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TNT has officially ordered “The Last Ship” to series, with a projected 2014 launch for its ten episode first season.



Back in July 2012, TNT optioned “The Last Ship” based upon William Brinkley’s novel of the same name with Bay as an executive producer and a pilot script by Hank Steinberg (“Without A Trace”) and Steven Kane (“The Closer”). Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) directed the pilot episode.

The story of “The Last Ship” follows the crew of the Navy destroyer U.S.S. Nathan James as it finishes its four month long radio silent mission in the Antarctic only to discover that the world has been devastated by global pandemic. Most of the world’s governments have already fallen as the crew takes on its new mission to find a cure for the disease.

Eric Dane stars as the Nathan James’ captain, Tom Chandler, with genre veteran Adam Baldwin as his second in command, Mike Slattery and Rhona Mitra as Rachel Scott, a paleomicrobiologist who may be humanity’s best hope for a vaccine.

TNT has also released an extended trailer from the pilot episode of “The Last Ship,” which sets the stage for the series and shows off an arctic battle between the crew and enemy helicopters.