Perseverance pays off. Five years ago, writer Jed Seidel wrote a sitcom pilot for Fox called MORE PATIENCE, about a NY psychiatrist named Patience More who has troubles in her personal life. The title turned out to be prophetic. The pilot was shot with Mary McCormack in the lead role, but Fox didn’t pick the show up. Seidel didn’t give up — he convinced the network to redeveloped it as an hour-long drama. That version failed, too. But Seidel, who went on to VERNONICA MARS among other things, didn’t give up. Now MORE PATIENCE is back again…Fox has given a cast-contigent pick-up on another pilot version of the show.
In other pilot news, ABC is developing a TV series version of MR. AND MRS. SMITH, which will be directed by Doug Liman and written by Simon Kinberg, the same team behind the movie.
Spike has ordered 13 episodes of BLADE, based on the the movie that starred Wesley Snipes and the comics by Marv Wolfman. Kirk Sticky Jones (FX’s "Over There") stars as the vampire hunter in the TV version.
Although I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked the film version of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, I have a fear the TV version would resemble “The Scarecrow and Mrs. King” or perhaps “Hart to Hart.”
Hey, Lee!
MG Tarquini told me about your blog. Nice place here. Looks like I have some posts to catch up on.
(By the way, I LOVE Monk, he’s my hero, I admit blushingly.)
Oh, and what’s up with the Vampire craze?