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Post by annabelleleigh on Sept 5, 2008 14:09:55 GMT -5
A counterpoint of embrace and abstinence, "Zero" could not be a more contemporary riff on technology and the extreme ways it is shaping attitudes and actions in our society.
In the very best of mothership tradition, the script is freckled with dry wit and deadpan lines from the regular cast of characters. If that dialogue isn't severely trimmed in post-production editing, I think the ghost of Lenny Briscoe will grin down on this one.
AL
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Post by dragonsback on Sept 5, 2008 14:32:51 GMT -5
Annabelle, can you tell us who wrote the script? I always assume that Rene Balcer writes or rewrites scripts for whichever L&O universe he is responsible for, but I'd like to know whom he chose to give the teleplay to. (Enough prepositional endings there to make all English majors faint dead away.)
May I just admit here that I gave away the Mothership after Balcer moved on. I will re-engage NOW, and try to swot up on Season 18.
Dry wit and deadpan lines. God knows we could use someof those in LOCI. Maybe they could send the post-production shavings over to Chelsea Piers.
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Post by annabelleleigh on Sept 5, 2008 17:45:23 GMT -5
The short answer is: I don't know who will get the writing credits for "Zero." As to who gets the L&O writing assignments:
In Season 18 the L&O writing staff included William N. Fordes, Richard Sweren and Ed Zuckerman -- all, like Rene Balcer, lifetime members of the Wolf Pack and long associated with the mothership.
Prior to L&O, Fordes was a Manhattan A.D.A.; Sweren was a public defender in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Zuckerman once created a short-lived "futuristic legal drama" for CBS called "Century City" which apparently still has a small cult following.
Other Season 18 writers: David Slack, David Wilcox, and CI veterans Stephanie SenGupta and Gina Gionfriddo.
Like former CI writer Charlie Rubin, Slack has a background in animation.
Wilcox has been writing for the mothership since 2006. He's reputedly a poster boy for persistence, having pitched and pitched and pitched and written spec scripts for L&O before landing this gig. Previous work includes short stints with a couple of sci-fi series.
As we know, Gionfriddo and SenGupta are Balcer's playwright hires.
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Post by trisha on Sept 5, 2008 18:14:06 GMT -5
Thanks for the info, AL. I'm already looking forward to this  Dry wit and deadpan lines. God knows we could use someof those in LOCI. Maybe they could send the post-production shavings over to Chelsea Piers. LOL!! Well, lets hope they don't need it with Green and Chernuchin in charge  |
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Post by annabelleleigh on Sept 7, 2008 21:56:50 GMT -5
At this writing "Zero" is in the episode queque at #6 for the new season.
Not that anyone cares but my guess is that "Zero" was written by Ed Zuckerman (who once wrote a "Miami Vice" episode about murder and bull sperm called "The Cows of October"), or Gina Gionfriddo, whose theater pieces tend to be laced with satire.
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Post by annabelleleigh on Sept 8, 2008 11:07:36 GMT -5
Oh yeah -- there's a crime to start off this new L&O episode. Here's my (unofficial) plot synopsis:
When the wife of a "zero carbon footprint" blogger is blugeoned to death in the couple's organic garden, Lupo and Bernard are called in to investigate. They soon discover that the victim's secret visits to a hotel bar may not have been solely for the toilet paper.
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Post by annabelleleigh on Nov 7, 2008 10:58:00 GMT -5
From "Zero" Original broadcast date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Edited to add: New broadcast date is Wednesday, December 17, 2008. (l-r) Ned Beatty plays addle-pated Judge Malcolm Reynolds with Sherry Stringfield as his protective, puppeteer clerk. Photo credit: Will Hart, NBC |
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