Paul Gross has a new series

[cyberducks.livejournal.com]

http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/31721/abc-picks-up-eastwick

According to The Hollywood Reporter ABC has picked up his pilot Eastwick to series. He plays a character named "Daryl", Daryl is....well, lets just say he isn't like Fraser, heh, heh.

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[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

Paul Gross is playing the devil? THAT's going to be interesting :D

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

Heh. I bet he'd be really good in that role. How fun!

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Okay, Paul Gross, in a (loosely) Witches of Eastwick-based series? Starring among others Jamie Ray Newman (Cadman in Stargate: Atlantis) and Rebecca Romijn (Mystique, the X-Men movies) and directed by David Nutter (The X-Files). I'm... not sure how I feel about this.

[cyberducks.livejournal.com]

Well, it must have promise otherwise ABC wouldn't have picked it up to series. In today's economic climate the networks are less likely to throw money away on potential duds.

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't mean to imply it sounded bad. I'm just having trouble wrapping my mind around the idea. ;)

[elementalv.livejournal.com]

I think he'll make an awesome Devil. I'm very much looking forward to it.

[waltzforanight.livejournal.com]

YAY! \o/ \o/ \o/ I'm looking forward to it. I think it sounds cute. :D

I approve of this fall's TV schedule quite a lot, really. So many awesome people are going to be on!

[melpemone.livejournal.com]

I am cautiously optimistic. It does sound like it could be terrible, but Paul Gross has (barring very early-career notable exceptions) never let me down in his choice of material - if he says he had fun and thinks it's worthwhile, then it is.

This will, however, test my strong assertion that I can look at Paul and not see Benton, though. *g*

Also: wow, that's a serious commute.

[innocentsmith.livejournal.com]

I am embarrassingly excited about this. I love the movie, campy and ridiculous as it is, and liked the book. Even if it turns out to be terrible:

\o/ \Paul Gross as the Devil/ \o/

...This will lend itself to some exceedingly cracky crossovers, won't it.

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

This will lend itself to some exceedingly cracky crossovers
I put money on elementalv writing a really dark, angsty one that rips our hearts out and stomps on them.

[elementalv.livejournal.com]

Oi! Stop that! I have other stuff to do. For not to be putting ideas into my head.

...

Damn it.

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

*evil laugh*

[lucifuge-5.livejournal.com]

...This will lend itself to some exceedingly cracky crossovers, won't it.

Hee, seeing how I'm an AU fiend, my mind started to slip towards a story where RayK and Benton are in an established relationship only for PG-as-the-Devil to show up on a whim and mess things up between F/K.

Um, no. I've got no shame. *g*

I too am actually happy about this pilot being picked up, innocentsmith. In all truth, I liked the movie better than the book. Looking forward to the tv fall schedule for the first time in years.

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

*encourages you shamelessly*

[lucifuge-5.livejournal.com]

:: looks at the shameless encouragement and takes down a quick note on how the fic could go ::

Let's see how it goes down once the show premieres, y/y?

[wihluta.livejournal.com]

Oh, he just wants to be the devil... LOL

I hope it won't turn out crappy. The women look like pretty-faced, bore-me-to-death actresses, but photos can be deceiving, so I hope for the best.

[gloriana.livejournal.com]

Does this imply that the pilot has now been aired to some good audience response, or just that the network bosses saw it and liked it, do you know?

[cyberducks.livejournal.com]

It means that the ABC brass saw it and liked it, and that the pilot tested well in some focus groups. The public has not gotten to see this pilot.

[themadlurker.livejournal.com]

And the only thing I can think of is, "So is he going to have scruffy!beard this time?"