‘The Dovekeepers’: ‘NCIS’ star Cote de Pablo gets first official co-star

Earlier this summer, the news first broke about Cote de Pablo landing her first major TV role since “NCIS” in “The Dovekeepers,” a miniseries produced by Mark Burnett and Roma Downey over at CBS that allows her to take on a very different role than Ziva David.

Want to know more about her specific role right now? Then head over to the link here right now, since this article is just as much about one of her potential co-stars on the show. “House of Cards” actress Rachel Brosnahan has been tapped to join the project, in the role of Yael. The miniseries revolves around a number of women fighting for their lives when hundreds of Jews are under siege at Masada.

Per TVline, the Yael part is described as “a uniquely beautiful and fearless young woman whose mother died in childbirth, and whose father forever blames her for that loss. During the dangerous journey they make together through the desert, Yael has a whirlwind romance which will haunt her life even after they arrive at Masada. Yet, Yael is able to find comfort from her supportive warrior brother, Amram, and kinship from her fellow dovekeeper, Shirah (de Pablo), as these two extraordinary women fight for survival in a crumbling world.”

This project could air at some point next year, but it is much too early in the process right now to really know. The only thing that we feel reasonably confident about right now is that this will be an interesting TV event to keep watch over, if for no other reason than the popular of the people involved.

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