That deal fell through when Showtime began talks to acquire the show. Shanks had tried to acquire new episodes of another much-loved but low-rated network series, “Arrested Development,” when that show was canceled by Fox in 2006. Shanks conceded that DirecTV was not ready to pay the full cost of a drama like “Wonderland” about $2 million an episode.Įven before “Friday Night Lights,” Mr. Such a deal probably would necessitate the same kind of creative deal-making that went into keeping “Friday Night Lights” alive. “If there’s an appetite for the show to come back, we’ll bring it back,” he said. Berg said he would like to put the show back into production. Jackson and Jeremy Piven could get on the air.
That, and the show’s intensity, doomed it quickly, before episodes with guest stars like Samuel L. ABC put the series on, but scheduled it against “E.R.” at the height of that show’s popularity. He wrote and directed the pilot, which was based on his personal research at Bellevue Hospital.
“It was a completely unrealized asset,” Mr. Shanks if he would take a look at “Wonderland,” which had languished in a vault at the Walt Disney Company, ABC’s parent. The deal for “Friday Night Lights” NBC and DirecTV shared the costs, though the terms have not been disclosed saved that series from cancellation. It does not store any personal data.Peter Berg, the creator of both “Friday Night Lights” and “Wonderland,” said his experience with DirecTV had been so positive that “we’re trying to own the programming on the 101 Network we’d like to keep doing shows for DirecTV.” The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
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