That's Right, I Have A Blog - First, a Day One Update

Whooo-kay. Been awhile.

"Day One" obviously didn't turn out as expected. After ordering 12 episodes last May, while we were still shooting, the network first scaled that back to a 4-hour mini-series, and then in October, made the whole thing vanish from the face of the Earth.

This was disappointing, to say the least, as I had forgone looking for a fall series in order to work on DO. I have no way of really knowing why the network got cold feet, and though I could speculate plenty, my job is to be discrete in any case.

All I can say is that the experience is one in which I will not soon forget. The whole crew was fantastic, and I learned so much about special effects on big projects. Alex really did his homework, and I feel we broke some ground on creating special effects for television. To Dieter Ismagil, and Jason Sax in Post, and Bill Polowloski and Ed Irastorza in VFX, thanks so much for making the DO editing suites a creative environment!

Since I missed the fall 2009 season, I my next gig fell to April and Season 2 of "Royal Pains." More in next post.