With just four words I can guarantee a change to your day. With four measly words I can jump start enough energy into your body for you to hopefully not change the channel. Those four words? “Taye Diggs is Back!” That’s right folks, Taye Diggs! The same Taye Diggs from The Wood and Malibu’s Most Wanted. This time Taye is detective Brett Hopper, the lead in ABC’s new over the top thriller, Day Break. Why they called it Day Break and not Groundhog Day on Methamphetamines will forever mystify the mind for Day Break is about Hopper reliving the same insane day over and over.
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“What’s the difference between Lost and Day Break? Lost loves to relive the same insane days over and over and tell us that it’s a new season.” Well, although Day Break is taking Lost’s spot, this is different. Each time he wakes in the morning, the day starts with Hopper being falsely accused with murdering the Assistant District Attorney. Unfortunately, his alibis are about as good as quarters at a “Token only” arcade and he can’t figure out why. The only way for him to break the cycle is to solve the multi-layered murder himself while also trying to keep his loved ones out of harms way. Way too hot, Moon Bloodgood (Eight Below) plays Hopper’s girlfriend, Rita Shelten, so that may be reason enough to catch the first episode even though it seems like she takes a bullet to the dome from the commercials so don’t get too attached to her.
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Day Break has all those ingredients to make a thriller schmorgasborg sandwich. Back stabbing, mistrust, blown covers, gang leaders and a partridge in a pear tree. Shelten’s ex-husband is Hopper’s ex-partner. Why wouldn’t he be? If that isn’t enough, he is now with Internal Affairs. You don’t need to be Taye Diggs to figure out that this guy isn’t going to want to help Hopper out too much.
Day Break has some respectable clout behind it with creator/co producer Paul Zbyszewski, who wrote After the Sunset leading the charge. (Incidentally, Zbyszewski is pronounced “Krzyzewski”.) Executive producers are Rob Bowman (Elektra), Jeffrey Bell (Alias, The X-Files), and Matthew Gross.
Day Break premieres on November 15th at 9PM on ABC.
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