The Hawaii Five-0 team is having an Academy Award winner over for Thanksgiving dinner.
TVLine has learned exclusively that Louis Gossett Jr. is set to guest-star in a Season 9 episode that is set around the November holiday, playing the father of Chi McBride’s Lou Grover.
A new member of the Writers Guild, McBride in fact wrote the Thanksgiving-themed episode, as first reported by TVLine.
“That’s a big deal for us,” showrunner Peter M. Lenkov affirmed. “Chi called me up and said, ‘I have this thing…,’ and I said, ‘Write it!’ We met a couple of times and he turned in a great script.
TVLine has learned exclusively that Louis Gossett Jr. is set to guest-star in a Season 9 episode that is set around the November holiday, playing the father of Chi McBride’s Lou Grover.
A new member of the Writers Guild, McBride in fact wrote the Thanksgiving-themed episode, as first reported by TVLine.
“That’s a big deal for us,” showrunner Peter M. Lenkov affirmed. “Chi called me up and said, ‘I have this thing…,’ and I said, ‘Write it!’ We met a couple of times and he turned in a great script.
- 8/24/2018
- TVLine.com
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