With Entourage all wrapped up after eight seasons (and a mostly disappointing last round of episodes), creator Doug Ellin is already onto his next project, a new comedy pilot called 40. The series follows four four lifelong friends who help each other navigate life at 40. Basically it sounds like Entourage without all the Hollywood rigamarole, but the cast does sounds pretty interesting. Michael Rappaport and Ed Burns were previously cast as two of the four friends in the project, and now The Live Feed has word that Adrian Pasdar (Heroes) and Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos) will play the other two buddies. Pasdar will pull double duty on TV since he is also part of the ABC Family series The Lying Game, whereas Imperioli spent some time with HBO on the aforementioned mobster drama. The cast at least has me interested in the project, and if anything, Ellin knows how to craft a show with an ensemble that really feel like genuine friends on screen.
Source: Collider
40 - Adrian Pasdar & Michael Imperioli to Star in Doug Ellin's New HBO Pilot
Sep 26, 2011
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This is becoming interesting. Burns, Pasdar & Imperioli - that's a cool cast.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of seeing Imperioli playing a different character for a change.
ReplyDeleteI think the concept of Men of a Certain Age (even a generation younger) will make for great premium channel cable TV. I think at times MoaCA was brilliant and at other times too boring for mainstream audiences.
ReplyDeleteOn premium cable they can concentrate on the story and not have to worry as much.
I'm looking forward to this one I think.
Men of a Certain Age has been really really great. Somehow I doubt that Doug Ellin can come up with a show as good as this one. Entourage has been a decent show (at least for the first few seasons), but it wasn't exactly awesome TV. MoaCA on the other hand was, while Entourage was just nice entertainment. I just don't think that Ellin is capable of writing such great stories. Which is also why I'm happy that he won't be writing anything for Da Brick.
ReplyDeleteI guess I meant more the concept of a series about a group of older male friends does not play as well on network TV as it might on premium cable.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure it will be as good as Men of a Certain Age, but Entourage had it moments.
I don't think this will be an older Entourage exactly since so much of Entourage was about celebrity. This seems more similar to MoaCA in that it's about a group of friends adjusting to the next stage of their lives..... but who knows what the tenor will be - More drama or more entertainment.
I'm mixed on Da Brick. It sounds like ti has a lot of potential, but Spike Lee is hit or miss with me. Most his projects are done very well.... I just don't connect with some of them.
ReplyDeleteEven w/a great cast, I doubt I will watch this show. No offense but just not interested in watching 40 year old men. Can't anyone come up w/any original ideas?
ReplyDeleteOn principle, I refuse to tune-in to any show that has "Da" in the title as a substitute for the word "the."
ReplyDeletethat's a fine principle to have! I may co-opt it....
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome to it. Think of it as an "open source" principle. Getting enough people on board will be a small victory for the English language.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's HBO & Spike Lee. So not even a dumb title could manage to scare me away from watching the pilot (in case it gets picked up).
ReplyDeleteSpike Lee's name doesn't carry that much weight with me. He's been responsible for just as many bad projects as good ones. Besides that, something based on the early life of Mike Tyson doesn't really interest me anyway.
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