JamesG
12-14-2015, 04:44 PM
Memories from the Set: CCH Pounder on "Women in Prison"
Envisioned as being akin to the edgy Aussie series "Prisoner: Cell Block H", this late-'80s Fox sitcom "ended up being more like Eight Is Enough or The Love Boat," Pounder laughs, with a new guest star showing up every week to declare, "I'm even more scary!" than the one before.
"It was not quite what it was billed to be, but we had a lot of fun doing it."
Giving Pounder her first series lead (as an inmate who'd offed her husband), "Women in Prison" was one of Fox's very first series — just as "The Shield" 14 years later would mark cable cousin FX's first big step into original programming.
http://tvline.com/gallery/cch-pounder-memories-from-the-set-shield-sons-anarchy/#!1/women-in-prison-cch/
Envisioned as being akin to the edgy Aussie series "Prisoner: Cell Block H", this late-'80s Fox sitcom "ended up being more like Eight Is Enough or The Love Boat," Pounder laughs, with a new guest star showing up every week to declare, "I'm even more scary!" than the one before.
"It was not quite what it was billed to be, but we had a lot of fun doing it."
Giving Pounder her first series lead (as an inmate who'd offed her husband), "Women in Prison" was one of Fox's very first series — just as "The Shield" 14 years later would mark cable cousin FX's first big step into original programming.
http://tvline.com/gallery/cch-pounder-memories-from-the-set-shield-sons-anarchy/#!1/women-in-prison-cch/