, Chais and Marc Rosen (Sense8) will exec produce.

Johnson is currently the only castmember attached. It's unclear if any other former stars from the CBS take — including Cheech Marin, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe and Jeff Perry — will return for the revival. Village Roadshow-based Rysher Entertainment owns the rights to the show with the former company controlling the library.

News of the revival arrives a year after creator Carlton Cuse and his former all-star team of writers/exec producers — Glen Mazzara, Shawn Ryan, John Wirth and Pam Veasey — reunited last year at the ATX Television Festival to share the origins of the series. Cuse noted that former CBS boss Les Moonves had signed Johnson to a talent deal and approached Cuse to create a series for the former Miami Vice star. The result was cop drama Nash Bridges. (Listen to that panel discussion here.) Cuse is not attached to the revival, as he has an overall deal with Disney-owned ABC Studios.

As for Village Roadshow, Nash Bridges is part of the company's larger plan to mine its content library and reimagine those titles. That strategy is employed across the TV and film landscape as media companies of all sizes look to revitalize library titles and cut through the clutter with revivals/reboots/spinoffs. This also helps increase the value of original catalogs at a time when library content like Friends and The Office are fetching top dollar as legacy media companies prepare to launch streaming services to rival Netflix and boost their bottom lines.

Village Roadshow, overseen by former Sony chief Steve Mosko, recently acquired the film and TV rights based on the popular video game Myst. The company also has Joaquin Phoenix-starrer Joker due in October from Warners.

Meanwhile, USA Network will say farewell to a pair of hit shows this year: Suits and Mr. Robot. The cabler's scripted roster includes Suits spinoff Pearson, Queen of the South, Bourne spinoff Treadstone, anthology The Sinner, Briarpatch, Dare Me, Brave New World and Bravo import Dirty John.

Chais is repped by the Shuman Company. Johnson, who next stars in HBO's Watchmen, is repped by CAA.

[Heenan Fan]

If Steve Austin reprises his role as Jake Cage, and is a regular, this could be good. Don Johnson is one of those actors who gets better with age. Cheech Marin might be too old now though.

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Don Johnson: Cheech Marin will return for the Nash Bridges revival

“Oh yeah,” said Johnson on The Talk when asked about USA's revival of his 1990s CBS cop drama. “The Cheech will be back. I think in this adaptation of Nash Bridges, he’s going to actually be selling weed. And the cops in San Francisco are actually going to be smoking it.”

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Don Johnson Confirms "Nash Bridges" Revival is Heading into Production
by Denise Petski
April 8, 2021


USA Network’s "Nash Bridges" revival is getting closer to reality. Series star Don Johnson confirmed Wednesday on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" that he is in “heavy prep” on the revival.

Johnson will reprise the title character in the project, which has been in development at USA since 2019 as a two-hour movie/backdoor pilot.

“So we find Nash some years later and Cheech is going to come back and join me and Jeff Perry,” Johnson told DeGeneres. “We’ve got a pretty exciting show that we’re prepping in San Francisco right now.”

https://deadline.com/2021/04/don-joh...on-1234730277/

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"Nash Bridges" Revival: Diarra Kilpatrick, Bonnie Somerville among Six to Join Returning Don Johnson, Cheech Marin & Jeff Perry
by Denise Petski
May 7, 2021


USA Network has firmed up cast for its upcoming "Nash Bridges" revival.

The network has confirmed "Nash Bridges" will return as a two-hour movie with stars Don Johnson (Nash Bridges), Cheech Marin (Joe Dominguez) and Jeff Perry (Harvey Leek) reprising their roles.



Joining Johnson, Marin and Perry are new cast members Diarra Kilpatrick (American Koko), Bonnie Somerville (Code Black), Joe Dinicol (Arrow), Alexia Garcia (Pose), Angela Ko (Rebel) and Paul James (Soundtrack).

A premiere date has not yet been announced.

https://deadline.com/2021/05/nash-br...al-1234751341/

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Nash Bridges reunion movie premieres over Thanksgiving Weekend

USA has unveiled the poster for Don Johnson and Cheech Marin's reunion in a two-hour TV movie Saturday, Nov. 27.

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Great discussion with Don Johnson where we had a chance to talk about the new Nash Bridges reboot, his status in the '80s, and the rest of his illustrious career.