Actress Glenn Close will take on her first-ever starring role in a TV series in the new legal drama "Damages," set for a summer premiere on FX. Her most recent foray onto the small screen was on the
same net when she played a police captain in the fourth season of "The Shield," a role that garnered her Emmy and Golden Globe award nominations. The pilot for "Damages" is already in the box, and FX
has 13 episodes on order. Close plays an attorney who goes after corporate malefactors, including one played by Ted Danson. The show will be shot in New York and production begins next month.
"Damages" is the eighth drama ordered up by FX, and only the tenth drama pilot the net has ever made.
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