GaryScottThompson-related stories
Posted Jul 22nd 2008 11:26AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free
Imagine for a second that Comic Book Guy from
The Simpsons was hired to run a television show. Now imagine that the television show was a remake of an old favorite. Sounds like it would make for a pretty impatient press tour panelist, right? Well, that's what we got with Gary Scott Thompson, the new show-runner for
Knight Rider.
Thompson answered most of the questions on the panel, and his message to everyone was: remember that two-hour
KR movie that aired last year? Forget all about it. The characters may be the same but the story is completely different. What went on before probably won't matter for much. Even KITT is a little different.
Continue reading Forget the Knight Rider movie, say the series creators - TCA Report
Posted Feb 26th 2008 7:33PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, TV Squad Polls, Cancellations
"This place is cursed." - Danny McCoy during the Las Vegas season series finale.
Danny couldn't be more right. Over the years,
Las Vegas switched timeslots so many times that I've lost counts. It also went through as many casino owners as timeslots! No matter, the show was an entertaining one. It's the type of show I enjoyed watching on Friday nights (or in most cases Saturday afternoon thanks to my old VCR) because of its lightness. I didn't have to think much while watching the gang try to catch the bad guys, Delinda put her foot in her mouth and Sam try to please her whales so they would lose big bucks on the tables.
A few days after a cliffhanger season finale, NBC decided that fans would have to do without the Montecito crew from now on;
Las Vegas was canceled.
Continue reading Las Vegas: the series that was
Posted Sep 24th 2006 2:04PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, CBS, Industry
Las Vegas is an odd show. It doesn't really get much press, but just kind of chugs along doing well enough to keep NBC happy. It's one that I've watched for a long time. Apparently someone likes the cut of creator Gary Scott Thompson's jib though. He now has two new shows in the works.
Over at CBS he has a script commitment for
Protect and Serve. It is a police drama that Thompson descibes as having "a procedural edge to it." That sounds like it is right up CBS' alley.
Meanwhile, NBC has also given a script commitment to an untitled drama about a New York cop that makes for Hawaii after losing his family on 9/11. It's suggested that this one will have a
Magnum P.I. feel to it. Let's hope it's more
Magnum P.I. than
Hawaii.
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