Calgary - As pages go, Warren Littlefield is slightly overqualified. The Brandon Tartikoff protege spent 20 years as an executive at NBC, cultivating in a '90s run as NBC Entertainment President a gig that was, at times, rather wildly successful. On this March day in Calgary, though, Littlefield is serving as a tour-guide for a group of reporters visiting the set of his FX limited series "Fargo." Just a 10 minute drive from downtown Calgary, we've left the urban center behind and we're at a facility that is doubling for the Bemidji Police Department, as well as several other rural Minnesota hubs. Depending on which way you wander, there are interrogation rooms, a main squad area, portions of a local hospital and a middle school cafeteria, in which we're conducting most of our interviews next to a fine piece of juvenile art that has nothing to do with "Fargo," but I'm including it anyway.
- 4/14/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
The TV-DVD phenomenon has gotten so big that Universal Studios Home Entertainment is temporarily stepping back from the "complete season" strategy and releasing a series of DVDs celebrating some of television's most notorious failures. The first two titles, Brilliant But Cancelled: EZ Streets and Brilliant But Cancelled: Crime Dramas, arrived in stores Tuesday with episodes from five series that lasted only a few months on TV. The Brilliant But Cancelled DVD series -- more titles will be rolled out in the future -- is a spinoff of the 2003 documentary series of the same name that aired on the Trio Network.
- 5/24/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Universal-owned digital network Trio will transform its Brilliant but Canceled programming stunt into its primetime anchor in September. First introduced by the pop-culture channel as a monthlong initiative in December, Brilliant replayed such short-lived but critically acclaimed TV series as Profit, Kolchak: The Night Stalker and The Famous Teddy Z. Although which series will return has yet to be determined, Trio will schedule them at 8 p.m. weekdays. The network, available to 18 million homes, also said it will tweak its brand with a new logo and tag line. Previously described as "popular arts television," Trio's new tag line is "pop, culture, tv." Trio president Lauren Zalaznick believes the change emphasizes the network's embrace of the medium as a cultural force. "We're the first channel to celebrate TV as an art form," she said.
- 4/16/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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