TVGuide.com want to know what you thought of last night's pilot. They have a poll up on their site that you can check out here.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
"Pilot" Ratings
TV by the Numbers is reporting that a total of 1.6 million viewers watch Terriers last night. 659,000 of these viewers were 18-49, which equates to a 0.5 rating in the key demo. While this number could be better, FX shows have climbed in viewership before and this will hopefully be the case again.
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Scenes from "Pilot"
Did everyone enjoy the series premiere of Terriers last night? Twitter seemed to be blowing up with praise from people loving the show.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Donal Logue on Jimmy Kimmel
Donal Logue was on Jimmy Kimmel last night. The clips are now on YouTube:
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James Talk "Terriers"
TVSquad has a nice interview up here with the two co-stars discussing Terriers.
More Videos
FX is starting to promote the shit out of this show. Here are some more videos, shamelessly nabbed from their youtube channel for your viewing pleasure:
Critics Are Raving
Chemistry
Cases
Monday, September 6, 2010
Meet the Cast and Crew
On top of all the reviews, a ton of interviews are also hitting the web prior to Wednesday.
Early Reviews
With the show premiering in less than three days, reviews are hitting hard and fast. Here's a list of them. I'll update this post as I find them.
Shawn Ryan Talks "Terriers"
In an excellent interview with Forbes in which he spoke about the difference between network and cable and the evolution of television in recent years, Shawn Ryan had this to say about Terriers:
You have said that when creator Ted Griffin initially pitched you the idea for Terriers, you envisioned it as a big, glossy network show and dollar signs danced around in your head. What would it have looked like as a network show?
We’ll never know what Terriers would have been in a network style because Ted Griffin was immediately resistant to trying to cash in for the big bucks like I was interested in doing. [laughs] Even though he only half knew what the show was when we first started to talk about it, he knew instinctually that this was something that would go to a darker, more demented place than network TV would allow. I think it’s a very funny, character-driven series, but by the end of the 13 episodes it will feel like an FX show. Ted is a guy who watches some TV –- he was a fan of The Shield and he really likes Mad Men and he wanted this show to exist in that universe and not in the Hawaii Five-0 [CBS], Undercovers [NBC]universe. So when he decided that was the route that he wanted to take, I said, ‘Great, but we have to make it so that this show feels like it could only be on FX. We can’t make an NBC show and hope that FX picks it up.’ He really embraced that – and yet there is a genial thing about this show that kind of goes counter to many of FX’s previous shows like The Shield, Rescue Me and Sons of Anarchy in that they’re very intense. So in many ways this is actually a departure for FX and we hope that it will exist well in the FX universe.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Exclusive: Q&A with Executive Producer Tim Minear
Terriers executive producer Tim Minear began his primetime television work on hit shows The X Files and Angel. As a writer he's known for his perversely humorous scripts that get to the essence of whatever show he's on making him ideal for an FX dramedy. Tim was kind enough to set aside some time to answer a few brief questions about his involvement in Terriers and his relationship with FX.By the time you joined Terriers as an executive producer the pilot had already been shot and cut. What about the show appealed to you?
Tim Minear: Specifically, a few things. It's an edgy hour with character humor. So that's sort of what I do. It was with Shawn Ryan, and we'd run into each other a couple of times on the Fox lot and were looking for a reason to work together again, and it was for FX and I wanted to try something on cable. So sort of a perfect storm.
When Terriers was picked up, it was noted that its tone is a departure for FX's brand. Could you perhaps elaborate on this?
TM: Not really sure what to say on that score. Feels like an FX show to me. I know I've seen a few reviews that mention that the premise sounds like more like a USA hour than FX, but I think we go to "FX-y" places with the concept.
The title of executive producer is one you’ve held many times. However, it can also entail many different duties... What exactly is your role on Terriers?
TM: I was running the show with Ted and Shawn. Not unlike what I did with Joss and David Greenwalt in the latter part of my tenure at Angel.
How has working with FX, a basic cable network, differed from your past experiences with broadcast networks?
TM: Reminded me of Angel in the days of the WB. FX was great. Very supportive, very enthusiastic, in sync with what we were doing and very smart input.
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