Aussies star in American TV shows major networks will run in prime-time Cast members from Crisis, from left, Lance Gross, Rachael Taylor, Gillian Anderson and Dermot Mulroney in New York. Picture: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Source: AP AUSTRALIANS will watch more of their own in prime-time with local network programmers buying up the best of new US television starring home-grown talent in the leading roles. Channel 10 is expected to fast-track to air the high-stakes new drama series, Crisis, featuring Rachael Taylor as an FBI agent charged with rescuing the kidnapped children of the rich and powerful, including The X-Files star Gillian Anderson and Dermot Mulroney. Speaking from the annual "upfront" screenings in Los Angeles, Ten's programming boss Beverley McGarvey said "if I could see the second episode of anything, I'd be really keen to see (Crisis)...Rachael is brilliant." Under the same studio deal which delivered it the solid ratings performer, Modern Family, Ten also looks likely to score the most talked about comedy series of the new slate, The Millers, described as an Everybody Loves Raymond-style series, starring funnyman Will Arnett. In the age of down-loading and Netflix, McGarvey said fast-tracking the hottest shows was now imperative for local networks. When you've got that big hook show that everybody wants to know what happens next and if they (viewers) can go online and read what happens next, that's not ideal. You've got to run with them," Ms McGarvey said. Oscar-nominee Toni Collette will make her small screen return in another psychological thriller, Hostages, opposite Dylan McDermott and Tate Donovan, set to air here on Channel 9. The network's output deal has also delivered the sci-fi series, The Tomorrow People, with former Home & Away heartthrob Luke Mitchell cast as one of four teenagers with super powers who take on the evil forces in a futuristic world. After its success with Two And A Half Men, Nine's programming boss Michael Healy was also excited about Mom, a new Warner Bros comedy from the pen of Chuck Lorre, about a young mother of two (Anna Faris) and her dysfunctional relationship with her recovering drug addict mother (The West Wing's Allison Janney). Channel 7, which has scored ratings success with its international titles like Downton Abbey and Revenge, was spruiking its US haul including Resurrection (what happens when the dead live again), S.H.I.E.L.D (a Marvel TV spin-off) and Once Upon A Time In Wonderland (starring Aussie actress Sophie Lee as Alice). Foxtel's head of programming, Brian Walsh flagged the return of the mini-series, which he said was "back in a big way." Traditionally the networks here would do a run of eight to 10 weeks then they'd go to repeats of the same series for six weeks and then resume again and that strategy just isn't working anymore because...the minute a show goes into repeat (viewers) will go across to other forms of home entertainment. Adding to its slate of premium drama, Walsh said his network was chasing Those Who Kill, an adaptation of a Danish thriller, starring Chloe Sevigny and Ray Donovan, about a fixer (played by Liev Schreiber) to the rich and famous, whose life is complicated when his father (Jon Voight) is unexpectedly released from prison.