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HBO has yet to make a decision whether it will pick up comedy pilot Tilda to series but it has put in place a team in case it does. Six Feet Under alum Alan Poul has come on board as an executive producer. Writers Alexa Junge and John Hoffman have also been brought in as executive producers and to work with co-creator/executive producer Bill Condon on conceptualizing the potential series. Condon directed the pilot for Tilda from a script he co-wrote with Cynthia Mort. Tilda stars Diane Keaton as a powerful and reclusive Hollywood blogger (not unlike Nikki Finke) and boasts an A-list cast including Ellen Page and Jason Patric. The pilot was shot in June but the show has had a rocky production and post-production run marred by creative differences.
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Wow…good team. Writers must love Diane Keaton!
Always sounded like a really good show. I hope they pick it up.
It’s a shame that this pilot has been marred with such problems. It sounded terrific, and with Diane Keaton and Ellen Page, they’ve got a terrific cast. It would be a shame if HBO didn’t pick it up because of the prior issues. Hopefully, these executive producers can clean up the mess and get this ordered to series!
Ellen Page is out. Terrible pilot. Diane Keaton plays a ridiculously hysterical woman. Cynthia Mort was pushed under the bus even though her cut was far superior to Condon’s. Lousy story behind this one.
When did Ellen Page leave the pilot? I’m surprised to hear that something that looked so promising on paper ended up (from what you saw) as horrible! What a shame.
Hmmmm….Bill Condon or Cynthia Mort. Gee, I wonder who the better film-maker/storyteller is??? I’ll take Condon every time. Sounds like sour grapes and I agree with Fodie Joster….Troll!
Wait Poul left UTA, who got him this gig, for WME, who got him this planted announcement of a theoretical job he might have if a troubled show gets picked up. And Alexa, who got fired from Tara because she couldn’t get the strong women to get along, is coming into another situation where strong women aren’t getting along. I really want to see this show work but adding divas to a diva pileon isn’t going to help matters.
I love Keaton and Condon, but “inside Hollywood” series rarely stick.
entourage works.
@Jon: um..Entourage? Stuck pretty well; also one could argue Curb is pretty inside Hollywood,given it’s about a comedian/writer and his world of friends/family. and it’s NY but 30 Rock is also ‘inside’ showbiz…I have no knowledge of the particulars (script/pilot) but conceptually, it seems like the problem might be less about being too Hollywood, but would have the challenges inherent in shows about journalists–few have succeeded..The conventional wisdom is because they aren’t active ala docs, lawyers, cops–and the stakes aren’t high enough.Oliver Platt’s Deadline (2000-1) about a tabloid columnist only ran one season & then there was the gawdawful DIRT at FX..but I hope they pull it off ’cause it sounds like a show I’d watch!
Nice post Cynthia…I mean Patti
Who knows what you watched, Patti, but my boss’s DVD was amazing and total Emmy-bait. Keaton was incredibly funny and then it turns and she’s heartbeaking – two friends I watched it with agreed was her best work in like 20 years. Ellen Page was amazing as always and Jason Patric was awesome in a total return to form. The performances were all memorable and it looked better than most of the shit on now. Anyway, one of the very best pilots I’ve seen this year. More, please.
I saw the pilot and loved it. Really impressive and incredibly well written. As a follower of HBO shows like Six Feet Under, Entourage and True Blood, I can say it is better than all three.
Great characters, smooth performances by Ellen Paige and Leland Orser, and a nuanced performance from Diane Keaton that shows just enough of an edge. You can see the thrill of the story pull her back and finally invigorate her.
Hope this makes it to series!
Can’t see how this doesn’t get picked up with the talent it has behind it. Plus, HBO obviously believes in it or they wouldn’t still be moving forward on the show. I also think this is a prime world to explore. Yeah, you someone may say it’s ‘too inside hollywood”, but it’s more than that. I mean, what does most EVERYONE read daily now? Some form of blog. It’s a blog/blog personality world we live in and exploring that, and all the characters that do the 24/7 grind within it, is interesting to me.
Yes, the pilot was so great that they have to hire a whole new team. The pilot is atrocious. And they know it. It’s a 3 million dollar shame. The script was real good but its execution is, well, ridiculous. And I’ve never commented here but I see that it is like politics: spin, spin, spin by people’s employees etc. So I’m out of here. And — I am not Cynthia Mort to whoever tossed that one in. I’m not concerned with sides and spin, I am just concerned by waste and lies in this business. So much waste. Sad.
I also saw the pilot and I really liked it. Keaton is perfect for the role of Tilda. And it’s great to see Jason Patric again (huge Lost Boys fan). I really hope this makes it to series. It’s a smart show, and there are so few of those these days.
C’mon back, Patti.
The way I hear it the new team has been hired to take the show to series and develop the scripts. Sounds pretty normal to me. A simple Google – I just did it – will get you to the fact that Mort, who apparently moonlighted as Jodie Foster’s homewrecker, was fired by the network, which is a shame given that she’s already practically unemployable, according to a friend of mine who worked with her. He said she was a total monster and stormed off that show, which crashed the show. She put the ‘c’ in c u next Tuesday. Maybe she can go on “In Treatment”?
Oh, and I’m told by the same pal that the pilot’s amazing and Keaton is back.
I’ve known Cyndy Mort for years. She throws herself under the bus every time. It’s like she can’t wait to get under those wheels. Anything she’s ever been involved with has succeeded in spite of her relentless efforts to destroy it and destroy herself again in the process.
If she spent half the time creating that she does trying to destroy she may have actually gotten somewhere by now. She’s smart but tragically flawed. Lifetime should do a show about her, but the TV spots for it would repel every potential viewer except her.
For many of us who have known her, it has been incredibly sad to watch, but with an air of inevitability. What could any of us have done?
I have to come back for one second to just say how horrified I am by the cowardly personal attacks you people seem to enjoy making — hiding behind snarky names. I was simply commenting on a show that didn’t work and how wasteful this business is and you all came back with the lowest and most demeaning kinds of character assassination. Whoever called the writer a cunt, has by doing so, pretty much outed himself as a vicious, empty guy with his claws out. If you have seen the pilot and want to weigh in with your true reactions, then do so. But this mean, shallow character assassination should be beneath you all. Sadly, it isn’t. In truth, some of you sound just like the spin doctors on Fox News that you probably think you hate. Horrifying.