Jon Cassar has boarded Wicked City, ABC’s new 1980s-set crime drama, as a director and executive producer. The Emmy winner is best known for his work on 24.
Created by Steven Baigelman, Wicked City is conceived as an anthology, with each season exploring a notorious crime from a different era of Los Angeles history. The first season is set in 1982 on the Sunset Strip, amid its rock and roll clubs and drug-fuelled nightlife, where two LAPD detectives hunt a pair of romantically linked serial killers.
Ed Westwick plays Kent, a charming and manipulative murderer, with Erika Christensen as the woman who is drawn into his crimes and becomes his partner in them. Amy B. Harris serves as showrunner. The series is due to air on ABC later this year.