Callum Keith Rennie (Battlestar Galactica) will take the lead in the Canadian continuing drama Shattered, playing a homicide detective with multiple personality disorder. His co-stars include Molly Parker, Camille Sullivan, Karen LeBlanc, Cle Bennett and Martin Cummins. The crime series will air on Canada's Showcase channel, and is currently being shopped to international broadcasters.
I've enjoyed Rennie's performances in everything I've seen him in since he came to my attention on BSG, playing a creepy Cylon. He definitely favours taciturn crazies, as he's played such in The X Files: I Want To Believe, Harper's Island and FlashForward just recently. I'm not sure if that's because he's been typecast and takes whatever work is offered him, or if his range is actually somewhat limited*. Shattered will see him playing a character with psychosis again, but at least he'll be the hero of the piece, and will assumedly get to show a mix of personalities that are very different to the brooding villain he's known for. Anyway, I look forward to seeing him stretch himself in a leading role.
Shattered itself sounds like another implausible gimmick-based detective show (why would anyone employ a cop with MPD?!), but it's admittedly an attention-grabbing idea that will attract the curious. Are you one of them?
* See comments below: Rennie's clearly not a limited actor, but my knowledge of him is. ;-)
