Word of a would-be CBS-TV series titled Big D has been circulating since last October, when creators Jeff and Jackie Filgo got the high sign from the network. At the time, no further details were available -- but as Tim Rogers pointed out over the weekend, The Hollywood Reporter has come up with this much: The show "centers on a New York couple who moves to the man's hometown of Dallas, where his Southern-belle mother makes life complicated for his East coast wife." Which sounds terrrrrible. Tha
At the end of January, state Sen. Bob Deuell of Greenville introduced S.B.No. 605, which would dramatically alter the Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Program -- by, well, actually offering incentives. Right now, the state has but $22 million to give to folks looking to shoot their movies or TV shows or commercials here, which, says Dallas Film Commission director Janis Burklund, "is gone in a heartbeat." Deuell's bill, referred to the Senate Committee on Economic Development this week, eli
ABC TelevisionThe cast of ABC's The Deep End, soon to be eating dinner at a table near youAfter the jump you'll find a trailer for the ABC-TV mid-season replacement The Deep End, a legal dramedy set in "one of L.A.'s most prestigious law firms." The rest of the narrative sounds like every other legal drama in the history of the vacuum tube (especially the now-adiosed ABC series Boston Legal), but there is one twist: This set-in-Los-Angeles series will shoot in, of all places, Dallas beginning in
Patrick MichelsLarry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray at Southfork Ranch at the Dallas reunion in November '08Can't believe it -- we get to use our "Ugh, More New About the Dallas Movie" slug again, long after that remake died a slow death some time in '07. Only this time, according to The New York Times, J.R. Ewing's not getting the big-screen makeover, courtesy John Travolta or whoever was on deck to play the oilman way back when, but a TV do-over. And it appears as though it's headed t
For the last week, this sign directing folks to The Deep End set has been posted at the Walnut Hill Lane exit on the Dallas North Tollway.Since its inception in October 2002, the Dallas Film Commission has been charged with trying to lure filmmakers to Dallas -- no easy task, given that until recently the state of Texas offered bupkus by way of incentives, while Louisiana and New Mexico were giving movie studios and TV production companies all the tax rebates and credits they could carry acro
Bradley WhitfordJanis Burklund, head of the Dallas Film Commission, breaks the big news: "We have landed the Fox TV Studios production Jack and Dan." Which, for those who don't read The Hollywood Reporter, is the latest series from Burn Notice creator and exec producer Matt Nix. And it's set to star Bradley Whitford, ex of The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and son-of-Tom Colin Hanks. What else says THR?It centers on Jack (Hanks), an ambitious, by-the-book detective whose habit
