Deadline is reporting that For the People alum Wesam Keesh has been cast in NBC drama pilot Echo.
From newcomer JJ Bailey, Echo revolves around a team of investigators who solve high profile crimes by leaping into the past and assuming the victim’s identity. While occupying the victim’s body, they must race against time to prevent the crime from happening in the first place.
Keesh is set as Riley Burnside, an intelligent, big-hearted FBI agent.
Echo is one of six dramas currently in contention for a series order at NBC, joining At That Age, about the golden child of a family who suffers a catastrophic event; Debris, which follows two agents investigating wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft that has mysterious effects on humankind; sinkhole mystery La Brea; Dan Brown-based Langdon; and Ordinary Joe, following the three parallel lives of its main character after he makes a pivotal life choice.
In addition to his role on the ABC legal drama, Keesh’s television credits include Good Girls, NCIS: Los Angeles, and Awkward. He joins a cast that includes Veep‘s Reid Scott as an member of the FBI thrives working on dangerous assignments and Sleepy Hollow alum Janina Gavankar as an eager and ambitious police officer.
