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Looks Like CBS Is Taking ELEVENTH HOUR To Series!!
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CBS has hired the creators of “Sleeper Cell” to serve as showrunners on “Eleventh Hour,” which follows a special government science adviser and his feisty female bodyguard as they save citizens from the worst abuses of science.
Since someone else scripted the pilot, the hiring of showrunners suggests that CBS is ready to greenlight the project as a series.
Rufus Sewell (“Dark City”) plays the Patrick Stewart role in the adaptation of Britain's 2006 Granada sci-fi miniseries.
Marley Shelton, who played Dr. Dakota Block in both “Planet Terror” and “Death Proof,” plays the feisty assistant originated by Ashley Jensen (“Extras,” “Ugly Betty”).
Read all of The Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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built in fan base....i dont get the suits at cbs
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...and under delivered with smoke and mirrors a lot of the time.
ReGenesis works the same themes and does a better job.
Nice to see Stewart though. -
like 15-20 years ago?
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What's a thhour and why is there one missing in a dozen?
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he's too busy hoovering up awards on the London and now New York stage. Watch any recent interview with him and he is like a kid at Christmas and enjoying a creative peak. The Eleventh Hour original show was always one series and any second would have had to fit in with him. CBS never had a hope of getting the bald one to commit to another US show.
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11th Hour sounds similar to these two shows. But since it will be on CBS, I predict, in all seriousness, that the show's format will be a CSI-like procedural.
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Apr 01, 2008 9:40:25 AM CDT
Unless they rename it CSI: ELEVENTH HOUR, it'll die fast.
by booster gold lives
Doesn't matter if it's any good, doesn't matter if it has a following (pre-sold or otherwise). And God help it if it's anything approaching edgy. Unless it pulls monster ratings from the start, they'll deem it "too expensive" and can it. CBS is the network equivalent of an eunuch.
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Yup, as Andy says Stewart is hot after his revival of Macbeth at BAM in New York. He's heading to Broadway with the production soon...
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The original took a decidedly liberal view of environmental issues -- the idea was that it was the "Eleventh Hour," the last-ditch attempt for humans to stop destroying the planet. Of course, that type of thing's easier to sell in the UK than in the US, where our idiot president and much of his party don't believe that global warming is real. It'll be interesting to see if the US version has a similar political slant.
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Someone needs to harrass the BBC into bringing back a series of quatermass for the 21st century.
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The BBC version WAS kind of procedural. I thought of it like Law & Order: Science Crimes. Except it wasn't a group of characters, just Stewart and Ashley Jensen. Casting Sewell worries me only in that I REALLY hope they didn't do it to create sexual tension between him and the bodyguard character. I liked the somewhat playful paternal relationship Stewart had with Jensen in the BBC original.
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Seriously.
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without the extreme violence and humor...
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She's in talks that would reunite her with Rob Thomas for one of his three pilots, the Outrageous Fortune remake from New Zealand: http://tinyurl.com/yskeu2
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Apr 02, 2008 12:40:59 AM CDT
Now Reiff and Vouris just need to get some Rob Thomas-style clou
by paul t. ryan
....AND BRING BACK BRIMSTONE DAMMIT!
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My point still stands.
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Apr 03, 2008 8:40:11 AM CDT
Yeah, not hiring Stewart bugged me too, but at least
by crichtonastronut
they didn't hire Stuart Townsend. Rufus Sewell's a pretty solid actor actually with a good range, heck out Dark City.
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He was good in the *Night Stalker* re-imagining.
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At least not the cool one from the original.
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