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Just got word that the tapes have been damaged in a fire. The series is in jepordy. Incase you don't know, this is the worst of the worst. NO ANDERSON COOPER. He was it. He had the dry wit and charm. He made the show watchable.
Here is the news article.
A studio fire in Hollywood has thrown ABC's "Celebrity Mole: Hawaii" into chaos.
The offices of Stone Stanley Entertainment, which produces the show, were heavily damaged by water in the battle against the blaze - meaning that all the "Celebrity Mole" videotapes were soaked just three weeks before the show's Jan. 8 premiere.
"I don't want to panic," Stone Stanley president Scott Stone told The Post. "We're optimistic that we have backup [tapes] we can find somewhere.
"We won't know for sure until sometime in the next 48 hours [whether or not the tapes can be saved]," he said.
ABC says it has no plans to pull the show and believes the series can be rescued.
"We have every confidence in Stone Stanley and are optimistic that the show will proceed as planned," said an ABC spokesman.
"Celebrity Mole," hosted by Ahmad Rashad, will feature Corbin Bernsen, Stephen Baldwin, Kim Coles, Frederique, Kathy Griffin, Michael Boatman and Erik von Detten - trying to discover which one of them was "planted" to sabotage the group's plans.
Meeting the deadline to produce the Jan. 8 show is one thing - but Stone said "it's always possible" that successive episodes could be irretrievably lost.
"Right now, each tape is being individually inspected at great expense," he said.
"We're committed to making our Jan. 8 premiere date. It's frightening. We literally finished the first episode this week, and now it's just delayed."
If no subsequent shows can be found - or edited in time - presumably the network will have to delay or cancel the series.
Stone said the fire broke out around 1 a.m. on the second floor of Hollywood Center Studios - with water from the firemens' hoses flooding the first floor, which houses Stone Stanley's tapes and equipment.
"What I saw was just disastrous - there was a foot-and-a-half of water there," he said.
"We just have to get the show done. Considering this [fire] was heavily covered on the local news, we got a lot of calls from the network counting on us to do our job."
Stone said that the cause of the blaze is still unknown. A blown transformer was originally suspected.
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I bet it was the same 'Mole' who set the fire behind Test Track this summer and closed Epcot....
Here is the news article.
A studio fire in Hollywood has thrown ABC's "Celebrity Mole: Hawaii" into chaos.
The offices of Stone Stanley Entertainment, which produces the show, were heavily damaged by water in the battle against the blaze - meaning that all the "Celebrity Mole" videotapes were soaked just three weeks before the show's Jan. 8 premiere.
"I don't want to panic," Stone Stanley president Scott Stone told The Post. "We're optimistic that we have backup [tapes] we can find somewhere.
"We won't know for sure until sometime in the next 48 hours [whether or not the tapes can be saved]," he said.
ABC says it has no plans to pull the show and believes the series can be rescued.
"We have every confidence in Stone Stanley and are optimistic that the show will proceed as planned," said an ABC spokesman.
"Celebrity Mole," hosted by Ahmad Rashad, will feature Corbin Bernsen, Stephen Baldwin, Kim Coles, Frederique, Kathy Griffin, Michael Boatman and Erik von Detten - trying to discover which one of them was "planted" to sabotage the group's plans.
Meeting the deadline to produce the Jan. 8 show is one thing - but Stone said "it's always possible" that successive episodes could be irretrievably lost.
"Right now, each tape is being individually inspected at great expense," he said.
"We're committed to making our Jan. 8 premiere date. It's frightening. We literally finished the first episode this week, and now it's just delayed."
If no subsequent shows can be found - or edited in time - presumably the network will have to delay or cancel the series.
Stone said the fire broke out around 1 a.m. on the second floor of Hollywood Center Studios - with water from the firemens' hoses flooding the first floor, which houses Stone Stanley's tapes and equipment.
"What I saw was just disastrous - there was a foot-and-a-half of water there," he said.
"We just have to get the show done. Considering this [fire] was heavily covered on the local news, we got a lot of calls from the network counting on us to do our job."
Stone said that the cause of the blaze is still unknown. A blown transformer was originally suspected.
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I bet it was the same 'Mole' who set the fire behind Test Track this summer and closed Epcot....
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