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Scott Bakula Optimistic About ENT Move to Friday Nights

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By GustavoLeao / 20:26, 30 August 2004 / Enterprise

The latest issue of Starburst magazine, just out in the UK, features an exclusive interview with ENTERPRISE star Scott Bakula. Here are a few excerpts :

Bakula admits that the show's renewal was a last-minute decision, he maintains that he never had any fears that his job would be cut short after just three years.'I have a good relationship with the head of Paramount Television, and we had a lot of talks about what was going on, and Rick [Berman] and Brannon [Braga] and I talk a lot about what ENTERPRISE means to UPN, because it has meant a great deal to them business-wise," says Bakula. 'And at the same time, I knew that Les [Moonves, who heads both CBS and UPN] runs the show, and if Les says we're gone, we're gone. But, happily, he didn't. So we get to go again, and they're trying a lot of new things."

New things such as a new night, Friday, which has become a wasteland of sorts on the TV landscape in recent years. Bakula, ever the optimist, prefers to see things differently, likening the situation to the last time the end of the week was the end of the world in small-screen parlance. 'All of a sudden MIAMI VICE came, and it was kind of a hit, and people started making a point to get home to watch MIAMI VICE." Then there are the cuts in the budget, by some reports up to 35% from last season, that were part of the deal that saved ENTERPRISE. Again, no panic in Bakula, who praises one of the consequences of the reduced money flow, the conversion from film to high-definition video. 'It saves a great chunk of money every week," he says. 'HD is the wave of the future, so it's just a question of time, and we're getting very, very good quality."

To read the full interview, get the latest issue of Starburst, at your local newstand.



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By: Bardo (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:19:40 on Sep 01, 2004

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Although I guess she couldn't compete with an Emma Peel.

OMG... Diana Rigg was the bomb back then! That skin-tight body suit! The sexy banter with John Steed! Even now my heart (and other body parts) flutter as I remember her!



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Yes... although it seemed as though there were so many more 1/2 hour shows than hour ones - obviously the kajillion comedies. :-) Geez... "Gilligan's Island", "Bewitched", "My Favorite Martian", "That Girl", "The Beverly Hillbillies". Ack! I even remember watching "Hazel" and re-runs of "Dennis the Menace" in glorious black and white.

You're right..tons more 1/2 hour shows. Do you remember one called "Queen for a Day?" You could say it was one of the first reality shows. Women would come on and compete to be "Queen for a day" by telling their sad true-life stories. The audience would then decide the winner by applauding. There was this device called an "Applausometer" that would record the volume, and that's how the winner would be chosen.

It was funny (but sad) for two reasons. First, the prizes were always from show sponsors, and were often useless to the winner. "Yes Mrs. Smith, your husband lost his job and left you, and creditors are knocking down your door...so here's your new washing machine!"

That, and imagine the poor slobs who LOST. You've gotten on national TV, told your loser story and humiliated yourself in front of millions of people, and you go away with frickin' nothin'!

Finally, you owe it to yourself to watch The Prisoner. I think it was the best show of all of those in the 'secret agent' genre. It's one of the few shows to never lose it according to Jump the Shark

If you can imagine a show that is part secret agent, part science fiction (more than a few ripoffs of TOS, including the eeire music and low-rent special effects), with nods to Brave New World and 1984 - that's The Prisoner. If you want to check a few episodes first, start with the second set of DVDs and view "The Chimes of Big Ben."

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