WILMINGTON — Scott Speedman as “RJ Decker” can be seen in a new trailer that ABC released last week.
The one-hour drama, which will debut in March, has been filming in Wilmington since November with upward of 10 episodes to launch. Based on Carl Hiaasen’s 1987 novel “Double Whammy,” the show will first air on Tuesday, March 3, at 10 p.m. on ABC and stream the next day on Hulu.
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The pilot was filmed in Wilmington and Carolina Beach last July. The show was picked up in September.
Its storyline follows Private Investigator RJ Decker (played by Speedman — “Felicity,” “Grey’s Anatomy”), who takes on bizarre cases in South Florida with a bevy of people from his past involved. The trailer shows the ex-con and former disgraced newspaper photographer as he goes on an undercover stake-out and finds a dead body in a trunk of a vehicle.
The ensemble features Adelaide Clemens (“Kangaroo Island”) as Decker’s ex, Bevin Bru (“Will Trent”) as Melody Romero, a Fort Lauderdale Police Department detective married to Deckers’ ex, and Kevin Rankin (“Breaking Bad”) as Aloysius, Decker’s former cellmate.
“How is everything over at the trailer park? You making new friends?” Bru’s Det. Mel Abreau asks Decker at a crime scene.
“Every single day,” he responds, after the camera pans to a creepy clown hiding in the woods of the mobile home site.
The show also stars Jaina Lee Ortiz (“Station 19”) as Emi Ochoa whose past with Decker complicates matters. The two can be seen in the trailer making out in a Wilmington parking deck, with the tagline detailing Decker as a “private eye and public mess.”
The show has filmed at numerous locations in town, including beachfront area hotels — prominently displayed in the trailer. Though little else is detailed, with shots featuring a Miami skyline. Film permits indicate the crew have set up locally at downtown’s Alton Federal Building, 17th Street’s White Front diner, Lake Forest Baptist Church, Brooklyn Arts Center, Princess Place neighborhood homes, Cinespace Studios, Pier 33, Ly Nails, and Julia’s Florist.
The show is created by Rob Doherty (“Elementary”), who is also executive producing the series with Hiaasen, Speedman, Carl Beverly, Sarah Timberman, and director Paul McGuigan.
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