Stage Vet Steven Pasquale Signs on for CBS Drama Pilot DOUBT

Broadway's Steven Pasquale is lighting up this year's TV schedule. Deadline reports that the actor will appear opposite Katherine Heigl in CBS's upcoming rework of its legal drama pilot DOUBT.

Returning cast members include Dule Hill, Laverne Cox, Dreama Walker, Kobi Libii, and Elliott Gould. Also reuniting with the team is director Adam Bernstein, who helmed the original pilot.

The series follows "Sadie Ellis (Heigl), a smart, chic, successful defense lawyer at a boutique firm who shockingly gets romantically involved with one of her clients, decent, altruistic pediatric surgeon Billy (Pasquale), who may or may not be guilty ofmurdering a 15-year-old girl many years ago."

DOUBT hails from executive producers Tony Phelan and Joan Rater, who previously worked with Heigl on GREY'S ANATOMY.

Pasquale has recently appeared on TV in THE GOOD WIFE, Netflix's BLOODLINE and will soon be seen in FX's upcoming anthology series AMERICAN CRIME STORY: THE PEOPLE VS. O.J. SIMPSON. He is well known for his portrayal of 'Sean Garrity' on RESCUE ME.

The actor last starred on Broadway in THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY and recently appeared in THE WILD PARTY as part of Encores! Off-Center, as well as CAROUSEL at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Among his past stage credits are REASONS TO BE PRETTY, FAT PIG, THE INTELLIGENT HOMOSEXUAL'S GUIDE..., A SOLDIER'S PLAY and FAR FROM HEAVEN.

Pictured: Steven Pasquale in Lyric Opera of Chicago's CAROUSEL. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.