{"id":509523,"date":"2026-05-30T00:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/509523\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T00:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:10:12","slug":"baywatch-sets-return-of-michael-bergin-kelly-packard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/509523\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Baywatch&#8217; Sets Return Of Michael Bergin &#038; Kelly Packard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/baywatch\/\" id=\"auto-tag_baywatch\" data-tag=\"baywatch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baywatch<\/a> continues to add original actors to its new <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/fox\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fox\" data-tag=\"fox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox<\/a> continuation series with the addition of Michael Bergin\u00a0and\u00a0Kelly Packard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBergin and Packard will play lifeguards<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Jack \u201cJ.D.\u201d\u00a0 Darius<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0April Giminski, respectively. JD and April were in Hobie\u2019s (Stephen Amell) rookie\u00a0class and have been close friends ever since. They\u2019re great lifeguards who\u00a0know\u00a0this beach.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBergin was a series lead in Seasons 8 to 11 in the original series and reprised his role in the Fox movie Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding. Packard was a series regular in Seasons 8 and 9.\u00a0In addition to Bergin and Packard, David Chokachi and Erika Eleniak are also bringing back their original characters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn\u00a0Baywatch, the wild child Hobie Buchannon (Amell) from the original series is now a Baywatch captain, following in the footsteps of his legendary father Mitch (played by David Hasselhoff in the OG series). Hobie\u2019s world is turned upside down when Charlie (Jessica Belkin), the daughter he never knew, shows up on his doorstep, eager to carry on the Buchannon family legacy and become a Baywatch lifeguard alongside her dad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe cast also includes Hassie Harrison\u00a0as Nat,\u00a0Thaddeus LaGrone\u00a0as Brad, and\u00a0Brooks Nader\u00a0as Selene, the sharp-tongued captain of the Zuma Beach lifeguards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe new\u00a0Baywatch<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>is co-produced by Fox Entertainment and Fremantle with Nix\u00a0(Burn Notice,\u00a0The Gifted) serving as showrunner and executive producer alongside\u00a0executive producers\u00a0McG,\u00a0Michael Berk,\u00a0Greg Bonann,\u00a0Doug Schwartz, Dante Di Loreto, and Mike Horowitz.\u00a0McG will direct the series premiere episode.\u00a0Fox Entertainment Global holds all domestic distribution rights, and Fremantle manages all international sales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBergin is repped by The Chasin Agency.\u00a0Packard is repped by Kim Dawson Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baywatch continues to add original actors to its new Fox continuation series with the addition of Michael Bergin\u00a0and\u00a0Kelly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[54542,18,117,9702,19,17,128],"class_list":["post-509523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-baywatch","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-fox","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116660629227338961","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}