(Updated): “Magnum P.I.” is getting a new home. The show, which was picked up from cancellation by NBC and is set to premiere on February 19.
Cast members Jay Hernandez and Perdita Weeks and showrunner Eric Guggenheim met with critics at the Winter TCA Press Tour to preview the upcoming 5th season.
Coming up this season is a hot romance between Magnum and Higgins (played by Hernadez and Weeks respectively) and the EP says that the show will be sexier, more romantic…more emotional. “I think it’s more romantic,” Guggenheim said. “I don’t know that it’s I think that would have happened, you know, regardless, just once we put them together. But, yeah, for sure, this season, it is sexier. It is more romantic. It’s more emotional, I feel.”
Weeks says that there was now a challenge for Magnum and Higgins to find a way to work together as they continue their dangerous, private investigator ways. “The rest of the season is kind of showing how showing sort of where that goes,” added Weeks. “And with two people who are obviously sort of meant for each other, but then having to navigate working together, being in dangerous situations. I think people are really going to enjoy it. It’s even more fun than it has been before.”
“We’ve lived in these characters for so long, and we feel like we know them intimately. I think we do,” Hernandez said. “And then sometimes we get stuff we get scenes or moments, and it’s like, “Huh, I hadn’t thought it was going to be like that, but all right, let’s do it. Let’s go that direction.” But yeah, without spoiling a storyline, Magnum is a bit more of a sort of romantic than I kind of imagined in moments, which I think is quite nice, actually.”
“Magnum P.I.‘s” Season 5 season will come in two, 10-episode blocks beginning on February 19.
“Magnum P.I.”, a reboot of the Tom Selleck series by the same name, follows “Thomas Magnum, a decorated former Navy SEAL who, upon returning home from Afghanistan, repurposes his military skills to become a private investigator.” The drama stars Jay Hernandez, Perdita Weeks, Zachary Knighton, Stephen Hill, Tim Kang, and Amy Hill.
