Eliza Dushku Poised for Return to TV

Eliza Dushku (last of Dollhouse) is preparing her return to the small screen with the lead role in Bird Dog, according to Deadline. Still in pilot stage, Bird Dog is a drama slated for TNT should it get the green light. The synopsis sounds sort of like Veronica Mars:

Bird Dog is a mystery fashioned around an unlikely partnership of two cops who happen to be father and daughter. It centers on Gail McGrath (Dushku), who followed in her father’s footsteps in becoming a police officer but had little else in common with him. She left the big city she had grown up in to move to a small Pacific Northwestern town where she was patrolling the streets until her dad, a NYC cop, showed up on her front doorstep to join her as her new partner. Now this father-daughter team, call sign “Bird Dog,” is being put to the test — not only in solving crimes, but with each other.

Another procedural, but with the father-daughter twist it could be original. It’s set in a small town, too, which is a point in its favor in my opinion. The next big question is who will play Dushku’s father. I hear Schwarzenegger is about to have some free time on his hands…