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Rubicon (full episode sneak preview 47 min. Video)
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Posted on 07/31/2010 5:19:59 PM PDT by restornu

http://www.amctv.com/originals/Rubicon/">AMC's NEWEST ORIGINAL SERIES: RUBICON Video

AMC production on Rubicon, its newest original drama series, began on Monday, March 29 in New York City. The show is a conspiracy thriller starring James Badge Dale (who earlier this year headlined HBO’s The Pacific) as an analyst at a New York City-based federal intelligence agency who is thrown into a story where nothing is as it appears to be. Henry Bromell (Homicide, Chicago Hope, Brotherhood) has signed on as showrunner. The one-hour, 13-episode weekly series is produced by Warner Horizon Television and premieres this summer. (Click here to watch a sneak preview of Rubicon.)

"Rubicon is an incredible story about trust and power born out of the desire to find a way to capture the intensity and mystery of the best conspiracy thrillers in a series. It is a show that appeals to everyone who has some skepticism about the relationship between big business and our government, which we think is pretty much everybody,” said Joel Stillerman, SVP of original programming, production and digital content for AMC. “Our stellar cast and creative team allow us to continue to present premium television on basic cable."

The series cast includes James Badge Dale (The Pacific, The Departed), Oscar®-nominated actress Miranda Richardson (Sleepy Hollow), Dallas Roberts (Walk the Line, Flicka, The L Word), Jessica Collins (The Nine, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), Christopher Evan Welch (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Lauren Hodges (Law & Order), and Arliss Howard (Full Metal Jacket, Natural Born Killers, The Sandlot).

AMC’s Stillerman along with Susie Fitzgerald, senior vice president of scripted development and current programming and Jeremy Elice, vice president of original programming, will oversee the development and production of the new drama.

Rubicon’s pilot was produced in New York City and was directed by acclaimed film and television helmer Allen Coulter (The Sopranos, Hollywoodland, Damages, Nurse Jackie) and Kerry Orent (Michael Clayton, Rescue Me) is the producer.

Greenlit to a full series order in June 2009, Rubicon marks AMC’s third original series. In summer 2007, AMC debuted its first original drama Mad Men, which went on to receive unprecedented critical acclaim and garner history-making awards recognition, including back-to-back Emmy and the only series to ever win the Golden Globe, three times in a row, for best drama series on television. The series returns for a fourth season this summer. In January 2008, AMC premiered its second original series, Breaking Bad, which landed on countless critics' top ten lists and also won back-to-back Emmy Awards for outstanding lead actor for Bryan Cranston’s portrayal of lead character Walter White. The series returned for its third season on March 21.

About AMC AMC reigns as the only network to ever win the Golden Globe® Award for Best Television Series - Drama three years in a row and the only basic cable network to win back-to-back Primetime Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Drama Series. Whether commemorating favorite films from every genre and decade from the most comprehensive library or creating acclaimed original productions, the AMC experience is an uncompromising celebration of great stories. AMC's original stories include the Emmy® Award-winning dramas Mad Men and Breaking Bad, and insightful non-scripted programming such as AMC News. AMC further demonstrates its commitment to the art of storytelling with curated movie franchises like AMC Hollywood Icon and AMC Complete Collection. Available in more than 95 million homes (Source: Nielsen Media Research), AMC is a subsidiary of Rainbow Media Holdings LLC, which includes sister networks IFC, Sundance Channel, WE tv and Wedding Central. AMC is available across all platforms, including on-air, online, on demand and mobile. AMC: Story Matters HereSM.

About Warner Horizon Television Warner Horizon Television (WHTV) is one of the entertainment industry’s fastest-growing television companies, specializing in the creation of scripted series for the cable marketplace, and primetime reality series for both network and cable. Founded in 2006, this second production entity allows the Warner Bros. Television Group to expand its programming offerings and explore creative options made possible under a new business model. WHTV is producing more than a dozen series for broadcast and cable networks in 2009–2010.


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1 posted on 07/31/2010 5:20:04 PM PDT by restornu
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2 posted on 07/31/2010 5:29:08 PM PDT by restornu
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To: restornu

Hmmmm.

Tnx. :)

Boots.


3 posted on 07/31/2010 5:33:14 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: combat_boots

Beck ping

AMC’s NEWEST ORIGINAL SERIES: RUBICON Video
http://www.amctv.com/originals/Rubicon/


4 posted on 07/31/2010 5:36:26 PM PDT by restornu
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To: restornu
The first episode was very good. I just hope it doesn't
turn into a soap opera.

It's worrisome that Wilson also said:

“All that progressives ask or desire is permission—in an
era when development, evolution, is a scientific word
—to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian
principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a
nation is a living thing and not a machine.”
- Woodrow Wilson

5 posted on 07/31/2010 5:38:55 PM PDT by donna (Why did John McCain let it get so bad?)
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To: restornu

Did you want the ILK pinged?

CC keeps the list now.


6 posted on 07/31/2010 5:46:00 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: combat_boots

AMC is pulling out all the the conspiracy stops and jfk,charlie wilson war,mike clayton, condor. something is up


7 posted on 07/31/2010 5:47:33 PM PDT by truthbetold11 (truthbetold11)
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Three Days of the Condor is one of the finest espionage/conspiracy films ever made.


8 posted on 07/31/2010 6:16:05 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: restornu

Not bad. I hope it doesn’t get political.


9 posted on 07/31/2010 6:19:20 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: restornu
Rubicon is promising, but its premise is limited and may be exhausted in a season or two.
10 posted on 07/31/2010 6:25:53 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: restornu

That quote attributed to Woodrow Wilson is not factual.

There is no evidence he ever said it (unless you have the attribution) and he was in love with the Fed Reserve and all the ideals of the elite controlling the lives of the ‘Little People’.


11 posted on 07/31/2010 6:28:10 PM PDT by webstersII
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To: Rockingham; combat_boots; cripplecreek

Could be another 24 a slow 24 if you get my driff but I like it just don’t play with my head.

But than many of us has a firm background and will be able to discern a spoof...


12 posted on 07/31/2010 6:31:54 PM PDT by restornu
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To: webstersII

I agree what you said about WW but to him that statement could have beem possitive.

I have noticed when Obama is pleased with something even though we can see it is not working or true to the PO it is also true and good for he wants good to fail like Rush wants wrong to fail!


13 posted on 07/31/2010 6:36:13 PM PDT by restornu
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To: restornu

I happened to watch the preview of Rubicon a few weeks back entirely by accident. It definitely caught my attention and held it.

I love the term “Crossing the Rubicon” and what it means anyway.


14 posted on 07/31/2010 6:42:03 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: webstersII

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/woodrowwil105428.html

of course the ignorant man did not know we have/had a Republic or was he talking about layers of platforms


15 posted on 07/31/2010 6:48:08 PM PDT by restornu
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Famous quotes on Democracy
http://www.quotegarden.com/government.html

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen. ~Author Unknown

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill

If people behaved like governments, you’d call the cops. ~Kelvin Throop

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. ~William Howard Taft

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ~James Russell Lowell

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, “Maxims: Education,” 1905

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. ~Woodrow Wilson

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? ~St. Augustine

Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it. ~Benjamin Lichtenberg

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ~P.J. O’Rourke

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. ~George Bernard Shaw

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. ~Abraham Lincoln

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. ~Karl Marx

Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens. ~Edgar A. Suter

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ~Louis Brandeis

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. ~Barry Goldwater

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. ~Winston Churchill

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don’t think. ~Author Unknown

The cure for capitalism’s failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. ~Robert L. Heilbroner

Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. ~Larry Flynt

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb. ~Benjamin Franklin


16 posted on 07/31/2010 6:49:23 PM PDT by restornu
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To: restornu
There is reason to hope that Rubicon will be better than that. Recent top end dramatic series (Mad Men, Sopranos, Deadwood, Big Love, Breaking Bad, and Justified) all have one or two writers in control with a strong vision of how the series should develop. This usually leads to intelligent plotting, good dialog, strong characters -- and ratings gold -- as long as the suits keep their distance. AMC and HBO proved that works, and now even FX (Justified) is following their lead.
17 posted on 07/31/2010 7:13:12 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: restornu

I saw the pilot last Sunday. HOOKED.


18 posted on 07/31/2010 7:18:22 PM PDT by redhead (Abortion: The number one killer of human beings. Period.)
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To: restornu

save


19 posted on 07/31/2010 7:30:31 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: restornu

Bump


20 posted on 08/22/2010 11:23:19 PM PDT by AZMike2010
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