Getting New Amsterdam Ready For Air; The Pilot ... Needed Fixing

From AP/The Candadian Press comes an article covering the preparations and reshoots involved in getting New Amsterdam's pilot episode ready for broadcast. It, also, includes comments from Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and executive producer David Manson.

"A then-and-now comparison reveals a promising concept that, in its first rendition, had potentially fatal flaws.

"New Amsterdam" 2.0 deftly fixes those flaws, and gets the series off to a strong start, thanks to several scenes reshot, a minor role recast, some strategic re-editing, and - underlying all the tweaks - a heightened sense on the part of the producers for what the series is about. Right now the pilot system is losing favour among budget-slashing networks. But the pilot for "New Amsterdam" served a valuable purpose: it was a good way to find the weak spots."

Read the full article here:
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gDhy4-6_2IaIdXc-65aadpuz9L2w



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