FANFARE!
HE WILL BE ON THE NEW RONALD D. MOORE SHOW WITH JAMIE BAMBER!
The show is called 17th Precinct, and it will be like "Harry Potter for adults", a cop show with supernatural stuff. James' character, Jeff, is a homicide detective, "slender, long dark hair, British accent".
The good:
-Ronald D. Moore!
-Michael Rymer!
-Jamie Bamber! How great that he gets to act with someone he is friends with, and has worked with before. That will definitely show in the performance.
-long hair!
-British accent!
-With RDM and MR, there will be lots of possibilities for ad libs. James will have real influence on his character here, unlike on, say, Eureka.
-This will give him great visibility and possibilities for future roles.
-This will give him great visibility and possibilities for future roles.
-Cops like their donuts, so maybe he can do some character study... ;) (Toby had to remind me of this, I hadn't even thought of it! He tells me I'm going loose on the donut associations.)
The bad:
-It's only a pilot, so it's still possible it won't make it into full series. But I mean, how could it not? Let's be optimistic. And gleeful. And incredibly hyper!!! EEEEE!
-The premise sounds a little silly and could easily be dumb. But so did BSG, and RDM made it glorious. I hope this one will also be gritty, political, real, with multi-layered characters. I believe it will. Besides, I can handle a bit of suspension of disbelief. I watch The 4400 and Medium.
-I have to continuously spell "precinct". I might actually go for 17P, so I don't have to expose myself to endless typos and frustration. (Hee, pee. OMG, grow up, self.)
-Jeff. Really? It doesn't fit him at all, and it doesn't sound remotely British. Blah.
-Homicide detectives have to be pretty gruff sometimes. I hope James will get to be sensitive too and do the sad puppy eyes. I can't really imagine him as an overly-macho type.
UPDATE: OMG OMG OMG TRICIA HELFER WILL BE ON HTE SHOW TOOO EEEEEEE
I dunno if I'm ever going to calm down now, this is my wish come true, James and Tricia on the same show again <3 <3 <3 and probably a quality show at that!!! I love them so much!!! JAMES AND TRICIA FOREVER!!!!!! *hyperventilates, faints, etc. etc.* I may say something calmer later but I'm not sure. I'm not sure I'll ever be calm again. OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!
This is SO exciting! I read about this last night when I was just going to bed, and I wanted to wait until today when I can calmly write about it and say:
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE long hair British accent this will be soooo great I love him so much EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE long hair British accent this will be soooo great I love him so much EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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When Dick and I were in NYC, we genuinely wanted and needed a Dunkin' Donuts. We were hooked on the shit, so badly hooked at one point I ate so many donuts I lapsed into a sugar coma, then woke up and ate more donuts. Anyway, we were in Manhattan, somewhere near Times Square, where they have all the big chains, and we thought "there must be some donuts around somewhere" but we couldn't find 'em and so we asked a cop. We were both terrified he would shoot us for our audacity, but actually he was really nice and gave great directions. Also, we are white. But unfortunately, the store was closed.
Never mind! The one right next to our subway stop in Queens turned out to be open TWENTY-FOUR HOURS!
Anyway, great news about the show.
Heee! Is it really so addictive? How many donuts could you eat per day? Maybe that would give me some idea of many James would eat.. :D
LOL THAT ART! My reaction exactly! (Minus the cat.)
Did you see the snippet of the script at taragel's journal? We know there's at least one scene in the pilot between Jeff, Caolan, and Morgana. Dialogue doesn't really pop but I'm interested in what they'll do with it - the premise is good if you can suspend disbelief.
???? Do you have a link???
I'm reading her pilot review trying to look for it... It sounds pretty standard police procedural, sadly. I hope there will be interesting character building stuff later. BUT. We know James, Jamie and Tricia deep-think their characters and that RDM and MR are open to their ideas.
And we know James adds humor to basically everything he does. So I'm hoping there will be some of that.
Whoops, looks like it's flocked. :(
I still cannot think of James as "Jeff", but it'll be awesome to see James and Tricia interact in another role!!!
But geez, I really hope it's going to be a little character-based, a little funny, or something. I worry it won't make it into series if Ron doesn't bring the characters into focus. I also worry it will, and it will be a CSI/Supernatural copy. I don't watch police procedurals, as a rule. Shows with too much "theme of the day" stuff and too little character development tend to bore me.
I would, however, watch a show with 30 minutes of James smoking a cigarette and nothing else. And take 10,000 screenshots. So in that sense, I will obviously watch, end of story. But still. *feels nervous*
I still cannot think of James as "Jeff", but it'll be awesome to see James and Tricia interact in another role!!!
But geez, I really hope it's going to be a little character-based, a little funny, or something. I worry it won't make it into series if Ron doesn't bring the characters into focus. I also worry it will, and it will be a CSI/Supernatural copy. I don't watch police procedurals, as a rule. Shows with too much "theme of the day" stuff and too little character development tend to bore me.
I would, however, watch a show with 30 minutes of James smoking a cigarette and nothing else. And take 10,000 screenshots. So in that sense, I will obviously watch, end of story. But still. *feels nervous*
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