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ROME’s Lucius Vorenus Lands An NBC Time-Travel Pilot??

That's nice to hear by The Bobman	Feb 8th, 2007 12:28:02 AM
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.
Hey- I WAS and didnt say it by The Bobman	Feb 8th, 2007 12:28:45 AM
So won't say it here either!
Hey... by fanboy71	Feb 8th, 2007 12:32:51 AM
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.
will dean stockwell show up? by hellcatsagogo	Feb 8th, 2007 12:59:10 AM
as doctor samuel beckett travels into the past, putting right what once went wrong...
wasn't that idea essentially... by dubsy	Feb 8th, 2007 01:01:52 AM
...quantam leap?
THIRTEENTH by inter bauer silent leges	Feb 8th, 2007 01:24:40 AM
Titus Pullo needs a space travel pilot. What if a man rode a giant eagle to the stars...
does this have any relation to the video game series... by cvain	Feb 8th, 2007 01:51:54 AM
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.
Forget this, JUST BRING BACK QUANTUM LEAP!!! by Shermdawg	Feb 8th, 2007 03:37:58 AM
"Oh boy."
is he perhaps righting things that once went wrong? by newc0253	Feb 8th, 2007 03:57:54 AM
and does he hope each time that his next leap will be the leap home?
Life On Mars by MachineHead	Feb 8th, 2007 04:37:03 AM
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 :)
Wait a second...what? by TheJake	Feb 8th, 2007 06:21:07 AM
"soon-vanishing?" What is that supposed to mean?
MachineHead: Life on Mars by Avert Therapy	Feb 8th, 2007 07:37:27 AM
No, the American version of Life on Mars is quite a literal adaptation, though without anything controversial in it of course.
Machinehead: LIFE ON MARS may not be time-travel by SpyGuy	Feb 8th, 2007 07:53:04 AM
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.
Life on Mars by ECUPirate71	Feb 8th, 2007 08:15:11 AM
is being adapted by David Kelly for ABC
Other shows by supertoyslast	Feb 8th, 2007 08:17:50 AM
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.
It is Luc and Titus' Excellentb adventure. by CrichtonAstronut	Feb 8th, 2007 08:49:57 AM
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.
TheJake by brokentusk	Feb 8th, 2007 09:47:39 AM
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).
13 Days by _Maltheus_	Feb 8th, 2007 10:10:51 AM
Maybe he can go back in time and convince HBO execs to allow a season 3 or Rome.
The Omni just turned green! by oceansized	Feb 8th, 2007 10:44:58 AM
I know some of you have gotta get the obsure reference.
Hope it won't suck like Quantum Leap. by jmyoung666	Feb 8th, 2007 11:18:55 AM
That is all.
OMGZ QUANTUM LEAP by ferociousbadger	Feb 8th, 2007 11:29:34 AM
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.
oh and Quantum Leap didn't suck by ferociousbadger	Feb 8th, 2007 11:35:23 AM
YOU SUCK...THAT is all
Ferocious badger...that was rather the point. by Cameron1	Feb 8th, 2007 12:54:33 PM
He could only leap within his own lifetime. Hence him showing up on his actual day of birth in the series finale.
"Lucious" Vorenus? by scudd	Feb 8th, 2007 01:03:06 PM
Makes him sound like a cheesy 80's wrestler. His name is Lucius. Hah.
If this doesn't involve a porta-potty... by Harry Weinstein	Feb 8th, 2007 01:29:43 PM
...then don't even waste my time.
Can't they just do a show with Pullo F'n and Fight'n by modlight	Feb 8th, 2007 01:35:52 PM
Maybe him and the Cleopatra actress doin just about anything. Thats my pitch. Those two on a tv screen. Thats all you need.
Re: The Omni just turned green! by ZocaloHobo	Feb 8th, 2007 02:29:54 PM
Yup, showing my age now.....:)
u must have a British accent to time travel... by lynxpro	Feb 8th, 2007 02:50:28 PM
Just ask The Doctor sometime about it...
Oceansized by kdoc13	Feb 8th, 2007 03:25:32 PM
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.
Voyagers! by NOVAJimBo	Feb 8th, 2007 03:38:46 PM
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!
D'OH and I though I was 1st with the Jon-Erik Hexum ref by NOVAJimBo	Feb 8th, 2007 03:40:54 PM
Maybe I should read the posts before i talkback.
Thirteen! by AngelCordy	Feb 8th, 2007 05:18:14 PM
I love Kevin McKidd. He fucked Concord in the ass, you know.
Ray Stevenson... by purplemonkeydw	Feb 8th, 2007 05:56:39 PM
Aw man, I'm so excited, I loved that video for 'The Streak'...and 'Guitarzan'...
Life On Mars returns February 13 !!! by Bill Clay	Feb 8th, 2007 06:36:37 PM
Start warming up those Bittorents!
gotta sign up Pullo too dammit by Darth_Baltar	Feb 8th, 2007 06:40:39 PM
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
Look out, here comes . . . Journeyman! by kabong	Feb 8th, 2007 10:06:37 PM
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.
And this is different from "Quantum Leap" In WHAT way? by uss cygnus	Feb 8th, 2007 10:40:20 PM
Saaaaaaaam!!
Aiieeee! by AnnoyYou	Feb 9th, 2007 01:35:09 AM
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.
Ziggy... by lfhlaw	Feb 9th, 2007 02:35:29 AM
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.
Give Pullo a show instead. by PwnedByStallone	Feb 9th, 2007 09:42:49 AM
about a decapitating bad ass gladiator.
Wait a second...what? PART 2 by TheJake	Feb 9th, 2007 10:01:14 AM
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!!!
Then there's wot The Sun sayz 'bout LoM and Who by Mickey The Idiot	Feb 9th, 2007 10:53:39 AM
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....
...and McKidd is quality. Just like Eccleston by Mickey The Idiot	Feb 9th, 2007 10:55:32 AM
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.
Civil War Quantum Leap Ep by Doggus47	Feb 9th, 2007 03:47:53 PM
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.
John Titor, the series by Cyberfury	Feb 9th, 2007 04:30:49 PM
When will we see a movie?
does this mean that Rome won't bee renrwed?.?.? by beefywhore	Feb 10th, 2007 02:32:43 AM
if so..........FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!??? ????????!!!!!!!!!!!??????????? ???
The Journeyman Project by ChildOfMen	Feb 10th, 2007 02:19:33 PM
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).
Did someone say my same? by John Titor	Feb 12th, 2007 12:02:13 PM
In the future, we know these things

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