For fans of bookish action heroes, TNT has greenlighted 10 episodes of The Librarians, a series based on an earlier TV movie trilogy called The Librarian and slated to air in late 2014, Entertainment Weekly reported. Noah Wyle (Falling Skies, ER) will executive produce and return in the lead role "as the big cheese librarian," while Rebecca Romijn will play "a sexy counter-terrorism agent who's in charge of protecting the librarians."
TNT's plot synopsis for the new series includes this description of Wyle's character: "Prior to taking the job, he was a bookish nerd with 22 academic degrees and absolutely no social skills. As Librarian, however, he managed to use his extraordinary knowledge, successfully recovering ancient artifacts and, in the process, saving the world from unspeakable evil on more than one occasion. Over the last decade he's gone from bookworm to dashing swashbuckler, one of the secret heroes of the hidden world. As great as Flynn is, the job of Librarian has become more than one person can handle."
