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Show Killers: Lindsay Price and other suspects
12 November 2009 8:55 AM, PST
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Following the news that ABC will not be ordering additional episode of freshman drama Eastwick, costar Lindsay Price (pictured) has been named a suspected show killer. Though undeniably adorable, the actress has a long rap sheet of failed TV shows that also includes NBC's Lipstick Jungle, Pepper Dennis, and Coupling.
Which other actors are on TV's Most Wanted (and Least Lucky) List? Our top offenders:
• Jason Gedrick: Truly impressive versatility in terms of the number of networks he's failed on. Victims include: Fox's Class of '96; CBS' Sweet Justice, Ez Streets, and Falcone; ABC's Murder One and The Beast; and NBC's Boomtown and Windfall.
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- Mandi Bierly
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FX Greenlights Two Dramas with Terriers and Lights Out
1 October 2009 8:25 AM, PDT
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FX continues its unprecedented ramp up of original programming with the network today placing series orders of two new dramas, Terriers and Lights Out, announced FX President and General Manager John Landgraf. FX has ordered 13 episodes of each series, with Terriers tentatively slated to premiere next summer and Lights Out in late 2010.
Terriers, from Creator/Executive Producer Ted Griffin (Ocean's Eleven) and Executive Producer Shawn Ryan (The Shield), is a comedic drama starring Donal Logue (The Tao of Steve, Damages) and Michael Raymond-James (True Blood). It centers on "Hank Dolworth" (Logue), an ex-cop who partners with his best friend "Britt Pollack" (Raymond-James) to launch an unlicensed private investigation business. The duo, both struggling with maturity issues, solve crimes while avoiding danger and responsibility. Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow, The Shield) directed the pilot episode. Terriers is produced by Fox 21.
Lights Out, from Executive Producer/Showrunner Warren Leight (In Treatment) and Creator
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Video: Timothy Olyphant Returns to TV in FX’s ‘Lawman’
13 August 2009 2:37 PM, PDT
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Chicago – Timothy Olyphant, star of HBO’s “Deadwood” and FX’s “Damages,” and films including “Go,” “A Perfect Getaway,” “Hitman,” “Catch and Release,” and many more, returns to television early next year in FX’s latest original series, “Lawman,” from creator Graham Yost (“Boomtown”) and based on a character created by Elmore Leonard (“Get Shorty,” “Out of Sight”).
The official synopsis from FX:
“Olyphant stars in the lead role of Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. Givens is a modern day 19th century-style lawman, enforcing his brand of justice in a way that puts a target on his back with criminals and places him at odds with his bosses in the Marshal service. That conflict results in a reassignment for Givens to the U.S. District covering the town where he grew up. He is an anachronism – a tough, soft spoken gentleman who finds his quarry fascinating, but never gives an inch.
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Timothy Olyphant's FX drama 'Lawman' already arresting
13 August 2009 10:24 AM, PDT
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Lawman, the upcoming FX drama series starring Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood, Damages), has already been dubbed possibly one of the best shows of 2010 by EW's Ken Tucker. And after seeing the scene below, we're on board. Olyphant plays U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, described by FX as "a modern day 19th century-style lawman, enforcing his brand of justice in a way that puts a target on his back with criminals and places him at odds with his bosses in the Marshal service." He ends up reassigned to the district that includes his rural Kentucky hometown. The network ordered 13 episodes of the show, which will be exec produced by Boomtown's Graham Yost, Kidnapped's Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly, Karen Sisco's Michael Dinner, and Elmore Leonard, who created the character in his short story Fire in the Hole.
For me, Olyphant is at his best when he's playing a soft-spoken character,
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- Mandi Bierly
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First Look at Timothy Olyphant as 'Lawman'
13 August 2009 12:58 AM, PDT
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A good three minutes sneak peek to FX Network's new series, "Lawman", is given during TV Critics Association press tour and the footage has gone online. The series starring Timothy Olyphant will only premiere in Spring 2010 but the buzz has been made in recent weeks following a 13-episode order from FX.
In "Lawman", Olyphant is modern day U.S. marshal named Ryalan Givens, a character based on Elomore Leonard's short story "Fire in the Hole". Givens enforces his brand of justice in a way that puts him as a target of criminals and places him at odds with his bosses in the marshal service. As a result, he's reassigned to the rural Kentucky town where he grew up.
"Boomtown" creator Graham Yost wrote the pilot episode and will executive produce along with Leonard and others. "Graham began with a memorable character from one of America's foremost crime novelists, Elmore Leonard,
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First Look at Timothy Olyphant in Lawman!
12 August 2009 2:10 PM, PDT
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Lawman is a new FX series based on the popular Elmore Leonard character "Raylan Givens", as featured in his short story Fire in the Hole. Developed by Graham Yost (Boomtown, Speed) and staring Timothy Olyphant, Lawman will premiere on FX in spring of 2010. Olyphant stars in the lead role of Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. Givens is a modern day 19th century-style lawman, enforcing his brand of justice in a way that puts a target on his back with criminals and places him at odds with his bosses in the Marshal service. That conflict results in a reassignment for Givens to the U.S. District covering the town where he grew up. He is an anachronism: A tough, soft-spoken gentleman who finds his quarry fascinating, but never gives an inch. Dig under his placid skin and you'll find an angry man who grew up hard in rural Kentucky, with an outlaw father,
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Tin Star: FX Orders Elmore Leonard Project "Lawman" to Series
28 July 2009 2:06 PM, PDT
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A little over a week before its TCA Summer Press Tour session, cabler FX has announced that it has ordered thirteen episodes of drama series Lawman, based on the Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole." The project, from Sony Pictures Television and FX Productions, is written and executive produced by Graham Yost (Boomtown).
Lawman stars Timothy Olyphant (Damages) as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, described in press materials as "a modern day 19th century-style lawman, enforcing his brand of justice in a way that puts a target on his back with criminals and places him at odds with his bosses in the Marshal service." Givens is reassigned to the district where he grew up in rural Kentucky with an outlaw father.
"FX has been fortunate to employ some of the finest writers working in television and we’re lucky to add an outstanding talent like Graham Yost to that growing list,
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Mykelti Williamson Joining Cast of '24'
31 May 2009 9:20 PM, PDT
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Seven years after an African-American president was introduced on Fox's 24, the show's returning Counter Terrorist Unit gets its first African-American chief with the addition of Mykelti Williamson to the cast.
The actor will play Brian Hastings, the head of CTU New York and a man of razor-sharp intellect, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Williamson recently co-starred in the Sundance hit Black Dynamite. His series credits include Boomtown and CSI: NY. His breakout role came in 1994 as Private Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the Oscar-winning film Forrest Gump, but the actor can trace his television roots all the way back to a 1978 episode of Starsky & Hutch, "Black and Blue". Williamson also appeared in the 1984 pilot for Miami Vice.
Last Friday we reported that Freddie Prinze Jr had joined the cast as Davis Cole, a recently returned Marine who runs CTU Field Ops and wants to follow in Jack Bauer's (Kiefer Sutherland) footsteps.
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More 24 Casting: Mykelti Williamson Joins as CTU Director
30 May 2009 11:39 PM, PDT
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24 producers are quickly filling their Day 8 roster, just announcing the addition of Mykelti Williamson as the new Director of the Counter Terrorist Unit.
You may have seen Williamson in shows like CSI: New York and Boomtown, but you'll definitely remember him for his role in Forrest Gump as Private Benjamin Bubba Blue. The veteran actor will play Brian Hastings, who is described as man of razor-sharp intellect and having an Mba. This news confirms rumors that CTU will be reinstated next year.
He joins a number of additions to the cast, including Anil Kapoor and the recently announced Freddie Prinze, Jr., who will play a field operations agent that wants to grow up to be Jack Bauer.
The eighth season of 24 begins next January.
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FX Pilot Grabs Timothy Olyphant
26 April 2009 9:30 PM, PDT
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Deadwood star Timothy Olyphant is returning to the world of cable television. The actor, who recently appeared on the second season of the FX series Damages, has signed on to star in the network’s upcoming drama pilot based on Elmore Leonard's short story Fire in the Hole.
The untitled project, from Sony TV,Timberman/Beverly Productions and creator/executive producer Graham Yost, centers on U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Olyphant) who returns to his hometown in Kentucky.
Yost, whose written such flicks as Speed, Broken Arrow and Hard Rain, previously created the short-lived television series Raines, starring Jeff Goldblum, and Boomtown, starring Donnie Wahlberg and Neal McDonough.
Yost said he was interested in Olyphant from the get-go because he could see him as an Elmore Leonard character, just like the two actors who, in his opinion, have best embodied Leonard personages on the big screen: George Clooney in
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Tom Hanks to Star in Major Matt Mason Movie?
25 March 2009 6:25 AM, PDT
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Looks like Tom Hanks is going to be putting on a space suit again for the first time since Ron Howard's 1995 film Apollo 13. The difference this time around is that the movie won't be based on a true story, but rather, a Mattel toy line from the 1960s! According to Variety [1], Hanks is attached to star in a live action movie based on the Major Matt Mason toys, featuring a team of astronauts who work on the moon and live in a space station.
Universal Pictures have hired Graham Yost (Speed, Broken Arrow, Boomtown) to write the script. In addition to his action movie experience, Yost has also written episodes of From the Earth to the Moon, the Tom Hanks-produced HBO series about the Apollo space missions, and also the 2000 Brian De Palma film Mission to Mars. I'm not sure I understand this current wave of movies
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Universal Eyes Another Toy Adaptation with Tom Hanks On Board
25 March 2009 3:26 AM, PDT
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I have never heard of the Mattel action figure "Major Matt Mason," but I guess that's because it originated 11 years before I was born, but apparently it is ripe for a feature film adaptation as Universal is set to bring the vintage action figure to life as a star vehicle for Tom Hanks with Graham Yost aboard to write the script.
The Variety story announcing the project says the toy line originated in 1966; Mason led an astronaut team that worked on the moon and lived in a space station. The toy was a hit in the buildup to the first manned moon mission. Mattel retired the line in the 1970s.
The film will be produced through Hanks' production house Playtone and word is when Mattel execs Tim Kilpin and Barry Waldo came to Playtone for a meeting, they brought an arsenal of the Matt Mason figures and Hanks came armed with his own.
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