Eliza Dushku walks from series

Eliza Dushku has exited “Bird Dog”. Already. Assume she’s finally got around to reading the pilot script and noticed that, nowhere on the binded thing, was Joss Whedon’s name so walked. Fair Enough. Or maybe she’s just freeing herself up for “Ghostbusters 3”? I joke… but hey, shitty rumours sometimes turn fact if a decision maker likes the sound of ’em Deadline has more on the “Bird Dog” departure…

Previously…

Eliza Dushku (“Buffy”, “Dollhouse”) and D.B Sweeney (“Harsh Realm”, “The Event”) have opted to return to the security blanket known as Television.

Dushku will front a new series called “Bird Dog” for TNT, which Deadline says follows ”an unlikely partnership of two cops who happen to be father and daughter. It centers on Gail McGrath (Dushku), who followed in her father’s footsteps in becoming a police officer but had little else in common with him. She left the big city she had grown up in to move to a small Pacific Northwestern town where she was patrolling the streets until her dad, a NYC cop, showed up on her front doorstep to join her as her new partner. Now this father-daughter team, call sign “Bird Dog,” is being put to the test — not only in solving crimes, but with each other.”

Sweeney, a sizable movie star in the ’90s thanks to roles in such flicks as “Memphis Belle” and “The Cutting Edge”, will star in Dean ‘Independence Day’ Devlin’s new series “Brains Trust”.

Also somewhat of a cop show, the TBS series fixes on a law enforcer “whose career and life have hit rock bottom after he accidentally ends his partner’s career. Doyle’s life gets turned around, however, when a recent murder case gets unexpected and unconventional help from three hyper-smart geniuses from a private think tank. If Doyle can survive the chaos and keep these new partners in line, they just may be the antidote to resurrect his career and, ultimately, his life”.