Also starring in the series are Callum Blue (“Dead Like Me,” “Royal Pains”), Edi Gathegi (X-Men: First Class, “Justified”), Annie Thurman (The Hunger Games), Sean Gleeson (“Doctors,” Cold Mountain) and newcomer Caroline Rose Kaplan. “Proof” is being executive-produced by Emmy winner Kyra Sedgwick (“The Closer”); Rob Bragin (“Greek,” “Murphy Brown”), who wrote the pilot; Tom Jacobson; Jill Littman; and Emmy winner Alex Graves (“The West Wing,” “Game of Thrones”), who directed the pilot.
In “Proof,” Beals plays Dr. Carolyn Tyler, a brilliant surgeon with a caustic edge. Carolyn has suffered the recent, devastating loss of her teenage son, the breakup of her marriage to Dr. Len Barliss (Gleeson) and a growing estrangement from their daughter (Thurman). But Carolyn’s own trauma hasn’t deterred her from her charitable outreaches, which include helping disaster victims in far-flung trouble spots throughout the world. Despite her skeptical, hard-science attitude, Carolyn is persuaded by a cancer-stricken tech millionaire (Modine) to investigate cases of reincarnation, out-of-body experiences, hauntings and other supernatural phenomena. Her goal is to find verifiable proof to life’s greatest questions: Is death truly the end, or is there something else beyond? Helping – or sometimes hindering – Carolyn in her quest are her boss, Dr. Charles Russell (Morton), the head of the hospital, and Peter Van Owen (Blue), a best-selling author who claims to be psychic. Gathegi plays Zed, a hospital intern from the Sudan who assists Carolyn, and Kaplan plays Janel Ramsey, Turing’s assistant.
TNT has ordered 10 episodes of Proof, with plans to launch the series in 2015.
