Lori Loughlin (Lieutenant Bishop) in On Call.Photo:Elizabeth Morris/Prime Video
Elizabeth Morris/Prime Video
Lori Loughlinis getting back onscreen.
The 60-year-old actress will star as Lieutenant Bishop in an all-new crime series fromDick Wolf,On Call.
Troian Bellisarioleads the Prime Video series as “hard-charging but protective veteran officer Traci Harmon, who struggles to find her place in the department while training the next generation of officers,” per a release.
Traci finds herself paired with “ambitious rookie” Alex Diaz (Brandon Larracuente), who “grapples with holding onto his optimistic outlook as he realizes the challenges he’ll face in today’s climate.”
The “adrenalized and visceral police drama” sees Traci and Alex on patrol in Long Beach, Calif. and is told through a “mixture of bodycam, dash-camera, and cellphone footage to create a cinema verité effect” as a means of exploring “the morality of protecting and serving a community.”
Along with Loughlin, Bellisario and Larracuente, Eriq La Salle stars as Sergeant Lasman and Rich Ting stars as Sergeant Koyama.
Troian Bellisario (Traci Harmon) & Brandon Larracuente (Alex Diaz) in On Call.Erin Simkin/Prime Video
Erin Simkin/Prime Video
On Callmarks the fourth role for Loughlin since she and her husband Massimo Giannuillipled guilty to conspiracy charges related to the college admissions scandal in May 2020. Loughlinwent on to serve 2 months in prisonwhileher husband served 5 months, and in 2021, shesecured her first acting role following the scandal.
TheFull Housealum reprised herWhen Calls the Heartcharacter Abigail Stanton in a spinoff series,When Hope Calls, and then followed that upwith a movie on Great American Family,Fall Into Winter, her first film since 2018.
The co-creator ofWhen Calls the Heartlaterteased that Loughlin could return to the Hallmark seriessometime in the future as he said, “There are good conversations happening.”
Lori Loughlin on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’.John Johnson/HBO
John Johnson/HBO
Loughlin’smost recent role came in the final season ofCurb Your Enthusiasm, as she played a heightened version of herself. However, in the sitcom, she was rejected from country clubs around Los Angeles due to her tarnished reputation following the college admissions scandal.
The legendary show’s executive producer Jeff Schaffer later said that Loughlin was “totally game” to appear after hearing the pitch.
“This was an idea that we loved from a writer named Teddy Bressman. But it’s not going to be funny with some sort of thinly veiled surrogate. It only works if we get Lori,” Schaffer toldThe Hollywood Reporterafter the MarchCurbepisode aired. “So we called her manager up, who loved it, and who then talked to Lori, and she said: ‘I’m in, I’m totally game.’ And she was. She was so great.”
“Everything we threw at her, she was game to do. She makes the episode. I’m so glad she wanted to do it.”
Lori Laughlin in ‘When Calls the Heart’.Crown Media
The role marked one of her first major roles since the scandal, for whichshe completed a sentence of jail time, community service and supervised releaseafterpleading guilty to paying Rick Singer to have a proctor change her daughter’s SAT answers.
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All 8 episodes ofOn Callpremiere on January 9, 2025, on Prime Video.
source: people.com