Universal Studios backlot suffered major damage today to a fire according to KNBC.
The iconic courthouse square from “Back to the Future” was destroyed, and the famous clock tower that enabled Michael J. Fox’s character to travel through time was damaged, fire officials said. Two mock New York and New England streets used both for movie-making and as tourist displays were a total loss, Los Angeles County Fire Inspector Darryl Jacobs said.
An exhibit housing a mechanically animated King Kong that bellows at visitors on a tram also was destroyed.
The Back to the Future clock tower set was also used for Eddie Murphy’s Nutty Professor and Ghost Whisperer. No word yet how GW will be effected by the fire.
The fire broke out on a different end of the lot from City Walk and the Gibson Amphitheater, so the MTV Movie Awards will go on.
UPDATE: A quick assess of the Ghost Whisperer set showed that the secondary exterior suffered some damage. Prepping for season 4 begins today and more should be known how much Ghost Whisperer will be effected by the fire.
“In Plain Sight†stars Mary McCormack (“Traffic: The Miniseries,†“The West Wingâ€Â) as Mary Shannon, a U.S. Marshal working in the highly secretive branch of the witness protection program who relocates Federal Witnesses. Many of them are career criminals. Some of them are innocents who had the misfortune of witnessing a crime. They all have one thing in common – someone wants them dead. Mary’s job is to see that doesn’t happen, while at the same time attempting to manage her own dysfunctional family.
In Plain Sight premieres on USA tonight at 10p and it is something to see!
I never thought I would like a show about witness protection, but when it comes to In Plain Sight I thoroughly enjoyed it. Each week Mary and partner Marshall are trying to help people who have had their lives uprooted to Albuquerque to enter the witness program. They are from all over the country, they are young, old, families and people who had the wrong job at the wrong time. It is interesting to watch the reactions of different people as they are told they have to give up their lives and say goodbye to everything in their past. You wonder if you can do it, I don’t know if I can. But this show it is not only about their journey. but protecting them after they make the move.
In Plain Sight is not your usual procedural show and the pace of it is so fast that you will be shocked to see the show is almost over when you will think it has just started! Mary McCormack is good as tough a$$ with a little bit of a heart Mary Shannon. Frederick Weller is perfect as her partner, his timing and delivery is spot on and being cute doesn’t hurt him. The only thing i can live without is her family, they feel thrown in and are so over the top I wouldn’t mind if they were written off the show.
So tune to In Plain Sight tonight on USA at 10p!!!
Tonight is the night that Anne Boleyn loses her head on The Tudors. The night two seasons in the making is finally here. It is going to be so weird to not have Natalie Dormer as part of the third season of the show, but you can’t change the past even for TV.
Next season of The Tudors will be about King Henry the VIII’s love affair with Jane Seymour and his quest for a son. But before all that happens see Anne Boleyn lose her head on tonight’s The Tudor at 9p on Showtime.
