Poor Richard's Almanack (TV series)
Poor Richard’s Almanack was the development-title of an unaired American drama television series-pilot by Jim Danger-Grey. The show was probably set to air in the 2016-2017 TV schedule on USA Network, but has been passed on on April 29, 2016 like three other USA Network-pilots, Paradise Pictures The Wilding and Brooklyn Animal Control, with the latter being redeveloped. Shootings for the pilot episode were made in Toronto, Canada in October, 2015. The series is set to be shopped eleswhere by the studio.
Plot
The thriller-drama is set around the lives of people who become the new “Founding Fathers” of America after the country is suffering a total collapse from [...] attacks. The pilot episode shows two separate arcs, a modern day and a possible future arc, set 15 years later, where some of the protagonists have changed radicaly.
Cast
- Sam Jaeger as Darwin Fischer, a former CIA field agent-turned-analyst
- Harold Perrineau as Matt Monroe, FBI Agent in charge
- Jordan Hayes as Madison Fischer, Darwin's sister, a paranoid schizophrenic
- Lynn Collins as Julia Winslow, a postal worker
- Athena Karkanis as Penny Richards, a surgeon
- Carly Pope as Brooke Beaudine, a local network journalist
- Barbara Eve Harris as Elizabeth Walker, Director of National Intelligence