TVland Shadow Unit

[hawkwing_lb]

Actors don't usually spring full-formed from the head of Zeus. So what did the cast of TV!Shadow Unit do before the show? What are their acting bios like?

What kind of shows or films does that alternate universe have, and how are they different to the ones we know?

(Authors, I hope this isn't stepping over any lines.)

[Shira]

I like nebula's idea, like they've all been extras/small parts on some crime drama.

The First Season Cast List says that Camryn Kaufman (Daphne) was in a bunch of sitcoms before this.

[hawkwing_lb]

I really liked that one, too.

[Shira]

I really liked that one, too.

SO what's it called?

It should totally be called " The Delta Station" or something like that.

Or just ambiguously "The Deltas".

[Elizabeth Bear]

There is a partial biography of each actor in the TV Show board, if you wish a jumping-off place.

[hawkwing_lb]

Just 'Delta'?

"A long-running series about the variously hard-working, corrupt, incompentent, and parochial police at work in the small town of Delta, Somewhere, USA. Viewers can expect a mix of gritty realism, soap-style angst, and cosy mystery.

"Many notable actors have worked on this show while waiting for their big break, or while their career was otherwise in the doldrums, playing such parts as Desk Sergeant, Third Prostitute, Screaming Witness, and Skinny Guy In Diner."

...What do you think?

[Shira]

Just 'Delta'?

"A long-running series about the variously hard-working, corrupt, incompentent, and parochial police at work in the small town of Delta, Somewhere, USA. Viewers can expect a mix of gritty realism, soap-style angst, and cosy mystery.

"Many notable actors have worked on this show while waiting for their big break, or while their career was otherwise in the doldrums, playing such parts as Desk Sergeant, Third Prostitute, Screaming Witness, and Skinny Guy In Diner."

...What do you think?

Ooh, yes.  That's totally it.

There is a partial biography of each actor in the TV Show board, if you wish a jumping-off place.

I was looking at that actually.  It does give us stuff to work with.

I think that's mild approval, hawkwing.

[MadGastronomer]

Beto has to have been on at least twice, once as Skinny Guy in Diner and once as a gang member or troubled teen (because his bio mentions that he got those roles a lot).

[Shira]

Hey, maybe 'Delta' is the show that got Patricia Zhou discovered.  (/Her/ bio says showed up at a call for extras somewhere.)

[PaulaKate]

As mentioned elsewhere, Robert X. Aguilera, who plays Chaz iVillette, also played Niki Falcon in the two TV miniseries Falcon:Escape Velocity (2005) and Falcon:Terminal Velocity (2006), based on Emma's book.

[hawkwing_lb]

Alas, I'll be away for the next week, so I won't be able to play.

*is sad, slightly*

[nebula]

Hey, maybe 'Delta' is the show that got Patricia Zhou discovered.  (/Her/ bio says showed up at a call for extras somewhere.)

That could work. Is this the kind of thing?

"Patricia Zhou turned up, along with half of her shift, to be an extra in the infamous extended episode of Delta entitled "Boom Banga Bang Bang". This episode, in which several well loved and longstanding characters were killed, centred on an bomb planted in the police station cells to remove evidence of prisoner mistreatment. (Rumours of a mass firing of actors as a result of the "Pickle Incident" remain unsubstantiated.)

Zhou stated in an interview with Q magazine that she was listed to have one line, "What was that?", before dying in the explosion. However, she so impressed the producers when she was asked to read regular cast member Chrissie Hynde's lines during a blocking scene, that they cast her in a recurring role as local medium Joyce Chen.

Zhou appeared in twelve Delta episodes before taking up her role in Shadow Unit. Her other credits include a music video for Scottish band Franz Ferdinand and a "blink and you miss her" part in War of the Worlds."

[MadGastronomer]

Firing, not sacking, and I'd leave off the quotes around Joyce Chen.  Otherwise, good stuff.

[nebula]

Firing, not sacking, and I'd leave off the quotes around Joyce Chen.  Otherwise, good stuff.

thanks! Britishims will sneak in there!

[MadGastronomer]

I'm prone to them myself, just from reading a lot of British fiction from childhood onwards.  Some of them are several decades out of date, too, as I read a lot of things like E. Nesbit as a kid.  The other day, I actually proclaimed "Brill!" and then had to explain myself.