This mid-60s detective story has the right ingredients — a good mystery and interesting characters. David Jannsen gets to play a ‘Bosch’- style lone wolf investigator given a public thrashing for a ‘mistake’ that he knows was no mistake at all. Can a ‘bad cop’ redeem himself? The parade of mid-level guest stars — Stefanie Powers, Joan Collins, Lillian Gish, Steve Allen — may resemble a TV movie, but the tense show has a good feel for Los Angeles and the new swingin’ singles lifestyle. It might be Buzz Kulik’s best job of direction, and it has a great music score by Jerry Goldsmith.
Warning Shot
Region Free Blu-ray
Viavision [Imprint] #177
1967 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date October 26, 2022 / Available from [Imprint] / au 39.95
Starring: David Janssen, Ed Begley, Stefanie Powers, George Grizzard, Keenan Wynn, Joan Collins, Lillian Gish, Eleanor Parker, Sam Wanamaker, George Sanders, Steve Allen, Carroll O’Connor, Walter Pidgeon.
Cinematography: Joseph F. Biroc...
Warning Shot
Region Free Blu-ray
Viavision [Imprint] #177
1967 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date October 26, 2022 / Available from [Imprint] / au 39.95
Starring: David Janssen, Ed Begley, Stefanie Powers, George Grizzard, Keenan Wynn, Joan Collins, Lillian Gish, Eleanor Parker, Sam Wanamaker, George Sanders, Steve Allen, Carroll O’Connor, Walter Pidgeon.
Cinematography: Joseph F. Biroc...
- 11/22/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
After nearly a decade as head of scripted television for MGM, Steve Stark is leaving the studio’s executive ranks. The news comes a year after MGM’s Worldwide Television Group, run by Chairman Mark Burnett, last extended Stark with a new contract in conjunction with him being named President of a new label, MGM/UA Television.
“MGM has confirmed President of MGM/UA Television Steve Stark will be exiting his role,” the company said in a statement to Deadline. “The studio plans to announcing more details in the coming days.”
Stark is returning to producing, transitioning to an exclusive production deal with MGM/UA Television.
Over the past nine and a half years, Stark, a respected and well-liked executive, grew MGM’s scripted footprint with the award-winning series The Handmaid’s Tale and Fargo, as well as Vikings, Get Shorty, Condor, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Perpetual Grace Ltd, among others.
“MGM has confirmed President of MGM/UA Television Steve Stark will be exiting his role,” the company said in a statement to Deadline. “The studio plans to announcing more details in the coming days.”
Stark is returning to producing, transitioning to an exclusive production deal with MGM/UA Television.
Over the past nine and a half years, Stark, a respected and well-liked executive, grew MGM’s scripted footprint with the award-winning series The Handmaid’s Tale and Fargo, as well as Vikings, Get Shorty, Condor, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Perpetual Grace Ltd, among others.
- 3/10/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
A group of young, scrappy and brilliant writers penned some of the most accomplished dramas presented live during the Golden Age of TV in the 1950s. Writers such as Paddy Chayefsky, J.P. Miller (“The Days of Wine and Roses”), Reginald Rose (“Twelve Angry Men”), Tad Mosel (“The Haven”), James Costigan (“Little Moon of Alban”) and Horton Foote.
But the most influential and best-known of these writers was Rod Serling, who became a superstar as not only creator and writer but host of the landmark 1959-1964 CBS sci-fi/fantasy anthology series “The Twilight Zone,” for which he won two Emmys for his writing. “The Twilight Zone” and even his less successful 1970-73 NBC anthology series “Night Gallery” has overshadowed his earlier work for which he won three Emmys for his writing.
Among his earliest work was the 1953 “Kraft Television Theatre” presentation “A Long Time Till Dawn,” which gave a 22-year-old James Dean...
But the most influential and best-known of these writers was Rod Serling, who became a superstar as not only creator and writer but host of the landmark 1959-1964 CBS sci-fi/fantasy anthology series “The Twilight Zone,” for which he won two Emmys for his writing. “The Twilight Zone” and even his less successful 1970-73 NBC anthology series “Night Gallery” has overshadowed his earlier work for which he won three Emmys for his writing.
Among his earliest work was the 1953 “Kraft Television Theatre” presentation “A Long Time Till Dawn,” which gave a 22-year-old James Dean...
- 6/4/2020
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Update: Beverly Hills entertainment attorney Irwin Russell, whose clients included ex-Disney head Michael Eisner, Jim Henson, Theodore Geisel Aka Dr. Seuss, Joan Crawford, and Carol Burnett, died Friday of complications from leukemia. He was 87. Russell found himself in the eye of the firestorm of corporate governance criticism over the Walt Disney Company’s notorious hiring and firing of Michael Ovitz for huge sums of money. Russell’s dual role was scrutinized in a 2004 Delaware Chancery Court shareholders lawsuit and trial for being both Eisner’s personal attorney and the Disney board member who was chairman of the company’s compensation committee. Russell helped Eisner negotiate Ovitz’s 1995 Disney contract to become president and then 14 months later oversaw Ovitz’s huge $140 million payment after the Disney president’s December 1996 firing. Shareholders unsuccessfully sued over accusations Disney money was wasted because of flawed corporate governance by the directors running the company. Russell...
- 8/25/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Bob Banner Associates has filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Carol Burnett and her Whacko Inc. seeking an accounting of revenues from The Carol Burnett Show, spinoff show Mama’s Family (suit refers to it as Mama’s House) and reunion specials. Bba’s suit (Banner himself died in 2011) says the company and Burnett and her Whacko are co-owners of the copyrights to the first five seasons of the show. According to the suit (read it here) Banner and Burnett entered an agreement in 1967 which continued until 1972. During that time, according to Bba, closing credits identified Bba as co-owner of the copyright with Burnett. “Sometime in 1969″, the suit says, Burnett’s company Burngood Inc filed its first copyright registration solely in Burnett’s Burngood company name (later absorbed by Whacko) with no mention of Bba. The series continued until 1979. The series subsequently was edited into half-hour episodes entitled Carol Burnett And Friends.
- 11/22/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
For once, someone's Not laughing at "The Carol Burnett Show" -- namely the guy who helped create the TV classic, and is now suing over a home video deal, but the catch is ... He's Dead.The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in La County Superior Court by Bob Banner's production company ... and according to the docs Bob had a partnership to co-produce the show with Carol from 1967 to 1972.Bob died in 2011 from Parkinson's disease ... but...
- 11/22/2012
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Carol Burnett has been sued by a dead person. Well, almost. The comedy legend was hit with a lawsuit Wednesday by Bob Banner Associates, the production company of the late Bob Banner, which alleges he helped create the long-running classic The Carol Burnett Show (and its spinoff Mama's Family) but was cut out of a recent deal with Time Life to put the shows on home video. Photos: Top 10 Legal Disclaimers in Hollywood Banner — or at least his production company — is seeking a full accounting from Burnett and her Whacko, Inc. company. Read the full complaint
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- 11/21/2012
- by Eriq Gardner , Matthew Belloni
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Veteran TV producer Steve Stark has joined MGM as President, Television Production. He will oversee all aspects of television and content development and production, including the development of new TV projects and projects based on titles from the MGM library. He will report to Roma Khanna, MGM’s President Television Group and Digital. “Steve is an extraordinary talent with a tremendous track record and deep relationships in the television industry,” said Khanna. Stark spent the last two-and-a-half years spearheading his own Steve Stark Prods, which was most recently based at Universal Television with an overall deal he signed in January. Through his company, Stark serves as an executive producer on USA Network’s Fairly Legal and executive produced NBC’s The Event. Stark previously served as president of Kelsey Grammer’s Grammnet Prods for seven years, developing and executive producing such series as Medium and The Game. This marks Stark...
- 10/31/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
American TV producer/director Bob Banner has died after losing his battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 89.
The Emmy Award-winning star passed away on Wednesday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, California, where he lived.
Banner began his career in children's TV before taking directorial duties on pioneering talk show Garroway at Large, which ran from 1949 to 1951.
The star won an Emmy Award in 1958 as director of The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, and went on to oversee The Garry Moore Show, before working on The Carol Burnett Show in the 1970s.
Banner also used his talent to work on several charity shows, including 1964's Freedom Spectacular, featuring Bill Cosby and Sammy Davis Jr. and a 1988 AIDS benefit concert hosted by Dionne Warwick. He worked on 1980s talent show Star Search and his last project was the 1990s series Real Kids, Real Adventures.
John Shaffner, chairman of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, has paid tribute to Banner in a statement: "Bob was a true television legend. Over a long and elegant career he produced much memorable programming. He mentored so many of us, educating and encouraging young people to enter the television profession, including myself so many years ago. The television community has lost one its founders, and it is a deep personal loss for many of us. We will remember him with fondness and gratitude."
Banner is survived by his wife, Alice, three sons and two grandchildren.
The Emmy Award-winning star passed away on Wednesday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, California, where he lived.
Banner began his career in children's TV before taking directorial duties on pioneering talk show Garroway at Large, which ran from 1949 to 1951.
The star won an Emmy Award in 1958 as director of The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, and went on to oversee The Garry Moore Show, before working on The Carol Burnett Show in the 1970s.
Banner also used his talent to work on several charity shows, including 1964's Freedom Spectacular, featuring Bill Cosby and Sammy Davis Jr. and a 1988 AIDS benefit concert hosted by Dionne Warwick. He worked on 1980s talent show Star Search and his last project was the 1990s series Real Kids, Real Adventures.
John Shaffner, chairman of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, has paid tribute to Banner in a statement: "Bob was a true television legend. Over a long and elegant career he produced much memorable programming. He mentored so many of us, educating and encouraging young people to enter the television profession, including myself so many years ago. The television community has lost one its founders, and it is a deep personal loss for many of us. We will remember him with fondness and gratitude."
Banner is survived by his wife, Alice, three sons and two grandchildren.
- 6/16/2011
- WENN
Bob Banner, who won an Emmy for directing "The Dinah Shore Chevy Show" in 1958 and was executive producer of television programs including "Candid Camera," "Solid Gold" and "Star Search," died Wednesday of Parkinson's Disease. He was 89. Banner lived at the Motion Picture & Television Fund retirement community in Los Angeles. He began his career as a production assistant on "Kukla, Fran & Ollie," the puppet show for children. At the time, he was a Ph.D. student at Northwestern University in Chicago. He then became a floor manager on "Garroway-At-Large," and...
- 6/16/2011
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
Less than a year after venturing on his own as an independent producer, Steve Stark is filming his third pilot and has a half-dozen other projects in the works.
Stark, a longtime development executive at Paramount TV and Columbia TriStar TV, ran Kelsey Grammer's CBS Par-based Grammnet Prods. for seven years before going solo early this year with the launch of Steve Stark Prods.
"With every job I take, I say I can't possibly work harder," Stark said. "I'm working harder then ever now, but the rewards are greater. There is an incredible flexibility in selling directly to the networks; I am able to do things a little faster and be a little more agile."
Stark is in production on USA Network's hourlong pilot "Facing Kate," which stars Sarah Shahi as a lawyer who becomes a professional mediator.
In the past 11 months, his company also produced two pilots...
Stark, a longtime development executive at Paramount TV and Columbia TriStar TV, ran Kelsey Grammer's CBS Par-based Grammnet Prods. for seven years before going solo early this year with the launch of Steve Stark Prods.
"With every job I take, I say I can't possibly work harder," Stark said. "I'm working harder then ever now, but the rewards are greater. There is an incredible flexibility in selling directly to the networks; I am able to do things a little faster and be a little more agile."
Stark is in production on USA Network's hourlong pilot "Facing Kate," which stars Sarah Shahi as a lawyer who becomes a professional mediator.
In the past 11 months, his company also produced two pilots...
- 12/16/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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