A&E Gives Series Pickup to 'Longmire' Western

A&E has purchased contemporary crime thrillerLongmire to series.our editor recommends'Battlestar Galactica' Star Katee Sackhoff Lands A&E Pilot The drama, in regards to a widowed sheriff in Absaroka County, Wyoming, continues to be granted a ten episode order. The project, set to premiere sometime the coming year, stars Katee Sackhoff(Battlestar Galactica), whowill play a deputy oppositeRobert Taylor's mid-western sheriff.Also attached areLou Gemstone Phillips(Stargate World),BaileyChase(Savior) andCassidy Freeman(Smallville). The series, which originates in the Shephard/Robin Co. and Warner Horizon Television, will bedirected byGreg Yaitanes(House) and compiled by Search Baldwin, John CovenyandCraig Allen Manley. The second also authored the the Wally Longmirebook series which the show relies. Related Subjects Katee Sackhoff A&E