are you sure Stuarts in it..there's no mention of any tv show on imdb
uhuh. i just went onto his site. its called the night stalker.
Stuart Townsend, previously seen as Anne Rice's vampire protagonist in Queen of the Damned and as Dorian Gray in the film adaptation of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, has been tapped to play Jeff Rice's intrepid reporter that faces the supernatural, Carl Kolchak.
The new pilot for The Night Stalker is being produced by former X-Files Executive producer, Frank Spotnitz, and was commissioned by ABC, who is eager to find the next big supernatural franchise. The evidence of tinkering with the concept is evident just by the casting notices: Kolchak has been given a "partner" to be played in the pilot by Gabrielle Union.
The original Kolchak: The Night Stalker series ran on ABC from September, 1974 to August of 1975. The pilot films, which ran on ABC's late night schedule, held records for television movie ratings for years and a series was inevitable. While the series didn't live up to the promise of the pilot movies, it still had its fans that appreciated the the series' take on the supernatural and Darren McGavin's portrayal of the seedy, single minded reporter, Carl Kolchak.
Tooling around Chicago (he'd been thrown out of Las Vegas and Seattle in the two TV movies that preceded the series) in his late 60's yellow Mustang convertible equipped with a police scanner, Kolchak would find himself in the middle of all sorts of weirdness and became the most unlikely protector of the public. The series has seen something of a revival in recent years thanks to a series of graphic novels published by Moonstone Comics and a re-release of the two television movies from Universal. X-Files creator Chris Carter wanted to work the character into the series but found licensing the character to be difficult, resulting in the creation of the character "Arthur Dales," a former FBI agent that was responsible for the creation of the X-Files within the Bureau.
If picked up, the new Night Stalker series would be a part of the 2005 - 2006 lineup for ABC and will be produced by Touchstone Television. The original series and telefilms were produced by Universal.