CBS Announces "Time Bomb" Sunday Movie March 19th  2/28/06

DAVID ARQUETTE, GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER AND ACADEMY AND EMMY AWARD NOMINEE ANGELA BASSETT AND RICHARD T. JONES STAR IN "TIME BOMB," A NEW TELEVISION MOVIE THAT WILL BE BROADCAST AS THE "CBS SUNDAY MOVIE" MARCH 19 ON THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK

TIME BOMB, a new television movie starring David Arquette ("Scream 3"), Golden Globe winner and Academy and Emmy Award nominee Angela Bassett ("The Rosa Parks Story") and Richard T. Jones ("Judging Amy") will be broadcast as the "CBS Sunday Movie" Sunday, March 19 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The suspense thriller is about a Department of Homeland Security agent who must race against time to prevent a football stadium wired with explosives from detonating with his family and thousands of other spectators inside.

Michael Bookman (Arquette) is planning to meet his wife Lynn (Tara Rosling) and son Sean (Devon Goyo) at a football game. He's been working overtime in his new position as an agent for the Department of Homeland Security and hopes to spend some quality time with his family at the game. Michael's plans are quickly sidelined when he is called to a local sports bar where a bomb has been set to explode with the patrons handcuffed inside. Racing against the clock with his old friend Douglas Campbell (Jones), a Washington D.C. bomb squad diffuser, the men manage to save the hostages but cannot diffuse the bomb in time. Before they can recover from the explosion, they are contacted by their boss, the Undersecretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection (Bassett), who tells them that this bomb is only a warning. An Al Qaeda terrorist faction has contacted the DHS, stating that the football stadium where Michael's wife and son are awaiting his arrival is wired with explosives set to detonate at the end of the game. Play must continue and no one can leave the stadium or the bombs will immediately explode, killing thousands of unsuspecting spectators.

Michael rushes to the stadium to find his wife and son, only to discover that they have been kidnapped by the perpetrators. While DHS agents join Campbell and his team to diffuse the bombs, Michael sets out on a frantic search for his family. As the game clock counts down, new clues emerge that are critical to solving the case.

David Arquette is currently in production on the feature film "The Tripper" and can be seen in "The Darwin Awards," which recently premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. His other feature film credits include "See Spot Run," "Never Been Kissed," "The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl," "Eight Legged Freaks," the "Scream" trilogy, "Slingshot," "Never Die Alone," "The Grey Zone," "Stealing Sinatra," "Happy Here and Now," "Johns," "Dream with the Fishes" and "The Alarmist." Arquette made his television series producing debut with the interior design show "Mix It Up." He serves on the Ambassador Board for the Make-A-Wish Foundation's Greater Los Angeles Area Chapter.

Angela Bassett most recently starred in the feature film "Mr. 3000." Her other feature film credits include "What's Love Got To Do With It," for which she earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama and received an Academy Award nomination, "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," "The Score," "Music of the Heart," "Malcolm X," "Waiting to Exhale," "Strange Days," "Vampire in Brooklyn," "Supernova," "Contact," "Boesman and Lena" and "Boyz N the Hood." Bassett's television credits include a recurring role on the series "Alias," the television movie "The Rosa Parks Story" on the Network, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination, "Ruby's Bucket of Blood," "The Jacksons: An American Dream," "Uncle Jed's Barbershop," an episode of PBS' "Storytime" and the narration for the PBS miniseries "Africans in America." Her theater credits include "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," "Colored People's Time," "Henry IV, Part I," "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," "Antigone," "Pericles," "Black Girl" and "Macbeth." She will next be seen in the feature films "Akeelah and the Bee" and "The Lazarus Child."

Richard T. Jones appeared as Bruce Van Exel on the Network television series "Judging Amy." His other television credits include the movie "Riding the Bus With My Sister" and the series "In the Heat of the Night" and "Brooklyn South," all on the Network, the television movies "Second String" and "Paradise," and the series "Sweet Justice," "NYPD Blue," "Ally McBeal" and "Dangerous Minds." His feature film credits include "The Wood," "Lockdown," "Book of Love," "Kiss the Girls," "Event Horizon," "What's Love Got to Do With It," "Renaissance Man," "The Trigger Effect," "Johns," "Pistol Blues," "G," "Moonlight Mile," "Phone Booth," "Blackout," "Twisted" and "Collateral." He will be seen in the upcoming independent feature film "Oranges."

TIME BOMB was produced by CBS Paramount Network Television, in association with Patriarch Pictures. Tom Patricia ("Martha Behind Bars," "Homeless to Harvard") is the executive producer; Josette Perrotta ("A Walk on the Moon," "Affliction") is the producer. Stephen Gyllenhaal ("Living with the Dead") directed the film from a script by Frank Military ("NCIS").

RATING: To Be Announced

Source: CBS Press Release