- Mi 23. Jun 2010, 18:22
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So wie sich FX über das Schicksal der Serie im Schweigen hüllt, ist sie wohl wirklich vorbei. Schade. 
Donnie hat geschrieben:So wie sich FX über das Schicksal der Serie im Schweigen hüllt, ist sie wohl wirklich vorbei. Schade.Bei den Quoten aber auch verständlich. Wir hätten die Staffeln 2 und 3 nie gesehen, wenn FX nicht so euphorisch gewesen wäre.
Question: So is Damages officially dead? If so, will you miss it, especially after this last season? Do you think Glenn Close will stick with TV or try and make a go again in movies?—KevinMan kann mit dem Ende zwar leben, da die Autoren die dritte Staffel gut abgeschlossen haben und auch offene Storylines der ersten beiden Staffel nochmal aufgegriffen haben, aber schade ist es trotzdem. Aber immerhin hat sich die Serie mit ihrer besten Staffel verabschiedet.
Matt Roush: Where FX is concerned, it really is over for Damages. (And I'm still averaging several letters a week from very upset fans.) After the first year, FX gave the show two seasons to catch on, and while season 3 was a vast improvement over 2 in terms of quality and story, it didn't draw an audience big enough to justify the expense of a star-heavy show filmed in New York. This was a business, not a creative, decision. Yes, I'll miss it, but I looked at the third season as something of a gift and was glad the story wrapped with as much finality as it did. I'd love to see a fourth season, but I'm satisfied with what I got. Regarding Glenn Close: Who knows? If she could find movies with characters as juicy as Patty Hewes, I'm sure she'd be thrilled. But those are far and few between. I'm betting we'd be more likely to see her return to theater for a bit while developing new projects for TV, whether on network or basic and pay cable. (She'd be very much at home on Showtime or HBO if not back on FX or even AMC, I'd think.)
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Ask-Matt-Su ... 20155.aspx




little_big_man hat geschrieben: ich freue mich trotzdem riesigDas macht dann 3820. :lol:
Donnie hat geschrieben:Wirklich eine überraschende Nachricht. Ich hatte mit der Serie schon abgeschlossen, vor allem weil die dritte Staffel auch ein wirklich gutes Ende geboten hat. Trotzdem bin ich jetzt erstmal sehr frohGeht mir genauso, ich habe gar nicht gebangt, ob es weitergeht, sondern im Grunde schon nach den Quoten der 2. Staffel damit gerechnet, dass die 3. die letzte sein wird und sie eben auch also solche geguckt, so dass die Einstellung mich nicht so hart getroffen hat wie bei vielen anderen Serien zuvor. Das war aber bei Friday Night Lights das gleiche. Mit der Serie hatte ich schon 3x abgeschlossen.


Rose Byrne & Daniel Zelman about season 4 of DamagesInteressant, dass Tate Donovan zurückkommen kann. Ich finde es übrigens sehr gut, dass die Damages-Autoren es mit dem Zurückbringen von toten Charakteren eigentlich nie übertreiben, obwohl sie sowohl David, als auch Ray bereits zurückbrachten, fühlt es sich doch organisch an und nicht aufgezwungen und trashy. Wenn sie im Januar mit dem Drehen anfangen, kann man wohl damit rechnen, dass die Staffel so im März oder ein bisschen später startet.
At last night's Sony Pictures Television party at the Beverly Hilton's Bar 210, I caught up with executive producer/co-creator Daniel Zelman and series lead (and Emmy Award nominee) Rose Byrne to discuss Season Four of Damages, why things always come back to the dock outside Patty's beach house, where we might find Ellen Parsons, whether we'll see Tom Shayes (Tate Donovan) again, why Ellen seems to have forgiven Patty for trying to kill her and much more.
What follows is a Q&A-style transcript of my conversation with Zelman and Byrne (sporting her natural Aussie accent) amid last night's revelry, held at the end of a full day of FX sessions at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour.
Televisionary: Congratulations to both of you on the pickup of Seasons Four and Five of Damages. What was your initial reaction after became clear that the deal between Sony Pictures Television and DirecTV would take?
Daniel Zelman: Well, to be honest, I was a little bit shocked. It's always such a longshot when these things happen. For a show to be moved from network to network is such a rare thing, as you know. But at the same time, we knew it was a possibility for a long time so we were very pleased that we would have the opportunity to tell more stories and write more for Rose... and Glenn.
[Byrne laughs.]
Televisionary: And Glenn too, of course. Ellen Parsons is an amazing character and you've done an incredible amount of work with her over the past three seasons and it seemed like she had finally made a decision about her future at the end of last season. Now that you're committed to two more seasons as Ellen, where are you hoping that KZK can take the character? Here's your chance to tell Daniel.
Rose Byrne: [Laughs.] My initial feeling was that they had wrapped all the stories up [at the end of Season Three], so I was wondering what's going to happen and what they would do next. But they were all so relaxed about that! [Laughs.] It was not any worry for them at all.
But I'm excited. I love working with Glenn. She always raises the bar in every scene and she's so much fun to work with. I've really grown to love being on a series. There's something very intimate about it. It's like a family. I'm a big television-watcher myself so I love being part of that world. [As for Ellen], I think they're up for the challenge.
Zelman: She's leaving it in our hands.
Byrne: [Laughs.] I have no ideas! No ideas!
Televisionary: Can you give us any hints then about where you might take Ellen in Season Four?
Byrne [to Zelman]: What are you going to do? Have you thought about it yet?
Zelman: We've thought about it. As soon as we got the news, we started to get into the season. It's so hard with our show to give things away as the surprises are so much a part of it. The best I can say is that Patty and Ellen are a part of each other's lives for better or for worse, but their history will always come back. Wherever they go together, they will never outrun their pasts.
For us, that's what's interesting about their relationship: it's developed its own mythology. There are certain things that have happened between the two women...
Televisionary: I know whenever any one tries to kill me, I keep them in my life. You want to keep them close.
[Byrne laughs.]
Zelman: We get that question a lot. All we can say is that that will never go away and that the past is always present in their relationship. We will continue to explore that theme.
Televisionary: In Season Three, we saw an amazing transformation in that relationship, in that we saw Ellen go off to the D.A.'s office and try to live a life that was separate from Patty Hewes before she gets pulled back into Patty's orbit. You've been the student in that relationship, you've been the adversary, but in Season Three, it seemed like we reached a plateau of friendship or equality between them.
Byrne: Absolutely. She needs her help by the end and she needs someone on her side. Ellen chooses to help her for her own reasons. That final scene on the dock, it certainly felt like they were equals by the end.
Televisionary: It always comes back to that dock, though. There have been some amazing showdowns over the years at the dock at Patty's beach house.
Zelman: The dock is a symbol for something and, when I figure it out, I'll tell you what it is.
[Byrne and I laugh.]
Zelman: Sometimes things just happen. We found that location and it just has taken on a meaning of its own and a life of its own within the show. There is a certain gravity to the dock. Before every season begins, we always know what scene is going to take place at the dock. I'm sure we'll be back at the dock for one reason or another.
Televisionary: We've seen throughout the seasons that people tend to come and go and return, even when they're dead. Is there any chance that Tate Donovan could show up in some form as Tom Shayes next season?
Zelman: There's a very good chance that Tate will be back. There's a very good chance.
Byrne: Really? Oh, I'm excited about that!
Zelman: Yes, there's a very good chance. We love him and we love the character and we love the person. He really is part of the soul of the show; there's no question of that. We always want to bring the soul of the show back to the show if at all possible. Same goes for Zeljko Ivanek [who plays Ray Fiske]. He always tends to come back and it's not always the plan going in but there's a gravity he has when he comes back.
In terms of Patty of Ellen's relationship, a lot of people have asked us last season, how does Ellen get past the fact that she tried to kill her. In our minds, part of how Ellen takes control of that and lives with that is by saying, I'm going to move past and I'm going to have control over Patty precisely because I'm not going to show her that I'm affected by it. There's a certain amount of denial that comes into that as well. Listen to this, Rose. [Laughs.]
Byrne: She's very pathological! I don't think she's very healthy. It's not a healthy thing to do, is it?
Zelman: So it might be that Ellen's behavior last season is something she can hold together for a while but not forever. Her anger and resentment about that always threatens to bubble up. The question is what will she do, especially now that she has all of Patty's skills at the ready?
Televisionary: Well, we've all seen Ellen's shotgun fantasy dreams.
Zelman: Yes! Also Wes [Timothy Olyphant] taught her how to shoot. She knows how to shoot.
Byrne: She does. She's got a lot of skills, Ellen. And she's just as duplicitous as Patty, really.
Televisionary: Where might we find Ellen in a career sense when we pick up with her again? Have you decided that yet?
Zelman: We actually have decided that. Well, we have a very strong idea about that, but we always like to improvise, so that could change. I just don't want to give it away because tuning into the first episode, there's always that question of where we will find these characters. Are they going to be together? Is Ellen going to be living in the same country? It's part of the fabric of the show. Where did she go after she left the dock and didn't get an answer to her question?
Byrne: She didn't get an answer.
Televisionary: Well, she sort of got an answer by not getting an answer.
Byrne: I guess that's the answer.
Televisionary: When do you go back into production? And is there a launch date yet?
Zelman: January. [As for the launch date], that is still being figured out. Source