CBS Picks Up A Gifted Man, Starring Broadway Vets Patrick Wilson and Jennifer Ehle

CBS has added A Gifted Man, the previously untitled pilot, starring Tony nominee Patrick Wilson and Tony winner Jennifer Ehle, to its upcoming TV season, according to the Hollywood Reporter. In the series Wilson plays an ultra-competitive surgeon whose world is changed forever when his ex-wife, played by Ehle, dies and begins teaching him life lessons from beyond the grave. 

The pilot is directed by Oscar winner Jonathan Demme and features a script by Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich.) Julie Benz (No Ordinary Family) will also co-star in the series which is produced by Grant, Demme, Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly.

Wilson, a Tony nominee for The Full Monty and Oklahoma!, most recently appeared on Broadway in All My Sons. His films include Morning Glory, Watchmen, The A-Team, Lakeview Terrace and Little Children. Ehle won Tonys for The Coast of Utopia and The Real Thing and appeared on Broadway in Design for Living. She recently received a SAG Award as part of the ensemble cast of The King’s Speech and co-starred with Oscar winner Colin Firth in a miniseries version of Pride and Prejudice.

No start date for the supernatural TV series has been announced.