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EXCLUSIVE: Now this is what I would call an event: NBC’s freshman drama The Event – which was recently picked up for a full season despite eroding ratings – is pursuing Emmy-nominated Friday Night Lights star Connie Britton for a major recurring role. According to sources, producers – one of whom is Britton’s longtime FNL director, Jeffrey Reiner – put a feeler out to the actress to play a senator’s wife. When her husband suddenly dies, the Harvard grad and former powerhouse attorney is given 90 days to prove herself worthy of his seat. And let there be no doubt that Britton is their first choice for the role; the casting breakdown lists the name of the character in question as “Senator Britton.” Should she bite, this would be the MVP’s first TV gig since wrapping up her five-season stint on FNL last July; the show’s final episodes are currently airing on DirecTV. Michael Ausiello will be contributing to Deadline.com and Movieline.com as he preps for the early 2011 launch of a new TV-centric website.
NBC’s ‘The Event’ Wooing Connie Britton
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She deserves better. Some have mentioned Prime Suspect for Connie, I think that role should go to an older actress, namely Mary McDonnell.
Connie deserves a great half hour one-camera comedy, but a real comedy not USoT/NurseJackie variety comedy.
“The Event” is the best new show this season. How can she do better than that?
I think Connie is better as a dramatic actress. She wasn’t too great on Spin City.
This show is not going to see a second season. I am not sure why her reps would even entertain it, unless it was written into the contract that she could do another pilot and give The Event second position status.
I disagree. The series is fantastic and is developing so well with each new episode. Connie would be a great addition to an already great cast which includes Blair Underwood, Laura Innes
I disagree. The series is fantastic and is developing so well with each new episode. Connie would be a great addition to an already great cast which includes Blair Underwood, Jason Ritter, and Laura Innes
She shouldn’t take a role in this show — bad career move. The show has negative buzz, is seriously bleeding viewers and even money it does not make a second season.
It’s just a lot of ugly people running around in an ugly gray world for unfathomable reasons that are something to do with aliens.
It has meaningless flashbacks instead of Flashforwards, but it will suffer the same fate as the latter.
you just knocked the entire genre of Science Fiction!
or Lost, 24 or anything else that’s not obvious.
Connie does deserve better…but guess what? with all the good will she built with me from her work on FNL, I’d watch that lady in a Dukes of Hazard tv remake.
LOVED her on FNL. Agreed…she deserves much better material than the event is able to provide. Can’t wait to see what she and Kyle Chandler do next. They’re both amazing!!!
I find it amusing that the producers of The Ev3nt actually think they will get those back nine eps to cast her in after posting that 1.7 on Monday. This show will be lucky if it’s only put on hiatus until March, it’s back nine ep order cut down to three, and allowed to slowly bleed more viewers until it’s inevitable cancellation in late April/early May.
The Event has been an ok show so far. The cast is great but the writing of the show is weak. I agree with others Connie can do better than The Event. Taking a temporary role on The Event wouldn’t kill her career at all. The two sitcoms that Connie did after Spin City flopped. Many great actors/actresses go through bad spells. A role on The Event whether the show gets picked up next season or not won’t kill Connie’s career.
As for Prime Suspect I don’t think Connie should take the role. Remakes of UK shows have never been successes. The Life on Mars remake had a great cast but was lacking in other areas. In a NPR interview she did a few months back she mentioned how shows on cable don’t have to large audiences to be considered successes and she mentioned that broadcast networks are no longer giving shows chances to build audiences as they did in the past. It sort of seems that Connie is through with broadcast networks.
What agent would let her take that?
I’m a fan of Britton but I’m not sure how moving a star from one underperforming NBC drama to another (and a much less heralded one at that) would qualify as an “event”.
But it’s a no brainer for her because I doubt the show sees a second season so she can get some easy paychecks until the end of the year and then look for a new project for 2011.
We’re looking forward to more from Michael Ausiello but the series is a non-Ev3nt.
She’s amazing. +Chandler, too. Such naturals.
The wrost show ever!
Haven’t seen much,but let me guess. It’s a government conspiracy and not a islamic conspiracy or a conspiracy done by Islamic people or Islam. Infact, at the end everyone will be converted to Islam at the end, praise be to his creation of evil, and Connie here will be wearing a stupid Hijab or headscarf. Whatever.
How original. X-Files. JFK. etc.
I can’t wait to see if The Event drops below 1.5 in the 18-49 demo this coming Monday. The show is rubbish, and will slowly die soon, just like the rest of the new NBC shows.
The Comcast crew can’t come soon enough to NBC….
Loved Connie on FNL. She does deserve better.
She’s a first-choice actress, whereas the entire cast of The Event just strikes me as second-choices. “Well we couldn’t get A-Lista Jones, so we just got Whatshername McGee instead.”
Connie say “NO!” You’re a talented actress (who can win an Emmy next year for the final season of FNL). Jumping on that sinking ship would kill some of your career’s momentum
great actress and a even amazing person
FNL..one of the best TV shows ever…
however..
the event is no FNL, but it sure has more than the 600,000 people that FNL attracts..
have your people fight to get you homeland at showtime..
The Event would be a better show if writing wasn’t subpar. In last night’s episode there were a major goof with the timing of one storyline that was happening in the present. Connie deserves better and shouldn’t deal with NBC again. She needs to go to either basic or premium cable.