Exclusive: 'Tracker' Books Erica Durance for 'Smallville' Reunion — 'Arrow' Vet David Ramsey to Also Guest Star
CBS' 'Tracker' this spring will feature a 'Smallville' reunion with the added dash of an 'Arrow'-verse vet. Get details.
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CBS' Tracker will host a li'l Smallville reunion when Erica Durance guest-stars opposite Justin Hartley in an upcoming episode.
Durance's casting on TV's most-watched drama was first alluded to during her recent visit to fellow Smallville vet Michael Rosenbaum's Inside of You podcast. Matt's Inside Line can in turn exclusively report that she will appear in the hit series' Sunday, March 22 episode as Laura, an accomplished stunt woman who recruits lone-wolf survivalist Colter Shaw (played by Hartley) after her boyfriend Baxter disappears without a trace from a film set.
Inside Line can also report that Arrow vet David Ramsey will play the aforementioned Baxter, a weathered veteran stuntman with a list of injuries as long as your arm. "His star is fading, and he’s reduced to working low-budget indie films to make ends meet," the character description continues.
Ramsey's recent, post-Arrow credits include The Hunting Party and Bel-Air.
Durance made her debut as Smallville's Lois Lane in September 2004, in the CW series' Season 4 premiere. She was promoted to series regular in Season 5, but the character's number of appearances was diligently regulated by the larger DC/Warner Bros. TV apparatus, never exceeding 13 episodes until Season 9 (when she notched 17) and the final season (in which she appeared in all 21).
"Originally it was just a four-episode arc, to see if people accepted me or not," Durance told me as part of a Smallville oral history for CBS Watch! Magazine, "and then it ended up being seven, then 13...."
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Durance's subsequent TV credits have included a lead role in the Canadian medical drama Saving Hope, an episode of Kathy Bates' Harry's Law (playing a woman who confronted abusive men whilst dressed as Wonder Woman, natch), and The CW's Supergirl (succeeding Laura Benanti as Kara's mother Alura).
Durance reprised her role as Lois for the Batwoman installment of the Arrowverse's December 2019 "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover event (once again playing opposite Smallville lead Tom Welling's Clark Kent). In another small 'ville reunion she guest-starred in a Season 1 episode of Fox's Kristin Kreuk-led Murder in a Small Town.
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Hartley made his Smallville debut as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow in Season 6, in what was his first primetime role after a run as "Fox" Crane on NBC's Passions. Recurring at first, he was upped to series regular for Seasons 8 through 10.
Recalling his casting for my Smallville oral history, Hartley said, "I was literally about to pack my bags for a job in Australia when [co-showrunner] Al Gough called me and said, 'Justin, don't go! I think I have something for you.' The pitch was really quick: 'This guy comes in, he's kind of brash, and he's actually going to be wearing a costume, which we've never done before.' So I shot that, came back the next season for one episode, and then came back [in Season 8] as a regular."
CBS' Tracker resumes its third season Sunday, March 1, where it will now air at 9/8c – leading out of the new Yellowstone offshoot, Marshals.
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