Victor Garber Joins Eli Stone On ABC

Victor Garber (Alias) has been tapped to star opposite Jonny Lee Miller in ABC’s drama pilot Eli Stone, a high-concept legal drama about Eli Stone (Miller), a brilliant attorney at the top law firm in San Francisco who finds out he might be a prophet, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Eli is produced by Touchstone Television and the studio-based Berlanti Television. Garber will play the senior partner at the firm, the most respected attorney in town, who happens to be the father of Stone’s fiancee.

Casting for the role had been going on for several months, and ABC and Touchstone TV are said to have jumped at the opportunity to recruit Garber when he became available after the November cancellation of his Fox/Warner Brothers TV freshman drama Justice. For five seasons, Garber starred as Jack Bristow on ABC’s spy drama Alias, a role that earned him three Emmy nominations.