{"id":20582,"date":"2012-10-15T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=20582"},"modified":"2012-10-15T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T17:46:08","slug":"fullers-mockingbird-lane-pilot-to-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/10\/fullers-mockingbird-lane-pilot-to-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuller&#8217;s Mockingbird Lane Pilot To Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20585\" title=\"Mockingbirdlane101512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mockingbirdlane101512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mockingbirdlane101512.jpg 580w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mockingbirdlane101512-50x19.jpg 50w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mockingbirdlane101512-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mockingbirdlane101512-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mockingbirdlane101512-450x175.jpg 450w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mockingbirdlane101512-50x19@2x.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although <strong>Bryan Fuller<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Munsters<\/em> reboot was not picked up for a full series, fans of the project will still get to see the pilot, just in time for Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>Fuller (<em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Voyager<\/em>) says that <em>Mockingbird Lane<\/em> is not finished yet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;If we get a huge number, all the cast are in line to be picked up and to go to series,&#8221; said Fuller. &#8220;And that was one of the things that NBC wanted to make sure, that they had all of the cast deals in line, so that if we did get a big number and audiences proved their appetite for this type of show, that they could move very quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The actors involved in <em>Mockingbird Lane<\/em>, including <strong>Jerry O&#8217;Connell, Portia de Rossi<\/strong> and <strong>Eddie Izzard<\/strong> as Herman Munster, Lily Munster and Grandpa, are under contract to the show until July 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My fantasy of the show getting out there is people say, &#8216;Wow, this is one of the best NBC pilots of the fall, and it&#8217;s great that it&#8217;s airing and everyone should take a peek at it,'&#8221; said Fuller.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s gorgeous, every frame is sumptuous. You get to have these really interesting actors coming in and taking their spins on these classic characters. I love the original <em>Munsters<\/em> and didn&#8217;t want to step on it in any way of putting people in Frankenstein makeup and Dracula makeup. So we went our own direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other <em>Star Trek<\/em> alumni are involved with <em>Mockingbird Lane<\/em>, including Costume Designer <strong>Robert Blackman, Bryan Singer<\/strong> (who directed the pilot and was an executive producer) and <strong>John Kassir<\/strong> (<em>Star Trek: Voyager: Critical Care<\/em>&#8216;s Gar), who will play a character named Tim in the pilot.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mockingbird Lane<\/em> will air Oct 26 at 8 PM on NBC.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gDmHcG8vq6Q\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Matthew Klamm for the tip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Bryan Fuller&#8216;s Munsters reboot was not picked up for a full series, fans of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2503,4892],"class_list":["post-20582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-fuller","tag-mockingbird-lane"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20591,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20582\/revisions\/20591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}