Talk:The Firm (2012 TV series)

Adaptation?

It's not really correct to call it an adaptation of the novel (or movie), as it occurs 10 years after the events in those. I made it "sequel" in the lede as that seems more accurate. Barsoomian (talk) 06:27, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Good eye.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 11:19, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Plot summary / description?

There should be a better description of what the show is about in the intro. Background section should be re-named and put earlier in the article CrocodilesAreForWimps (talk) 19:29, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

We don't know much about the plot other than that it set 10 years after the book. There are no WP:RS with any further detail, AFAIK. Feel free to rearrange what is there.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 20:27, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Reviews

I started going through reviews. However, the ratings were so bad for the first two episodes, that I am holding off on spending any more time with this franchise. The following are the reviews that I have found and not incorporated:

http://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-firm-2012/season-1/critic-reviews

http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/01/08/series-debut-jan-8-the-first-from-9-11-p-m-et-on-global-and-nbc/

http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Come+join+Firm/5950591/story.html

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/01/06/lewis-takes-over-the-firm

http://www.thestar.com/article/1111060--grisham-is-solid-on-tv-adaptation-of-the-firm

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/TV/mega-author-john-grisham-says-new-tv-show-based-on-the-firm-is-pure-fun-136672218.html

http://www.canada.com/entertainment/Fine+Tuning+column+Sunday/5953195/story.html

http://www.accesshollywood.com/josh-lucas-says-scary-jury-duty-experience-helped-lead-him-to-sign-on-for-the-firm_article_58709

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tca-5-things-know-firm-279215

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/152969-the-firm-mitchs-decisions-do-not-bode-well/

http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/nbcs-the-firm-to-homage-tom-cruises-performance-in-1993-movie/

http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2012/01/at_the_grove_juliette_lewis_holds_firm.php

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117946804?refCatId=32

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/01/josh-lucas-dials-up-paranoia-in-nbcs-the-firm-.html

http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/television/reviews/view/20220108objection_there_ought_to_be_a_law_vs_refurbished_firm/

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2012/01/06/the_firm_promising_if_burdened_by_back_story/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tv-column/post/tv-critics-put-nbcs-new-the-firm-on-the-defensive/2012/01/07/gIQAucjRgP_blog.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/television/tv-review-the-firm-tries-to-make-its-case/2011/12/30/gIQAHldzeP_story.html

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/artsfun/afterhours/22177.html

http://www.cleveland.com/tv-blog/index.ssf/2012/01/the_firm_falls_flat_house_of_lies_an_edgy_look_at_corporate_america.html

http://www.chron.com/life/article/The-Firm-a-compelling-throwback-2444273.php

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/rackl/9818848-421/law-show-has-that-grisham-intrigue.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/zap-the-firm-story,0,2964389.story

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513604577142513089233018.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-01-04/news/30590818_1_firm-lawyer-abby

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/firm_grasp_on_the_past_VNkkrI1ruxNURMbkAlLQ4L

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/the-firm-let-s-hope-it-will-improve-1.3428366

http://articles.philly.com/2012-01-06/entertainment/30598073_1_downton-abbey-michelle-dockery-matthew-crawley

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12004/1201039-67-0.stm?cmpid=radiotv.xml

http://theclicker.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/06/10004983-john-grisham-gives-a-positive-brief-on-new-series-the-firm

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/blogs/popcornbiz/John-Grishams-The-Firm-Takes-Its-Case-to-TV-136746118.html

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/blogs/popcornbiz/Midseason-Replacements-Season-Is-Upon-Us-136608088.html

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/06/144672719/this-weekend-some-new-shows-and-old-favorites

--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 21:03, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Future

Is there a chance that this is renewed in Canada and or AXN but not on NBC; that it is renewed and NBC moves it down to USA, Bravo or A&E; or that it is renewed but picked up by a non-affiliated cable network in the USA.?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:31, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

The negative press coverage from NBC moving the show to Saturdays flooded Canadian coverage and A LOT of people didn't tune in for ep 7 because they were told it was not on NBC and assumed it wasn't on Global either. A few Canadian media outlets were even reporting that the show was cancelled in Canada BECAUSE of its failure on NBC. About 28% drop. Renewal is up to Sony. The numbers for the first 6 eps would indicate Shaw likely to welcome a second season. If NBC doesn't want a second season there is nothing preventing FOX or ABC or FX or starz from picking up season 2. It could of course go to usa or Bravo. I would wager on ion if it comes to finding a new home in the USA. The situation is much like The Listener which is Canadian with a strong financing from FOX Int'l Chans. The AXN premiere is tomorrow night so for now it is all just guessing what Sony is considering doing. delirious & lost ☯ ^~hugs~ 17:26, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Moved to The Firm (2012 TV series) Mike Cline (talk) 14:28, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

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The Firm (Canadian TV series) → The Firm (2012 TV series) – The series aired in the U.S. & Canada for the first time on the same day. It should be named by year now (WP:TV-NAME). 68.44.179.54 (talk) 15:00, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

• Oppose, but with caveat (see below). On the contrary, WP:TV-NAME currently says to disambiguate by country first, not year. The country of origin is not the country of first airdate (which is meaningless because so many television series start airing in multiple countries on the same date); it is the country of production, in this case, Canada. Many television series start airing in multiple countries on the same date (this happens frequently with series from the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. because of the shared English language); that does not change that they have a specific country of origin. —Lowellian (reply) 17:35, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

• Caveat: If WP:TV-NAME is changed per the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television), I would support naming by year. —Lowellian (reply) 22:25, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

• Not really the best of arguments since most Canadian and American shows which are shown in both countries premiere on the same day. The show is owned by Sony in their AXN markets and by E1 in the rest of the world. The show is made by E1 & Shaw. The show is made in Mississauga. The show is set in Washington. Paramount has token credit for owning the rights to the novel. An American wrote the script and ended up selling it to a Canadian production company. The show was commissioned for non-North American broadcast by Sony. NBC was the last broadcaster to join the party and has not a thing to do with production. Shaw hasn't promoted their involvement in the show, possibly in hopes of it not being labelled as a stereotypical Canadian show, but if you read the end credits of any episode you can find the level of Shaw's involvement is not minor. Canada, USA, and 125 other countries/regions. Depending on how you want to look at the show and define origin it would be any of most of the countries existent today. For the multi-national origin of The Firm it was previously disambiguated by year of premiere. Lowellian doesn't care for multi-national and has insisted that one country be selected over the others because that is what Lowellian believes is most in keeping with the letter and spirit of the relevant policy. 2012 is accurate and treating all parties/nations equally and avoids this fight of 'Canadian! no US! no North American! no American! no US! no Canadian!' etc. If 9 months ago NBC had declined to buy rights to the show what would this article be disambiguated as today? I happen to think Lowellian is absolutely wrong and has missed the point entirely and i am agreeable to moving it back to 2012 TV series. The relevant policy was not even drafted with circumstance such as this in mind. It is a fool's mission to seek to apply that policy to all of these shows which span one or more borders. delirious & lost ☯ ^~hugs~ 17:53, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
  The policy actually says to disambiguate by country of BROADCAST not country of ORIGIN. The fact that it was broadcast in 2 countries simultaneously alone actually does negate that as the disambiguating criteria, which is only affirmed if you consider the origin of the show. The original channel is AXN though it is the last to broadcast the show in its markets. If we were to go by commissioning broadcaster's country of first broadcast then it would be Taiwan, followed 50 minutes later by Thailand, India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong. 2012 is looking really good when compared to saying a show set in the US and made in Canada is Taiwanese. delirious & lost ☯ ^~hugs~ 18:10, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

• Support The only additional disambiguation that makes sense is to use the year of release/debut. It is broadcast in too many countries to disambiguate that way, too many networks to disambiguate by network.--UnQuébécois (talk) 16:55, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

• Support It is being broadcast in Canada and US. Move to 2012 TV Series. Mr.Atoz (talk) 02:55, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

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Global Airings

I know that Global is showing The Firm on Saturday the 10th of March, due to the launch of new series Awake, but I can't find anything other than my "TV Guide" and their web "schedule" to confirm that it is a permanent move. The "official" Global site still lists Thursday as the air time. If they move this show to Saturday, then Showcase and all will probably re-arrange also?--UnQuébécois (talk) 18:48, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Are you kidding me? You’re cancelling this show? It is so much better than any other show on TV now! I can’t believe ya’ll are doing this. This is why I don’t get into shows sometimes because as soon as you get into something, they cut it off. This show would have done much better on ABC…..where they have the worst shows on TV yet. Why do you cut off all the good stuff??? And leave the crummy stuff alone??? Now we’ll never find out if the family is going to be okay from the mob….we’ll never find out if the advisory guy actually killed the girl or if it was a set up. So many questions left unanswered. The reason the rating were so bad is because they handled this show incorrectly, changing times, etc. Whoever made this decision is really lame. Signed KD & upset, USA

Abby McDeere – Blue-blood wife

Under cast we have:

• Molly Parker as Abby McDeere,[9] Mitch McDeere's blue-blood wife[8] and elementary school teacher.

Is "blue-blood wife" a regular expression? Thought at first it meant that she was of a police family, but found this in the background section of the character article. Is this correct? Or is it to depict that she comes from a wealthy family?

It has been too long since I read the book, and the book is lost for me so I can't look it up as of now, but can't recall this.

If it is a word-play by Mike Hale in NYT, to make his article more picturesque, I do not quite agree it should be used in an encyclopedic article – at least not without a more concrete clarification.

(Worth noticing: English is not my native tongue, so I can have missed something here.) Blue Blood in this context does mean a family that has money and probably social position also. (The term "Blue Blood" is

Warumwarum (talk) 05:54, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

That particular source only refs wife, but not blue blood.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 07:32, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

He means well-bread or from a good clean cut family.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 07:34, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

In both the book and the movie, Abby McDeere has come from a well-off Eastern US family. Mitch McDeere seems driven to prove to her parents that he indeed is worthy of her. She does not care that his family has less money and lower social standing than her family, but that difference sometimes matters to Mitch...and to Abby's parents. Some of the later episodes of THE FIRM (TV series) deals with her parents and their attitudes towards Mitch are discussed...The term "blue blood" was correctly used here to denote Abby's family as having both money and social position as contrasted to Mitch's lower class and poor family. Lindisfarnelibrary (talk) 06:13, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Cancellation?

I have great issue with the intro saying the show was cancelled by NBC. Sure those are the words used by The Futon Critic in the reference but it grossly misrepresents reality. Most American media outlets treat The Firm as if it is an NBC original series and it couldn't be further from the truth. Sony commissioned the show for their AXN channels around the world. NBC bought broadcast rights to The Firm much like ABC does with Rookie Blue or BBC America does with Law & Order | UK, Being Human, Twenty Twelve, Bedlam, The Hour, and Whitechapel or Sci Fi Australia does with Lost Girl, The Almighty Johnsons, Alphas, and Face Off. A rights-buyer can drop a show from their schedule, much like NBC did with The Listener, but if the commissioning broadcaster hasn't decided to end it then it isn't cancelled. So far Sony has not indicated they don't want more. Do we even have any indication of how The Firm is doing in any of the AXN markets? delirious & lost ☯ ^~hugs~ 13:57, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

GA Review

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Nominator: TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs)

Reviewer: Generalissima (talk · contribs) 00:39, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

This article is a long way from meeting the GA criteria on broadness and images, as well as having some sourcing and writing issues.

• You cite IMDB twice (#37 and #38); the first might work under the exceptions outlined in WP:Citing IMDb, but the second does not.
• The Production section is largely a restatement of the Cast section, since you're spending much of it listing which actors got which roles, not the actual shooting of the show.
• A show like this getting cancelled is a big deal, why is there not more elaboration on this?
• You got an uncited sentence at the end of the Broadcast section, and it's in present tense for "as of 2021".
• There are absolutely zero images at all throughout the article beyond the logo. The main actors have photos available to use, as does John Grisham himself.

Like your other recent nominations, I am puzzled at the decision to seemingly throw this at GAN and see if it sticks. I'm no stranger to making lots of GANs at once, but please make sure they actually meet the criteria first. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 00:39, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

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