Sony Sets Cast for S.W.A.T. Exiles Spinoff in Los Angeles

Sony Pictures Television has assembled the principal cast and key creative team for S.W.A.T. Exiles, a 10-episode spinoff of the CBS police drama, and plans to begin production in Los Angeles later this month as it seeks a new home for the franchise. Shemar Moore will reprise his role as LAPD Sergeant Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson, and five new series regulars have been announced: Lucy Barrett, Adain Bradley, Zyra Gorecki, Freddy Miyares and Ronen Rubinstein. Kevin Tancharoen is set to direct the pilot and Jason Ning will serve as showrunner and executive producer.

The series, produced and distributed globally by Sony Pictures Television with Original Film’s Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty among its executive producers, picks up after a high profile mission goes awry and Hondo is brought out of forced retirement to lead an experimental SWAT unit of untested recruits. Sony has described the new squad as unpredictable and generationally divided, setting up the central arc of Hondo bridging clashing personalities to save the program that defined his career. The production is expected to use much of the same crew from the original series, a move trade reports say will preserve roughly...