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=Prime Time Adventures=
 
=Prime Time Adventures=
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'''Producer:''' Link
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'''Producer:''' Link<br>
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'''Current Season:''' Name To Be Determined
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'''Current Season:''' Name To Be Determined<br>
  
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==Romeo & Juliet: Detectives & Crime Family==
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==Verona==
 
'''Premise:''' Two families on either side of the law, joined in peace for many years by a marriage, begin to fray and unravel when the wedded couple suddenly dies.<br>
 
'''Premise:''' Two families on either side of the law, joined in peace for many years by a marriage, begin to fray and unravel when the wedded couple suddenly dies.<br>
 
'''Tone:''' Dark and gritty; Snappy dialog and gruesome realities<br>
 
'''Tone:''' Dark and gritty; Snappy dialog and gruesome realities<br>
 
'''Genre:''' Crime Drama with Soap Opera<br>
 
'''Genre:''' Crime Drama with Soap Opera<br>
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'''Setting:''' Providence, RI<br>
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'''Setting:''' Verona, RI<br>
  
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===Air Dates===
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====Recommended Viewing====
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* The Godfather, Part One
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* The Departed
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* In the Line of Fire
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* The Shield
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* The Black Donnellys
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===[[Brainstorming Results]]===
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==The Cast==
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===Creegan Family===
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*'''Police Chief [[Jonathan Liam Creegan]]''': Police chief who will do anything to see justice done. Played by Eddy Webb.
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**Father was former Irish mobster? Made a promise to his son (Ryan Creegan). One of the executors of the will.
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*'''[[Henry Creegan]]''': Dysfunctional father and public defender. Played by Russell Bailey.
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**Supporting character. Jonathan's brother, Bridget's father. Fuck-up. Poor father. Public defender. Tried to defend Franco, but only to cover up corruption on the family's side.
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*'''[[Bridget Marie Creegan]]''': Little girl lost. Played by Kelley Barnes.
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**Recent divorcee. Loved Franco, but married the "next best" guy. Kind of slutty.
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*'''Lt. [[Michael Creegan]]''': Police lieutenant with a secret. Played by David Bounds.
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**Owned and/or blackmailed by Vitaglian. Works directly for Jonathan.
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===Vitagliano Family===
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*'''Dona [[Esmaretta Vitagliano]]''': The matriarch. Played by Joseph Carriker.
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**Grieving wife of the don, current matriarch of la familia. One of the executors of the will. Mother of Julia Creegan (nee Vitagliano).
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*'''[[Franco Vitagliano]]''': Loyal family thug. Played by Ned Coker.
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**Second brother, relatively rank-and-file. Lives by a code. Helped dispose of corrupt member of the Creegan family. Was in jail for 10 years, three years before Ryan and Julia's wedding.
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*'''Father [[Salvatore Vitagliano]]''': Father confessor. Played by Michelle Webb.
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**Priest. Moral conscience of the families.
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*'''[[Nicolas Podleski|Nicolas "Nick Vitagliano" Podleski]]''': Young turk. Played by Jason Bolte.
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**Adopted into the family. Polish. Fanatically loyal, and will do anything needed to help the family. Views the family code as "justice." Loyal to the Don, but not necessarily the Dona.
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===Supporting Characters===
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*'''Candy McLeski'''
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**[[Henry Creegan | Henry Creegan's]] mistress.  "Sensual message specialist."
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*'''Dimitri Podleski'''
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**[[Nicolas Podleski|Nick Podleski's]] brother, a butcher.  He's an honest fellow who disapproves of the life Nick's chosen.
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*'''Fabian'''
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**[[Esmaretta Vitagliano | Esmaretta Vitagliano's]] gay fashion designer friend.
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*'''Frank Creegan'''
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**Son of Ryan and Julia Creegan.
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*'''Hans von Staten'''
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**Socialite and meddler who grates on Father [[Salvatore Vitagliano | Salvatore]].  "That damned Lutheren."
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*'''Jack Evans'''
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**Hospital administrator and erstwhile lover of [[Bridget Marie Creegan | Bridget Creegan]].
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*'''Janice Chaplain'''
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**Megan Creegan's psychologist twenty years after the events of ''Verona.''
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*'''Jenny McCarthy'''
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**[[Michael Creegan | Michael Creegan's]] fiancee.
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*'''Joseph Marlow'''
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**Other driver involved in the car crash which claimed the lives of Ryan and Julia Creegan and which put Luciano Vitagliano in a coma.
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*'''Julia Creegan'''
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**Deceased daughter of [[Esmaretta Vitagliano | Esmaretta]] and Luciano Vitagliano.
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*'''Karl Green'''
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**Captain on the Verona police force and right-hand man to Chief [[Jonathan Liam Creegan | Jonathan Creegan]].
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*'''Luciano Vitagliano'''
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**[[Esmaretta Vitagliano | Esmaretta Vitagliano's]] comatose husband and proper don of the Vitagliano crime family.
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*'''Mary Anne Creegan'''
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**[[Jonathan Liam Creegan | Jonathan Creegan's]] recently estranged wife.
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*'''Megan Creegan'''
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**Daughter of Ryan and Julia Creegan.  Twenty years after the events of ''Verona'', she narrates in conversations with Dr. Janice Chaplain.
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*'''Patrick O'Malley'''
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**Proprieter of O'Malley's Pub, which he was set up with by Father [[Salvatore Vitagliano]].  An ex-convict, he was [[Franco Vitagliano | Franco Vitagliano's]] sponsor in prison.
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*'''Ryan Creegan'''
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**Deceased son of [[Jonathan Liam Creegan | Jonathan]] and Mary Anne Creegan.
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*'''Sal'''
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**[[Nicolas Podleski|Nick Podleski's]] right-hand thug.
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*'''Thomas Heanly'''
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**Verona city justice presiding over the custody battle for Frank and Megan Creegan.  In the pocket of the Vitagliano family.
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==Series Sets==
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* VPD Station
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* O'Malley's Pub
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* [[Vitagliano Manor]]
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* Our Lady of Sorrows Church
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* Castle Motel
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* Waterfront industrial area
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* Courthouse
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* Downtown neighborhood, ext.
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* Former Creegan home
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==Air Dates==
 
'''Showtime:''' 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm<br>
 
'''Showtime:''' 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm<br>
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'''Network:''' CCPN
  
 
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!style="background-color:#BCD2EE;"| '''TBA'''
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!style="background-color:#BCD2EE;"| '''[[VeronaPTA1-TheWill|Crash]]'''
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| 101|| DATE ||
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| 101|| Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 ||  
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|colspan="5"| SYNOPSIS
 
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|-align="center"
 
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!style="background-color:#BCD2EE;"| [[Six of One (Battlestar Galactica)|Six of One]]
 
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| 404 || [[April 15]] [[2008]] || [[April 11]] [[2008]] || 39,676
 
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|colspan="5"| [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] faces the repercussions of her armed confrontation with President Roslin and loses the confidence of most of the crew. After learning the Final Five models are within the colonial fleet, a [[Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)|Number Six]] model named Natalie leads a coup within the Cylon hierarchy.
 
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|-align="center"
 
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!style="background-color:#BCD2EE;"| [[The Ties That Bind (Battlestar Galactica)|The Ties That Bind]]
 
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| 405 || [[April 22]] [[2008]]<ref name="RadioTimes">{{cite web
 
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| title =  Today's TV listings: Battlestar Galactica - The Ties That Bind
 
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| date = [[2008]]-[[04-16]]
 
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| accessdate = 2008-04-16
 
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| publisher=[[Radio Times]]}}</ref> || [[April 18]] [[2008]]<ref name="OfficialPage"/> || 39,676
 
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|colspan="5"| While [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] commands a lone freighter in her desperate search for Earth, political intrigue and marital discord aboard the ''Galactica'' are paralleled by deep rifts in the Cylons' solidarity.
 
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|-align="center"
 
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!style="background-color:#BCD2EE;"| [[Escape Velocity (Battlestar Galactica)|Escape Velocity]]
 
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| 406 || [[April 29]] [[2008]] || [[April 25]] [[2008]] || 39,675
 
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|-
 
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|colspan="5"| Baltar's [[monotheism|monotheistic]] [[cult]] activities expand, sparking political discord at the [[Quorum of Twelve]], and possibly a religious civil war, while Colonel Tigh's mental state again becomes fragile.
 
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!style="background-color:#BCD2EE;"| [[The Road Less Traveled (Battlestar Galactica)|The Road Less Traveled]]
 
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| 407 || [[May 6]] [[2008]] || [[May 2]] [[2008]] || 39,676
 
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|-
 
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|colspan="5"| [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] faces mutiny on board the ''Demetrius'' when she expresses her intent in cooperating with the Cylon [[Leoben Conoy|Leoben]], who has boarded the ship to help her find Earth.
 
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!style="background-color:#BCD2EE;"| [[Faith (Battlestar Galactica)|Faith]]
 
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| 408 || [[May 13]] [[2008]] || [[May 9]] [[2008]] || 39,675
 
 
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|colspan="5"| [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] leads a mission to see the Cylon Hybrid who reveals more clues to finding Earth. On ''Galactica'', [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] discusses religious faith with a dying woman named Emily.  
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|colspan="5"| '''Crash'''; No Ned. Set-up episode.
 
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|-align="center"
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!style="background-color:#BCD2EE;"| [[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]
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!style="background-color:#BCD2EE;"| '''Family Tradition'''
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| 409 || [[May 20]] [[2008]] || [[May 16]] [[2008]] || 39,673
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| 102|| Monday, July 14th, 2008 ||  
 
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|-
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|colspan="5"| Bitter enemies must set aside their grudges as the ''Demetrius'' crew teams up with Cylon rebels to destroy a vital enemy target.
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|colspan="5"| '''Family Tradition'''; Casting notes: Family man and divorcee. (Creegan spotlight)
 
|-align="center"
 
|-align="center"
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!style="background-color:#BCD2EE;"| [[Sine Qua Non (Battlestar Galactica)|Sine Qua Non]]
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!style="background-color:#BCD2EE;"| '''The Wages of Sin'''
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| 410 || [[May 27]] [[2008]]<ref name="SkyTVListings">{{cite web |title=Sky.com TV Listings |url=http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/tvguide/tvlistings |accessdate=2008-05-25}}</ref> || [[May 30]] [[2008]] || 39,674
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| 103|| Monday, July 21st, 2008 ||  
 
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|-
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|colspan="5"| In the aftermath of President Roslin's abduction, a bitter power struggle erupts which threatens to tear the once-ordered world of the colonial fleet apart.
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|colspan="5"| '''The Wages of Sin'''; Casting notes: priest and turk. (Vitagliano spotlight)
 
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!style="background-color:#BCD2EE;"| [[The Hub (Battlestar Galactica)|The Hub]]
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!style="background-color:#BCD2EE;"| '''Loyalty'''
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| 411 || [[June 10]] [[2008]] || [[June 6]] [[2008]] || 39,673
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| 104|| Monday, July 28th, 2008 ||  
 
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|-
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|colspan="5"| In pursuit of the enemy's Resurrection Hub, a misfit team of Viper pilots and Cylon rebels become uneasy collaborators in formulating a battleplan.
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|colspan="5"| '''Loyalty'''; Casting notes: Ex-con and blackmailed lieutenant.
 
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!style="background-color:#BCD2EE;"| Revelations<ref>{{cite web
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!style="background-color:#BCD2EE;"| '''War and Conflict'''
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| url = http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2008/02/battlestar-ga-2.html
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| 105|| DATE TBA ||  
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| title =  'Battlestar Galactica': Hints and clues about Season 4
 
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| date = [[2008]]-[[02-22]]
 
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| accessdate = 2008-04-02
 
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| publisher=The Watcher}}</ref>
 
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| 412 || [[June 17]] [[2008]] || [[June 13]] [[2008]] || 39,665
 
 
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|-
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|colspan="5"| A band of rebel Cylons hold President Roslin hostage while attempting to lure the Final Five out of hiding aboard Galactica.
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|colspan="5"| '''War and Conflict'''; Casting notes: Donna and police chief.
 
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===Details Brainstorm===
 
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* Play both sides?
 
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** Large cast
 
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* Generation after marriage?
 
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* Righteous and the unjust
 
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* A will?
 
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** Fight over the children?
 
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*** Children in trust?
 
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* Focus on two families
 
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* Children are focus?
 
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* Children are not protagonists
 
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* End with spotlight on family heads
 
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* Questionably lawful city?
 
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===Franchise Brainstorm===
 
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* Violence
 
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** Abuse
 
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** Aftermath of violence
 
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* Occupational scene
 
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* Unexpected character twists
 
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** Characters don’t expect each others’ actions
 
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** Bard’s tongue
 
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* No truly happy endings
 
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* Continuing theme of decoupling and coming apart
 
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* Indication of similarity between families
 
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* Visceral actions
 
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** Swearing
 
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** Racism
 
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* Alteration of perception – Reversal
 
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* Children mirror events
 
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* Narrator – one of the children
 
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* Children as objects
 
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===Character Brainstorm===
 
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* Upstanding son (Michael Corleone)
 
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* Police Chief McGuy
 
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* Mafia Don/Boss/Slurrio
 
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* Ambitious young turk
 
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* Higher-up crime dood from outside
 
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* Blunt outsider
 
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* Shifty foreigner
 
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* Secret lovers
 
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* Narrator
 
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* Black sheep – conscience?
 
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* Servant (pool boy, gardener)
 
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* Pawns
 
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* Militant person X
 
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* Grandmother, matriarch
 
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* Detective loyal son
 
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* Easy-going con man
 
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* Police chief’s daughter
 
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* Manipulative older advisor with suspect motives
 
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* Trophy wife
 
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* Manipulative wife
 
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* Father confessor to both families
 
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* Golden Boy
 
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* Local bartender
 
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* Surviving sibling of married couple
 
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* Person back from prison
 
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* Public defender
 
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* Back from College
 
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===Recommended Viewing===
 
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* The Godfather, Part One
 
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* The Departed
 
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* In the Line of Fire
 
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* The Shield
 
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* The Black Donnellys
 

Latest revision as of 16:54, 11 July 2008

Prime Time Adventures

Producer: Link
Current Season: Name To Be Determined

Verona

Premise: Two families on either side of the law, joined in peace for many years by a marriage, begin to fray and unravel when the wedded couple suddenly dies.
Tone: Dark and gritty; Snappy dialog and gruesome realities
Genre: Crime Drama with Soap Opera
Setting: Verona, RI

Recommended Viewing

  • The Godfather, Part One
  • The Departed
  • In the Line of Fire
  • The Shield
  • The Black Donnellys

Brainstorming Results

The Cast

Creegan Family

  • Police Chief Jonathan Liam Creegan: Police chief who will do anything to see justice done. Played by Eddy Webb.
    • Father was former Irish mobster? Made a promise to his son (Ryan Creegan). One of the executors of the will.
  • Henry Creegan: Dysfunctional father and public defender. Played by Russell Bailey.
    • Supporting character. Jonathan's brother, Bridget's father. Fuck-up. Poor father. Public defender. Tried to defend Franco, but only to cover up corruption on the family's side.
  • Bridget Marie Creegan: Little girl lost. Played by Kelley Barnes.
    • Recent divorcee. Loved Franco, but married the "next best" guy. Kind of slutty.
  • Lt. Michael Creegan: Police lieutenant with a secret. Played by David Bounds.
    • Owned and/or blackmailed by Vitaglian. Works directly for Jonathan.

Vitagliano Family

  • Dona Esmaretta Vitagliano: The matriarch. Played by Joseph Carriker.
    • Grieving wife of the don, current matriarch of la familia. One of the executors of the will. Mother of Julia Creegan (nee Vitagliano).
  • Franco Vitagliano: Loyal family thug. Played by Ned Coker.
    • Second brother, relatively rank-and-file. Lives by a code. Helped dispose of corrupt member of the Creegan family. Was in jail for 10 years, three years before Ryan and Julia's wedding.
  • Father Salvatore Vitagliano: Father confessor. Played by Michelle Webb.
    • Priest. Moral conscience of the families.
  • Nicolas "Nick Vitagliano" Podleski: Young turk. Played by Jason Bolte.
    • Adopted into the family. Polish. Fanatically loyal, and will do anything needed to help the family. Views the family code as "justice." Loyal to the Don, but not necessarily the Dona.

Supporting Characters

  • Candy McLeski
  • Dimitri Podleski
    • Nick Podleski's brother, a butcher. He's an honest fellow who disapproves of the life Nick's chosen.
  • Fabian
  • Frank Creegan
    • Son of Ryan and Julia Creegan.
  • Hans von Staten
    • Socialite and meddler who grates on Father Salvatore. "That damned Lutheren."
  • Jack Evans
  • Janice Chaplain
    • Megan Creegan's psychologist twenty years after the events of Verona.
  • Jenny McCarthy
  • Joseph Marlow
    • Other driver involved in the car crash which claimed the lives of Ryan and Julia Creegan and which put Luciano Vitagliano in a coma.
  • Julia Creegan
    • Deceased daughter of Esmaretta and Luciano Vitagliano.
  • Karl Green
  • Luciano Vitagliano
  • Mary Anne Creegan
  • Megan Creegan
    • Daughter of Ryan and Julia Creegan. Twenty years after the events of Verona, she narrates in conversations with Dr. Janice Chaplain.
  • Patrick O'Malley
  • Ryan Creegan
    • Deceased son of Jonathan and Mary Anne Creegan.
  • Sal
  • Thomas Heanly
    • Verona city justice presiding over the custody battle for Frank and Megan Creegan. In the pocket of the Vitagliano family.

Series Sets

  • VPD Station
  • O'Malley's Pub
  • Vitagliano Manor
  • Our Lady of Sorrows Church
  • Castle Motel
  • Waterfront industrial area
  • Courthouse
  • Downtown neighborhood, ext.
  • Former Creegan home

Air Dates

Showtime: 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm
Network: CCPN

Title Episode Air Date
Crash 101 Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Crash; No Ned. Set-up episode.
Family Tradition 102 Monday, July 14th, 2008
Family Tradition; Casting notes: Family man and divorcee. (Creegan spotlight)
The Wages of Sin 103 Monday, July 21st, 2008
The Wages of Sin; Casting notes: priest and turk. (Vitagliano spotlight)
Loyalty 104 Monday, July 28th, 2008
Loyalty; Casting notes: Ex-con and blackmailed lieutenant.
War and Conflict 105 DATE TBA
War and Conflict; Casting notes: Donna and police chief.
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