Christian Slater closes in on role in ABC series

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Christian Slater is in negotiations to brilliant in the new ABC alternation "The Forgotten."

The abstruseness ball revolves about a accumulation of abecedarian detectives led by a above cop (Slater) whose 11-year-old babe was kidnapped three years earlier.

Slater would alter British amateur Rupert Penry-Jones, who played the advance in the pilot. Another role, that of a changeable affiliate of the sleuth squad, additionally is actuality recast.

"Forgotten" will air at 10 p.m. Tuesdays and is appointed to bow September 22. It would mark Slater's additional about-face as a TV arch man afterwards aftermost year's brief NBC spy ball "My Own Worst Enemy," for which he accustomed acceptable reviews.

(Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)