The
series premiere of SportsCenter: Los Angeles debuted yesterday to huge
ratings and critical acclaim. Launching a new spinoff series based on
the most popular sports highlights show was seen as a no brainer by
television insiders. But will the new version have the same appeal as
the classic?
Producers hope to get big ratings early with the
casting of big names to anchor the program like character actors Matt
Damon and Gary Oldman, instead of people who are actually knowledgeable
about sports.
"Well, I don't know much about sports in general,"
said Oldman when asked about what he will bring to the show. "But I am
a big British soccer fan. That is probably most of what you guys cover
over here, so I imagine I'll be just fine."
Producers say the
spinoff will have a darker edge than the original, and be much sexier.
Matt Damon's SportsCenter anchor will read the news wrecklessly, and
not by the books. Will the tension between him and the supermodel
sideline reporter boil over into a passionate affair? Also dealth with
will be Oldman's fighting of a drug addiction that is tearing apart his
relationship with his wife, played by Susan Sarandon. The anchors will
also solve a muder over the course of each program, involving witty
banter and forensic analysis.
It is unknown at this point how
the new series will fare, but there is a good buzz around the new
harder edge. The scene from the premiere where Damon is fighting a meth
dealer who may have killed his own mother, all the while calling the
highlights from the Royals-Brewers game, got rave reviews from critics.
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