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05-17-2005, 03:09 PM
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Mick Garris is the director of the acclaimed miniseries The Stand and The Shining (both adapted for television from screenplays written by Stephen King) and Quicksilver Highway (based on the stories "Chattery Teeth" by Stephen King and "The Body Politic" by Clive Barker). He is also the writer and director of the TV movie Riding the Bullet, which was based on a King short story.
He is working on his sixth Stephen King project, a miniseries based on Desperation—where he is currently in post-production.
Sci-Fi: Was Desperation originally be scheduled to be shown during the sweeps this coming May? Why has the miniseries been pushed back? Do you know when they are talking about running it?
Garris: There has been a bit of a misunderstanding about this from the beginning. Our delivery date for Desperation was always early June of 2005. The sweeps periods, where the ratings are measured to set the networks' advertising rates, are in May, November and February. We thought it might be possible that ABC would want to speed up delivery so that it might be able to run in May of this year, but that was before they spent their marketing budget on Lost and Desperate Housewives.
The worst thing that could happen to Desperation now would be to run this May, as they would have no money budgeted for the advertising of the film. Though the network rarely broadcasts their big movies in November, it's possible that they might with Desperation, in order to help with the fall schedule. Otherwise, it will run in February of 2006, or the following May.
DESPERATION:
A tiny town in the Nevada desert hides a deadly secret. In old mines, where chinese slave miners were once buried alive centuries ago, lives an ancient evil. When the mine is opened up yet again, the demon 'Tak' escapes and massacres the town, jumping from body to body.
Different travelers are brought to the town one by one by a psychotic cop who is more than he seems, their threads of life woven together in a life and death battle in a place where Evil Speaks . . .welcome to the town of Desperation, population: dead.
Mick Garris is the director of the acclaimed miniseries The Stand and The Shining (both adapted for television from screenplays written by Stephen King) and Quicksilver Highway (based on the stories "Chattery Teeth" by Stephen King and "The Body Politic" by Clive Barker). He is also the writer and director of the TV movie Riding the Bullet, which was based on a King short story.
He is working on his sixth Stephen King project, a miniseries based on Desperation—where he is currently in post-production.
Sci-Fi: Was Desperation originally be scheduled to be shown during the sweeps this coming May? Why has the miniseries been pushed back? Do you know when they are talking about running it?
Garris: There has been a bit of a misunderstanding about this from the beginning. Our delivery date for Desperation was always early June of 2005. The sweeps periods, where the ratings are measured to set the networks' advertising rates, are in May, November and February. We thought it might be possible that ABC would want to speed up delivery so that it might be able to run in May of this year, but that was before they spent their marketing budget on Lost and Desperate Housewives.
The worst thing that could happen to Desperation now would be to run this May, as they would have no money budgeted for the advertising of the film. Though the network rarely broadcasts their big movies in November, it's possible that they might with Desperation, in order to help with the fall schedule. Otherwise, it will run in February of 2006, or the following May.
DESPERATION:
A tiny town in the Nevada desert hides a deadly secret. In old mines, where chinese slave miners were once buried alive centuries ago, lives an ancient evil. When the mine is opened up yet again, the demon 'Tak' escapes and massacres the town, jumping from body to body.
Different travelers are brought to the town one by one by a psychotic cop who is more than he seems, their threads of life woven together in a life and death battle in a place where Evil Speaks . . .welcome to the town of Desperation, population: dead.