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Post by megagem on May 12, 2011 2:18:10 GMT
Hi everybody! I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, so I apologize if it has.... I was just on facebook and I wondered if there were any fanpages for Zen. I found one, and joined, but I wondered: has anyone ever set up a fighting-for-Zen fanpage? Do you know what I mean? I mean something like a page titled Campaign to Get Zen Back that acts sort of like how the campaign to get Betty White to host SNL started (and ended up succeeding beyond beliefs). Has anything like that ever been attempted in regards to getting Zen back on TV? If it hasn't, do you think something like that would make a difference?  |
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Post by kissmekate on May 12, 2011 7:21:47 GMT
I'm only aware of the "Aurelio Zen Casebook" - apart from discussing the series and the books there has been some talk about attempts to bring Zen back, of course ... don't know if any sort of campaign would make a difference to Mr. Cohen, though.
I still hope some other channel might pick up Zen if it's successful in the US and elsewhere (if only stupid German TV would bring it on very soon!!)
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Post by stama on May 12, 2011 7:28:56 GMT
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Post by Petruchio - Good God on May 12, 2011 7:30:57 GMT
I am only on "Aurelio Zen Casebook" , too
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Post by robela on May 12, 2011 10:27:08 GMT
Meg, there are the Aurelio Zen Casebook page and Zen tv page where posts and pics and articles are regularly posted relating to Zen, DC and getting Zen back on t.v. I think you have a good idea starting a campaign. Michael Wilson of The Aurelio Zen Casebook page and the Zen t.v. page both say they are compaigning to get Zen back but not much is happening. I regularly contribute to these pages by making comments and posting pics of Rufus as Zen. Hope you will too!!  |
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Post by lovethemanrs on May 12, 2011 11:07:20 GMT
We all want Zen back on TV, let's face it.
Best detective show on for a long time IMHO (not that I'm biased in any way)
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Post by fannybraune on Aug 7, 2011 19:53:57 GMT
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Post by rueful on Aug 9, 2011 13:54:24 GMT
Hi, fannybraune. Welcome and thanks for your post. It's a great show that deserves more episodes!
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Post by peach on Dec 29, 2011 1:52:23 GMT
Of course saw all eps and bought the dvd's....had to. I wrote to my local PBS station and producer asking if future eps were in the works, I did receive a response, the producers and director were interested in bringing all to the small screen but that funding was unavailable and the bbc was not interested in investing funds for another mystery as they called it "dark subject matter" and wanted to branch out into something lighter in nature. Perhaps a write in campaign would do the trick. Too bad I thought it was fantastic.
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Post by kissmekate on Dec 29, 2011 6:57:35 GMT
and the bbc was not interested in investing funds for another mystery as they called it "dark subject matter" What kind of argument is that?  It's murder mysteries, for God's sake. These are always somewhat dark in nature. Have to be. A friend recently suggested they should make a cinema version of Zen if it isn't continued on TV. Good thought!  |
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Post by peach on Dec 31, 2011 2:59:07 GMT
I tried watching Wallender ( i think that's the correct spelling) with Kenneth Branagh (wish I liked him as an actor more, but I find him a bore) and I could not sit through it. I don't understand the reasoning behind this. Aside from being a bit biased I thought Zen was one of the better adaptations that PBS has brought to the small screen. And to think there are something like 11 novels that they could have dramatized. Oh well.
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Post by cricketgirl on Dec 31, 2011 3:14:10 GMT
kissmekate-- I think Rufus said in the BBC interview about Zen that if Zen was a movie he wouldn't make it... Boo-hoo!  It was in the context of him talking about being interested in good TV and theater roles and not "crap" roles in movies... A guy can always change his mind--we can only hope!  |
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Dec 31, 2011 10:58:46 GMT
I think Rufus said in the BBC interview about Zen that if Zen was a movie he wouldn't make it... Boo-hoo! <.....> A guy can always change his mind--we can only hope! Hey, Cricketgirl - a small but vital correction, as that's not quite what he said! He meant that if Zen was a movie, he wouldn't have been asked to do it, as he felt he hasn't got enough "star power", or whatever you want to call it, for producers to think of him in such a role for the big screen. However, now he's already proved himself in the role, who knows....?  The original interview, for anyone who's not seen it yet or wants to see it again, is here: www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/video/2010/dec/31/zen-rufus-sewell-michael-dibdin The comment "if Zen was a film, I wouldn't be in it" is around 5:54. |
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Post by cricketgirl on Dec 31, 2011 15:52:48 GMT
Hey GreenEyesToo-- WHEW!!!! I'm glad I was mistaken about that comment of his--and thanks for letting me know. This makes me feel more optimistic that if the powers that be get their act together and offer him the role, he will be back in the suits and the warm Italian sunshine again--and, as Craig Ferguson said to him when he was on the LLS, "solving crimes sexily." Just the thought is YUMMY!!!!!!!  |
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Post by peach on Jan 1, 2012 1:38:12 GMT
Sadly the people in charge of movies and the making thereof have tunnel vision where casting is concerned. They get into their empty little heads that if say one particular actor is seen as the romantic they will continue to cast them in the same role all the time. Hollywood thinks that most audiences are dumb and that we don't have minds of our own. Just look at how many sequels there are. Case in point, last year I read the Dragon Tattoo series..then saw the Swedish film adaptations...in a word or two, they stayed quite true to the novels...characters, plot lines, etc. when i head that h'wood was doing the remake the first thing I thought was it's going to be dumbed down. Saw the flick last week. They not only changed the lead characters but muddled the story and added a very jarring soundtrack all of which I knew they would do. The film was not good to say the least, but then that was to be expected. It must be hard for Mr. Sewell to branch out of the stereotype of the "byronesque" image that has always been attached to him. Those in charge can't see past his look. We all know he can do comedy, drama, just about anything and yet no one is willing to take the chance.
I keep seeing so many mediocre actors that are huge stars here in America and I can't explain it. Most are just celebrities not true actors in the true sense of the word. Oh well.
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It's murder mysteries, for God's sake. These are always somewhat dark in nature. Have to be.
