For those of us in withdrawal from the cancellation of 24, help might be on its way tonight. Rubicon is an new TV series created by Jason Horwitch that’s scheduled to air on the AMC cable network. The series concerns an analyst at a national think tank who discovers that his employers may be part of a secret society that manipulates world events on a grand scale (sounds a bit like the movie The Adjustment Bureau with Matt Damon that’s supposed to be released on September 17). The series stars James Badge Dale, Lili Taylor, Miranda Richardson, Dallas Roberts, Christopher Evan Welch, Paul Butler and Peter Gerety. The series will debut on AMC on August 1, 2010 at 8:00 P.M. E.D.T. however AMC is giving us a sneak peek tonight at 11:00 P.M. E.D.T. I’m going to check it out. Check your listings for times in your area.
Be there! Form a perimeter! Gets me the schematics, dammit!
*drinks*
From the descriptions I’ve read so far, RUBICON looks like it’s going to be more like THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR rather than 24, Jeff.
We figured we’d wait until august or we’d have to watch it again.
I’ll watch the SNEAK PEEK and decide whether I want to watch RUBICON when it really starts in August, Patti.
AMC? aka Always Many Commercials?
That’s what the FF button is for, Rick. I almost always record programs and zip through the commercials. You can save a lot of time that way.
What’s with all these three-named male actors?
Ellen Nehr would have had an interesting answer to that question, Bob.
Hey, Cap’n Bob Napier is three names.
Good point, Rick.
Good point, George. We never watch ANYTHING without recording it so we can cut out the commercials, other than live sports events or news (and sometimes not even then).
When a third of an hour program is commercials, Jeff, that’s excessive by any measure. The RECORD option is the only rational solution.
James Dale and Christopher Welch are pretty common names in the States, Bob. The Screen Actors Guild and other unions tend to ask actors to not register with the same names as other working or even nonworking actors, to help minimize confusion, for the older actors and for their estates.
There’s a reason he’s billed “Michael J. Fox”…
I tend to flip around during commercials when watching a linear feed.
The remote is never far away while I”m watching TV, Todd. It drives Diane crazy.
Trivia from “old” Hollywood: ‘Stewart Granger’ had to use that name because his real name was already taken – James Stewart.
You, Cap’n Bob, and Stilwell all have me beat with the Hollywood trivia, Jeff.