August 19, 2003

TC: Tru Tardy

Dark Horizons is reporting that 'Tru Calling' is about to go through another round of reshoots, and might be pushed back to mid-season (or even never).

'Not Green or Texas' has some big rumours on a delay in store for the Eliza Dushku series - "It looks like the new Fox show 'Tru Calling' is being pushed back to midseason or spring for a third round of recasting and rewriting. The first few episodes and the pilot are going to be reshot. Fox has told the producers of their other new show 'Still Life' to hurry up and they're starting production two weeks earlier than originally schedule (they're starting filming on September 23). Seems that unless the producers of 'Tru Calling' can quickly retool their show to the satisfaction of the executives at Fox, 'Still Life' will replace 'Tru Calling' and will premiere on October 30th whilst 'Tru Calling' will premiere some time next year as a midseason replacement".


Though this comes immediately on the heels of my speculation, I can't idependently confirm this. It would surprise me however, since the show was still being actively cast as of last week. In addition, with 'Wonderfalls' already having a number of episodes in the can, it would be the more logical replacement. It would be pushing it to expect that 'Still Life' could go from 'first day of filming' to 'finished product' in time for the expect Premiere date of 'Tru Calling'. To be honest, if I was Fox I would drop any hope of airing a new series in the early Thursday timeslot this year. They would be better off running encore presentations of 'Joe Millionaire 2', and launch any new series after the Holidays and Survivor have passed.

If the story that the show is being delayed is true, I think that would be a positive turn, versus a negative one.

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