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Frozen asset: HBO's comic take on Texas big rich is great fun. Too bad you may never get to see it.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Frozen asset: HBO's comic take on Texas big rich is great fun. Too bad you may never get to see it.(Hollywood, TX: CRISTOPHER KELLY ON OUR STATE OF ENTERTAINMENT)

Article Excerpt
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It's a daffy soap opera on a Texas scale worthy of a daffy soap opera on a Texas scale. In 2006 HBO ordered a pilot of an hour-long comedy called 12 Miles of Bad Road, created by Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (Designing Women, Evening Shade), about the lives and loves of a family of filthy-rich Dallas real estate brokers. But in the fall of 2007, after six episodes had been shot, production abruptly ground to a halt. According to Bloodworth-Thomason, several HBO execs didn't like what they'd seen and wanted to take the time afforded by the Writers Guild of America strike to rethink the concept. After the strike ended, the situation only turned uglier. In March, one of the show's champions, HBO Entertainment president Carolyn Strauss, stepped down. Two days later, the network announced that it was scrapping the $25 million-plus series entirely.

But that wasn't the end of the story: In a bid to drum up critical support, the producers sent copies of the episodes to a few dozen...

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