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The kilt-wearing Scotsman who crashed awards season with a camcorder
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2010 One of FishbowlLA’s reliable pleasures was the small story about an outsider talking his way inside. In late 2010 that outsider was Douglas McFarlane, a London-based Scotsman with a day job in bank security and a tongue-in-cheek DVD to sell.…
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Remembering reality-TV producer Denise Cramsey
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2010 In November 2010 FishbowlLA noted Variety’s tribute to a reality-television producer whose sudden death stunned her colleagues. Then FishbowlLA pointed readers to Variety’s Stuart Levine, who had written what it called a tasteful tribute to Emmy-winning reality producer Denise Cramsey.…
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Anthony Zuiker’s 2010 ‘digi-novel’ bet — and the format the streaming era replaced it with
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In November 2010, CSI franchise creator Anthony Zuiker gave FishbowlLA an exclusive interview about the next installments in his “digi-novel” trilogy. Level 26: Dark Origins (2009) had been the first attempt; Dark Prophecy was the new release. Then The digi-novel format…
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The CSI creator pushes his ‘digi-novel’ experiment
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2010 In late 2010 the creator of CSI sat down with Mediabistro to talk up a format he was sure would be the future of storytelling: the ‘digi-novel.’ Then Anthony Zuiker, the mastermind of the CSI franchise, freely admitted that his…
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April 2010: the HBO ‘Tilda’ pilot, the Nikki Finke resemblance, and the lawsuit question
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, April 2010 In late April 2010, FishbowlLA weighed in on the HBO pilot Tilda — a project about a powerful Hollywood blogger who used her website to take on Tinseltown’s power players. When THR’s Matthew Belloni revealed the script details, the…
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Bill Carter’s October 2010 ‘War for Late Night’ — and the long arc of the Conan-Jay conflict
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, October 2010 In late October 2010 — only ten months after Conan O’Brien had been forced off NBC’s Tonight Show by the late-night-schedule rearrangement that returned Jay Leno to the post-11 p.m. slot — New York Times television writer Bill Carter’s…
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KCRW UpClose’s October 2010 Matthew Weiner and Alan Ball events at NPR West
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, September 2010 In late September 2010, KCRW and NPR announced the next two installments of UpClose — their live-event series staged before an intimate audience at NPR West in Culver City. The October 12 event paired The Treatment host Elvis Mitchell…
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The 2010 scoop on Fox’s Napoleon Dynamite animated series — and the six episodes that aired
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Alex Weprin (2010) · Wayback archive → Three days before Fox’s 2010 upfront presentation, Alex Weprin landed the network’s official confirmation that Napoleon Dynamite was being developed as an animated television series, with the original cast attached. The pilot was greenlit, the show aired, and it didn’t make…
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Alan Rich dies at 85 — the migratory music critic of LA Weekly, Newsweek, and Variety
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In late April 2010, Alan Rich — one of the most-bylined American classical-music critics of the post-1960 era — died at 85 of natural causes. His career had taken him across the NY Times, Variety, LA Daily News, California magazine, the…
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Denise Cramsey, the Extreme Makeover producer who died at 41 — and a Variety obit that aged well
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In late November 2010, reality TV producer Denise Cramsey — the Emmy-winning executive producer of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Trading Spaces, and School Pride — died at 41 of a brain aneurysm. Variety’s Stuart Levine wrote the kind of obit that…