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ROME’s Lucius Vorenus Lands An NBC Time-Travel Pilot??
I am – Hercules!!
Kevin McKidd, top-billed next to Ray Stevenson in the soon-vanishing HBO/BBC production “Rome,” has been cast in “Journeyman,” an NBC pilot about a guy who travels into the past to fix stuff.
I’m not making this up! Find confirmation in Thursday morning’s Variety.
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Always felt bad for him after hearing the story about how he WOULD have been on the Trainspotting poster with the rest of them but had booked a holiday before the shoot so noone knew who he was. Done ok for himself now though.
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So won't say it here either!
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Look at me everybody...I'm THIRD! HOW AWESOME AM I?!
And Rome kicks ass, BTW. This sounds like Quantum Leap, which kicked ass too. Let's hope it doth kicketh much ass too. -
as doctor samuel beckett travels into the past, putting right what once went wrong...
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...quantam leap?
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Titus Pullo needs a space travel pilot. What if a man rode a giant eagle to the stars...
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Journeyman Project 1-3? oldish school adventure games about "traveling through time trying to fix stuff?" i hope so, that would be kind of cool.
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"Oh boy."
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and does he hope each time that his next leap will be the leap home?
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Is this likely to be the US remake of the excellent BBC show Life on Mars, which is easily the best show the beeb ever did to involve time travel. No offence to the Who fan base intended :)
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"soon-vanishing?" What is that supposed to mean?
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No, the American version of Life on Mars is quite a literal adaptation, though without anything controversial in it of course.
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After all, there is the implication that Sam is just imagining being in 1973 while his body is in a coma. In any case, LIFE ON MARS: 2 seasons; DOCTOR WHO: Soon to be on 29 and counting. LIFE ON MARS rocks but it's hardly the best.
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is being adapted by David Kelly for ABC
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There are a couple of shows in that article which I am more interested in. "Area 52" from Dean Parisot - a comedy about office workers employed to look after a manipulative alien. The Office meets 3rd Rock from the director of Galaxy Quest? I am intrigued. And "The Thick Of It" from the producers of Arrested Development. AD is the best American sitcom in recent years and the original Thick Of It is the best recent British sitcom. Put the two together and this should be something very special indeed.
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Only without Titus. Still, you just know they'll have a fan ep where he goes back to Ancient Rome and meets Ray as a gladiator or the Emperor or something. That would be cool.
Anyway it's always a good sign when they have a Brit on an American TV series. Look what it did for Heroes. Or last night's Bones. -
I think Herc means that there are only eight more episodes of ROME this season (which is the last season of the show). That's what I assume, I never understand anything Herc writes. Also, this pilot is for Fox, not NBC (according to the Variety page).
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Maybe he can go back in time and convince HBO execs to allow a season 3 or Rome.
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I know some of you have gotta get the obsure reference.
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That is all.
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This is just like that other show I once loved that had the same basic premise that was loosely based on the idea of time travel! That never happens in the internet age of media!
Seriously though I always hated how in quantum leap he never went back in time further than like 50 years. -
YOU SUCK...THAT is all
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He could only leap within his own lifetime. Hence him showing up on his actual day of birth in the series finale.
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Makes him sound like a cheesy 80's wrestler. His name is Lucius. Hah.
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...then don't even waste my time.
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Maybe him and the Cleopatra actress doin just about anything. Thats my pitch. Those two on a tv screen. Thats all you need.
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Yup, showing my age now.....:)
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Just ask The Doctor sometime about it...
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I thought I was the only one who remembered Voyagers. Too bad about the gun incident. That was pretty decent for an 80's show on time travel.
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Kevin McKidd plays Phineas Bogg, and that little robot/ghost seeing kid plays Jeffery Jones, the precocious little know it all. "We travel through time, to help history along, give it a push where it's needed." When the omni's red, it means history's wrong, its' their job to get everything back on track. They are going to meet Ben Franklin, Hitler, Darth Vader, Jeebus, a T-Rex, and Captian Jack Sparrow all in the first episode! It's educational and fun!
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Maybe I should read the posts before i talkback.
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I love Kevin McKidd. He fucked Concord in the ass, you know.
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Aw man, I'm so excited, I loved that video for 'The Streak'...and 'Guitarzan'...
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Start warming up those Bittorents!
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c'mon, these two are like milk and cookies, sundays and football, Harry and the Hendersons... let's go NBC, they are a package deal
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Ha ha ha. Will he have snakes on his chest? Get those old "Time Tunnel" scripts re-visioned. It's about time, it's about space, it's about . . . Journeyman. TV is crap.
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Saaaaaaaam!!
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OMG, I'm hyperventilating. McKidd is joining the platoon of Brits trying to replicate Hugh Laurie's success in US TV? I've liked him since "Trainspotting" and loved him since "Topsy-Turvy" (betcha didn't know he has a killer tenor?) so for me this is AMAZING NEWS. If this show is picked up, I will watch faithfully, even if it sucks.
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And maybe the computer Ziggy will show up to calculate how to fix things in a probability fashion.
Let's see prior TV series.
Quantum Leap
Time Tunnel
Time Cop
Anything else I missed? This Sci-fi will live and die by the premise. -
about a decapitating bad ass gladiator.
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I got this in the ROME newletter email today: "Octavian demands the Consul seat - and a new era of moral virtue — as his sister smokes opium at an orgy. Vorenus's children finally realize their escape plan...and Vorenus finally succumbs to Gaia." I was like: WHAT?! NOOO!!!
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Which is that John Simm (Sam Tyler) is in line to play the Master. Thank fuck, it was the Scum because that means it's bollocks. ;-) LoM's got it right - two superb seasons, don't extend the cocktease and go out on a high. Over to you, Carlton Cuse....
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Leave the scene-stealing to the Brits. Next stop, get Ray Stevenson in CSI:Miami to replace Caruso. Or anything really, as long as he gets to beat the crap out of idiots.
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There was an episode where he went back to the civil war, but he leapt into his grandpa so it was within the rules. Then, like Futurama, Sam Becket did the "nasty in the pasty" with his own grandma.
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When will we see a movie?
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if so..........FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!???????????!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????
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I agree, this really sounds like it must be based on the Journeyman Project games (and if it isn't, it would be a blatant ripoff, down to the name). I kind of wonder though, who could even sue them if they were just ripping off the idea? Presto Studios, the company that made the Journeyman Project games, went out of business (I think their last job was doing Myst III: Exile). If this is based on the Journeyman Project games, it could be pretty cool. I always liked the story in those games, and the general way it handled what was either a sort of generic time travel premise. The Journeyman suit (which would let the time traveler take on the appearance of anyone they met, in order to blend in with the time period they were in, and also be able to get information by appearing to others as someone they knew) was a cool device, and could work well for the TV series (actually, now that I think about it, it would probably come off as kind of similar to how Sam Beckett appeared as someone else when he "leaped" into someone).
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