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Tim Minear has taken over a show called The Inside that was supposed to be 21 Jumpstreet-like from it's previous creators who've left and everything has been jettisoned but the name of the show and the lead actress, Rachel Nichols (Dumb and Dumberer). Tim's version centers on an FBI profiler to be played by Nichols. Jane Espenson is on board as co-executive producer. Look for it as a mid-season replacement on FOX in 2005
Tim Minear posts:
Uuuuuuh. Tired. The new thing started shooting at 7:00am today, if you can believe it. Things have gone really well so far. The cast is coming together in a large and wonderful way. As it should since, well, shooting began at 7:00am.
Our lead is Rachel Nichols and even if she wasn't already living in this show when I got there I'd have cast her. A star in the making, I feel. And an unspoiled delight. So far, right on. Peter Facinelli was also attached to a show of a similar name at one time, but opted out. We met as I got involved and he seemed a friendly and (I already knew) a talented sort. I think he would have been good in my show, but we agreed right off that if he felt he wanted to go I'd support him in that. And it's true that what we're doing has no reference to what was being done in a prior life. So he's gone and with all our best wishes. Wasn't for him. Things do work out, though. Included in this cast is an actor I think is also star stuff, his name is Jay Harrington and even though he was just added I feel like I've been writing this role for him from jump. Just ideal.
Rachel and Jay play FBI Agents with the violent crimes section of the LA office. Also on the team are Danny Love, a.k.a. Adam Baldwin and the fantabulous Kimberly Scott as Special Agent Carla Thoms. Ya'll who have seen "Crime Dog" of TV's "Wonderfalls" on the intraweb will know her as the cop who gives Jaye a hard time.
We did a table read yesterday with the cast for the network and studio bigs. Went great. And Alexis Denisof was a dear friend to come in and read the role of Web (has yet to be cast) for us at the read. He's a couple decades too young for the part, but he was superb and I'm so grateful for the favor. I sent him booze.
I've managed to reconstitute a very large chunk of the Angel crew, including Ross my DP, so I'm happy. I'll be protecting for widescreen until I can convince the network of the wisdom of wide. This thing should be wide.
That's all I've got for now.
