Ooooo New interview by Joss the Boss

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UPDATED: Monday, January 9, 2006 05:50
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CARNYASADA

Friday, January 6, 2006 6:32 PM

I think I'm the only person on this board... maybe in the whole western hemisphere... who actually remembers Keen Eddie with a pang of regret. Fox, you f*****s!

QUEENOFTHENORTH

Friday, January 6, 2006 6:39 PM

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For the love of GOD, man, his name is

JOSS

not Josh.

Can't read your otherwise fine notes because I can't get past this. Please fix it.

And here I thought some guy named Josh was reviving the series!!!

I've always thought Fox has been a pretty good sport about the ribbing the network takes. The Simspons rip on Fox and Murdoch constantly and they've been running like 15 years!!!

Dropping our Big Damn Series was a bad call, granted...But if Fox sees an opportunity to make nice cashy money, I'm sure they will!

It's true that they've been a good sport about that, but look at how many millions upon millions of dollars Simpsons has made for them. Not to mention that Simpsons, especially in its early days, was relatively cheap to produce. And Simpsons is one of the shows that made Fox the network it is today, whether that's good or bad.

So I don't think that they would ever say anything against Simpsons, despite what Simpsons might say about them.

"I'm having one of those things - a headache with pictures."

"Sucker! Competitive violence, that's why you're here!"

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to find out how to buy mine!

BROWNEDSHORTS

Friday, January 6, 2006 9:46 PM

I absolutely loved "Keen Eddie" too, Carnyasada. As I recall, the actor who played the soldier who got diced by lasers in the "Resident Evil" movie also played the police chief, or whatever the Brit equivalent is, in "Keen Eddie". They showed reruns for a little while on Bravo or E!...whichever network shows "Queer Eye".

This may be old news to you true browncoats, but speaking of connections, I recently watched "Wonderfalls" again thru the miracle of Netflix (man, what a great show that was), and noticed that Tim Minear was a producer and screenwriter for that show as well.

PEULSAR5

Monday, January 9, 2006 4:43 AM

I think you mean Victoria Pratt, who was also on Mutant X. She is VERY attractive.

"So now we know two of the Cleopatra 2525 actresses, Jen Sky and Zoe...er, Gina T. For the grand prize, who can name the third? Clue: She is the real thing, a feminine Chuck Norris, kickboxing champ, etc. Her muscles and moves are the real thing. And she (when last seen) was in a sort-of space ship."

Anyone?

ADLAI

Monday, January 9, 2006 5:19 AM

one business question:

why didn't this series go to WB/UPN? Why did it go to FOX to begin with? And what sort of deal did he sign? I'm guessing that Fox enticed him with more money and a higher SFX budget maybe...but they lacked confidence in it. As he said... dumb people

NINAH148

Monday, January 9, 2006 5:43 AM

My fiance is a big fan of Fastlane, and I've subsequently seen a lot in syndication through being in the room. :-) It was exec produced by "McG", director of the Charlie's Angels movies, and has that same frenetic, highly stylized, popcorn-movie feel. It actually didn't do so bad, but every episode involved so much blowing-up of things that it was just too expensive to maintain. IMDB said each ep cost 2.6 million. That's 1.5 BDMs every season or so...

NINAH148

Monday, January 9, 2006 5:50 AM

BTW, this story reminds me a lot of something I read in one of the books about X-Files...something about how FOX kept telling Chris Carter that "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr." was the show they were banking on, and that Bruce Campbell was going to be the next big thing, not this Duchovny guy. If I remember correctly, X-Files also went to the brink of cancellation before jumping back to be one of FOX's most defining shows.

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