The Late Andre Braugher’s Final TV Project: What’s Its Status?

Nick Caruso
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The late Andre Braugher’s now-final project — Shondaland’s comedic murder-mystery The Residence — remains unfinished thanks to a shut down sparked by the WGA strike months prior. Although the series had been gearing up to resume production, Braugher’s death Tuesday raises significant questions for the Netflix series’ future.

Four episodes of its eight-episode order were shot during the early days of the writers strike more than six months ago, Deadline reports. While the series is slated to resume shooting Jan. 2, it’s unclear if that date will stick, as producers must now figure out how to proceed without the actor.

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The Residence (from executive producer/showrunner Paul William Davies and EPs Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers) follows detective Cordelia Cupp (Orange Is the New Black‘s Uzo Aduba), a consulting detective for the Metropolitan Police Department, who is described as “an astute observer of human behavior, with a distinctive and — to some, unsettling — conversational style.” Cupp must solve a murder that happens during a State Dinner, but while she investigates, interpersonal conflicts between the massive residence staff begin to unfold.

Braugher joined the series in February, and was starring alongside Susan Kelechi Watson (This Is Us), Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl), Ken Marino (Party Down), Edwina Findley (If Loving You Is Wrong, The Wire), Molly Griggs (Servant), Al Mitchell (Stranger Things, Ozark), Dan Perrault (American Vandal), Bronson Pinchot (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Isiah Whitlock Jr. (Your Honor) and Mary Wiseman (Star Trek: Discovery). The late actor had been playing White House usher A.B. Wynter, and was listed second after Aduba in the streamer’s casting release for the series.

Braugher’s publicist confirmed to TVLine that he passed away on Dec. 11 after a brief illness. He was 61.

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