Ego is a Killer
Aug. 24th, 2007 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxDavid Milch has joined a list of producers who has shown that ego can outpace talent. His slavish devotion to John from Cincinnati rivals that of some other producers I could name and their white whales. Only, Milch, being Milch can be far more... expressive... about it, as noted in commentary queenofthorns posted the other day. Now, it seems that someone in the bloggosphere has written an open letter to Milch and his ego . The blogger is right about one thing, the most memorable aspect of JfC is that it is The Show That Killed Deadwood.
ETA: Oops. Queenofthorns's post was friends locked, so here's the direct link to Milch's interview and the 'what the frakkity hell?!' Milch quote: “I wrote ("Deadwood's") Al Swearingen for Ed...If he'd had that part the show would still be running.”
So there you go, in Milch's opinion, Deadwood would still be alive if instead of Ian McShane in the role, Al Bundy from "Married with Children" had played it (not to insult Ed O'Neill, who is a decent actor, just... you know. WHAT?!) If that wasn't weird enough, I bring to your attention that Deadwood was, in fact, not cancelled due to ratings. It was cancelled because Milch didn't want to run two shows at once and he chose to write JfC instead of Deadwood... and some nimrod at HBO let him.
queenofthorns posted the other day. Now, it seems that someone in the bloggosphere has written an open letter to Milch and his ego . The blogger is right about one thing, the most memorable aspect of JfC is that it is The Show That Killed Deadwood. ETA: Oops. Queenofthorns's post was friends locked, so here's the direct link to Milch's interview and the 'what the frakkity hell?!' Milch quote: “I wrote ("Deadwood's") Al Swearingen for Ed...If he'd had that part the show would still be running.”
So there you go, in Milch's opinion, Deadwood would still be alive if instead of Ian McShane in the role, Al Bundy from "Married with Children" had played it (not to insult Ed O'Neill, who is a decent actor, just... you know. WHAT?!) If that wasn't weird enough, I bring to your attention that Deadwood was, in fact, not cancelled due to ratings. It was cancelled because Milch didn't want to run two shows at once and he chose to write JfC instead of Deadwood... and some nimrod at HBO let him.
