I found out today that Geoffrey Arend who plays nerdy Ethan on the show is married to hot Christina Hendricks from Mad Men fame.
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Originally Posted by Robert Crawford
I found out today that Geoffrey Arend who plays nerdy Ethan on the show is married to hot Christina Hendricks from Mad Men fame.
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Philly versus Providence. With all due respect to Providence, it's still a small city in comparison to the City of Brotherly Love so the perception of a big city ME wins out in the minds of those that make the decision. If I had to guess the reason why it's not being filmed in Philly is because they probably got some serious tax breaks from Providence and RI.Originally Posted by Adam Lenhardt
What's weird about this show is that it's shot in, I believe, Providence RI. If you're shooting in one Northeast city as another Northeast city, why not just set the show in the city you're shooting in? Would this show be less effective with a Rhode Island M.E. instead of a Pennsylvania M.E.?
And sometimes they don't disguise it very well. On a recent episode of Suspect Behavior that was set in Indianapolis, during a couple of the exterior shots with the main actors, there were mountains seen in the background. I have lived here for a while and never noticed them. To give them credit, the stock stuff was great and the script used vey accurate names for places and streets.Originally Posted by Joseph DeMartino
In that case, that man is my hero. Maybe there's hope for the rest of us.
Re: Not shooting in Philly. The reality is that very few shows are shot where they are set. Most of shot in Los Angeles and do maybe a week or two shooting exteriors with the main cast and maybe aother few days with a second unit shooting background shots.
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And sometimes they don't disguise it very well.
Not exactly. Memphis and New Orleans are both Deep South cities that have the Mississippi river and a fair amount of history in common. Providence is in Rhode Island, a New England state, and beyond that part of the Northeast. Philadelphia is Pennsylvania, a Mid-Atlantic state that has more in common, culturally and geographically, with Delaware, Maryland and even parts of Ohio than it does with Northern New Jersey or southern New York, to say nothing of anything further east of the Hudson river. It is more like shooting a series set in Charleston, SC in Jacksonville, FL. You could say that both cities are "in the same part of the country" (the south) but you'd be missing a lot.Originally Posted by Walter C
Basically like Memphis Beat, filming in one city, but taking place in another in the same part of the country.
I understand your point, but I'm not so sure I agree with you as they're just filming in Providence and they're not talking about anything culturally common with Philly. In many of these old Northeast cities, they can all look similar in some neighborhoods except to those that actually live in those cities.Originally Posted by Joseph DeMartino
Not exactly. Memphis and New Orleans are both Deep South cities that have the Mississippi river and a fair amount of history in common. Providence is in Rhode Island, a New England state, and beyond that part of the Northeast. Philadelphia is Pennsylvania, a Mid-Atlantic state that has more in common, culturally and geographically, with Delaware, Maryland and even parts of Ohio than it does with Northern New Jersey or southern New York, to say nothing of anything further east of the Hudson river. It is more like shooting a series set in Charleston, SC in Jacksonville, FL. You could say that both cities are "in the same part of the country" (the south) but you'd be missing a lot.
Regards,
Joe
Originally Posted by Joseph DeMartino
There are only "x" number of minutes for story per hour. With shows not only getting squeezed by more commercials but are having to yield precious minutes to "reality" competitions about races, survival, dancing and singing that run over the standard time limits week after week. They've already squeezed and sped-up the closing credits to air them over the promos for the following show (to the point where the unions are really upset) so the last thing left to cut was the main title squence, which used to be a kind of art form. Now you get a few seconds of music and a title card, and then the credits run over the action at the top of act one. (And even at that shows like Castle tend to run a minute or two shorter than similar dramas on other networks.) Pity.
Re: Body of Proof. I'm enjoying it. Within a couple of episodes they've already moved beyond a lot of what people saw as cliches in the pilot, and I'm enjoying the characters. I do think that Jeri Ryan, especially, needs to be "fleshed out" more, as it were. But that red dress she was wearing while getting ready for her date goes a long way toward making me forgive the producers. And of course I've had a mad crush on Dana Delaney ever since and Marg Helgenberger were heating up China Beach. (Heck, I actually went back and watched Desperate Housewives for a awhile there when Dana was on.) It could eventually lose my interest, but for now I'll be sticking with the show.
Regards,
Joe
Speaking of Christina Hendricks, she guest starred on this week's episode and shared all of her scenes with her husband. Those two together just doesn't compute to me.Originally Posted by Robert Crawford
I found out today that Geoffrey Arend who plays nerdy Ethan on the show is married to hot Christina Hendricks from Mad Men fame.
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Just another one of those show biz odd couples. The Babe-Troll combo is surprisingly common. See Lyle Lovett & Julia Roberts, Marilyn Manson & Dita Von Tease, Gene Simmons & Shannon Tweed, Billy Bob Thornton & ... well, everybody he's ever dated or married.Originally Posted by Robert Crawford
Speaking of Christina Hendricks, she guest starred on this week's episode and shared all of her scenes with her husband. Those two together just doesn't compute to me.
The order was noticble if you've watched all the episodes.
The other thing that seems odd is that the detectives are in one then out and so forth. What gives?