TV Binge Watch (Part 2)

Thread Games
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Jingle All The Way

  1. Jingle Trek: The Next Generation
  2. One Jingle at a Time
  3. Monday Night Jingleball
602

Jingle All The Way

  1. Jingle Trek: The Next Generation
  2. One Jingle at a Time
  3. Monday Night Jingleball
  4. Jingles
603

Jingle All The Way

  1. Jingle Trek: The Next Generation
  2. One Jingle at a Time
  3. Monday Night Jingleball
  4. Jingles
  5. The Big Jingle Theory
604

Jingle All The Way

  1. Jingle Trek: The Next Generation
  2. One Jingle at a Time
  3. Monday Night Jingleball
  4. Jingles
  5. The Big Jingle Theory
  6. It’s Always Jingly in Philadephia
605

Jingle All The Way

  1. Jingle Trek: The Next Generation
  2. One Jingle at a Time
  3. Monday Night Jingleball
  4. Jingles
  5. The Big Jingle Theory
  6. It’s Always Jingly in Philadephia
  7. Quantum Jingle
606

Jingle All The Way

  1. Jingle Trek: The Next Generation
  2. One Jingle at a Time
  3. Monday Night Jingleball
  4. Jingles
  5. The Big Jingle Theory
  6. It’s Always Jingly in Philadephia
  7. Quantum Jingle
  8. Jingling Amy
607

Jingle All The Way

  1. Jingle Trek: The Next Generation
  2. One Jingle at a Time
  3. Monday Night Jingleball
  4. Jingles
  5. The Big Jingle Theory
  6. It’s Always Jingly in Philadephia
  7. Quantum Jingle
  8. Frisky Jingle
608

Jingle All The Way

  1. Jingle Trek: The Next Generation
  2. One Jingle at a Time
  3. Monday Night Jingleball
  4. Jingles
  5. The Big Jingle Theory
  6. It’s Always Jingly in Philadephia
  7. Quantum Jingle
  8. Frisky Jingle
  9. The Jinglin’ Girls
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  1. Jingle Trek: The Next Generation
  2. One Jingle at a Time
  3. Monday Night Jingleball
  4. Jingles
  5. The Big Jingle Theory
  6. It’s Always Jingly in Philadephia
  7. Quantum Jingle
  8. Frisky Jingle
  9. The Jinglin’ Girls
  10. Law & Jingle

Back with the next one in 5

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Unusual casting that worked

  1. Camryn Manheim in The Pratice

They weren’t looking for an actor “of size,” so to speak, but she got the chance to read for the role by winning a game of cribbage-- surprise! They liked her, cast her, and she won an Emmy.

611

Unusual casting that worked

  1. Camryn Manheim in The Pratice
  2. Geri Jewell in Deadwood

Born with cerebral palsy, she had a career as a comedian, which was quite unusual in itself. When she helped director David Milch suss out the character of Jewel, a disabled barmaid in the old West, he offered her the part and gave her leeway to write her own dialogue and back story.

612

Unusual casting that worked

  1. Camryn Manheim in The Practice
  2. Geri Jewell in Deadwood

Born with cerebral palsy, she had a career as a comedian, which was quite unusual in itself. When she helped director David Milch suss out the character of Jewel, a disabled barmaid in the old West, he offered her the part and gave her leeway to write her own dialogue and back story.

Housekeeping-- left a letter out of the word “Practice”

613

Unusual casting that worked

  1. Camryn Manheim in The Practice
  2. Geri Jewell in Deadwood
  3. Steven Van Zandt in Sopranos

Steven had never acted before landing the role of consigliere Dante Silvio. Show creator David Chase wrote the part specifically for him.

614

Unusual casting that worked

  1. Camryn Manheim in The Practice
  2. Geri Jewell in Deadwood
  3. Steven Van Zandt in Sopranos
  4. Frank Silva in Twin Peaks

Silva was not an actor but was part of the crew. David Lynch noticed that he was visible in a mirror after a shot and wrote a character for him into the story.

615

Oh, yeah-- Killer Bob-- that guy scared the crap out of me!

616

Unusual casting that worked

  1. Camryn Manheim in The Practice
  2. Geri Jewell in Deadwood
  3. Steven Van Zandt in Sopranos
  4. Frank Silva in Twin Peaks
  5. Marlee Matlin in West Wing

No reason a deaf person can’t be a top pollster, but it’s not what an audience would typically expect.

617

Unusual casting that worked

  1. Camryn Manheim in The Practice
  2. Geri Jewell in Deadwood
  3. Steven Van Zandt in Sopranos
  4. Frank Silva in Twin Peaks
  5. Marlee Matlin in West Wing
  6. Cesar Romero in Batman
618

Unusual casting that worked

  1. Camryn Manheim in The Practice
  2. Geri Jewell in Deadwood
  3. Steven Van Zandt in Sopranos
  4. Frank Silva in Twin Peaks
  5. Marlee Matlin in West Wing
  6. Cesar Romero in Batman
  7. Bryan Cranston - Breaking Bad

Cranston was at that point known for being the father in Malcom in the Middle. Vince Gilligan really wanted him but AMC execs weren’t swayed until he showed them the episode he directed that featured Cranston as an anti-Semite whose head exploded.

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Unusual casting that worked

  1. Camryn Manheim in The Practice
  2. Geri Jewell in Deadwood
  3. Steven Van Zandt in Sopranos
  4. Frank Silva in Twin Peaks
  5. Marlee Matlin in West Wing
  6. Cesar Romero in Batman
  7. Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad
  8. Patrick Stewart in ST:TNG

Before that Stewart was mostly known in the US, if at all, as a Shakespearean actor.

620

Unusual casting that worked

  1. Camryn Manheim in The Practice
  2. Geri Jewell in Deadwood
  3. Steven Van Zandt in Sopranos
  4. Frank Silva in Twin Peaks
  5. Marlee Matlin in West Wing
  6. Cesar Romero in Batman
  7. Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad
  8. Patrick Stewart in ST:TNG
  9. Hugh Laurie in House