‘Agents of SHIELD’s’ Reed Diamond Joins WGN’s ‘Underground’ (Exclusive)

'Agents of SHIELD's' Reed Diamond Joins WGN's 'Underground' (Exclusive) - The Hollywood Reporter

April 08, 2015 1 hour ago by Kate Stanhope

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The new series from Sony and Tribune is set to debut in 2016.

WGN's upcoming historical series Underground has recruited Reed Diamond for a recurring role, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The Agents of SHIELD alum will play Tom Macon, a plantation owner and political candidate who has trouble believing his own slaves would ever consider running. Diamond joins Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: SVU), Jurnee Smollett-Bell (Friday Night Lights), Aldis Hodge (Rectify) and Jessica De Gouw (Arrow).

Underground follows a group of slaves planning daring escape from a Georgia plantation to cross 600 miles to freedom. Along the way, they are aided by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the Underground Railroad as they try to evade the people charged with bringing them back, dead or alive.

From Sony Pictures Television and Tribune Studios, the series begins production this week for a 2016 debut.

Diamond's credits include Franklin & Bash, 24 and Fox's upcoming Wayward Pines. He is repped by Paradigm and David Weise and Associates.