TNT, which has enjoyed enormous critical and popular success with such original drama series as “The Closer” and “Leverage,” has given the greenlight to two new original series: the character-driven medical drama”Time Heals,” starring Jada Pinkett Smith, and the fast-paced, undercover police drama “The Line,” starring Golden Globe winner Dylan McDermott.
The two projects are the latest in TNT’s aggressive strategy to ramp up its original series production. Both 10-episode series are slated to premiere later this year, with no official dates released yet.
“Time Heals” takes place at Richmond Trinity Hospital in Charlotte, N.C., where the strong-but-caring director of nursing, Christina Hawthorne (Pinkett Smith), continuously fights battles she often knows she won’t win. Whether treating the homeless woman in front of the hospital like a human being or trying to talk a suicidal cancer patient off the ledge, Christina must challenge hospital administrators, heartless doctors, apathetic colleagues and a system that sometimes forgets it’s there to serve the sick.
“The Line” has McDermott playing Carter Shaw, the head of a crack undercover team of police officers who are so covert, many of their own colleagues don’t even know they are involved. Shaw is a deeply wounded character, having lost his wife and much of his former life as he struggles to bring down bad guys through complex undercover assignments.
