
Joining Perry and previously announced “The Practice” and “Army Wives” alum Kelli Williams on the police procedural/family drama are Jonathan Scarfe (“Hell On Wheels,” “Perception”), Dion Johnstone (The Tempest, “Defiance”), Mitchell Kummen (“The Tomorrow People”), Natasha Calis (“The Firm”), Rhys Matthew Bond (“The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story”) and Matreya Scarrwener (“Once Upon a Time”).
“Ties that Bind” revolves around Allison McLean (Williams), a tough and experienced police detective, mother and wife in suburban Seattle. When she and her police partner (Johnstone) must arrest her brother (Perry) for aggravated assault, her world drastically changes as he’s convicted and sent to prison, leaving his two teenagers teetering on the brink of foster care. Ultimately, she takes them into her home, ending up with four teenagers to raise.