Production is underway on the fifth and final season of Paramount ’s “Mayor of Kingstown” with actor David Morse (“The Last Thing He Told Me”) returning to Pittsburgh for the new series regular role of Russell Hardy, a seasoned FBI agent.
Morse, who is from Philadelphia, previously starred in “Outsiders,” which was also filmed in Pittsburgh, for two seasons.
The logline for the eight-episode fifth season of “Kingstown” reads, “In the wake of Tracy’s murder and the vengeance visited upon Callahan by Mike (Jeremy Renner) and Kyle (Taylor Handley), FBI agent Russell Hardy (Morse) arrives in Kingstown searching for the ‘fugitive’ Callahan. A true lawman, Agent Hardy threatens to unearth all of Mike’s sins and secrets and disrupt Kingstown’s tenuous balance of power.”
In addition to Renner, Handley and Morse, the season five cast will include Edie Falco, Laura Benanti, Hugh Dillon, Tobi Bamtefa and Derek Webster. Necar Zadegan, Nichole Galicia and Lennie James will also return.
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