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Joan, the TV series that Sophie Turner just last week wrapped filming, is being touted as “awards bait” by The CW entertainment chief Brad Schwartz.
As a guest on a recent episode of sister site THR’s TV’s Top 5 podcast, Schwartz — in previewing international co-productions that were not impacted by the Hollywood strikes and thus are coming down the pike — said of Joan, “That is going to be awards bait, that show.
“The dailies look amazing, Sophie Turner is phenomenal…,” Schwartz effused. “I’m really, really excited about that one.”
Produced by The CW in association with All3Media International, Joan stars Game of Thrones alum Turner as notorious jewel thief Joan Hannington, in an “exhilarating yet emotional story set against the vibrant backdrop of the 1980s,” per the official synopsis.
Turner’s Joan is described as both a fiery and uncompromising woman in her twenties who is deeply scarred and vulnerable, and as a devoted mother to her six-year-old daughter, Kelly. She also is trapped in a disastrous marriage with a violent criminal named Gary. “When Gary goes on the run, Joan seizes the opportunity to create a new life for herself and her daughter, adopting new identities and making new acquaintances along the way… as a masterful jewel thief,” says the synopsis.
The cast also includes Frank Dillane (Fear the Walking Dead), Kirsty J. Curtis (the UK web comedy Match Not Found), Gershwyn Eustache Jr. (Britannia) and Laura Aikman (The Rising). Joan was written by Anna Symon and directed by BAFTA award-winner Richard Laxton.
When might Turner fans get to meet Joan?
Production on the UK portion of the series wrapped just last week; in fact the Birmingham wrap party that Turner attended has merited mention in recent headlines (regarding her ending marriage to Joe Jonas).
“[Joan is] a high-end, big-budget scripted series with a huge star,” CW boss Schwartz said on TV’s Top 5, “that should hit Q1 or Q2 [of 2024] for us.”
Given everything so far he said has turned out to be the opposite in reality. We shall see. I doubt anything from the ashes of the CW will be award bait. She might be amazing. But no one will be watching it.
If it’s on the CW honey that will never get an award
Gina Rodriguez and Rachel Bloom both won golden globes.
True but I feel like The CW has fallen even farther in terms of industry respect since then
You will have to be phenomenal to get award given how the new management is treating CW, and the bridges its burning within the industry with the careless treatment of product. Old and new.
You win Emmys and Oscars.
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You buy Golden Globes.
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Those aren’t legit awards.
If it’s big budget, how did it wind up on the CW?🤔
International co-production (as noted above) that The CW probably went less-than-halvsies on.
It’s not even really a co-production. It had been commissioned a year before the CW got involved and was already shooting so they have had no actual input into the production. It’s one of these vanity credits that international distributors negotiate, something Netflix and Amazon have often done (Riverdale in the UK is listed as a Netflix production despite them only being the UK distributor and some BBC shows have ended up on Netflix outside the UK years after being on the BBC as netflix productions) as it is a cheap way of looking more important. it’s not like proper international co-productions where both parties have a say production wise, for example BBC and HBO on Rome which even saw the BBC version being different than the HBO version (Romans are a key part of our history education here in the UK so the US version provides a greater background into roman history and culture which results in season 1 being 1 episode shorter in the UK)
What’s the over/under on how many episodes will air before it’s removed from the schedule?
Replaced by Whose Line reruns after week two
Speak it into the universe…
That cover photo is so heavily edited that it barely looks like Sophie Turner anymore.
She’s… in costume/wig/makeup..?
There is no way a CW show (or whatever it’s called now) is going to win awards. It’s fallen even lower since Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Still called The CW: no plans to change name. –Mgmt.
Which shows was he NOT “really excited” about?
Not on the CW it aint
Until I read the description, I thought she was playing Joan Rivers!