Jason Alexander to Guest Star on TNT's FRANKLIN & BASH

According to TV Guide, Jason Alexander is set to guest-star on TNT's upcoming series Franklin & Bash. He will play 'a wealthy CEO who seeks to put the titular lawyers on retainer, but his unethical behavior puts the duo in hot water.' Alexander will only appear in one episode- air dates have yet to be announced.  

Alexander told TVG, "He's basically a Bernie Madoff kind of guy who screwed everybody rather heartlessly. He finds out he has very little time on the planet and has a 'come to Jesus' transformation. He hires Franklin and Bash to keep him out of trouble when he decides to distribute the wealth in the way he's going to. He's going to screw a lot of his fellow bad guys in order to do it."

He adds, "He is very cold and calculated. There are several layers of persona to this guy, and he does some pretty outlandish and silly things, as a man who has very little time to live might. But there's nothing terribly comedic about him. The thing George had that made him palatable was that George was outrageous, but he was aware of his own outrageousness and his own foibles. This guy is completely not. I think you will laugh at him and what comes of him, but he's not a comedic character."

Franklin & Bash is an upcoming American comedy-drama television series which will air on TNT during the 2010-11 television season. The series stars Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar as unconventional lawyers and longtime friends. A Turner Broadcasting executive has referred to the series as a "funny legal procedural.

Alexander is best known for his role as George Costanza on the television series Seinfeld, appearing in the sitcom from 1989 to 1998. He also has had an active career on the stage, appearing in several Broadway musicals including Jerome Robbins' Broadway in 1989, for which he won the Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical. He appeared in the Los Angeles production of The Producers with Martin Short. He is the Artistic Director of "Reprise! Broadway's Best in Los Angeles", where he has directed several musicals.

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