Well, last week the geniuses at Cerny sent me the TZ episode "The Shelter" starring Ernie Hudson and it came out great! It will be airing on the network this week so listen for it. Ernie is a great actor and does a brilliant job as a man who has the foresight to build a bomb shelter in his basement before it's ever needed. The supporting cast has many of our TZ regulars including: Kurt Naebig, JoBe Cerny, Tom McElroy, Jamie Baron, Ana Sferruzza, Linda Reiter, Norm Woodel, Doug James, Jeff Lupetin and Ric Vargas. It features newcomers April Williams and her son Damon Williams and also first time Zoner Renee Domenz. It also has a few lines by my 10-year old son C.J. who you can hear as the young boy who receives phone calls from his dead Grandma in "Long Distance Call" starring Hal Sparks. FYI: "Long Distance Call" is one of the three shows we offer for free download on our TZ home page.
The next show that Cerny is working on is "Young Man's Fancy" by Richard Matheson and adapted for radio by Dennis Etchison. It's the story of a woman who is in competition with her new husband's dead mother, whose spirit does not want to let go of him. Tony Plana (the dad from "Ugly Betty"), who was magnificent in "The Mirror" for us, plays Alex, the husband and Franette Liebow plays Virginia his new wife. Nydia Rodriguez plays Alex's dead mother (she can be seen as the woman judge who gets blown up in her car in "The Dark Knight").
Barry Richter, who has written some amazing TZ radio scripts for us, including a brilliant adaptation of "The Encounter" has tackled the one show that so many people thought would be impossible to present on radio -- "The Invaders." That's the show where Agnes Moorehead plays a woman who does not utter any dialog as she is being invaded by tiny spacemen. It's one of the most famous TZ shows of all time. Well, I have to say that Barry figured out an angle on how to present it on radio and I can't wait for you to hear it. Way to go Barry! With this script Barry just proved that Stan Freberg was right when he said "anything can be done on radio!"
By the way, here's just some of the stars you'll soon hear in upcoming episodes of TZ:
Ed Begley, Jr.
Bruno Kirby
John Schneider
Jason Alexander
Stan Freberg
Marshall Allman
Kim Fields
Blair Underwood
Hal Sparks
Lou Gossett, Jr.
Don Johnson
John Heard
Barry Bostwick
Lou Diamond Phillips
Robert Knepper
Karen Black
Shelley Berman
Henry Rollins
John Rhys-Davies
Well that's all for now my friends. See you next time for MORE NEWS FROM THE ZONE!
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NEWS FROM THE ZONE
- Carl Amari
- Producer of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas.
2 comments:
hello carl
Firstly i want to say how much i appreciate your twilight zone radio shows, your doing a great job. I listen to the shows whenever they are on bbc radio 7, and just listened to 'the chaser'. excellent episode, the actors deliver the lines with a unique 'twilight' strangeness...not sure how you do it but it's really effective.
secondly, i am studying creative writing and would be interested in getting a copy of one of your scripts, would that be possible? I need some help re the sort of details that would be included in the script, especially your impressive sound effects and design.
I look forward to hearing more of your work,
fabian
Carl--
You know the staff at WGN Radio. Maybe you can arrange for a make-good on last week's "The Shelter"! An hour of post-hockey instead. Then a talk-show host. Rats.
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