Stephen Amell Lands Lead Role in ‘Baywatch’

Stephen Amell has landed a new role! The actor is set to lead FOX’s Baywatch reboot.

The network announced today, February 13, Amell will lead the show as Hobie Buchannon. Following in the steps of his father, Mitch (played in the original series by David Hasselhoff), wild child Hobie  is now a Baywatch Captain. His world is turned upside down when his long lost daughter, Charlie, shows up on his doorstep. Wanting to be like her dad, Charlie hopes to keep the Buchannon family legacy alive and become a Baywatch lifeguard alongside her dad.

The 12-episode season will feature adrenaline-fueled rescues, tangled relationships, complicated chemistry and beachside heroics that defined the original — now with an entirely new cast donning the show’s signature red swimsuits, contemporary trappings, tensions and challenges, and a renewed mission to protect Southern California’s shoreline.