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  • 12.16.03
    It's Official, the complete first season of Popular will be avaliable on Disney DVD in July of 2004!!!! Price and Special Features are still to be discussed (TV Tome) - (UltimateDisney.com)

  • 12.04.03
    More info on "The Collector"
    The series focuses on Morgan Pym, played by Chris Kramer, a soul collector for the Devil. “He can’t stand doing what he’s doing any more after several centuries,” co-executive producers and creators Jon Cooksey and Ali Marie Matheson tell SFX. “He asks the Devil for permission to save the clients that he would ordinarily be sending to Hell.” The clients do a deal with the Devil that brings them luck for ten years before Morgan comes to collect, and the series incorporates flashbacks to Pym’s own deal at the time of the Black Death in 1348, recreated this past summer in Lithuania. “The back story is obviously a source of his painful memories, and it’s where his spiritual training was,” Cooksey adds. “Pym tries to live in two realities. He’s torn between them, struggling to maintain his focus in the present, but keeps being drawn back into what happened to him in the past.”

    The Devil plays a major role in the series, yet is always played by a different actor. “The Devil may look like a teenager, a pool hustler or a Chinese grandma – but often someone who’s the opposite of the way the story is going,” says Pym. He also isn’t exclusively the Christian Devil either, as the show crosses religious boundaries. “We started out from the Hindu them of Shiva, the Destroyer,” Cooksey says. “The Destroyer is a cleanser. Things have to be cleaned out before the new can come into being. We ended up in Christian mythology, and although as much as he is a Judaeo-Christian figure, he sees outside of that mythology and doesn’t want to be hampered by it.”

    With Lexx’s Ellen Dubin playing a nosy reporter with an autistic son, both of whom sense there’s something unusual about Pym, and Carly Pope as a young prostitute who Morgan befriends, The Collector promises a combination of Brimstone and The Twilight Zone. It sounds interesting , yet other religiously-themed series – for example Now and Again and Brimstone – have not survived for long. However, The Collector has an 88 episode commitment, so we may at last see a show that can explore these themes without the axe hovering perpetually over its head.

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