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Bull
Mar 9, 2017 4:58:59 GMT
Post by Llyan (Admin) on Mar 9, 2017 4:58:59 GMT
Did anyone else get the skydiving part as a throwback to NCIS season 1, "Hung out to Dry"? Then Frank Whaley from season 2 "Chained", I do wish they would stop with the NCIS connections and let "Bull" at least try to stand on it's own two feet.
I fully understand that character actors travel from show to show as guests to fill certain rolls. And in all honesty, I wouldn't mind seeing some old NCIS friends and foes pop up occasionally on Bull, but let it find it's footing first, break from the mother strings of NCIS, (even if everyone denies is somehow connected) and allow it to swim on it's own. The skydiving was so different that it didn't feel like a NCIS connection - beside the fact that Bull has only had one NCIS writer do a couple of scripts. I loved Frank Whaley as Max and enjoyed having him on because he and Michael are so good together on screen. Frank was a one-time guest star so it's not like having someone on who was a regular. There's also the fact that Frank was on "NCIS" 14 years ago and your average viewer isn't going to remember that [or the specifics of "Hung Out To Dry" like we do]. Having actors on Michael (the star and one of the producers) respects is a good thing for me.
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Bull
Mar 9, 2017 5:28:42 GMT
Post by Hari Seldon on Mar 9, 2017 5:28:42 GMT
Having actors on Michael (the star and one of the producers) respects is a good thing for me. Some people cling so fiercely to their preconceived notions that they will see things as identical when there is only the slightest hint of resemblance. Max Hyland bore a much greater resemblance to Josh Wagner than Jeffrey White and even that wasn't all that much.
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Post by Llyan (Admin) on Mar 20, 2017 22:53:48 GMT
Thoughts? Good? Bad? No difference? deadline.com/2017/03/glenn-gordon-caron-new-bull-showrunner-overall-deal-cbs-studios-1202047310/
Glenn Gordon Caron Tapped As New ‘Bull’ Showrunner Under CBS TV Studios Deal by Nellie Andreeva • tip March 20, 2017 3:13pm
CBS TV Studios
EXCLUSIVE: Glenn Gordon Caron is returning to his long-time home, CBS TV Studios, with a multi-year overall deal. Under the pact, he will take over the studio’s freshman drama series Bull as executive producer and showrunner for Season 2. He will join the show effective immediately, consulting for the remainder of Season 1.
Mark Goffman, who joined Bull after the pilot last spring, will continue as executive producer and showrunner for the rest of the current season, after which he will transition to development under his overall with CBS TV Studios.
CBS is yet to make renewal decisions on any of its freshman series, but Bull, starring Michael Weatherly, is considered a lock for a Season 2 pickup. It ranks as the #1 New Series and #3 scripted series overall in total viewers.
This marks the first time Caron — creator of hits Moonlighting and Medium as well as cult drama Now And Again — will be taking over an existing series. He recently was under an overall deal at 20th TV where he served as an executive producer on the FX drama series Tyrant. Bull CBS
Inspired by the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw, Bull centers on the brilliant, brash and charming, Dr. Bull (Weatherly) is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition and high tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses and the accused tick. Caron will serve as an executive producer alongside Paul Attanasio and Phil McGraw, who wrote the pilot, Jay McGraw, and Amblin TV’s Steven Spielberg, Justin Falvey & Darryl Frank.
Caron is reped by WME, 3Arts and Ziffren Brittenham.
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Post by Llyan (Admin) on Mar 21, 2017 0:05:03 GMT
renewcanceltv.com/bull-renewed-season-2-cbs-report/Bull Renewed For Season 2 By CBS! (Report) March 20, 2017 by RenewCancelTV Leave a Comment Bull Season 2 Facebook Twitter Reddit
CBS has quietly renewed Bull for Season 2, to premiere fall 2017, sources reveal.
In addition, the second season will see Glenn Gordon Caron become the drama’s new showrunner as part of an overall deal with CBS TV Studios, replacing Mark Goffman, RenewCancelTV has confirmed.
CBS is expected to officially announce the renewal in the coming weeks.
Stay tuned as we now monitor the renew/cancel status of Bull Season 3…
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Post by Llyan (Admin) on Mar 21, 2017 0:07:30 GMT
TVLine's write-up:
Bull to Switch Showrunners as CBS Nears a Season 2 Renewal By Dave Nemetz / March 20 2017, 3:51 PM PDT CBS’ Bull has a new man in charge… which sets the stage for a possible Season 2.
TV veteran Glenn Gordon Caron is taking over as showrunner of the freshman legal drama, according to a report from our sister site Deadline — but only if the series, starring NCIS alum Michael Weatherly as a high-priced jury consultant, returns for a second season. Caron will join Bull for the remainder of Season 1 as a consultant, with current showrunner Mark Goffman transitioning to a development role at season’s end.
RELATEDMichael Weatherly Shares Hopes for Bull (Including That It Dodges a Dark Angel Detour), Reflects on NCIS Exit
This is a great sign for Bull‘s renewal chances, which were pretty strong in any case; our very own handy-dandy Renewal Scorecard currently has Bull as “a sure thing.” CBS hasn’t announced any renewals for its freshman slate yet, but Bull has been a steady performer on Tuesday nights — even while going up against NBC’s juggernaut This Is Us — pulling in 10.3 million total viewers in its latest airing.
Caron has been a primetime staple for decades: He created the ’80s ABC classic Moonlighting, led by Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd, along with the long-running Patricia Arquette procedural Medium. Most recently, he was an executive producer on FX’s Tyrant.
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Post by kate06460 on Mar 21, 2017 19:13:16 GMT
I don't know what to think...maybe its like passing it off on a relay...someone got it started and could only provide so much and now needs someone else to carry it to new levels.
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Bull
Mar 23, 2017 0:13:21 GMT
Post by alessandra on Mar 23, 2017 0:13:21 GMT
I don't know anything about Mark Goffman and Glenn Gordon Caron, but I've heard that the second one is very capable and has lots of experience while MG will stay with Bull as consultant though he'll start new projects. Maybe this is his job: start successful shows and then move on. The only thing the need to do it's not take the soap-opera turn as SB and GG did on NCIS (sorry fans) and start relationships among the main characters.
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Post by terrij58 on Mar 23, 2017 0:48:33 GMT
I don't know anything about Mark Goffman and Glenn Gordon Caron, but I've heard that the second one is very capable and has lots of experience while MG will stay with Bull as consultant though he'll start new projects. Maybe this is his job: start successful shows and then move on. The only thing the need to do it's not take the soap-opera turn as SB and GG did on NCIS (sorry fans) and start relationships among the main characters. AMEN!
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Post by Llyan (Admin) on Mar 23, 2017 0:54:07 GMT
I don't know anything about Mark Goffman and Glenn Gordon Caron, but I've heard that the second one is very capable and has lots of experience while MG will stay with Bull as consultant though he'll start new projects. Maybe this is his job: start successful shows and then move on. The only thing the need to do it's not take the soap-opera turn as SB and GG did on NCIS (sorry fans) and start relationships among the main characters. Hopefully Michael will have and use his veto power if GGC tries to go the shipper route.
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Post by Llyan (Admin) on Mar 23, 2017 15:45:19 GMT
Not surprising but here's the official news that Bull has been renewed: Article includes other renewed CBS shows:
tvline.com/2017/03/23/renewed-tv-shows-2017-hawaii-five-0-scorpion-cbs/
CBS Renews 16 Series, Including Bull, Hawaii Five-0, Scorpion, Blue Bloods and MacGyver — What's Missing? By Michael Ausiello / March 23 2017, 8:00 AM PDT
CBS has its eye on the 2017-18 TV season, handing out early renewals to 16 more of its current series, including rookie series Bull, MacGyver, Kevin Can Wait, Man With a Plan and Superior Donuts. Cancelled or Not? 13 Shows on the Bubble Launch Gallery
Also scoring pickups: Venerable procedurals Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods and NCIS: Los Angeles, as well as Madam Secretary, Scorpion, NCIS: New Orleans, Life in Pieces and Mom. No-brainer renewals for non-scripted institutions Survivor, 60 Minutes and 48 Hours brings the number to 16 (or 18, if you include the already greenlit The Big Bang Theory and NCIS).
RELATED2017 Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble?
So, what’s missing from the network’s renewal blitz? Criminal Minds, 2 Broke Girls and Elementary are arguably the most glaring omissions. Also MIA: Sophomore dramas Code Black and Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, freshman comedy The Great Indoors, waning utility players The Odd Couple and Undercover Boss.
In far less surprising news, ill-fated rookie dramas Doubt (pulled after two airings), Pure Genius (failed to score a back-nine order) and Training Day (Saturday-bound, and in the wake of star Bill Paxton’s passing) also failed to make the cut. Ditto Ransom and Hunted.
CBS, however, notes that “additional returning series pick-ups for next season will be announced at a later date.” As you’ll recall, a decision on Criminal Minds wasn’t reached until the 11th hour last year. Financial issues are likely once again delaying the pricey procedural’s renewal.
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Post by Llyan (Admin) on Mar 23, 2017 18:44:19 GMT
worldscreen.com/michael-weatherly/
Damned good interview - not a fluff piece.
Q&A with Michael Weatherly Anna Carugati 4 hours ago Top Stories Michael-WeatherlyNEW YORK: Actor Michael Weatherly talks about creating his new character in Bull, his gratitude to CBS and his continued affection for NCIS.
For 13 seasons on NCIS, Michael Weatherly was known to viewers around the world as Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo, the handsome, confident, street-smart, skilled, wisecracking, movie-loving agent who fought crime for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. When word leaked early last year that Weatherly had decided to leave NCIS, fans were bereft. But Weatherly understood his responsibility to the show and worked with the writers to craft a fitting exit for DiNozzo. Though fans were hoping that they would see Weatherly reprise DiNozzo in guest appearances on NCIS, it was announced that he would be the lead in a new show, Bull, about an intriguing, somewhat aloof, yet highly effective, trial consultant. Airing on CBS right after NCIS, Bull is one of the highest-rated new shows this season. Weatherly talks about creating this new character, his gratitude to CBS and his continued affection for NCIS.
WS: How did Bull come about and at what point did you become involved in the project? WEATHERLY: I had made the decision to leave NCIS, and I was concentrating on developing a few things and squaring myself with the NCIS experience, making sure that [DiNozzo’s story] was resolved correctly. Another CBS drama was the last thing on my mind! Having said all that, I got a phone call about the script, which I read over a weekend in January 2016. I thought it was different than the police procedural stuff that I had done before. I loved the psychological aspect, and I loved who was involved in the show: Rodrigo García, who did In Treatment at HBO, Paul Attanasio, who played a very big role in bringing the TV show House to the world, and Steven Spielberg—we don’t have to say anything more about him! The really wild part of it was Dr. Phil McGraw, whom I had met before; I understood that he was an extremely interesting guy with a background in trial consultation and analysis. He had worked with Oprah and many other people and companies. I talked to my manager, and he said, This probably won’t happen, but let’s go through the motions. Lo and behold, within a very short period, I found myself on a set in New York City playing a guy named Bull, while I was still shooting NCIS. I was flying back every weekend to see my kids, and it’s really been a whirlwind since the end of NCIS and the beginning of Bull. I’m so excited that Bull has sold to over 200 territories and is going to get sampled by a huge number of people, and I hope they like it.
Bull is a show about human behavior as it pertains to jury selection, but it also asks, What’s the judge thinking? What are the witnesses thinking? In an election year like the one we’ve had, not just with the Trumpness but with the Brexit and what is happening all around the world, it seemed to be the right time for a show about human behavior.
WS: How did you prepare for the role and what research did you do? WEATHERLY: I prepared by reading the script many times, which is usually your first clue. I’m a little bit of a lateral thinker and have been known to digress, so I let myself go and digress and I started watching a lot of different aspects of jury consulting. The O.J. Simpson documentary O.J.: Made in America was airing at the time. I watched that and found it so interesting that they used a jury consultant during that trial, someone who was very much like Jason Bull. I watched a lot of Italian movies, particularly Fellini. I felt there was something absurd and playful combined with cryptic storytelling. So I found myself thinking of Bull when I watched 8½ and La Dolce Vita, and that’s where Bull’s glasses came from. I was thinking of Michael Caine in The Ipcress File. It was a smorgasbord of little samples that I put myself through. What I found, through all of those different tiles that made up the ultimate mosaic of Jason Bull, was that he is a very compartmented, fragmented person, who can conduct everyone else’s symphony but his own. And on some level he was a bit of a mystery even to himself. Then I thought, OK, I won’t make any more decisions about him until we start shooting. I learn more about him every episode. I try not to say he wouldn’t do something because we may think we know who we are, but then we find ourselves in a new situation and can be radically redefined by circumstances. To me, Bull is not Gibbs [Leroy Jethro Gibbs from NCIS], right? But I have this big poster of Marcello Mastroianni in the film The Stranger hanging in my dressing room, and any time I’m trying to put myself into the role of Jason Bull, I will spend a little time gazing at Marcello’s painted face in that poster. I’ll think, all right, a little bit cold, a little bit removed, a little bit sensual and playful.
I like to pull inspiration from unpredictable places because I find that juxtapositions can make a character more interesting. It’s my job now to make sure that the stories are as good as they can be, and that people are allowed to access Bull and go on a journey with him. We will see. It’s a funny thing when you are building a character, the way that he presents himself to the world—the glasses, the hairdo, the sweater that he wears underneath the suit, which is a bit of a therapist’s cardigan—is a very fastidious and specific series of choices. I find that Bull is all about that, which means I really can’t get lazy and relaxed when playing him. He’s the opposite of DiNozzo in a lot of ways, so that’s fun, too.
WS: How much research do the writers do and what consultants do you have on the show to make sure the trial analysis is accurate? WEATHERLY: We have an executive producer on the show who has done jury consulting. I leave it up to the professionals to make sure that we’re doing things moderately truthfully. Anytime you are doing a medical show or a cop show, you have to compress time, so sometimes things can get a little unrealistic, but overall I’m always trying to make sure that the behavior is as realistic as possible.
WS: In a previous interview, you told me that you had a unique way of preparing for a scene on NCIS. You said that you didn’t work on the script the night before a shoot, rather, during a shoot you would listen very carefully to the other actors and get into the scene as the camera moved in from long shots to close-ups. Are you using the same approach on Bull? WEATHERLY: It’s a totally different approach because DiNozzo was this big, crashing, noisy character and Bull is much more of a main sail or rudder. You need to know where you’re going with a character like Bull. A lot of acting is about solving a crossword puzzle, and for me, the best part is being challenged to make these connections and solve the puzzle and put all those things together, maybe not as the writer intended, but for the audience. It takes a huge amount of effort to prepare for Bull. It’s a harder job.
WS: As the lead actor, what atmosphere do you want on set? I’ve read that the NCIS set was extremely cordial and like a family. Are there elements of that set that you want to bring to Bull? WEATHERLY: I do enjoy a very loose sense of camaraderie, and the feeling that we are all in this together. Whether you are a dolly grip or an electrician or a prop man or an actor, we are all there on set. The camera only shows the people wearing makeup, but there are a lot of people that make every episode of television come together—it’s a huge undertaking. So, given the size and the expense of the show, I do have a more relaxed approach to the on-set vibe, if you will. What that entails mostly is playing a little bit of music, making people laugh, reminding everyone that this is not brain surgery. My wife is a primary care doctor, and she reminds me all the time that acting is not brain surgery!
WS: You played Tony DiNozzo for 13 seasons. Was it difficult for you to make the transition to Jason Bull? Was there any wisecracking or anything about Tony that rose to the surface in your performance of Bull? WEATHERLY: When you are playing somebody like DiNozzo there is definitely a habitual go-to, whether it’s comedy or facial expressions or the way you pitch your voice. So I did a lot of work, and over the first few episodes of Bull, I tried to hone that. I did a series called Dark Angel for a couple of years before NCIS. One of the biggest compliments I ever received on NCIS was when I was working with this actor and halfway through shooting a scene he said, Oh my God, you’re that guy from the Jessica Alba show—which had been off the air only a couple of years at that time. I said, Yeah, Dark Angel. And he said, I watched every episode. You were in the wheelchair and you were skinny [laughs] and you had glasses. I took it as high praise that I was invisible. It’s funny, people didn’t think I had a sense of humor when I was on Dark Angel, and then after playing DiNozzo, people thought I did. People always assume that you’re the character you are playing, and that’s fine; I have no issue with it. I’m just very grateful that CBS gave me the opportunity and had faith in me to try and create a guy named Bull. What a strange new world for them. It would have been much easier for CBS just to do DiNozzo 2.0—DiNozzo in Europe with his own team of agents. I wasn’t interested in doing that either, and CBS, very much to their credit, never tried to turn Bull into an NCIS kind of show. And I am the number one fan of NCIS. I’ve been touting it for a decade and a half. But Bull is a different show, and it can appeal to the same audience because there is resolution at the end of the episode and there is insight into why we do the things we do. There is also a colorful cast of characters that the audience can plug into and feel an affinity for. I don’t know if people see themselves in these characters, but that’s a tried-and-true formula for a lot of television.
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Post by desertdude on Mar 23, 2017 20:33:16 GMT
Thanks Newbie!!! That was a nice interview. Gee, what happened with him being all frustrated with Mark and just hated everyone? Oh but that was on the other board.
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Bull
Mar 23, 2017 22:21:56 GMT
Post by terrij58 on Mar 23, 2017 22:21:56 GMT
Maybe there was some speculation that someone took seriously and "away she goes" type thing happened.
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Bull
Mar 24, 2017 3:04:23 GMT
Post by concisfan on Mar 24, 2017 3:04:23 GMT
I don't know anything about Mark Goffman and Glenn Gordon Caron, but I've heard that the second one is very capable and has lots of experience while MG will stay with Bull as consultant though he'll start new projects. Maybe this is his job: start successful shows and then move on. The only thing the need to do it's not take the soap-opera turn as SB and GG did on NCIS (sorry fans) and start relationships among the main characters. Hopefully Michael will have and use his veto power if GGC tries to go the shipper route.
Kind of worried about this. The show was really coming into it's own. Why change now? Moonlighting was ok when it started but crashed and burned pretty quickly. Haven't seen any of his other work.
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Post by concisfan on Mar 24, 2017 3:13:53 GMT
worldscreen.com/michael-weatherly/
Damned good interview - not a fluff piece.
Q&A with Michael Weatherly Anna Carugati 4 hours ago Top Stories Michael-WeatherlyNEW YORK: Actor Michael Weatherly talks about creating his new character in Bull, his gratitude to CBS and his continued affection for NCIS.
For 13 seasons on NCIS, Michael Weatherly was known to viewers around the world as Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo, the handsome, confident, street-smart, skilled, wisecracking, movie-loving agent who fought crime for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. When word leaked early last year that Weatherly had decided to leave NCIS, fans were bereft. But Weatherly understood his responsibility to the show and worked with the writers to craft a fitting exit for DiNozzo. Though fans were hoping that they would see Weatherly reprise DiNozzo in guest appearances on NCIS, it was announced that he would be the lead in a new show, Bull, about an intriguing, somewhat aloof, yet highly effective, trial consultant. Airing on CBS right after NCIS, Bull is one of the highest-rated new shows this season. Weatherly talks about creating this new character, his gratitude to CBS and his continued affection for NCIS.
He's taking a very different approach with this character. He gives interesting interviews. I always thought it would be great to sit down and talk to him. Thanks for posting this NewB.
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