Sarah Shahi Cast In New USA Series

Sarah Shahi was one of the reasons I enjoyed Life (the other being Damien Lewis’s fruit-obsessed detective), so I was happy to see her guest in a recent episode of Psych as Gus’s thrill-seeking secret girlfriend. Looks like USA was paying attention, too: the network has greenlit a new series called Facing Kate with Sarah Shahi as the lead.

Sarah Shahi's guest turn on Psych turns into lead in Facing Kate on USA

Co-starring Michael Trucco (Battlestar Galactica, One Tree Hill), Virginia Williams (The O.C., American Beauty) and Baron Vaughn (Invasion), Facing Kate centers on Kate Reed (Shahi), a top litigator who became frustrated with the endless bureaucracy and injustice she witnessed on a daily basis and decided to become the ultimate anti-lawyer: a mediator. Using her knowledge of the law, along with intuition and a whatever-it-takes approach to resolving conflict, Kate finds the middle ground for a wide variety of adversaries — from Fortune 500 corporations to bitter divorcees. After the death of her father, she finds herself at odds with her new boss, her stepmother (Williams) … and in bed with her ex-husband (Trucco), himself a lawyer in the DA’s office. Helping her keep all of this chaos at bay is her trusted, geek chic assistant Leonardo (Vaughn).

Facing Kate will film in Vancouver and is set to debut later this year on USA.