here: [T]his relentless tour de force isn't just firing on all 8 cylinders, it's blasting on 12, Werts said. (There's more on the Shield set visit here, and, by the way, for more TCA coverage from my colleagues, troll the blogs listed at tvcritics.org.
) Here are a few nuggets of news gleaned from the set visit (and there are some spoilers, but they are on the jump of this item, so don’t click through if you don’t want to know): At the press event, “Shield” creator Shawn Ryan paid tribute to a “Shield” director, Scott Brazil: “You’ll see at the end of this episode, the episode is dedicated to Scott Brazil, who we lost tragically to ALS during the filming of this episode. He was employee number two on this show, the first person I hired. He was our executive producer and, you know, our best director for four seasons.
And when you eventually write about the season, I hope that you’ll remember to mention him, because he had such a huge creative impact on the show, and was really involved in the early episodes of this season before he passed away.” In Season 6, Frank Darabont will direct the sixth episode, which creator Shawn Ryan calls “among the best three or four episodes we’ve ever done.” Paris Barclay, director of “House’s” “Three Stories” (one of my favorite episodes of television of all time), as well as a few prior “Shield” episodes, will also direct an episode.
Walton Goggins, who plays Shane Vendrell, said that he was pretty shattered when he got the script for the Season 5 finale, in which his character killed Lem. “I had a real problem with it for about an hour,” he told critics. But both he and Michael Chiklis said they realized pretty quickly that the way that finale was written made artistic sense.
There are no hard feelings from actor Kenneth Johnson, who played Lem. He turned up at the press event and was trading hugs with the entire cast. He’s also, don’t forget, going to be back on “Cold Case” this season.
Continue reading "Looking ahead to Season 6 of 'The Shield'" in TCA Summer Press Tour, The Shield | Permalink | Comments (7) YouTube.com phenomenon and was viewed more than 600,000 times, will become an experimental NBC hybrid program. The network plans to air the show in prime time at some point this season, but Reilly noted that the show’s creator, “Scrubs” executive producer Bill Lawrence, is already shooting footage for brand-new “Nobody’s Watching” Webisodes, which will debut in September.
“Win, lose or draw, these are the things we’ve got to try,” Reilly said. “Over the next six months, they’ll continue to blur fact and fiction with their show.” As the NBC press release notes, “the concept of ‘Nobody's Watching’ centers on Derek and Will, two young television addicts from Ohio who are frustrated with the dreadful state of television programming.
As a result, they decide to become the subjects of a reality show when a major network gives them the opportunity to create their own sitcom. Unaware that the network executives are manipulating and recording their every word and move, the two continue their crusade to develop what they hope will be great television.” “I know that Bill wants to shoot [the television show] close to air so the Internet influences the show,” Reilly said.
“I have always been passionate about this project, but more importantly, I think this is just the first of many television shows to be rescued by the Internet and I think we will see more launched on the Internet in the future,” Lawrence said in a statement. Reilly also announced that Andre Braugher will join “ER” for a six-episode arc, and John Stamos, who's had a recurring role as a paramedic, will join the cast of “ER.” John Mahoney, Sally Field and Paula Malcolmson from Deadwood will also guest on the long-running medical drama this season.
Here are some of the premiere dates that NBC announced Friday: “Deal or No Deal” will kick off with four episodes in a week starting Sept. 18; “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” the highly anticipated Aaron Sorkin program debuts the same night; “Law Order: Criminal Intent” and “Law Order: SVU” return Sept. 19,; and “The Office,” “My Name Is Earl” and “ER” return Sept.
Many of NBC’s new shows don’t debut until October, including “Friday Night Lights” (Oct. 4) and “30 Rock,” another “Saturday Night Live” satire a la Sorkin’s “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” appears Oct. Reilly also announced that “Last Comic Standing” and “America’s Got Talent” will be returning for new seasons, and Madonna will have a two-hour concert special on NBC in November.
One final NBC note: The network will re-air episodes of the charming USA Network detective show Psych on Aug. 7 and 14. in TCA Summer Press Tour | Permalink | Comments (7) here: [T]his relentless tour de force isn't just firing on all 8 cylinders, it's blasting on 12, Werts said.
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