Forgive us if we occasionally sound surprised or bemused in our coverage of the Suits streaming phenomenon. It’s just that an innocuous 2010s cable series suddenly becoming a monster hit on streaming is a fairly perplexing experience.
Streaming services like Netflix and Peacock, both of which host multiple seasons of Suits, spend untold millions trying to produce their own original hits only for a USA Network series from years ago to blow them all out of the water. People quite simply can’t get enough of the legal machinations of Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht), Michael Ross (Patrick J. Adams), and the rest of the personnel a their constantly-changing law firm.
Why, exactly, has Suits in particular become such a hit? We’ll leave that one for the sociologists. But the show’s success this summer has made one undeniable fact of TV life clear: legal dramas are great! For decades,...
Streaming services like Netflix and Peacock, both of which host multiple seasons of Suits, spend untold millions trying to produce their own original hits only for a USA Network series from years ago to blow them all out of the water. People quite simply can’t get enough of the legal machinations of Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht), Michael Ross (Patrick J. Adams), and the rest of the personnel a their constantly-changing law firm.
Why, exactly, has Suits in particular become such a hit? We’ll leave that one for the sociologists. But the show’s success this summer has made one undeniable fact of TV life clear: legal dramas are great! For decades,...
- 8/14/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Glenn Close will be honoured for her long-running Hollywood career next month by industry publication The Hollywood Reporter as it unveils the annual 100 most powerful women in entertainment list.
The Fatal Attraction star will receive the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award when the publication reveals the revered list for 2008 at the 17th annual ceremony on 5 December.
The award is named after the former CEO of Paramount Pictures - the first woman to head a major movie studio - and celebrates Hollywood's most successful actresses.
Close has earned five Oscar nominations throughout her 33 year career, as well as garnering two Golden Globe awards, two Emmys and three Tony Awards for her theatre and musical roles.
The 61-year-old enjoyed a career revival in 2007 playing hard-hitting litigator Patty Hughes in hit U.S. series Damages.
The Hollywood Reporter's editor Elizabeth Guide, says, "It's the amazing performances she's had of late on cable (TV), which has brought her back in the public consciousness, and the fact she's been active in community fundraising and a real industry leader."
Former winners of the honour include Jodie Foster, Meryl Streep and Barbara Walters.
The Fatal Attraction star will receive the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award when the publication reveals the revered list for 2008 at the 17th annual ceremony on 5 December.
The award is named after the former CEO of Paramount Pictures - the first woman to head a major movie studio - and celebrates Hollywood's most successful actresses.
Close has earned five Oscar nominations throughout her 33 year career, as well as garnering two Golden Globe awards, two Emmys and three Tony Awards for her theatre and musical roles.
The 61-year-old enjoyed a career revival in 2007 playing hard-hitting litigator Patty Hughes in hit U.S. series Damages.
The Hollywood Reporter's editor Elizabeth Guide, says, "It's the amazing performances she's had of late on cable (TV), which has brought her back in the public consciousness, and the fact she's been active in community fundraising and a real industry leader."
Former winners of the honour include Jodie Foster, Meryl Streep and Barbara Walters.
- 11/10/2008
- WENN
After a lengthy courtship, Glenn Close has signed on to star in her first television pilot, an FX drama from Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman.
Close will play a hard-hitting lawyer in the project, which Sony Pictures Television has come on board to produce with the cable network's production banner FX Prods.
The pilot reunites Close with FX and Sony TV. She made her series debut as a regular on FX's gritty cop drama The Shield, which Sony TV co-produces with Fox TV Studios. Close's starring role as hard-charging Capt. Monica Rawling on the show's fourth season earned her Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
The untitled Kessler/Kessler/Zelman drama, which has been fast-tracked at FX, is described as a character-driven legal thriller set in New York. Close will play Patty Hughes, America's foremost high-stakes litigator. The character was written for Close, Todd Kessler said.
"It's really fantastic," he said of Close's casting in the pilot. "The relationship that (FX president and general manager) John Landgraf has established with Glenn is going to result in what we hope to be an iconic and seminal work of television."
Allen Coulter is set to direct the pilot, which is slated to begin production in February.
Close will play a hard-hitting lawyer in the project, which Sony Pictures Television has come on board to produce with the cable network's production banner FX Prods.
The pilot reunites Close with FX and Sony TV. She made her series debut as a regular on FX's gritty cop drama The Shield, which Sony TV co-produces with Fox TV Studios. Close's starring role as hard-charging Capt. Monica Rawling on the show's fourth season earned her Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
The untitled Kessler/Kessler/Zelman drama, which has been fast-tracked at FX, is described as a character-driven legal thriller set in New York. Close will play Patty Hughes, America's foremost high-stakes litigator. The character was written for Close, Todd Kessler said.
"It's really fantastic," he said of Close's casting in the pilot. "The relationship that (FX president and general manager) John Landgraf has established with Glenn is going to result in what we hope to be an iconic and seminal work of television."
Allen Coulter is set to direct the pilot, which is slated to begin production in February.
- 11/30/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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