Watch his video introduction to his watchlist below.īased on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five decades of American political history as witnessed from the vantage point of the servants' quarters. Can he tell us all kinds of incriminating stories from behind the scenes of Mad Men? "There are many, but I would be killed if I divulged any of them," he jokes. (Full disclosure: is owned by a partnership of Lionsgate and JP Morgan's One Equity Partners.)īut let's get down to brass tacks. Beggs' next project, Nashville, premieres on ABC on Oct. "Seth MacFarlane has turned digression into an artform," he says. And why it's such a kick to find out that he's a Family Guy fan. That's why we're thrilled that Beggs, aka the man who has ushered shows like Mad Men, Weeds and Nurse Jackie into the cultural consciousness, has agreed to curate a channel on the app for us.
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The most fun part of launching 's new mobile app is getting to have unexpected, enlightening conversations about TV with the incredibly smart, talented people who make it. Kevin Beggs, the president of Lionsgate's television group, may have helped introduce the world to some of the most culturally literate shows on TV, but when it's time for him to name his favorites, he recalls with glee an episode of Family Guy and utters just four words: "Bird Is the Word". Elsewhere had one of the most peculiar endings to any television show in history.Kevin Beggs' Watchlist: What Does He Love About Family Guy? It was unrealistic that the character would keep coming down with various maladies without expiring. Eventually, though, the show's medical advisor suggested that Hufnagel had to go.
Halop's performance, however, convinced producers to bring her back 22 more times. Hufnagel was originally scheduled for just one appearance. Tearing into doctors and residents with a sharp tongue, Mrs. Elsewhere had a lot of name actors but only one secret weapon: Florence Halop, who played the perpetually-afflicted patient Mrs. Elsewhere killed off a character in order to be medically accurate.
People come up and I say, ‘What do you want? You want an autograph? Oh, all right, give it here.’ They just start giggling. Personally I'm slightly withdrawn and rather shy, so I found the best way to deal with this high visibility was to just play the character. “I don't know why the character got that popular,” he told The Orlando Sentinel in 1988. Elsewhere afforded him no such anonymity. While it was possible for Daniels to go unrecognized as the talking car, St. He was also the voice of K.I.T.T., David Hasselhoff’s artificially-intelligent car, in Knight Rider.
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But it wasn’t the only primetime NBC series Daniels appeared in. David Morse’s character was named after a dog.ĭaniels, who played cantankerous-but-brilliant surgeon Dr. (The changes nonetheless proved beneficial: NBC picked up the series.) 2. None were, although the show did wind up having quite the mortality rate for its characters. The shake-ups wound up frightening the remaining cast members, who worried they might be getting fired, too. Wayne Fiscus.Īfter reviewing footage, producer Bruce Paltrow-the late father of actress Gwyneth Paltrow-didn’t like what he saw and re-cast the Westphall and Fiscus roles, hiring Ed Flanders and Howie Mandel, respectively. Donald Westphall and David Paymer played resident Dr. Daniel Auschlander, tried speaking with an Austrian accent Josef Sommer played Auschlander’s friend, Dr. But shooting the pilot proved to be difficult: Venerable character actor Norman Lloyd, who would quickly become co-anchor of the show as wise Dr. Elsewhere, which was co-created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey (who would later co-create Northern Exposure), was originally pitched to NBC as “ Hill Street Blues in a hospital.” That show, about a police precinct, had been a critically-acclaimed hit for NBC beginning in 1981.
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