Preview screening of RTL CBS drama - INTELLIGENCE @ The Screening Room

 Attended an exclusive preview screening of the new CBS drama series - INTELLIGENCE at The Screening Room before it officially debut in Singapore. Intelligence has a high number of viewership in United States (16.6 million viewers. Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-intelligence-samples-well-669169) and is therefore one of the most-watched new series premiere of the season. It looks like it will be the next talked about drama in Asia too. 

Some finger food while we mingled around before the preview starts. 

RTL CBS Asia Entertainment Network is a joint venture between RTL Group and CBS Studio International, two of the World's biggest media powerhouses. 

SYNOPSIS

Starring Josh Holloway as Gabriel, a high-tech intelligence operative who has a super computer microchip implanted in his brain. With this implant, he became the first human ever to be connected directly to the Worldwide information grid and have complete access to internet, WiFi, telephone and satellite data. His main purpose is to protect the United States from its enemies as he can hack into any data center and access key intel.

Supporting him is his Director for the elite government cyber-security agency, Lillian Strand (Marg Helgenberger) who is a straightforward and efficient boss and oversees the unit's missions. Strand assigns Riley Neal (Meghan Ory), a Secret Service agent, to protect Gabriel from outside threats and his disregard for protocol. 

Other skilled members of the Cybercom team include Chris Jameson (Michael Rady) and Gonzalo "Gonzo" Rodriguez (James Martinez), two resourceful federal investigators. The brains behind the design of the chip is Dr. Shenendoah Cassidy (John Billingsley), whose son, Nelson (PJ Byrne), is jealous of Gabriel’s prominent place in his father’s life. As the first supercomputer with a beating heart, Gabriel is the most valuable piece of technology the country has ever created and is a U.S. secret weapon.    

With a microchip in a human's brain, they are obviously going to be more human than machine whereby emotions rule more often than the chip. Thus, in the first episode, we see his reckless and unpredictable behavior as he try to search for his wife instead of the bigger picture, meaning National Security.   

Casts as follows

Josh Holloway ("Lost") as Gabriel 

Marg Helgenberger ("CSI: Crime Scene Investigation") as Lillian Strand 

Meghan Ory ("Once Upon a Time") as Riley Neal 

Michael Rady ("The Mentalist") as Chris Jameson 

James Martinez ("Gravity") as Gonzalo Rodriguez 

John Billingsley ("True Blood") as Dr. Cassidy 

P.J. Byrne ("Wolf of Wall Street") as Nelson Cassidy.

Michael Seitzman, René Echevarria, Tripp Vinson and David Semel (for pilot) are executive producers for ABC Television Studios in association with CBS Television Studios.

With Stefanie who coincidentally wore the same Black and White OOTD today! Haha. Both of us enjoyed this Science Fiction thriller very much and Episode 1 left us wanting to know more of what will happened next. 

“Intelligence” will debut on Singapore television on Channel 318 RTL-CBS, mio TV on Tuesday, 11 February 2014, at 9.55pm.