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After a stint on FX with Terriers, Donal Logue is returning to broadcast television as the lead in Marc Cherry’s Hallelujah drama pilot for ABC. The project is set in the town of Hallelujah, Tenn., where the forces of good and evil are exemplified by hardworking, moral diner owner Rye Turner (Logue), a family man who has had a run of tragic luck, and his long-time nemesis, corrupt millionaire Del Roman (Terry O’Quinn), who is a law unto himself. Del seems to be winning the battle until mysterious newcomer Jared O’Neal (Jesse L. Martin) arrives in town. The pilot brings Logue back to ABC, where he toplined the underrated comedy series Knights of Prosperity.
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Logue is tremendous. Always conveys great passion.
GREAT casting! Finally a great announcement on a male lead…what an ensemble too!
Sadly, I don’t see Logue as the tall dark stranger type who comes in to save a town. Too shambling and shaggy. He’ll be eaten alive by the passion of Mr. O’Quinn. Bad casting!
briguyx–read the article again. you got the casting mixed up in your comments. logue is playing the hard-working, moral diner owner, martin is the mysterious stranger.
whole show sounds intriguing, now i’m looking forward to this.
Logue is a good actor and a good guy but what a PIECE OF SHIT IDEA catering to the crappy part of our country that thinks Obama is a Muslim and Hollywood is for the Jews and Gays. A show about faith on network television? This is America, not Afghanistan. Screw everyone involved in this PANDERING BULLSH*T.
I’m surprised there aren’t more shows about faith on network TV.The majority of the country is Christian, about 70%, so why not have a show about faith.Hell, 7th Heaven ran for 11 years, and was the highest rated show on it’s network for 8 straight seasons.
You sound unreasonably angry and intolerant.If you don’t like the show, just ignore it.
Amen!
Wow, you have some issues to work out. Obviously not everyone believes like you do, so sit down and relax a little. Last I checked the networks exist to try to pull in ratings and make money. If this show is well made it will appeal to people who feel different than yourself and make that money. Are you suggesting only shows be made that appeal to your morals and beliefs? I guess pandering is only okay if it’s on Glee and fits into your little world.
Network television exists to grab ratings and make money. There is obviously a good portion of the country who believes differently than you. If this show is made as well as it’s been cast so far, it will find an audience. Or is “pandering” only okay if it fits into your way of thinking and takes place on Glee.
Give me a break. Hollywood exists to make money and conservatives’ cash spends just as well as liberals. And have you even read the script for the pilot, or are you just making a assumption based on nothing more than a discription of the plot? I, for one, have not read the pilot but am already interested just based on the casting so far.
My favorite scene in the script is the main climax scene that Cherry couldn’t be bothered to actually write– there is literally a scene in outline format in the SOLD draft of the script. His laziness and pandering sparkles through on every lousy page. It only shows what a house of cards ABC runs, buying shows that are literally unwritten to avoid large penalties with blowhards like Marc Cherry. Rounding out your crap show with classy actors will not make it good.
The irony here is that if I asked you why you hate these people so much, you’d probably say that they are ‘intolerant’…
Yeah, imagine that, a show about faith on network television. We can’t have that. Gays, casual sex and drugs without consequences among teens, that stuff is all fine, but not faith. That would be just too much.
Thanks for expressing an opinion from the “open-minded” segment of American society.
I guess I’m in the “crappy” part of the country you refer to because I think this show sounds great and has excellent actors picked for it so far. Hey, if I have to endure Glee and Harry’s Law, you have to put up with the occasional show like 24.
This show sounds like a different version of “Lost”.
Heard Logue had multiple offers, including the Logjammers pilot.
has anyone read the script?
Just based on the synopsis alone (and no, I have absolutely no association with anyone involved), this sounds like one of the most original network pilots out there. Here’s hoping it does well enough to get to season 2, and we’re not in a Kings-type situation (great series, botched marketing.)
Oh yeah. Donal Logue’s slacker sidekick/employee at the diner needs to be played by Michael Raymond-James. And the owner of the diner is Rockmond Dunbar. And, uh, maybe he has a weird sister, played by his own sister. And… [terriers]… sigh…
That is all.
“Oh yeah. Donal Logue’s slacker sidekick/employee at the diner needs to be played by Michael Raymond-James. And the owner of the diner is Rockmond Dunbar. And, uh, maybe he has a weird sister, played by his own sister. And… [terriers]… sigh…”
Couldn’t agree more!!
So, does that mean the show is cancelled already????
I like Logue, but seriously, his TV death track record is right up there with Lindsey Price.
He’s this century’s Robert Urich.
For LOGJAMMERS??? I heard that thing is under lock and key.
All I want is Terriers back.
I was a fan of Terriers too but like all the shows I seem to fall in love with, it didn’t have the ratings. I have got to get rich so I can start my own company and begin production on new episodes of Terriers, Veronica Mars, Firefly, Life, Roswell, Life Unexpected, and a bunch of others. A person can dream I guess.
HUGE for Hallelujah… Martin, O’Quinn and Logue is a holy trinity of talent. Now I’m looking forward to this one
This is sounding like American Gothic.
This just in: Hallelujah cancelled too soon in wake of Logue casting.
Love it and will watch! FX broke my heart canceling Terriers.
I want Terriers back! Loved it, and looked forward to every new episode. Great characters and good writing. But if it’s over, I’m glad Donal Logue and Terry O’Quinn
have a new acting gig! Hallelujah! Yeah. I’ll be watching, along with thousands of other fans.