NCIS: Hawaii star’s next TV role after cancellation revealed

NCIS: Hawai’i star Henry Ian Cusick has landed his next television role after the CBS series was canceled earlier this year.

The Peruvian-Scottish actor, who played supervising agent John Swift in the NCIS spin-off, is set to appear in Prime Video’s upcoming spy series, Butterflyaccording to his IMDb page.

The upcoming drama, which stars Ugly Coyote actress Piper Perabo and Hawaii 5-0Daniel Dae Kim’s film is based on Arash Amel’s graphic novel of the same name and follows a former U.S. Secret Service agent whose past comes back to haunt him.

According to the official synopsis, the series centers on David Jung (played by Kim), “an enigmatic and highly unpredictable former U.S. Secret Service agent living in South Korea whose life is turned upside down when the consequences of an impossible decision from his past come back to haunt him, and he finds himself pursued by Rebecca (Hardesty), a deadly young sociopathic agent tasked with killing him.”

Meanwhile, Piper plays Juno, a former lawyer who is now the CEO of an intelligence firm and “willing to do whatever it takes to protect her organization.”

Henry, who plays a character named Nick Barnes, stars alongside Reina Hardesty, Nayoon Kim, Park Hae-soo and Kim Tae-hee in the six-episode series.

Although a release date has yet to be announced, Henry’s new role comes just months after NCIS: Hawaii ended in May after three seasons.

The spin-off starred Vanessa Lachey as Jane Tennant, the franchise’s first female lead.

Other CBS Shows, CSI: Las Vegas And So help me Toddwere also axed this year, with CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach saying it was a “difficult decision” to end them.

“I’m a huge fan of television first and foremost, and I sympathize with all the fans who are disappointed with how these shows ended,” she told Variety. “But at the end of the day, Our job at CBS is to make those really tough decisions.” . “

“We toss and turn, we have sleepless nights and we have endless discussions, but we look at all the numbers. We look at what our projections are for the future, we look at where we see opportunities to potentially have even more success down the road. And we make those tough decisions.”