George/Nick: Texan Charm #13

hi, long time without going through here miss you, big kiss to all. :)
George really missing!
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Sweet!!! I loved "MacGyver". :D Wonder what his role will be?


‘MacGyver’ CBS Pilot Casts ‘CSI’ Alum George Eads, Gets New Director

CSI co-star George Eads is returning to CBS and CBS TV Studios with a role in their pilot MacGyver, a reimagining of the 1985 series about a resourceful and ingenious agent who improvises his way out of sticky situations using everyday items like rubber bands, chewing gum and a Swiss Army knife. Saw and Furious 7 director James Wan, who had been shepherding the project from the get-go, was slated to direct but has pulled out due to a scheduling conflict with post-production on his latest film, The Conjuring 2. David Von Ancken (Code Black, Salem) will step in to helm the pilot. Wan remains an executive producer. CBS was in a similar situation on another high-profile pilot remake, Training Day, where Antoine Fuqua pulled out as a director because of a feature commitment but stayed on as executive producer.
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VLine Items: MacGyver Reboot Adds CSI Vet

CBS is still looking for its perfect MacGyver, but they’ve found another key player in the meantime: CSI vet George Eads.

The actor has been cast in CBS’ reimagining of the 1985 series, which will follow twentysomething Angus MacGyver as he is recruited into a clandestine organization and uses his knack for problem-solving in unconventional ways.

Per our sister site Deadline, Eads will appear in the pilot as Lincoln, a man who could be written off as a conspiracy theorist, but is actually a legitimate government employee.

Additionally, the original series’ creator, Lee David Zlotoff, has signed on to executive-produce the reboot.
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good news that we had !!!!!!!!!!! I hope the pilot is a success and it will be, George has to go back to TV in a series that is more than successful for being a great actor and above all a beautiful person. Hopefully soon show pictures of him, I'd love to see him again, more than a year that it does not see.
 
Here's to hoping that it survives the first season and that George is at least a recurring character.

CBS orders 6 shows: MacGyver, Training Day, more

CBS just greenlight six new shows for next season – including some very familiar titles and projects starring well-known names. The broadcaster ordered four dramas and two comedies Friday.

On the drama side, there’s a series reboot of 1980s action-hour classic MacGyver (starring X-Men franchise actor Lucas Till) and a series version of the 2001 film Training Day (with veteran actor Bill Paxton and newcomer Justin Cornwell as the leads). Two of the new dramas are crime procedurals, one is a medical procedural and then MacGyver is, well, MacGyver.

MACGYVER
EPs: Peter Lenkov, Henry Winkler, Lee Zlotoff, James Wan, Michael Clear
EP/Director: David Von Ancken
Studio: CBS Television Studios in association with Lionsgate
Logline: A reimagining of the television series of the same name, following a 20-something MacGyver as he creates a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening.
Cast: Lucas Till as ‘MacGyver’, George Eads
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CBS Orders 'Training Day,' 'MacGyver,' Katims Dramas; Matt LeBlanc, Joel McHale Comedies to Series

'MacGyver' will undergo major changes with its cast and creative and Hawaii Five-0's Peter Lenkov boards the drama as CBS and Glenn Geller stick with proven stars, IP and genres.
A reimagining of the television series of the same name, the new MacGyver follows a 20-something MacGyver (X-Men: Apocalypse's Lucas Till) as he gets recruited into a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening.

A high priority for CBS Television Studios — which produced the original — the drama was originally written by R. Scott Gemmill (NCIS: L.A.) but ultimately picked up to pilot with new writers Paul Downs Colaizzo (CBS pilot LFE from last season) and Brett Mahoney (Code Black) — though the network may be tossing out that script for a new one as the duo's future with the series remains in question as Hawaii Five-0's Peter Lenkov has boarded the drama. Henry Winkler, who executive produced the original series, is on board to serve in the same capacity alongside Michael Clear, head of production at James Wan's Atomic Monster. Wan (Aquaman, Mortal Kombat, Saw) will exec produce and segue into TV with the project.

CBS originally had trouble casting the lead after ordering the pilot without a final script. David Von Ancken directed the pilot and exec produces alongside original MacGyver creator Lee Zlotoff.

CSI grad George Eads co-stars as there will be some changes to the secondary cast as Addison Timlin, Michelle Krusiec and Joshua Boone are unlikely to return.
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CBS's new fall schedule "MacGyver" will be on Friday at 8pm.

FRIDAY

8-9 p.m. MACGYVER

9-10 p.m. Hawaii Five-0

10-11 p.m. Blue Bloods
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Tweet by Lynette Rice ("Entertainment Weekly"). Pic at the link.
Okay I'm more than a little giddy to see George Eads back at CBS.
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trailer for MacGyver - George IS in it!
 
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They're changing up MacGyver and George's character some. George isn't "Lincoln" any more. He's now "maverick former CIA agent Jack Dalton". And they've started filming - in Atlanta.

‘MacGyver’: James Wan To Direct First Episode, New Concept Of Reboot Revealed

CBS’ new fall series MacGyver, a reimagining of the 1985 show about a resourceful and ingenious agent, is getting its original director, James Wan.

The Saw and Furious 7 helmer had been shepherding the project from the get-go and was slated to direct the pilot but pulled out due to a scheduling conflict with post-production on his latest film, The Conjuring 2, which just opened big at the boxoffice. He was replaced by David Von Ancken.

While MacGyver was picked up to series for the fall, the original pilot was scrapped in favor of a new take and a new script written by Hawaii Five-0 showrunner Peter Lenkov, with only lead Lucas Till and co-star George Eads staying on from the original pilot. They were recently joined by new cast member Justin Hires.

Here is a glimpse at the changes in the concept of the new MacGyver. It still is a reimagining of the classic series, an action-adventure drama about 20-something Angus “Mac” MacGyver (Till).

In the original pilot MacGyver was recruited into the clandestine organization from the original series where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening.

MacGyver now creates a clandestine organization within the U.S. government where he uses his extraordinary talent for unconventional problem solving and vast scientific knowledge to save lives. Eads will play a new character, maverick former CIA agent Jack Dalton, who joins MacGyver team on high-risk missions around the globe. Under the aegis of the Department of External Services, MacGyver takes on the responsibility of saving the world, armed to the teeth with resourcefulness and little more than bubble gum and a paper clip. Hires plays MacGyver’s ambitious roommate, Wilt Bozer who entertains him at home.

In addition to directing, Wan executive produces MacGyver alongside Lenkov, Craig O’Neill, Henry Winkler, Lee Zlotoff and Michael Clear for CBS Television Studios in association with Lionsgate.
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George among others from "MacGyver" will be at Comic-Con 2016 in San Diego(?)

MACGYVER#MacGyver #SDCC2016

Mac is back! The action-adventure drama, and hugely popular, MACGYVER is coming back to CBS this fall in the reimagining of the classic series. MacGyver creates a clandestine organization within the U.S. government where he uses his extraordinary talent for unconventional problem solving and vast scientific knowledge to save lives. MacGyver and his team take on the responsibility of saving the world, armed to the teeth with resourcefulness and little more than bubble gum and a paper clip. Fans will be joined by series stars Lucas Till (“X-Men”), George Eads (“CSI”) and Executive Producers Peter Lenkov (“Hawaii Five-0”) and James Wan (“Furious 7”) for an exclusive sneak peek of the first season, followed by a panel discussion. Michael Yo (@MichaelYo), correspondent for “The Insider” will moderate.

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A story in the USA Today from Comic Con.
George Eads, Lucas Till, and MacGyver. It sounds like George's Jack Dalton has very little in common with the original shows Jack Dalton.
Comic-Con: 'MacGyver' stars bond in CBS remake

SAN DIEGO — Some entertainment franchises pass the baton. But MacGyver, the 1985-92 series that featured TV's most ingenious fix-it man, is more likely to transform the baton into a life-saving device.

Lucas Till (X-Men franchise), who plays the iconic government agent first embodied by Richard Dean Anderson, and CSI's George Eads, who portrays MacGyver's friend and mission colleague Jack Dalton, displayed some of their characters' chemistry during a Comic-Con dinner break Thursday with USA TODAY.

Angus "Mac" MacGyver still stands out as an action hero who favors brains over brawn, converting household items — the famous bubble gum and a paper clip — into crime-fighting tools, with ex-CIA operative Dalton a blunt counterpoint who nevertheless has a close bond with MacGyver, Till says, mentioning such odd-couple pairings as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Riggs and Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon.

He loves Mac. He'd give his life for Mac," Eads says, adding that he and Till, both Texas natives, have formed a strong friendship and already have weathered a casting shakeup together. "It had been an odd, kind of rough year for me when CSI ended. … Sharing personal issues, things we'd been through in our careers and having real moments as friends, now when we're in these scenes where we're asked to do heavy drama, it is a snap of the finger away."

Till's twenty-something MacGyver is a younger character, but the new CBS series shares most of its DNA with the original, which aired omn ABC, and is meant as a tribute, with many Easter-egg reminders hidden in plain sight for longtime fans, executive producer Peter Lenkov said at a Comic-Con panel Thursday. Like the original, episodes will feature an opening gambit, and MacGyver will speak in voiceover.

Lenkov, who already has successfully revived Hawaii Five-0, said he has reached out to Anderson and hopes he will appear on the new series, which will have MacGyver coming up with new inventions to match changing times and technology. James Wan (Saw, The Conjuring, Furious 7) directs the pilot, which, in a scene shown Thursday, features MacGyver stopping a target from jetting away by grabbing onto a plane's underside at takeoff and tinkering with its wiring.

While the original MacGyver was a lone wolf of sorts, Till's Mac will be working with a team, including Dalton; their hardly deskbound boss, Patricia Thornton (Sandrine Holt, Hostages, Terminator: Genisys); and a blackhat tech and hacking expert. Justin Hires (Rush Hour) will portray MacGyver's roommate, Wilt Bozer, and Vinnie Jones (Arrow, Galavant) will make an appearance as a villain. Shooting began earlier this month in Atlanta after much of the supporting cast from the pilot episode was replaced.

Till, who may have a bit of his own MacGyver DNA as the son of a chemist and a military officer, already has persuaded producers to let him perform a number of MacGyver's tricky stunts. He sports a band-aid on his finger from a cut suffered grabbing the side of a serving tray at the end of a complicated kick-and-catch move.

"They wanted (Lucas) to flip the serving tray and they go, 'You're not going to be able to catch it, so act like you catch it." And he starts getting so into it … he started catching it," Eads says.

His younger colleague smiles. "I enjoy the heck out of this job."
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