Word: deadwood
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...DEADWOOD...
...question is what to draw them with. "Online is the Wild West," says Zucker. "There are no rules yet." More precisely, online is Deadwood: a mother lode of new riches, with big companies trying to muscle in on the prospectors. (Or buy them out: Carson Daly just signed a development deal with 20-year-old YouTube comic sensation Brooke [Brookers] Brodack.) Online, the competition is not just CBS and Fox: it's college kids on MySpace and raunchy comedy sites like collegehumor com The networks can't take as many risks online--even though the FCC can't touch them...
...DEADWOOD HBO, SUNDAYS, 9 P.M. E.T.; STARTS JUNE 11 Law is coming to the mining settlement of Deadwood. But order is not. Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) is running for sheriff in the town's first election while misanthropic magnate George Hearst (Gerald McRaney) is ruthlessly moving in on the mining operations. Saloonkeeper Al Swearengen (Ian McShane) sees Hearst's thugs as a threat to his crime-and-vice monopoly. "Bloodletting on my premises-- that I ain't approved--I take as a f__ing affront," he says. HBO seems ready, foolishly, to let Season 3 be the western's last...
...LaPier, former New York Times Hollywood reporter Bernard Weinraub, and Creative Artists Agency executives Kevin Huvane and Bryan Lourd, among others. In addition, Pellicano and his associates allegedly wiretapped the phones of Stallone, real estate mogul Robert Maguire, Herbalife co-founder Mark Hughes, Scary Movie executive producer Bo Zenga, Deadwood actor Keith Carradine, Farrah Fawcett Majors ex-boyfriend James Orr, and former Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch...
...network as blue-state-oriented as HBO (each of its current sitcoms, for instance, is about show business), Big Love is a surprising detour to the reddest of the red states. In the drama, which debuts in summer 2006, characters declare their faith as easily as those on Deadwood swear. Co-creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, neither of whom is Mormon, say they were interested in the conflict within Bill, who came from a polygamist compound but now lives in the mainstream suburbs of Salt Lake City. The fundamentalists, says Olsen, see the LDS Church "as sellouts...