William Petersen will be headed to Cinemax for Hurt People, the new drama that he will also be executive producing.
According to Deadline, Cinemax has ordered a pilot for the new show which will be the return to TV for Petersen after being on CSI for over nine years. Peter Macmanus wrote the pilot which sees Petersen as a veteran hitman that is employed by the very same crime family that had his wife killed. He latest task is to hunt down his estranged daughter who now is "intent on destroying those responsible for her mother's death.
Cinemax is slowly developing it's own set of original show and Petersen is probably the biggest name they have attached right now, other than Alan Ball and his show Banshee. Hurt People does have the honor of being the first pilot order at the pay network. Its other shows Strike-Back, Hunted and Banshee went straight to series.
Petersen will be executive producing the project which was shopped to mostly cable networks because of the dark storyline and the freedom for the writers to do what they want.
