Listen: Firewall & Iceberg Podcast No. 25
Daniel Fienberg and Alan Sepinwall talk pilots, 'Undeclared' and tease the weeks to come
Happy Wednesday, again, boys and girls... It's time for a relatively light Firewall & Iceberg Podcast.
With no new shows to review this week, we talked about some network fall pilots (but we didn't review them), we answered some listener mail and we talked about two more episodes of "Undeclared."
Next week? We're gonna have a pre-Comic-Con podcast and then the following two weeks will be in the midst of Television Critics Association Press Tour. So we'll keep to our Wednesday schedule as best we can, but it's unclear how well we'll pull that off.
Here's what came up this week:
Early Pilot Preview -- 03:30 - 24:20
Random Reader Mail -- 24:24 - 41:00
"Undeclared" -- 41:00 - 49:30
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And here's this week's podcast...
A long-time member of the TCA Board and a longer-time blogger of "American Idol," Dan Fienberg writes about TV, except for when he writes about movies or sometimes writes about the Red Sox. But never music. He would sound stupid talking about music.
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July 14, 2010 at 6:23PM EST Reply to CommentSPOILER ALERT to anyone that doesn't want to be spoiled on NO ORDINARY FAMILY: Having seen the pilot, they are talking to a therapist offscreen, not to the audience.
dan Marc - But the conceit is that they're talking to the audience. Whether it's a mockumentary crew or an irrelevant therapist, it's devised as direct address to the audience to introduce information which would have been more difficult to convey within the context of the narrative.
July 14, 2010 at 6:27PM EST-Daniel
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July 15, 2010 at 11:31AM EST Reply to CommentI hope with Running Wilde Mitch Hurwitz does what Bill Lawrence did with Scrubs where he said the model for the show is The Simpsons where minor characters get story lines (Colonel Doctor, Dr. Beardface and Snoop Dogg Intern)
July 15, 2010 at 2:23PM EST Reply to CommentJust a little correction here: Covert Affairs is also executive produced by Doug Liman, who's a pretty established name - Bourne movies, etc.
Love the podcast!
sepinwall Liman's not one of the creators, though. That was our point.
July 15, 2010 at 2:35PM EST
July 15, 2010 at 2:50PM EST