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Posted September 12, 2003
The District of Columbia Office of Motion Picture and TV Development announced that K Street is the first production company to take part in a new incentive program encouraging production crews to travel using the D.C. subway: "'K Street is about how Washington works,' said Michael Hissrich, a K Street producer, 'and the Metro is an integral part of how Washington works.'"
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Posted September 12, 2003
Suzanne White reports in the Washington Business Journal (9/8/03) [article] that "the new HBO show K Street landed office space just a block shy of its namesake. [HBO] signed an 18-month lease at 1350 I St. NW... the team allegedly was looking hard at 101 Constitution's chic top floor, with its picturesque board rooms and unobstructed views of the Capitol. Perhaps [it] wasn't gritty enough for the show..."
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Posted September 11, 2003
A sidebar to an article in the October issue of Wired magazine about the future of television cites K Street for its "audacious" production schedule: "'It's not live, but it's darn close to it,' said Dave Baldwin, [HBO] program planning chief... 'Our operations people are going through preliminary nervous breakdowns already.'" The piece also notes that the K Street crew will be using "miniature cameras that work in low light--the same equipment employed in the HBO hidden-cam series Taxicab Confessions..."
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Posted September 10, 2003
The N.Y. Post reports ("Page Six", 9/10/03) that George Clooney was seen shooting footage for K Street at the Democratic Presidential Debate held in Baltimore, MD this Tuesday (9/9/03): "Asked if being a celebrity makes it harder to be behind the camera, Clooney agreed: 'It makes it hard to be a voyeur.'" His appearance at the debate ("wielding a Panasonic video mini-camera" and accompanied by James Carville and GOP political consultant Stuart Stevens) was also noted by the Washington Post (9/10/03). Clooney remarked that "everyone is a little suspicious right now in Washington [about K Street]." And an interview that Clooney taped with Tina Brown about the show and his views on censorship and the press will air on CNBC tonight (9/10/03) at 10pm.
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Posted September 10, 2003
Little is known about the premiere episode of K Street, but our BBS users are chiming in with their enthusiasm and curiosity about the new HBO fall series. Palika writes: "I can think of no better way to depict the ever-churning storm that is Washington politics than through the improvisational, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants format that you have selected." tmchugh thinks "this will be an innovative way to show what really goes on in D.C." And MissDixieLee says, "You will change the face of television at the very least! Nobody else would have the chutzpah to try this very scary, but exciting format!"
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Posted September 8, 2003
The fast-breaking production schedule of HBO's new fall series, K Street, won't faze Mary Matalin. The famed political strategist, who plays herself on the show, said (in the 9/8/03 issue of Broadcasting and Cable), "The nature of putting this together will not be foreign to political people. That's how we are: doing things on the fly." Republican Matalin's real-life husband, Democratic political consultant James Carville, who also plays himself on the series, says (in the same article), "I envision a show about power: building power, applying power. There will be a lot of conniving going on."
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Posted September 7, 2003
In a cover story on George Clooney in the October issue of Vanity Fair, Ned Zemen writes that "Clooney loves a good brawl, especially if it involves a cranky right-winger... He is, at heart, a political creature, so much so that he and Soderbergh are producing a documentary-style television series about the inner workings of Washington." And K Street was included in Jim Mullen's "Hot Sheet", an irreverent list of top ten entertainment newsmakers, in the September 5 issue of Entertainment Weekly: "The new HBO show about Washington politics will mix reality and fiction. Based on an idea from the President's State of the Union address."
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Posted September 3, 2003
The cast and crew of K Street are just a few days away from one of the greatest high-wire acts in recent television history--writing, filming and editing an exciting and wholly original experiment in series television, which blurs the lines of fiction and reality, in under a week. "Even we don't know what we're going to do," says executive producer George Clooney [bio]. "It's scary." After soaking up Sunday's political coverage, the show's creative team and actors will meet on Mondays, discuss what happened over the weekend and decide on the spot what the week's show will be about. Then, it's two-and-a-half days of shooting in D.C., two days of editing and the episode airs on Sunday night.
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Posted September 3, 2003
George Clooney is completely unfazed by the question of whether his liberal views will dominate K Street. "We've got Jim Carville [bio], we've got Mary Matalin [bio], we've got Mike Deaver. We're going to do everything we can to make sure we're not biased, he says. We don't want the show to be anyone's soapbox; we want to show how things really work. If we succeed, it's going to be a hell of a show. If we fail, people will let us know."
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Posted September 3, 2003
The New York Times' Jill Abramson recently took a look (August 24, 2003 NY Times) at the risks and rewards of K Street's ambitious mixing of the real and the unreal: "The show could even make news, with candidates campaigning on-air, the same way they do on the Sunday morning public affairs shows. Candidates could also be discussed or depicted on 'K Street' in unflattering or favorable ways that affect the polls. The political permutations are weird, but potentially interesting."
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