http://www.deadline.com/2010/12/mandy-p ... -homeland/
Guess who is coming back to series television? Mandy Patinkin, who made headlines in 2007 with his abrupt departure from the CBS drama Criminal Minds, is set to co-star opposite Claire Danes in the Showtime drama pilot Homeland. That marks his first major series gig since Criminal Minds and a return to Showtime where he co-starred on the Bryan Fuller dramedy Dead Like Me for the show's two-season run.
Homeland, from 24 executive producers Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, centers on American POW Scott Brody, who returns home 10 years after going missing in Iraq, and Carrie Anderson (Danes), a driven CIA officer who suspects he might be plotting an attack on America. Patinkin will play the smart and politically savvy CIA Division Chief emeritus Saul Berenson who is Carrie's main champion in the intelligence upper echelon and her sounding board. Production on the pilot begins on Jan. 10 in Charlotte, N.C. Patinkin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who has appeared in such movies as Yentl, Dick Tracy and The Princess Bride, won an Emmy in 1995 for his role on the CBS medical drama Chicago Hope, which he left in its second season. His only appearance since leaving Criminal Minds was in an episode of CBS' medical drama Three Rivers last season.
Damit wird die Serie gleich noch interessanter für mich. Seit seiner genialen Darstellung des Jeffrey Geiger in Chicago Hope ist er einer meiner Lieblingsdarsteller im TV. Leider legt er viel zu lange Pausen zwischen Serien ein und steigt auch gerne mal frühzeitig aus.
Irgendwie fürchte ich bei der Rollenbeschreibung ja fast, dass er auch hier höchstens 1-2 Staffeln überleben wird. :lol:
Die Nachricht erinnert mich auch daran, dass ich Dead Like Me (und Wonderfalls)immer noch in Reserve habe.
http://www.deadline.com/2010/12/the-cas ... ew-series/
It is usually a great problem for networks to have when all the pilots they've orderered come in strong. But, in the case of Syfy's similarly-themed Alphas and Three Inches, it created a dilemma. Syfy had been looking to launch a series set in the world of real-life superheroes. To increase its chances of success, the network ordered two such pilots, Alphas and Three Inches, "that were slightly different in tone but very similar in subject matter," said Syfy EVP original content Mark Stern. Alphas, from BermanBraun, in-house studio UCP, writers Zak Penn and Michael Karnow and director Jack Bender, stars David Strathairn and follows a team of ordinary citizens who possess extraordinary and unusual mental skills. Three Inches, from writer Harley Peyton, director Jace Alexander and Fox TV Studios, centers on an underachiever (Noah Reid) who can move any object three inches with his mind and recruits a team of fellow heroes. The hope was for one of the pilots to become a series.
Instead, unexpectedly for everyone at the network, "we found ourselves with 2 pilots that we loved," Stern said. "They were both excellent and tested very well. Ultimately it came down to which pilot would work best as an hourlong franchise. We thought they both did but felt Alphas had a little bit more potential for that."
So Syfy on Tuesday gave Alphas an 11-episode series pickup. But it is not giving up on Three Inches just yet and is looking for ways to redevelop it. Usually that is done to fix things a network didn't like in the pilot. Not in this case. "We loved the cast and the directing, and the writing was fantastic but it's very similar to Alphas," Stern said. "Now we have to figure out a way so both show can live on our air."
To differentiate between the two, Syfy is exploring the idea of converting Three Inches to a single-camera half-hour, a genre the network has been actively pursing for the past several months. If the show stays hourlong, Syfy is mulling several scenarios, including making the show "less mission-oriented and more about the characters and their lives or focusing more on the central character played by Reid and not so much on the team." Syfy is high on Reid, whose option is expected to be extended by FtvS along with other key cast members.
Nach der Beschreibung klingt Three Inches irgendwie mehr nach Reaper oder Chuck als nach dem was ich mir unter Alphas vorstelle. Wobei ich es alarmierend finde, dass Three Inches "weniger missionsorientiert als Alphas" werden soll. Demnach wäre Alphas ja doch sehr procedurallastig. :?
http://www.deadline.com/2010/12/ashley- ... -bird-dog/
Ashley Williams and Gerald McRaney are set as the leads in TNT's drama pilot Bird Dog, a mystery about an unlikely team of two cops who happen to be father and daughter, call sign "Bird Dog." Meanwhile, Neal Bledsoe is set to co-star opposite Amanda Scott on the CW pilot Danni Lowinski.
Mike Robe's Bird Dog centers on Gail McGrath (Williams), a patrolling officer whose cop dad Sam McGrath (McRaney) becomes her new partner. Williams succeeds Eliza Dushku who was briefly cast in the role before exiting the project over the weekend. Williams, repped by Gersh and Luber/Roklin, recurred on TNT's Saving Grace and will next be seen in Something Borrowed. McRaney, repped by Stone Manners Salners and Course Management, co-starred on NBC's Undercovers and will next be seen in Red Tails.
Danni Lowinski is named after the series' central character: a scrappy hairdresser (Walsh) a law school graduate who is brushed off by law firms and sets up her own practice in a shopping mall kiosk. Bledsoe (Ugly Betty) will play the youngest partner at a Chicago law firm.
Schade, wieder eine uninteressante Rolle für McRaney. Deadwood und zum Teil auch Jericho haben gezeigt, dass er viel mehr als die grummlige, aber gutmütige Autoritätsperson in belanglosen Comedies/Dramedies geben kann.
ultimateslayer hat geschrieben:str1keteam hat geschrieben:
Ärgerlich ist mal wieder, dass wir die Pilotfolge nie zu sehen bekommen und das es wegen Balls enger Verbindung mit HBO wohl auch keinem anderen Sender angeboten werden darf.
Das hab ich mich auch schon gefragt. Hat Ball nen Exklusivvertrag mit HBO?
Würde mich nicht wundern. Mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit werden sie aber verhindern können, dass er diese für HBO entwickelte Serie zu einem Konkurrenzsender bringt. Wenn er schon seine Aufmerksamkeit in andere Richtungen als True Blood steckt, wollen sie natürlich eine neue Hitshow im eigenen Haus.