Coby Bell was nestled deep into the explosive world of USA Network’s “Burn Notice” in Miami when he got the call that his cancelled CW series, “The Game,” had not only been revived by BET for a new 2011 season, but was moving its set from Los Angeles to the ATL.
“I lucked out this season. ‘Burn Notice’ ended like a week and a half before ‘The Game’ had started. So I went straight from blowing people up in Miami to hopefully making people laugh in Atlanta,” he told us during a cast interview. “So it worked out perfectly this time.”
“Burn Notice,” which begins its 5th season tonight at 9, features Bell as Jesse Porter, a counterintelligence expert who was inadvertently “burned” by main character Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan), a spy who was himself burned, and has assembled a team to help him track down the person who gave the order.
Getting a burn notice from an intelligence agency means you were so reckless during a failed mission that they must now erase all evidence of your existence – bank accounts, work history, whole identity – for the sake of national security.
