Stana Katic's FBI Thriller Absentia Gets Big Promo Push — Next, a U.S. Home? 

, has scored a primo showcase — as the opening night screening for the 57th Monte-Carlo Television Festival.

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The annual festival (to be held from June 16-20) “celebrates the very best of television” as well as offers marketing and PR opportunities to producers/distributors looking to access a large group of international journalists, to promote/support sales to worldwide broadcasters. Opening night screenings in recent years have showcased

received a straight-to-series, 10-episode order from Sony Pictures Television Networks’ AXN. With production underway and with an eye on a fall launch, the series is firing up its hunt for a home in the U.S. and other international markets. (AXN previously has commissioned

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follows Katic’s Emily Byrne, an FBI agent who, while hunting one of Boston’s most notorious serial killers, vanishes without a trace and is declared dead. Six years later, she is found in a cabin in the woods, clinging onto life and with no memory of her missing time. Returning home, Emily not only discovers that her husband (

‘s Patrick Heusinger) has remarried, she also finds herself implicated in a series of murders.

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“With its acclaimed cast and crew, alongside its intriguing premise, I’m certain

will prove a huge hit with international audiences,” Monte-Carlo Television Festival CEO Laurent Puons said in a statement.

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Can’t wait to see Stana shine on my TV again! Also, props to the Absentia team for already promoting the show and interacting with fans on SM.

I’m so happy for Stana and everyone involved with Absentia. Best of luck to all of them.

…. Best News yet! I’m a BIG SK fan and looking forward eagerly to see ABSENTIA !!!

I hope one of our main tv channels will pick this up! I can only afford basic cable! I really want to see this here in the states! Just stay away from ABC if you can, they have proven themselves cold, valuable and untrustworthy!

Really looking forward to seeing this series . Hope we hear soon which north american stations will get to show it!

So hope a U.S. network picks this up! I want to see this so much! Thank you, TV Line!

She always puts her best foot forward and I have no doubt anything she does will be worth watching. I pray she gets someone other than abc to pick this up here in the states. They’re completely unloyal to their stars and their fan bases.

I’m a fan of Stana Katic & look forward to watching Absentia on TV. She is the best of the best & no other actress can come close to her acting abilities, her dedication to her work & her beauty with her million dollar smile and eyes that can tell a story of their own

Thanks for keeping us updated Matt. Loved Stana Katic’s portrayal of Kate Beckett and looking forward to her role as Emily in her new series Absentia.

Oh great to hear of Stana Kati is returning back to t.v. . can’t wait to see it on June 16th.

The June 16th date is when Absentia opens the Monaco TV Festival. Her series has yet to be purchased by anyone here in the States. It is hoped that with a great reception at the Festival, it will get bought so all of her fans here in the States will see it. Hope that clears up the slight confusion.

I loved her in castle but for her to leave and just be FBI I really don’t get it

She didn’t “leave” of her own accord, and she took law enforcement roles before Castle, a uniform street cop in the Spirit, a CIA Agent in Company Man, (a pilot not picked up by Fox), and a detective in Would Be Kings, which has a scene where she is asked why she wears high heels and her reply is very similar to the dialogue in “Nikki Heat” when asked the same question. She is listed as an executive producer for Absentia so maybe the opportunity to be more involved in the process swayed her decision to take on the role.

GEEZ! She didn’t left she was FIRED. Learn the difference, people. And what’s wrong with playing an FBI member?

Exactly. And the synopsis for Absentia suggests it’s not a “normal” COTW type show as her character apparently spends a lot of the time on the run as the suspect.

Really enjoyed SK in the first six seasons of CASTLE. Keep a library of my favorite episodes on DVR . Can’t say I’ve enjoyed her other work as much. Not her acting which I feel is always exceptional, but her choice of material always seems just a bit off. Why another cop show? Why a truly bizarre storyline? Why on a less than frontline platform? She should be getting much better offers and roles. Her talent deserves it.

Good actress, can’t pick roles very well. I get artistic reasons, etc. but seriously, FLO was like a super long Calvin Klein ad, CBGB and Big Sur were so bad that I couldn’t get through them, and I am a movie person. Horrible movies all.

This show will get picked up by FX or USA maybe and I will def give it a shot though.

Luv all the updates. W busy schedules plus everyday life one can stay tuned w our handheld devices no matter where or when

Katic looks so Slavic. Does she have to keep playing Irish characters?

Just pretend she’s half Irish on her father’s side, but takes after her Eastern European mother. ;-)

Show has already been picked up in Canada. I am really looking forward to seeing the series this fall! Ms. Katic is a supurb actress and I hope this series give her thr room she needs to show the real depth of her talent! As for ABC! really can’t be trusted to give their shows or audiences any respect! So hope USA get to see the series on one of the other US channels! If U get the Canadian channel Showcase it will be on in the fall!

Wasn’t there a blind item about a series that was ordered but might never make it to air on a US network because it was not that good?

I doubt the organisers of the Monte Carlo event would have chosen it to open their festival in the presence of the Prince of Monaco if that had been the case, and some of the people who were at the premiere have tweeted that they are happy with what they saw, and the choices of US Networks in recent seasons haven’t exactly filled their schedules with too many quality shows. I don’t understand the exact timetable for submitting shows for consideration but I believe that all the networks had announced their Fall schedules for 2017 before Absentia was given an airing at the LA Screenings, and as it is only 10 episodes they would have had to have found something else to fill out the season if they had been interested, too much like hard work maybe.

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