Archive for June 2nd, 2008Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Programming, Reality-Free
I was watching a Red Sox game last week (yes, stay with me here, this really does have something to do with Life on Mars) and they’d Lenny Clarke in the booth as a guest. He shows up from time to time, usually with Denis Leary (they’re both from Boston) and riff on everything for an inning or two. The two announcers asked Clarke what he was working on and he mentioned that he was in the pilot for the ABC remake of the British series but didn’t know if he was going to be in the rest of the series. He didn’t really know what was happening with the show. He’s not the only one. Continue reading No one knows what’s going on with the Life On Mars remake
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2008
 
Fire update: Ghost Whisperer sets damaged but Desperate Housewives safePosted by: in Industry & NewsFiled under: Industry, Reality-Free
The Wisteria Lane set used on ABC’s Desperate Housewives didn’t receive any damage at all. The courthouse set used in Back to the Future (and dozens of other films, including To Kill A Mockingbird) was destroyed, and the clock tower building seen in BTTF was heavily damaged. A set used as a New York City street (seen in everything from the first Dirty Harry film to Seinfeld) was destroyed, as was a set used as a New England street. The King Kong exhibit was destroyed as were many videos in the vault (luckily there are backups for those). 400 firefighters were involved in fighting the blaze, and the cause is still under investigation. The studio/theme park opened for business this morning.
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I was watching a Red Sox game last week (yes, stay with me here, this really does have something to do with Life on Mars) and they’d Lenny Clarke in the booth as a guest. He shows up from time to time, usually with Denis Leary (they’re both from Boston) and riff on everything for an inning or two. The two announcers asked Clarke what he was working on and he mentioned that he was in the pilot for the ABC remake of the British series but didn’t know if he was going to be in the rest of the series. He didn’t really know what was happening with the show. He’s not the only one. Continue reading No one knows what’s going on with the Life On Mars remake
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The principals are signing new four-year deals in which the talent will receive substantial increases in salary. They’d been getting $360,000 per episode and were looking for a bump up in that fee to $500,000 per. The negotiated compromise amount is about $400,000 per show. And as expected, instead of a 22 episode season commencing next fall, there’ll be 20 shows in the year ahead. Continue reading The Simpsons voices re-sign a new deal
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06
2008
Fire update: Ghost Whisperer sets damaged but Desperate Housewives safePosted by: in Industry & NewsFiled under: Industry, Reality-Free
The Wisteria Lane set used on ABC’s Desperate Housewives didn’t receive any damage at all. The courthouse set used in Back to the Future (and dozens of other films, including To Kill A Mockingbird) was destroyed, and the clock tower building seen in BTTF was heavily damaged. A set used as a New York City street (seen in everything from the first Dirty Harry film to Seinfeld) was destroyed, as was a set used as a New England street. The King Kong exhibit was destroyed as were many videos in the vault (luckily there are backups for those). 400 firefighters were involved in fighting the blaze, and the cause is still under investigation. The studio/theme park opened for business this morning.
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06
2008
In Treatment not officially dead yet, might get Leight injectionPosted by: in Industry & NewsFiled under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, How I Met Your Mom, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
While official word on the show’s fate still hasn’t come, what is trickling around is that HBO is this close to signing Law & Order: Criminal Intent executive producer Warren Leight (see me holding my fingers really close together), with the intention of putting him on In Treatment should it get the pick-up, which ups the odds of said happening tremendously. I can’t envision the show costs a tremendous amount to produce, aside from paying the top-notch actors they brought on board. Aside from Byrne and Wiest, we’d likely be looking at a new cast of patients with all new conflicts. Continue reading In Treatment not officially dead yet, might get Leight injection
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The principals are signing new four-year deals in which the talent will receive substantial increases in salary. They had been getting $360,000 per episode and were looking for a bump up in that fee to $500,000 per. The negotiated compromise amount is about $400,000 per show. And as expected, instead of a 22 episode season commencing next fall, there’ll be 20 shows in the year ahead. Continue reading The Simpsons voices re-sign a new deal
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Cattrall will play the role of a middle-aged wife and mother who, according to the character description, “rediscovers her sexuality and begins to question her place in the world.” The American adaptation of Sensitive Skin is set in New York. A middle-aged New Yorker exploring her sexuality–why does that sound familiar? The series is Cattrall’s second post-SATC project for HBO; she produced and starred in the 2005 documentary Kim Cattrall: Sexual Intelligence. Continue reading Kim Cattrall returning to HBO
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06
2008
In Treatment not officially dead yet, may get Leight injectionPosted by: in Industry & NewsFiled under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, How I Met Your Mom, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
While official word on the show’s fate still hasn’t come, what is trickling around is that HBO is this close to signing Law & Order: Criminal Intent executive producer Warren Leight (see me holding my fingers really close together), with the intention of putting him on In Treatment should it get the pick-up, which ups the odds of said happening tremendously. I can’t envision the show costs a tremendous amount to produce, aside from paying the top-notch actors they brought on board. Aside from Byrne and Wiest, we’d likely be looking at a new cast of patients with all new conflicts. Continue reading In Treatment not officially dead yet, may get Leight injection
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Here’s an update on the big 
It took just a few weeks, but 
I’m sure I’m not the only one who assumed the HBO nightly series In Treatment, featuring Gabriel Byrne, Blair Underwood, Josh Charles and Dianne Wiest among others, was pretty much going to be a done in one. I really enjoyed the tension they managed to create with essentially two or three people sitting in a room and talking, and while critical acclaim pretty much affirmed that I am brilliant (like I needed their help), the ratings didn’t follow.
It’s a good week to be Kim Cattrall. Sex and the City was the number one motion picture this weekend, and it was just announced that 
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