Cynthia Littleton of the Hollywood Reporter writes that Tom Selleck is hoping to continue with the Jesse Stone telefilms as a recurring franchise for CBS. The most recent installment, Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise, was broadcast last week on CBS and earned the best reviews of the three movies so far. It also ranked as CBS' second-most-watched movie of the season with nearly 15 million viewers.
Selleck is quick to give CBS credit for allowing him to make the kind of movies he wants to make with the Stone franchise.
"I don't think you need an explosion in the first 10 minutes," Selleck said. "You don't need to do ripped-from-the-headlines stuff. If the audience likes the character enough, they'll go with you when he goes into a dark room at home alone, pours a scotch and sits down to think a while."
The Jesse Stone mysteries on CBS are based on the novels by best-selling mystery author Robert B. Parker.
Read the entire Hollywood Reporter article, as published on Philly.com, here.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006
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