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August 11, 2006

TV/VIDEO/MULTIMEDIA NEWS:
'Deadwood' Creator Takes on Surfing Drama Pilot
August 11, 2006
By Nellie Andreeva

Bruce Greenwood is in final negotiations to star in David Milch's pilot "John From Cincinnati," which Emmy winner Mark Tinker has come aboard to direct.

Written by "Deadwood" creator Milch and author Kem Nunn, "John" is a drama set in the world of Southern California surfing.

Greenwood will play the patriarch of the surfing family at the center of the show.

Also cast in the project is Luis Guzman as Ramon.

Milch is executive producing with Tinker, "Deadwood" executive producer Gregg Fienberg and Howard Rosenman.

Nunn and Peter Spears are co-executive producing, with longtime surfer Herbie Fletcher and his wife, Dibi, serving as consulting producers.

Nunn, known for writing dark novels with a heavy surfing motif, has penned such books as "Tijuana Straits," "Tapping the Source" and "The Dogs of Winter."

Tinker has won Emmys for his directing work on "NYPD Blue" (which Milch co-created), "St. Elsewhere" and "Brooklyn South." He most recently helmed episodes of HBO's "Deadwood" and ABC's "Grey's Anatomy."

Greenwood, who recently appeared in the features "Capote," "Eight Below" and "The World's Fastest Indian," next stars opposite Kim Basinger in the Lifetime movie "The Mermaid Chair."

He is repped by the Gersh Agency and manager Chuck Binder.

Guzman, featured in last year's "Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story," next appears in "Fast Food Nation" and "School for Scoundrels."

He is repped by Gersh and manager Michael Bregman.

HBO will be the new home for Bruce Greenwood in his latest project, a series written by Deadwood creater David Milch, centering on the surfing world of Southern California. The show will concentrate on one influential family headed by Bruce as its patriarch.

The pilot is being directed by Emmy winning helmer Mark Tinker, with whom Bruce worked on St. Elsewhere.

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'Invasion' Star Found on 'Vanished'
Cibrian joins FOX show; Greenwood teams with Milch
August 11 2006

LOS ANGELES -- Eddie Cibrian, who starred in ABC's "Invasion" last season, has signed on to another series with a complicated back story.

Cibrian has joined the cast of FOX's new drama "Vanished." The former "Third Watch" star will play an FBI agent, the showbiz trade papers report. In other casting news, Bruce Greenwood and Luis Guzman have signed on to "John from Cincinnati," "Deadwood" creator David Milch's next project for HBO.

The cast of "Vanished," which tracks the possible conspiracy behind the disappearance of a senator's wife, has grown some since its pilot was shot in the spring. Cibrian is the third actor to join the show since then, following Josh Hopkins ("Pepper Dennis") and Penelope Ann Miller ("Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story").

The show, which premieres in less than two weeks, also stars John Allen Nelson ("24") as the senator, Gale Harold ("Queer as Folk") and Ming-Na ("ER") as the FBI agents assigned to the case and Joanne Kelly as the woman who does the vanishing.

At HBO, Greenwood ("Capote," "Thirteen Days") will star as the patriarch of a surfing family in "John from Cincinnati," which despite its title is set in the Southern California surf culture. Milch is writing the pilot with Kem Nunn, on whose work the script is based.

Guzman ("Boogie Nights," "Luis") will also star. He's also set to co-star with Jeff Goldblum in NBC's midseason drama "Raines"; it's unclear if his casting in "John" will affect that role.

Reuters / Hollywood Reporter

Greenwood boards pilot from "Deadwood" creator Milch
Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:21 AM ET
By Nellie Andreeva

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Bruce Greenwood is in final negotiations to star in David Milch's pilot "John From Cincinnati," which Emmy winner Mark Tinker will direct.

Written by "Deadwood" creator Milch and author Kem Nunn, "John" is a drama set in the world of Southern California surfing.

Greenwood will play the patriarch of the surfing family at the center of the show.

Also cast in the project is Luis Guzman as Ramon.

Nunn is known for writing dark novels with a heavy surfing motif. His books include "Tijuana Straits," "Tapping the Source" and "The Dogs of Winter."

Tinker has won Emmys for his directing work on "NYPD Blue" (which Milch co-created), "St. Elsewhere" and "Brooklyn South." He most recently helmed episodes of HBO's "Deadwood" and ABC's "Grey's Anatomy."

Greenwood, who recently appeared in the features "Capote," "Eight Below" and "The World's Fastest Indian," next stars opposite Kim Basinger in the Lifetime movie "The Mermaid Chair."

Guzman, featured in last year's "Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story," next appears on the big screen in "Fast Food Nation" and "School for Scoundrels."

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter