Posted Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:06 am GMT by Capone15
News from Hollywood
By Barry Shulman, Card Player Chairman - 2005-04-07
This just in from La-La Land: popular Generation X comedienne, Janeane Garofalo has signed-on to play the lead in All-in, the sitcom based on the life of pro-poker player, Annie Duke.
More Hollywood news: a source close to those in the know has let it be known to me that the ESPN poker-series Tilt is not being brought back for a second season.
Man I know a lot of people didnt like Tilt but I thought it should be back for another season.
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Posted Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:11 am GMT by Sean_in_NJ
| Capone15 wrote: | | Man I know a lot of people didnt like Tilt but I thought it should be back for another season. |
No one in the professional poker world liked how the casinos and the players were portrayed, so I'm sure some pressure was brought to bear. It's like what happened with "Playmakers" and the NFL. The NFL hated it, ESPN had a big contract with the NFL, so they killed it.
Posted Sat Apr 09, 2005 1:03 am GMT by JohnnyCache
Did playmakers suck? 'Cause I think that was the main problem with Tilt.
Posted Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:26 pm GMT by AnnieCruz86
But the whole cheating murky underworld take on the casinos actually adds to the mystique of poker no?
They had russian mafia in Rounders and that didn't seem to affect people's perception of poker.
Posted Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:42 pm GMT by General Sal
No second season? I thought there was some cliffhanger finale... is it just gonna stay hanging?
Posted Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:04 pm GMT by yeltzen
| AnnieCruz86 wrote: | But the whole cheating murky underworld take on the casinos actually adds to the mystique of poker no?
They had russian mafia in Rounders and that didn't seem to affect people's perception of poker. |
Rounders wasn't produced by a network responsible for pushing the poker boom.
Posted Sun Apr 10, 2005 11:42 pm GMT by groton
playmakers was good.
Tilt was blah okay somewhat.
Posted Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:34 am GMT by yeltzen
Tilt accomplished one thing... it made retards who watch WSOP on TV want to watch it even more.
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