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"I just got a call on Friday from ... a dear friend of mine, who told me that they're packing up the ranch," “Deadwood” star Ian McShane tells Cinematical. "They're dismantling the ranch and taking the stuff out. That ship is gonna sail. Bonsoir, Deadwood."
Of course, "packing up" and "dismantling" the sets doesn't necessarily mean producers are hacking up the set and selling it for kindling, but McShane does say he wouldn't be available to reprise Al Swearenegen for at least another year.
Read all of Cinematical’s story on the matter here.
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HBO had its Television Critics Association event Thursday. From a report in Friday morning’s Hollywood Reporter:
One deviation from the [ousted HBO chief Chris] Albrecht playbook that spurred questions from TCA critics: The execs waffled on plans set by their predecessor to produce a pair of movies that would wrap up the story line of the canceled series "Deadwood." [HBO co-president Richard] Plepler put the odds for greenlighting a film at "50-50," citing the fact that members of the cast are committed to other projects and the willingness of the series' creator, David Milch, to pursue it.
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“The Practice” is the show David E. Kelley created for ABC between “Chicago Hope” for CBS and “Ally McBeal” for Fox. The show followed the staff of Donnel and Associates, a struggling law firm with a reputation for representing unsavory clients like drug dealers. It went on to win the “outstanding drama” Emmy twice.
The Volume One DVD contains the 13 episodes created for the show’s first season on ABC, but only six of these actually aired during the first season. The other seven on this set were actually intergrated into the first half of the series’ second season. (The coming “volume two” set will presumably contain the 21 Lara Flynn Boyle episodes that formed the balance of season two.)
Deadwood’s third and final season was a kind-of prequel to “Citizen Kane,” as it circled the impact on the titular mining camp of wealthy prospector George Hearst, father of William Randolph and great-grandfather of Patty. It was fun to see the South Dakota berg – notably enemies Al Swearengen and Seth Bullock – unite in their hatred for Hearst.
In real life, Swearengen arrived in Deadwood in the summer of 1876, mere weeks before Bullock and Sol Star got there. Swearengen didn’t open the Gem until 8 months after the assassination of Wild Bill Hickock. Hearst was a U.S. senator representing California when he died in 1891. Bullock and Swearengen operated side by side in Deadwood for decades. Swearengen stuck around until 1899, when the Gem burned down for the second time. Bullock died in Deadwood in 1919, in the hotel he built on the site of his and Sol’s old hardware store. Deadwood is still on the map, just a few miles north of Rapid City and a few miles south of Interstate 90. Deadwood is also about an hour’s drive north of Mount Rushmore, where Bullock’s best friend, Theodore Roosevelt, is immortalized.
Even in her “Celebrity Mole” days, it was perfectly obvious that funny just pours out of Kathy Griffin pretty much 24/7. She comes equipped with sharp sense of self-deprecation and a freakishly fearless, disarming candor that renders her a kind of perfect television creature. It is for this reason that Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List contends for the title of most entertaining reality series ever forged. Extras on the new set include Griffin’s hourlong Bravo stand-up special “I Am Not Nicole Kidman.”
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In 1980, ABC had “Taxi” and “Soap” back to back on Wednesday nights, but most of its schedule was driven by tits, ass and Aaron Spelling. “Three’s Company,” “Hart To Hart,” “Vega$,” “The Love Boat,” “Fantasy Island,” and Charlie’s Angels.” That was ABC.
“Bosom Buddies” arrived on ABC the same year as the completely horrible Ted Knight vehicle “Too Close For Comfort.” Because "Bosom's" title was a tit joke and because it aired on ABC, it was too easy to dismiss it as another turd float in ABC’s T&A garbage parade.
But “Bosom Buddies,” the tale of a pair of fledgling ad men who wore dresses so they could live in a dirt-cheap women-only hotel, was funny stuff. The cross-dressing business got tired in a hurry, of course, but the writers came to de-emphasize it fairly early on and pretty much eliminated it by the start of season two.
The series was created by a young writer named Chris Thompson. He came out of “Laverne & Shirley,” but later spent years on “The Larry Sanders Show” (still arguably the best live-action American sitcom of all time) before he created the acclaimed (if short-lived) Jay Mohr movie-industry comedy “Action.”
And of course "Bosom" starred the amazing Tom Hanks. It put Hanks on many of our pre-"Splash" radars, and I remember thinking then that he was destined for stardom. He was so great, in fact, that his greatness kind of spilled over onto co-star Peter Scolari; at the time I thought they were both due for hugeish things. (And Scolari - while never making an impact on the big screen - did spend the next two decades working nonstop in television, notably scoring Emmy nominations for three of his five seasons on “Newhart.”)
I also thought the great Holland Taylor was hilarious as their ad agency boss.
All 19 first-season episodes (including the pilot, shot on 35mm) are on the new set, which Amazon is retailing at the moment for $24.49
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Ellsworth is dead, George Hearst has bullet-wound in his shoulder, and a paid army of Swearengen muscle - led by Hawkeye and Wu - appears to be converging on the camp to take on the Hearst army that's already there. Oh, and i
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"Deadwood" will take a long hiatus after its third season ends this month, then will return with a couple of HBO TV-movies to wrap up this long tale of Seth Bullock, Wild Bill Hickock, Calamity Jane, Wyatt Earp, George Hearst,
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When we last left "Deadwood," Al Swearengen had just met George Hearst, Alma Garret had just married Mr. Ellsworth, Mayor E.B. Farnum had just sold his hotel, Cy Tolliver had brandished a letter, Wolcott swang from rope, and C
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There's been much talk of how season three of "Deadwood" (starting next Sunday) could be the end of "Deadwood," but a story in Monday morning's Variety suggests four more hours of the show may be on the way next year.
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David E. Kelley, a huge and acclaimed force in television for two decades, has never seen one of his shows - not "L.A. Law," not "Chicago Hope," not "Picket Fences," not "Ally McBeal," not "The Practice," not "Snoops," "Bo
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HBO has not picked up the options of the "Deadwood" cast, which means the third season of the series - premiering June 11 - could be its last.
Read more of this here.
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The third season of "Deadwood" is still months away from airing, but HBO already appears ready to greenlit a fourth.
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