Post by Ryebeach on Dec 30, 2004 21:24:28 GMT -5
Okay, so who has been seeing NBC"s enldless promos for this new show? Actually, I'm intrigued. The premise is certainly different than anything out there but I see similarities to Cold Case also, one of which is a strong female lead. I'll be tuning in for the premiere Monday, January 3rd at 10:00pm on NBC. Not to worry though, I'll be taping CSI:Miami. I can't go without my weekly David Caruso in sunglasses fix.
Here's an article about Medium:
Source:http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|92653|1|,00.html
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Under normal circumstances, it's easy to ignore false bravado from the people involved in a new television show. Allison DuBois, however, can read minds and communicate with the dead and when she has feelings, they often turn out to be correct, so when Allison DuBois says with some confidence that "Medium," an NBC drama based on her life, will be a hit, it's probably best to believe her.
Of course, much of the success of "Medium" will ride on whether viewers at home are willing to accept the idea of a suburban soccer mom who fights crime with the help of her special gifts. Certainly Patricia Arquette, who plays DuBois on the show, is convinced.
"Between rolling and cut, I have to believe 100 percent," Arquette says. "I do believe in this 100 percent. I do believe that certain people have the capacity to do this. I also believe 100 percent there's a lot of charlatans out there."
DuBois is quick to agree with her on-screen alter ego. Growing up aware that she could communicate with the Great Beyond, DuBois was always sure of her own sanity, but when she told her father about her powers, his advice was "Tell no one." She hopes that people watching the show won't think that her character is crazy, but she insists that absolute belief shouldn't be a requirement.
"I actually encourage people to be skeptical and I think you can be skeptical and watch this," DuBois says. "I just hope that people who are skeptical and watch it can keep somewhat of an open mind even if they're not a firm believer in it, that they can entertain the idea that it's possible."
"Medium" is created by Glenn Gordon Caron ("Moonlighting") and the series comes from Kelsey Grammer's shingle Grammnet Productions. Grammer's team came across DuBois when casting psychics for a pilot titled "The Oracles." Almost a year and a half after that show failed to go forward, the company approached DuBois, who assists police departments and works as a jury consultant (without accepting payment) when she isn't raising her three daughters, about basing a show around her life. DuBois, about to lose all semblance of anonymity, is a consultant on the show, but she admits that her role in the actual production may be minimal.
"My phone rings from them and I just answer it," she says, summing up her duties. "Maybe they call and say 'What does it look like when you look through the killer's eyes?' or 'What do children who have passed look like?' 'How do they feel?'"
She adds, "I get to see the scripts, but I have really no say and no power."
One person who does have power is Arquette, as the "True Romance" and "Stigmata" star is making her first extended foray into series television.
"I was reading a lot of movies and I just thought they were written so terribly," she admits. "It's always been material that's driven my choices anyway. I don't like the concept that I'm not supposed to do TV because it's not as elite as film or something."
Although Arquette is very open about the ways she's changed Allison's character for the small screen, what mostly drew her to "Medium" was DuBois' real-life relationship with husband Joe (played by Jake Weber), a dynamic that keeps the show from becoming "Law & Order: Psychic Division."
"It's kinda a sexy, but boring relationship," she laughs. "It's a good formula to watch to figure out how to have a successful marriage, because they really are partners and they want to be good parents. That's an important dynamic to me. I didn't want to do a procedural show per se."
While early criticisms about the pilot have centered on just how infallibly omniscient the character of Allison seems to be, DuBois maintains that she's never been wrong while working on a case, nothing that "the things you would think couldn't be true, happened."
She points out, "I don't think anybody's ever going to agree on anything in this world, so I don't feel too badly that not everybody can agree on me."
"Medium" premieres at 10 p.m. ET on Monday, Jan. 3 on NBC.
Here's an article about Medium:
Source:http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|92653|1|,00.html
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Under normal circumstances, it's easy to ignore false bravado from the people involved in a new television show. Allison DuBois, however, can read minds and communicate with the dead and when she has feelings, they often turn out to be correct, so when Allison DuBois says with some confidence that "Medium," an NBC drama based on her life, will be a hit, it's probably best to believe her.
Of course, much of the success of "Medium" will ride on whether viewers at home are willing to accept the idea of a suburban soccer mom who fights crime with the help of her special gifts. Certainly Patricia Arquette, who plays DuBois on the show, is convinced.
"Between rolling and cut, I have to believe 100 percent," Arquette says. "I do believe in this 100 percent. I do believe that certain people have the capacity to do this. I also believe 100 percent there's a lot of charlatans out there."
DuBois is quick to agree with her on-screen alter ego. Growing up aware that she could communicate with the Great Beyond, DuBois was always sure of her own sanity, but when she told her father about her powers, his advice was "Tell no one." She hopes that people watching the show won't think that her character is crazy, but she insists that absolute belief shouldn't be a requirement.
"I actually encourage people to be skeptical and I think you can be skeptical and watch this," DuBois says. "I just hope that people who are skeptical and watch it can keep somewhat of an open mind even if they're not a firm believer in it, that they can entertain the idea that it's possible."
"Medium" is created by Glenn Gordon Caron ("Moonlighting") and the series comes from Kelsey Grammer's shingle Grammnet Productions. Grammer's team came across DuBois when casting psychics for a pilot titled "The Oracles." Almost a year and a half after that show failed to go forward, the company approached DuBois, who assists police departments and works as a jury consultant (without accepting payment) when she isn't raising her three daughters, about basing a show around her life. DuBois, about to lose all semblance of anonymity, is a consultant on the show, but she admits that her role in the actual production may be minimal.
"My phone rings from them and I just answer it," she says, summing up her duties. "Maybe they call and say 'What does it look like when you look through the killer's eyes?' or 'What do children who have passed look like?' 'How do they feel?'"
She adds, "I get to see the scripts, but I have really no say and no power."
One person who does have power is Arquette, as the "True Romance" and "Stigmata" star is making her first extended foray into series television.
"I was reading a lot of movies and I just thought they were written so terribly," she admits. "It's always been material that's driven my choices anyway. I don't like the concept that I'm not supposed to do TV because it's not as elite as film or something."
Although Arquette is very open about the ways she's changed Allison's character for the small screen, what mostly drew her to "Medium" was DuBois' real-life relationship with husband Joe (played by Jake Weber), a dynamic that keeps the show from becoming "Law & Order: Psychic Division."
"It's kinda a sexy, but boring relationship," she laughs. "It's a good formula to watch to figure out how to have a successful marriage, because they really are partners and they want to be good parents. That's an important dynamic to me. I didn't want to do a procedural show per se."
While early criticisms about the pilot have centered on just how infallibly omniscient the character of Allison seems to be, DuBois maintains that she's never been wrong while working on a case, nothing that "the things you would think couldn't be true, happened."
She points out, "I don't think anybody's ever going to agree on anything in this world, so I don't feel too badly that not everybody can agree on me."
"Medium" premieres at 10 p.m. ET on Monday, Jan. 3 on NBC.
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. NBC decided not to give it another season. 
. I just checked the IMDB profile for it...it says 2005-
?. Plus, I just found an article that it was picked up for a 4th season. Maybe they're not showing it over there where you live?
