![]() ![]() I’m still not sure Steve is complicated and/or sympathetic enough to be at the center of a show, but this was a step in the right direction.Īnd for all of Hurwitz’s talk in the interview about how “Arrested” comparisons are unfair, he and the writers keep inviting them. I laughed pretty consistently at the running gag about Steve’s home school teachers (“I had Marvin Hamlisch for math”) enjoyed how Steve surprised everyone, including himself, by fitting in so well at the office, and was glad to see another side of Emmy as she got too into character at the job. Still, this was clearly the strongest, and funniest, of the three episodes so far. But the Keep It Simple, Stupid approach was very apparent in “Oil and Water.” The “Arrested” version of this story, in addition to servicing a much larger cast, would have featured six or seven more twists in how Steve and Emmy felt about his job at the oil company, whereas here we only got a couple of reversals. ![]() I don’t know that it’s fair to lay all the blame at the feet of FOX, as I don’t get a sense from the interview, or any of Hurwitz’s previous ones, that he has a really clear sense of what this show is and why it should be working if he and the others were left alone. In particular, he suggested that he’s dealing with network notes far more than he ever did on “Arrested Development,” and that FOX’s push to simplify storylines is really impairing his writing staff’s ability to make the funniest show they can. Yesterday afternoon, Vulture posted a very candid, fairly depressing interview with Mitch Hurwitz about his struggles with this show. ![]() The panel also had a touch of Kids Say the Darnest Things when young star Stefania Owen, who plays Russell’s daughter, was asked to talk about her character.A review of last night’s “Running Wilde” coming up just as soon as I get out of the Easthampton drunk tank… “In nutshell, Vanc-over,” is how Serafinowicz summed up the move. Additionally, production has been moved from Vancouver to New York, mostly because of the lack of opulent mansions up north. As a result, the two roles were recently recast,with Robert Michael Morris replacing Jayne Houdeyshell and Mel Rodriguez replacing Joseph A. He pointed to Fox entertainment president’s criticism (which he agreed with) that “we have lost a lot of what was special about the Emmy character,” Steve’s (Arnett) love interest played by Keri Russell.Īdditionally, besides the casting of Cross, the creators re-conceived the characters of Steve’s ex-nanny, which has been given a gender makeover form a matriarch figure to a manny, and that of his driver/friend, who is now “more contemporary to Steve” with a dynamic between him and his boss in the vein of that between Steve Carell and John Krasinski’s characters on The Office. The creators talked about the slew of tweaks to the pilot, that will result in more than a half of it being reshot, according to Hurwitz. a hope of it being cancelled,” but later added that he is “glad to be trying to make a show that attracts larger audience.”Īdded Arnett, “We’re out of our comfort zone and we’re figuring it out.” Arnett, one of the current kings of dead-pan humor, was overshadowed on the panel by recent cast addition Peter Serafinowicz, who is sometime referred to “the British Will Arnett.” (Serafinowicz was recently upped to a regular after guest starring in the pilot.) One example: He followed Hurwitz’s praise of Fox’s support for the project with this take on the network: “It’s come such a long wasy since the days they just did documentaries about foxes,” he said with a completely straight face, drawing big laughs. “But this is a different project, and it has a different set of rules to it.”Īddressing the fact that, with Wilde, he is looking to do a romantic comedy with wider appeal than the off-beat Arrested, Hurwitz confessed that “I have a fear of success…. “We very much loved Arrested Development, we miss it and that’s why we still want to make the movie, Hurwitz said, adding after the session that the script for the movie is halfway done. The comparisons are inevitable: new Fox comedy series Running Wilde was created by Arrested alums Mitch Hurwitz, Will Arnett and Jim Vallely and stars Arnett, with another Arrested actor, David Cross, recently joining the cast in a recasting. If you wondered how long it took before first Arrested Development-related question at the Running Wilde panel came in, it was a couple of minutes. ![]()
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