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Okay, I’m starting to feel adjusted to the old time zone, as I was
able to get to sleep at a normal time without pharmaceutical aid and
was able to wake up at a normal time without feeling like it was the
middle of the night. And as I get back into the swing of things, it’s
time to catch up on some interesting TV news and links from the last
few days, including the end of “Tell Me You Love Me,” the re-casting
of Gene Hunt on “Life on Mars,” some “Dr. Horrible”-related goodness,
and more, after the jump… , because creator Cynthia Mort and her
team were “unable to find the direction of the show for the second
season.” If we take the decision at face value — as opposed to, say,
new exec Sue Naegle convincing her new bosses that they had made a
mistake with the renewal — I can see where Mort is coming from. The
Walker/DeKay story, the one that got the show most of its praise, had
reached something of a conclusion, and all three storylines (Sonya
Walger/Adam Scott in particular) were in danger of just repeating the
same arguments over and over.
-At the press tour session for “Life on Mars,” I noted that Colm
Meaney as Gene Hunt — the racist, sexist, brutal 1973 lead detective
– was one of the few bits of casting of the original version of the
pilot that seemed to match the original, and asked the producers what
they were looking for. Andre Nemec said they wanted somebody with the
same qualities as original actor Philip Glenister — “He had a charm,
and he had a passion, and he had a strength, and he had an animal
quality to him — he was a bit of a bear” — and they may have
actually gotten their man with . Assuming Keitel takes the part
seriously — I can think of plenty of movie actors who treated their
first regular TV job as little more than a paid vacation — he could
bring all the Glenister qualities without just seeming like a copy. I
still don’t think this works as an ongoing American-length series, but
the casting of Keitel (and before him, Michael Imperioli as Ray) is at
least interesting.
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