JamesG
01-23-2014, 04:26 PM
Angela Lansbury Relieved "Murder, She Wrote" Remake Axed
by Associated Press
Jan 23, 2014
Angela Lansbury says she’s relieved that a planned remake of her classic whodunit series "Murder, She Wrote" has been canceled.
It was reported this week that NBC was not going ahead with the show and Lansbury said it was a bad idea right from the start.
“I couldn’t believe that they would even consider doing such a thing,” Lansbury told The Associated Press. “I think it was an awful mistake and it was a terrible disservice to Octavia Spencer,” she said.
“I have too much admiration for her to saddle her with the awful responsibility of having to bring that title into a different venue.”
The 88-year-old actress is about to perform in London’s West End for the first time in almost 40 years, as the medium Madame Arcati in Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit.
Lansbury won a Tony Award for the role on Broadway.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/01/23/angela-lansbury-reaction-murder-she-wrote-canceled/
by Associated Press
Jan 23, 2014
Angela Lansbury says she’s relieved that a planned remake of her classic whodunit series "Murder, She Wrote" has been canceled.
It was reported this week that NBC was not going ahead with the show and Lansbury said it was a bad idea right from the start.
“I couldn’t believe that they would even consider doing such a thing,” Lansbury told The Associated Press. “I think it was an awful mistake and it was a terrible disservice to Octavia Spencer,” she said.
“I have too much admiration for her to saddle her with the awful responsibility of having to bring that title into a different venue.”
The 88-year-old actress is about to perform in London’s West End for the first time in almost 40 years, as the medium Madame Arcati in Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit.
Lansbury won a Tony Award for the role on Broadway.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/01/23/angela-lansbury-reaction-murder-she-wrote-canceled/