Article content When Rossif Sutherland found out he got the role of police chief Karl Alberg in the /Fox TV series Murder in a Small Town, he shared the news with his dad, . It turns out, they both had a connection to the story, which is based on the late L.R.
Wright’s series of mystery novels set on the . “I described the character, and I was quite excited about this character because he was a detective who gets the truth out of people through his humanity. He was a modern man who has his heart on his sleeve,” said Sutherland during a recent Zoom call from Quebec.
“So, I described that to my dad and he recognized the character. And he asked me what it was, and I told him it was the Alberg series. “And that’s when I heard the story.
” The story was one that goes back three decades to when Donald Sutherland was attached to the movie version of the first Wright book, The Suspect. He worked with producer Nick Orchard and writer Ian Weir but, unfortunately, it never happened. Decades of back and forth later, the film morphed into an eight-episode series, which premieres Sept.
24 at 8 p.m. on at with a 90-minute opener.
The series then moves to 9 p.m. on Oct.
8. The senior Sutherland was going to play the significant guest role of George, but his health was failing. James Cromwell stepped in to play George in the first episode.
, just a month or so after filming on the series wrapped. “I became an actor because of my dad, very much because of him, out of a fascinati.