The Internet exploded with excitement back in September when it was reported that NBC had picked up J.J. Abrams' Odd Jobs, featuring ex-LOST castaways Michael Emerson and Terry O'Quinn as former black ops agents. That was just about the best news that could come out for us LOST fans who were suffering from withdrawals, with the exception of a Sawyer/Miles buddy cop show, which fans have been imagining since the two worked together in the final season. (Hey, TV execs: if you can get Josh Holloway and Ken Leung attached to the project, there would be an audience. I'm just sayin'.)
Unfortunately, I have some bad news for you. Deadline reported yesterday that the show will be delayed until next season:
"...the commitment to the J.J. Abrams/WBTV-produced drama Odd Jobs starring Michael Emerson and Terry O'Quinn, whose script came in very late, is being rolled to next season when it will be applied to the same or new Bad Robot project."
Now, things could be much worse so let's take a look on the bright side. Delayed is certainly better than abandoned, right? Right. However, this news begs the question of will Emerson and O'Quinn still be attached to the project a year from now? Unless an announcement is made, we will just have to hope that they are, because the two men are phenomenal together on screen. It would be a shame if they never worked together again, so let's all keep our fingers crossed that the show will go on as planned with the two stars.
Let's look back to the bright side. While we wait for Odd Jobs, we still have Alcatraz to be excited for. It's another trip to a mysterious island with J.J. Abrams and Jorge Garcia, who will be playing a "hippy geek" doctor. With Alcatraz this year and Odd Jobs next year, we've got a lot of good television to look forward to, my friends.
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I'm fairly certain that Alcatraz isn't slated until 2013.
According to J.J., shooting started 3 days ago. "We have a show for Fox called Alcatraz, that starts shooting on the 19th, which I could not be more excited about." The link to that quote is linked in this article.
Its shooting right now.