Close to Do Some Damages for FX
Emmy Award-Winning Actress Joins Danson in Legal Drama
By Linda Moss -- Multichannel News, 4/3/2007 12:46:00 PM
Emmy Award-winning actress Glenn Close is returning to FX in her first-ever starring role in a TV series in new legal drama Damages,which will debut this summer.
Close’s most recent television work was as Capt. Monica Rawling for the entire fourth season of FX’s The Shield, for which she received Emmy and Golden Globe award nominations for best actress in a drama series.
The pilot episode of Damages was filmed in New York beginning in late January and completed in early February.
FX placed a 13-episode order for the show, in which Close plays Patty Hewes, one of America’s foremost litigators going after corporate titans. One of Hewes’ targets is Arthur Frobisher, played by Ted Danson.
Series co-stars include Rose Byrne as Ellen Parsons, who joins Hewes’ firm as a first-year associate; Tate Donovan as Tom Shayes, a partner at Hewes & Associates; Zeljko Ivanek as Frobisher attorney Ray Fiske; and Noah Bean who plays David Connor, Parsons’ fiancée.
Damages marks a reunion between Close and Danson, who turned in award-winning performances for the miniseries Something About Amelia.
Production of the drama, which will be shot in New York, will begin in May.
Damages was created by Todd A. Kessler (The Sopranos), Daniel Zelman and Glenn Kessler, who will also serve as executive producers, writers and show runners. Allen Coulter (The Sopranos, Hollywoodland) directed the pilot episode. The series is produced by FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television.
For FX, Damages is the eighth drama series ever to receive a network order and only the tenth drama pilot ever made by the network -- Emmy and Golden Globe Award winners The Shield and Nip/Tuck; Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated Rescue Me; Over There; Emmy Award winner Thief (received a limited series six-episode order); Dirt; and The Riches.
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Damages is pretty far out. It’s almost undecipherable at this point. Now they have Peter Reigert drifting in and out of poorly lit, fog laden scenes, pushing an infant in a baby carriage, muttering non-sequitors. He’s like the dwarf in Twin Peaks. Then you have one of Andy Sipowicz 's old partners from NYPD Blue playing a high powered lawyer and talking like William F. Buckley jr. and following the protagonist around in broad daylight without anyone (but the viewers) noticing. And Glen Close. The Actor that didn't get the lead role in the 'Devil Wears Prada' playing the lead role in 'The Devil Wears Prada", except she's in this show. They always said Streep and Close were competitive.
Mary E. O'Leary - 8/21/2007 8:31:00 AM EDT -
My DVR erased the episodes I have not been able to watch. Is there somewhere online I can see them? I don't want to loose the story line by just watching the next episode. Please, tell me there is somewhere to catch up on what I've missed.
IJKay - 8/20/2007 10:33:00 PM EDT -
when does dmages start in north carolina we have dishnetwork of charlotte, north carolina someone pls. email me an let me know ok ?
donnie - 6/15/2007 9:54:00 AM EDT
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