June 29 (UPI) -- Sony Pictures Television Networks says it has ordered Carter, a detective procedural starring Sliders and Stand By Me icon Jerry O'Connell and Chicago P.D. alum Sydney Poitier, for its international channels.
Principal photography will begin next month in North Bay, Ontario. The 10-episode show follows O'Connell's title character, an actor known for playing a detective on a hit TV show and forced to return to his hometown after an embarrassing public meltdown in Hollywood, a press release explained.