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Vegas

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Mark Giardina

Any thoughts on the new series "Vegas"? You think it will last one season or not?

Dennis Quaid character reminded me a bit of a mix between Clint Eastwood, and Robert Taylor (From the series Longmire).

Michael Chicklis isn't as in shape as he was during his last TV series "The Shield" but he is convincing as the mob leader.

BTW: For you TV historian buffs, wasn't there a TV show in the 1970s titled "Vegas"?
 
SteveRichards said:
"Vega$" aired between 1978 and 1981 on ABC. It starred Robert Urich.
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Ah yes! I remember that show.
Urich played private detective Dan Tanna didn't he? Avery Brooks (from Deep Space Nine) was his side-kick.
 
Mark_Giardina said:
Any thoughts on the new series "Vegas"? You think it will last one season or not?

Dennis Quaid character reminded me a bit of a mix between Clint Eastwood, and Robert Taylor (From the series Longmire).

Michael Chicklis isn't as in shape as he was during his last TV series "The Shield" but he is convincing as the mob leader.

BTW: For you TV historian buffs, wasn't there a TV show in the 1970s titled "Vegas"?
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I anticipated this show as being more dramatic, straying from CBS' usual crime or legal procedural formula. And sure enough, there's a murder to be solved in the first episode, with cattle rancher Dennis Quaid being locked into Harrison Ford's "Get off my plane!" demeanor.

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And now that Quaid's character will be the new sheriff (as Michael Chiklis and his mob boys just snubbed out the serving one), we'll probably see a crime-or-crisis-of-the-week to be solved instead of the constant war of factions that CBS promos seemed to indicate.

I'll keep giving the show an honest try, but I won't be surprised if it lets me down more as I do.
 
Hopefully this series won't fall into the scenario mentioned by another poster. But then again I've watched shows start out strong and end up mediocre until they are cancelled.
 
SteveRichards said:
"Vega$" aired between 1978 and 1981 on ABC. It starred Robert Urich.
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And, wasn't there also a show called "Las Vegas" (NBC I think)?

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Indeed, NBC did have its own Vegas-based drama series. And of course, there's the original "CSI."

As for the title of the new series, remember: the Robert Urich series had a dollar sign in the title - kinda like how the new "Hawaii Five-O" has a zero at the end of it. :p
 
When I first heard of CBS's "Vegas," my first thought was, will people
think this is a revival of ABC's "Vega$," even allowing for the fact that
Robert Urich has passed on? Obviously it isn't.

It's just like CBS's "Jericho" a few years ago. I, for one, remember the
1966 series (same title, same network) and maybe a few other TV-history
junkies do, too. I wonder how many people with long memories thought the
new show would be a revival of the old (probably not many, since the original
didn't last that long).
 
I watched the first episode of Vegas last night. I have to say I was a bit disappointed. I'm interested in the competitive rivalry that has the potential to develop between the Quaid and Chiklis characters, - you know, the lawman versus the mob boss. But it looks like there's a danger that the show will devolve into just another CBS police procedural, with the rivalry being just a minor sub-plot.

And many of the historical props were off. They specified that the year was 1960 at the beginning of the show. So there should not have been 1963 Ford police cruisers, and 1965 T-Birds. If they couldn't be historically accurate with the cars, they should have moved the year to 1965.

There was also a scene inside a taxi-cab riding down the Vegas strip, where the cab's dash-mounted gear selector was clearly in "Park." I know they had to use rear-screen projection to show the early 60s version of the strip, but that kind of detail is important - it's distracting when it's wrong, and messing it up is just plain sloppy production. This never would have happened on Mad Men.

Having said that, I'll probably give the show a few more weeks to see what happens.
 
Lkeller said:
I watched the first episode of Vegas last night. I have to say I was a bit disappointed. I'm interested in the competitive rivalry that has the potential to develop between the Quaid and Chiklis characters, - you know, the lawman versus the mob boss. But it looks like there's a danger that the show will devolve into just another CBS police procedural, with the rivalry being just a minor sub-plot.

And many of the historical props were off. They specified that the year was 1960 at the beginning of the show. So there should not have been 1963 Ford police cruisers, and 1965 T-Birds. If they couldn't be historically accurate with the cars, they should have moved the year to 1965.

There was also a scene inside a taxi-cab riding down the Vegas strip, where the cab's dash-mounted gear selector was clearly in "Park." I know they had to use rear-screen projection to show the early 60s version of the strip, but that kind of detail is important - it's distracting when it's wrong, and messing it up is just plain sloppy production. This never would have happened on Mad Men.

Having said that, I'll probably give the show a few more weeks to see what happens.
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Excellent points made regarding the cars. Can you imagine a Toyota RAV 4 appearing on the show. :D
 
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