[This page contains information about "Briar & Graves," a Fox series that wasn't picked up for the 2005-2006 season]

♥ Elisabeth Rohm and Charles Mesure are set to topline Fox's Briar & Graves.
♥ The pilot, from 20th TV and Adelstein-Parouse Prods., revolves around a hard-living priest (Mesure) who partners with a female doctor (Rohm) to investigate unexplained religious phenomena.


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The wonderful moderator of the Elisabeth Rohm livejournal has shared Casting Call Info and Sides from the show. Take a look at them (warning: both may contain spoilers for the show):

Briar & Graves Casting Call

Briar & Graves Sides

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From Variety.com [Thursday, Jan. 27, 2005, by Josef Adalian]:

The network of Mulder and Scully is making room for "Briar & Graves," a spooky drama that's a sort of "X-Files" meets "The Exorcist."

[...] As for "Briar & Graves," Fox has greenlit production on the pilot, which teams a hardboiled but heroic priest with a female doctor and sets them loose to investigate unexplained religious phenomena.

Paul ScheuringPaul Scheuring ("A Man Apart""A Man Apart"), creator of Fox's buzzworthy drama project "Prison Break," wrote the pilot and will exec produce with Marty Adelstein and Dawn Parouse via 20th Century Fox TV.

Scheuring said the idea for the lead character "Briar & Graves" has "been bouncing around my head since I read Graham Greene's 'The Power and the Glory,'" which revolves around a fallen priest.

Scribe then heard a Johnny Cash/U2 song with a line about a man who goes "walking with a Bible and a gun," and he was further motivated.


"I wanted to see this righteous grungy dude who's the long arm of the Lord," Scheuring said. "The show's supposed to be creepy, but it's also supposed to be a fun ride."


Scheuring wrote "Briar & Graves" after it seemed "Prison Break" might not move forward. Last fall, latter skeinskein got the OK to film, but Scheuring kept working on the newer project, which Fox picked up just days after reading the script.


"Briar & Graves" is one of several religious-themed projects in the works at the Big Six.

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From Baltimore Sun.com [April 13, 2005, by David Zurawik]:

[...] Fox, meanwhile, has a series in the works about an excommunicated priest with a drinking problem who uses a gun in his self-ordained "battle against evil."

Titled Briar & Graves, the series is characterized by the network as "The X-Files goes to church."

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