A new kind of crime drama has arrived on Fox in the 2024 TV schedule with Murder in a Small Town , starring Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk. Based on the novel series by L.R.
Wright, the show follows newly-arrived police chief Karl Alberg (Sutherland) and local librarian Cassandra Lee (Kreuk) as they connect and end up investigating crime together. James Cromwell has a key guest role in the 90-minute premiere event, but the show really relies on the chemistry between the two lead stars. When they spoke with CinemaBlend, Sutherland revealed that he originally wasn't hooked on the idea of starring.
With his arrival on Fox, Rossif Sutherland is starring on the network that was the longtime home of his brother Kiefer Sutherland on 24 . When I spoke with him and Kreuk ahead of the premiere of Murder in a Small Town about the audition process, he shared: I was cast first. I auditioned.
I did a Zoom audition. I was doing a job in Montreal, and I got this text for this detective show on Fox. I've played a bunch of detectives [and] I wasn't particularly excited about playing another one, so I dismissed it at first.
.. and I hate Zoom auditions.
I don't know what got into me that day, but I just thought, 'Heck, I'm just going to do it. Why not? What have I got to lose?' And so I did that Zoom audition, and two weeks later, we got the phone call that they were interested in me for the part. Crime is one of the most popular genres in television, and Sutherland had played enough detect.