Pierson Teases Split Screen’s Second Season
by indieWIRE (April 10, 1998)
by Mark Rabinowitz Yesterday, indieWIRE spoke with "Split Screen" creator and oft titled indie film guru John Pierson, who offered a look at the upcoming new season of the Independent Film Channel original series. The show has picked up a host vehicle, an RV, or "Film Mobile" as some recent Tulsa, Oklahoma residents called it, and John and crew travel the country documenting the indie world. "The RV goes places," said Pierson, "so it's really clear that the show is going places. As opposed to 'Hey, this story is from Kansas, and this one's from Chicago' -- now we're actually in those places." Pierson is less interested in interviews with "name celebrities," and is focusing more on "people in action, doing things." Among the segments on tap for season two are the story of Barry Tubb ("Top Gun") making an independent western, riding the range and supervising his oil wells in Snyder, Texas. Tubb later took the crew to a rattlesnake roundup in Sweetwater, Texas.," a re-visit to "Easy Rider" with Dan Haggarty, a segment on whether or not producer's rep Jeff Dowd in fact is the model for 'The Dude' from the Coen Brothers' film "The Big Lebowski" and a look at video pirates in New York City. One potential change for the show is that, according to Pierson it may not air on the IFC's sister channel, Bravo. Last season's episodes premiered on the IFC on Monday and repeated on Bravo as part of their "IFC Fridays" later that week. "We mistakenly were under the impression that we were following last year's pattern," said Pierson. He learned a few weeks ago that after tonight's airing on Bravo, the show would only be seen on the IFC. "You would think I would've had my ears up and known sooner (but) whoever's fault it was, I had no clue that wasn't going to be the pattern this year." The programming schedule on the IFC has original shows running for 10 weeks and are then repeating, with a second batch of 10 episodes set to launch in late August.
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