FOX will burn off remaining Casino eps. Mark Burnett’s The Casino won’t return for a second season, and now FOX is burning off the remaining episodes so that the whole series will conclude before the end of August. (At least it isn’t just disappearing from the planet, a la Forever Eden.) FOX’s release about the …
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The Casino will end after this season. Either Mark Burnett misjudged America’s appetite for another heavily edited and smoothly produced follow-the-business owners around series, or FOX screwed up by freaking out about the show’s sexual content. Either way, their series The Casino hasn’t done well, and Zap2it.com says the series “won’t return to FOX’s schedules …
FOX “freaked out” about Casino content. After seeing the first episode of The Casino, FOX execs gave Mark Burnett “countless pages of notes asking him to cut any salacious scenes that could potentially land Fox in trouble with government regulators bent on cracking down on indecency over the airwaves,” E! Online reports. Thus, the show …
FOX’s The Casino debuts tonight. Mark Burnett’s FOX series The Casino debuts tonight at 9 p.m. ET. It follows dot-com millionaires Timothy Poster and Thomas Breitling as they buy and begin to operate the Golden Nugget casino in downtown Las Vegas. The Hollywood Reporter calls it “perfectly agreeable summertime fluff that moves at a clip …
Burnett says The Casino may last nine seasons; Discovery airing a casino series. Mark Burnett says The Casino, which debuts June 14 on FOX, is “a nine-season, ongoing soap opera.” Why won’t it be similar to his The Restaurant? He tells USA TODAY that the show is “edgier. Fox is an edgier network. Las Vegas …
Burnett’s Casino will include theme song singer as a character on the series. AdAge previously reported that Mark Burnett’s new series The Casino would have “no product placement or sponsorship deals.” Of course, that’s sort of a joke since the show focuses on the Golden Nugget casino in Las Vegas. And now, Burnett says that …
FOX looking for Casino gamblers. For The Casino, which will be taped this spring at downtown Las Vegas’ Golden Nugget, FOX and Mark Burnett are looking for “outgoing personalities who LOVE to gamble.” Producers are particularly searching for “people who are gambling for a specific purpose (to raise money to pay for something they really …