State of Affairs: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Each day the President is faced with dozens of life and death decisions, and to prioritize the biggest international crises facing the country, one top CIA analyst — Charleston Tucker — assembles the President's Daily Briefing (PDB). This list of the most vital security issues facing the nation brings with it moral and political judgment calls for Charleston and... her trusted group of brilliant analysts at the agency. Aside from the political minefields she has to walk, Charlie has a close personal relationship with the President because she was once engaged to her son before a tragic terrorist attack took his life. Charlie survived that attack and is now determined to bring the perpetrators to justice. Navigating a complex personal life and a pressure-cooker profession is, of course, a challenge, and Charlie sometimes engages in boundary-pushing behavior to avoid facing her grief. But when the clock strikes 2 a.m., she is all about her job — protecting her nation, serving her President and still trying to get to the bottom of her fiancé's murder that will reveal itself as a shocking mystery.

Series details

• Title: State of Affairs
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Thriller
• Premiere date: 2014-11-17
• Final broadcast date listed: 2015-02-16
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: NBC
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 6.5/10
• TVMaze ID: 159

Cast and credited roles

• Katherine Heigl — Charleston Whitney Tucker
• Alfre Woodard — President Roberta Payton
• Sheila Vand — Grace Hough
• Adam Kaufman — Lucas Wright
• Cliff Chamberlain — Brett Welker
• Tommy Savas — Miles Singh
• Dennis Boutsikaris — CIA Director Skinner
• Leslie Odom Jr. — Chief of Staff Mitchell Manning
• Matthew Del Negro — D.T.
• Ben Hernandez Bray — Sal Gomez

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2014-11-17; final listed air date 2015-02-16; episode order: 13.

Source and licence

Adapted from State of Affairs on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.