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I hear start of production on NBC’s new Law & Order spinoff Law & Order: Los Angeles has been pushed by a week and a half to give producers from UMS and Wolf Films more time to cast the project. The series, originally scheduled to start filming July 22, will now begin shooting on Aug. 2. So far, only one of the 5 regular roles on the show has been cast: Skeet Ulrich was tapped to play Detective Rex Winters, one of the two detectives at the center of the crime procedural. In addition to Winters’ partner, also open are the roles of a police captain, a prosecutor, and his assistant.
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Good, i hope they take care of the project, they left me hanging, but i can definately go the distance on this one.
It would be nice to have a cast before you start filming.
I think NBC made a mistake greenlighting this for the Fall with no Pilot and No cast. Whoever gets cast in the remaining roles better be prepared to work.
I’m glad my friend changed her mind about working on this show. Start filming in 3 weeks and you have 1 cast member?
I have heard of a pick-up game of baseball before, but is it considered a good idea to just grab people off of the street when you are casting a major TV series?
SVU was put on the fall schedule in 1999 w/o a pilot
Yeah but I’m pretty sure they had the show cast sooner than two months before the show was suppose to air.
I’m suspecting if they have been slow to cast this show, it’s been because for the last two months-plus, people have been distracted by major sporting events taking place in a back-to-back manner (in order: The French Open, Stanley Cup Finals, NBA Finals, World Cup, US Open Golf Championships, Wimbledon, MLB All-Star Game and currently British Open), and it may be the people they want have as a result not necessairly been available to be in discussions with or their agents have not. Those sporting events I suspect is also why NBC and Dick Wolf have yet to make any official announcements on cast or other things related to the new version, waiting for the British Open to conclude in order to get maximum buzz in New York and LA and to ad buyers, as in those cases many people likely have been on vacation over the last couple of months for one or more of the events.
That’s why I think news has trickled out very slowly, as in this case I do think the sheer number of major sporting events that have been going on since before the end of the last TV season has had many people distracted and/or on vacation.
Hardly. Except for the World Cup, every event you listed is played every summer when shows are cast without a hitch and announced in a timely manner.
Except in most years, there is usually enough of a gap between events that allows for everyone to breathe and take care of business more easily. The World Cup, which had 2-4 games EVERY SINGLE DAY from June 11-29 (before a break before the quarterfinals) caused many people to take vacation time then where they might not normally (especially in New York where bars often opened for breakfast due to the games). The way everything broke this year took away those gaps, and as a result, Monday will be the first time since last TV season ended that there are no distractions for major sporting events (as the next major such event is the US Open Tennis Championships that don’t start until August 30). Couple that with the Lakers winning the NBA title (LA is a Laker town above all else, and their being in and winning an NBA Finals that went the full seven games distracted many in June), and that’s why I think we have yet to hear much on the new version, as people only now have those distractions removed.
Unless something changes, the new LOLA probably won’t be on my Tivo schedule.
So bored with all the dross that’s on now.
Schools out and I would think that lots of people are on holiday this time of year. Besides, Skeet Ulrich is definitely worth waiting for.
I’m not surprised, nobody at NBC can agree on anything. They’ve probably put out offers to a bunch of feature actors that don’t do TV.