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Fall 2007: Law's on Order for Office, ER Cuties
The latest pilot developments, from Variety and the Hollywood Reporter:
• ER's Shane West is one of the half-dozen clerks whose professional and personal lives are chronicled in Fox's Supreme Courtships.
• Boston Legal's Mark Valley is one of the two leads in NBC's Business Class, playing a charismatic and thoroughly amoral traveling salesman. Legal partner Craig Bierko, meanwhile, is a newly single guy in the Fox comedy The Rules of Starting Over, which also stars The Office's Rashida Jones as a lawyer looking for a decent fella. Um, Jim Halpert?!
• Jane Lynch (A Mighty Wind) has come on board Area 52, NBC's comedy about a secret government research site.
• Less Than Perfect's Zachary Levi is NBC's Chuck, and Adam Baldwin (Day Break) is the NSA agent who recruits the computer geek for espionage work.
• Rome's Kevin McKidd is NBC's Journeyman.
• CBS likes The Man, CSI creator Anthony Zuiker's drama starring LL Cool J as an undercover L.A. cop, while ABC has picked up the BBC-inspired The Thick of It.
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Feb 8, 2007 9:49 AM
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People are leaving Boston Legal? What!? That never happens.
I really can't blame these two for wanting out, though. Mark Valley has never had anything to do on this show. Which made the addition of Craig Bierko this year that much more puzzling. But it's especially pathetic when you realize that both Constance Zimmer and Gary Anthony Williams (who started off as minor characters) now get more screen time than both of them.
David E. Kelley has always had a habit of introducing too many characters on his shows and having a revolving door of castmembers, but this show is by far the worst offender. I wish they'd just pick a cast and stick with it.
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Feb 8, 2007 10:05 AM
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Wow, I wonder if Shane West is leaving ER so that they can afford to keep Goran for another season. Interesting...
And yeah, Mark Valley totally deserves to bolt from BL - they've ignored him for three years. Kind of puts a kink in that whole "who's the daddy" storyline though, if both potential fathers are signed to other pilots. Maybe the BL brass are pretty certain the show isn't coming back?
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Feb 8, 2007 10:20 AM
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If Boston Legal loses Brad, it will be kind of a different show. While he doesn't have too much to do, he is one of the few who have been there since the beginning and losing him would chip more people away from this show.
And Shane West never really has anything to do on ER except pout and wear a pornstache. Maybe he wanted to do more?
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Feb 8, 2007 10:36 AM
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Seriously, when is the last time we saw Brad work on a case? It's a little ridiculous how long it's been. And I don't think Jeffrey has worked on a case since the premiere arc. So, I guess Denise is getting that abortion after all...
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Feb 8, 2007 10:46 AM
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Just because actors do pilots doesn't mean they are gone from the show they are on!!!! I would guess that non-leads can try out other stuff... How can an actor grow otherwise??? What's the difference between a pilot and doing a film while on a break??? Anyway.. BL isn't going anywhere... in the most recent week, it was #1 in its timeslot ( it was up against a SVU repeat)...
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Feb 8, 2007 10:55 AM
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Is it certain that Shane West is leaving ER?
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Feb 8, 2007 11:09 AM
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I really hope, that Shane West is not going to leave E.R. Ray Barnett is one of my favorite characters today on E.R.
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Feb 8, 2007 11:16 AM
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Matt, do you happen to know what happened to the American version of the BBC's Life on Mars? There was some buzz about that a while back, but I haven't heard anything since last fall.
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Feb 8, 2007 11:41 AM
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Both Mark Valley and Craig Bierko may leave BL? That would be such a mistake! And as for the baby storyline.. I don't think, even if they do both leave, Denise will get an abortion, as her real life pregnancy is being written in (I believe).
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Feb 8, 2007 11:45 AM
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>What's the difference between a pilot and doing a film while on break???
Um, how about the fact that a movie only shoots for a couple of months while a tv show could last for years?
If the pilots don't get picked up it's entirely possible the actors will decide to stay, but if they do there's no way they can do the new show and stay on Boston Legal. Either way, it looks like they're not all that happy and probably want out.
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Feb 8, 2007 11:51 AM
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Lost's Cynthia Watros was cast on a pilot a year ago.... Just sayin'!
And Leah, I reported on Life on Mars just a few days ago.
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Feb 8, 2007 12:03 PM
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Duh, I guess I'm the dumb blonde today (despite being a brunette).
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Feb 8, 2007 12:14 PM
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I guess we know that Karen's not sticking around on The Office then...
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Feb 8, 2007 12:15 PM
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(Pam IM'd dutchgirl to post that Comment. Sneak!)
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Feb 8, 2007 12:38 PM
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