Interesting interview on GateWorld with David Hewlett. This one in particular both excites me...and makes me raise an eyebrow.
GW: So for fans who haven't read yet, what is the basic pitch for what Starcrossed is? Is it the same Starcrossed that we see in "A Dog's Breakfast?"
DH: Well, that was what spawned the idea, really, because we had so much fun shooting that. Someone said, "You should make Starcrossed into a series." "Well, that is such silly sci-fi. I don't know if you could maintain that for a full hour of television."
So I started thinking about it and just thought: behind the scenes. We're privy to making Stargate and "Cube" and all the other sci-fis, "Boas vs. Pythons," and all that kind of stuff that I've done in the past. I've seen how silly it is to make serious sci-fi.
So yeah, basically we went in and pitched SCI FI on the idea of doing something like The Larry Sanders Show, only instead of it being about late night television it would be about making science fiction television. [The] Office kind of stuff. And they really responded well to the pitch and then commissioned the script from there.
So that's basically the idea. It's, for want of a better word, a situation comedy about the making of a science fiction show, because there's really nothing sillier than serious science fiction. There's just nothing like some poor guy dressed up in a big rubber suit, covered in hair gel and, while we're being terrorized by this creation, there's a man in the background eating a sandwich picking his nose while we're trying to shoot.
It's just fun. It's very loosely based on a Stargate kind of thing, but it's not Stargate. It's not a spoof. It's just the silliness of the day-to-day life of trying to make a television series.
I just want to know...after the (terribly sad and unjust) failure of Studio 60, why is NBC going for this behind-the-scenes-of-a-TV-show thing? I mean, I think it'll be good, but it seems an odd network decision.
Whole interview HERE
GW: So for fans who haven't read yet, what is the basic pitch for what Starcrossed is? Is it the same Starcrossed that we see in "A Dog's Breakfast?"
DH: Well, that was what spawned the idea, really, because we had so much fun shooting that. Someone said, "You should make Starcrossed into a series." "Well, that is such silly sci-fi. I don't know if you could maintain that for a full hour of television."
So I started thinking about it and just thought: behind the scenes. We're privy to making Stargate and "Cube" and all the other sci-fis, "Boas vs. Pythons," and all that kind of stuff that I've done in the past. I've seen how silly it is to make serious sci-fi.
So yeah, basically we went in and pitched SCI FI on the idea of doing something like The Larry Sanders Show, only instead of it being about late night television it would be about making science fiction television. [The] Office kind of stuff. And they really responded well to the pitch and then commissioned the script from there.
So that's basically the idea. It's, for want of a better word, a situation comedy about the making of a science fiction show, because there's really nothing sillier than serious science fiction. There's just nothing like some poor guy dressed up in a big rubber suit, covered in hair gel and, while we're being terrorized by this creation, there's a man in the background eating a sandwich picking his nose while we're trying to shoot.
It's just fun. It's very loosely based on a Stargate kind of thing, but it's not Stargate. It's not a spoof. It's just the silliness of the day-to-day life of trying to make a television series.
I just want to know...after the (terribly sad and unjust) failure of Studio 60, why is NBC going for this behind-the-scenes-of-a-TV-show thing? I mean, I think it'll be good, but it seems an odd network decision.
Whole interview HERE
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