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re: Maybe Daniel Radcliffe?

Posted by: mikem 05:03 am EST 01/20/14
In reply to: re: Maybe Daniel Radcliffe? - ryhog 10:46 pm EST 01/19/14

Your ideas about the relative prestige of film and TV are outdated. Think of all the film stars (Matthew McConaughey being the latest) to appear on TV recently. And Daniel Radcliffe is one of them. He stars in a TV series, A Young Doctor's Notebook, which has run two seasons and whose most recent episode was last month.

And I don't think this Peter Pan is automatically "junky." If there was a revival of Peter Pan on Broadway, I don't think it would get dismissed automatically as "junky." This year's Sound of Music could have been better, but a lot of people found it entertaining, and it was successful in the way Hollywood measures success (by ratings, and it also got a Directors Guild nomination, voted on by other directors.)


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re: Maybe Daniel Radcliffe?

Posted by: ryhog 11:01 am EST 01/20/14
In reply to: re: Maybe Daniel Radcliffe? - mikem 05:03 am EST 01/20/14

The issue is not TV vs film, nor is it Peter Pan. (I was not suggesting the property itself was junky.) But this show is not borne of making something great; it is about ratings for a family special, and it is going to be perceived as ratings junk unless and until NBC foolishly tries to make it into something more artful that wil have the sort of ratings the Tonys get in the same time slot. Lots of things are successful in Hollywood that I don't expect to see Daniel Radcliffe signing up for. Do you expect him on Dancing with the Stars too?


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re: Maybe Daniel Radcliffe?

Posted by: SuzanneR 05:04 pm EST 01/20/14
In reply to: re: Maybe Daniel Radcliffe? - ryhog 11:01 am EST 01/20/14

"But this show is not borne of making something great; it is about ratings"

Perfect description ...


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