Josh Duhamel to star opposite Renée Zellweger in NBC’s The Thing About Pam

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The former Las Vegas star is returning to NBC in his first major TV role since the cancelation earlier this year of Netflix's Jupiter's Legacy. He'll star in the true-crime limited series The Thing About Pam, "based on the murder of Betsy Faria that resulted in her husband Russ’ conviction, though he insisted he didn’t kill her," per Deadline. "His conviction later was overturned. This brutal crime set off a chain of events that would expose a diabolical scheme deeply involving Pam Hupp (Zellweger). Duhamel will play Joel Schwartz, the defense attorney for Russ Faria." The Betsy Faria case was adapted on several Dateline episodes and in a podcast also titled The Thing About Pam, which remains one of the most downloaded podcasts on iTunes. Duhamel made his primetime series debut on NBC, starring in Las Vegas from 2003 to 2008.