RE: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: Forever

Mon, 22 Sep 2014 06:19:09 -0700

I guess it would've helped if I hadn't somehow edited out a little crucial information:  

Actually the legal action that the show is involved in is its similarity to a novel ("coincidentally" also titled "Forever") that has a curiously similar theme of a man who was cursed by the original Native Americans on Manhattan Island in the 1600s, and will die if he ever leaves the island.  As I mentioned below, the original "New Amsterdan" TV show was a little too similar to the novel for the author's tastes, and he filed the first C&D letter back in 2007 (2008?).

Doug Fields
Tampa, FL

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: Forever
From: "Doug Fields" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, September 22, 2014 1:03 am
To: <[email protected]>

Warner Brothers was sent a cease & desist letter early this year when the show was first announced.  RadicalMedia has optioned the original novel (also titled “Forever”) by Pete Hamill and announced a couple of years ago that they were planning to produce an authorized TV version of the book along with Robert Redford’s Sundance Productions.
 
As already pointed out, the current series is almost identical to the earlier “New Amsterdam”…for which Hamill had also issued a cease & desist letter, but he let the matter drop when the show was cancelled after eight episodes before his legal reps could start legal proceedings.
 
http://www.tvweek.com/tvbizwire/2014/05/new-abc-series-is-it-too-simil/
 
Doug Fields
Tampa, FL
 
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin M.
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 12:13 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: Forever
 
 
 
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 9:03 PM, David Risner <[email protected]> wrote:
I loved New Amsterdam, so I've been hoping Forever would be a lot like it like it seemed from the ads.
 
Almost the exact same script for the pilot. Easily the exact same premise/concept. Without a doubt the exact same characters. It is such a close match from concept through execution that it wouldn't shock me if a lawsuit becomes of it should this version succeed.
 
 
On Sep 21, 2014 8:31 PM, "Kevin M." <[email protected]> wrote:
Do you remember the short-lived "New Amsterdam"?
 
The producers of "Forever" are hoping you don't, because they made a nearly exact clone of it.
 


 
--
Kevin M. (RPCV)

--
--
TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People!
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "TV or Not TV" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply via email to