‘Pitch’ Actress Kylie Bunbury in Lead Role For ABC’s ‘Get Christie Love’ Reboot Posted by Wilson Morales
December 14, 2017
Source: Variety
Variety is reporting that actress Kylie Bunbury has been cast in the lead role for ABC’s pilot on Get Christie Love, a reboot based on the 1974 blaxploitation TV movie and short-lived series of the same name, which centered around an undercover black woman detective who is set to overthrow a drug ring. It is a co-production between Lionsgate and Universal Televisions.
‘Power’ Creator Courtney Kemp will be the showrunner for its pilot and among the producers are Debra Martin Chase through Martin Chase Productions, and Vin Diesel and Shana C. Waterman through One Race Television. It is a co-production between Lionsgate and Universal Televisions.
Written by Kemp, the reboot is “an action-packed, music-driven drama that centers on Christie Love, an African American female CIA agent who leads an elite ops unit. She transforms into whomever she needs to be to get the job done, especially when it’s down to the wire and the stakes are life and death. The high-adrenaline missions of the series are anchored by an emotional mystery about Christie’s first love — unearthing the truth about this relationship will be the biggest mission impossible of her life.”
The original GET CHRISTIE LOVE!, which premiered on ABC on January 22, 1974, was the first one-hour drama to star an African American female (Teresa Graves) in the leading role. A few years after Get Christie Love, she retired from acting to devote her time to Jehovah’s Witness. She died in a 2002 house fire.
Bunbury was most recently seen portraying the first female professional Major League Baseball player for Fox in “Pitch.” Her past television roles include ABC Family’s murder mystery series “Twisted”, working opposite Ben Kingsley in the mini-series, “Tut”, and joining the CBS hit summer series “Under The Dome” for writer and creator, Brian K. Vaughn, and Stephen King as a key figure to the finale of the series. She will next be seen in Warner Bros. “Game Night” alongside Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams.
