The Unusuals

Amber Tamblyn is back on TV with ABC's new series The Unusuals. The cop show follows officers who handle the unusual cases. Tamblyn is used to high concept television after Joan of Arcadia, so she knows how to explain this show.
Tamblyn Investigates The Unusuals
"I know ABC has a way that they have to sell this, and that.s great, but in the same vein that Joan of Arcadia was a drama that had a lot of humor to it - she was a very Lucille Ball type of character, within this strange realm - this show has a taste of that with a harder edge," Tamblyn said. "The humor in it is very unique. We.re going to coin actual terms for things that are really funny and unique about precincts and cops, and the things cops find, everything from prostitutes to people who dress up in hot dog costumes.

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Chicago – ABC’s news series “The Unusuals” debuts next Wednesday, April 8th, 2009, but we have a sneak peek of the show starring Amber Tamblyn (“Joan of Arcadia”), Jeremy Renner (the upcoming “The Hurt Locker”), Harold Perrineau (“Lost”), Monique Gabriela Curnen, Josh Close, Kai Lennox, Eddia Alvarez, Terry Kinney, and Adam Goldberg. We have a clip called “Subway Chase” for you below. Check out the premiere on April 8th at 9pm Cst.

Official Synopsis:
Like a modern-day “M*A*S*H,” “The Unusuals” explores both the grounded drama and comic insanity of the world of New York City police detectives, where every cop has a secret. It also helps to have a twisted sense of humor, since every day could be your last.
Detective Casey Shraeger (Amber Tamblyn) has just been transferred to the NYPD’s Homicide unit from Vice and is instantly thrown into a setting of bullets and bodies.
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Now that Life on Mars has completed its mission, ABC has a new show leading out of Lost on Wednesday nights: The Unusuals, starring such familiar faces as Amber Tamblyn, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau and Adam Goldberg as quirky homicide detectives working for the NYPD. If any fans of Joan or Arcadia or General Hospital's original Emily Q. are surprised to see Tamblyn brandishing a badge these days, so is she. "When I first heard about [The Unusuals], I was like, 'I don't want to go back to TV, to play a cop,'" Tamblyn told TVGuide.com during a visit to the show's set. "But the script was so different."
"I call it an 'eccentric procedural,'" she says, summing up the show's niche.Watch and discuss Tamblyn's complete video Q&A after the jump.
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