Charlie Jade Podcast #06: A Conversation with Robert Wertheimer
Posted by Summer Brooks · 7 Comments
Yes, this is the final episode of the Charlie Jade Podcast.
Summer, Richard and Kevin have an entertaining, enlightening, and interestingly long chat with Charlie Jade creator Robert Wertheimer about the creation and development of the show over the course of several years, the pros and cons of international co-productions, and creating a TV show off the cuff, and on the fly.
We also talk about the Men in the Grey Suits, their overall plan for the universes that was sidetracked by the efforts of Charlie and 01 Boxer, and how that led into some interesting plans for a Season 2 that would turn everything we saw and learned in Season 1 on its ear.
After that, the conversation runs from production challenges, to the needs and expectations of scifi shows, to unlikely but not impossible returns to the universe of Charlie Jade, and much more.
Also, people interested in a Region 1 DVD release of Charlie Jade should contact Jacques Pettigrew at Cinegroupe in Montreal, either via email, fax or phone. Feel free to tell him that Robert asked you to call!
If the Cinegroupe.com website behaves oddly, try this Cinegroupe.ca link instead. And while you’re sending Jacques a note about the Region 1 DVD, don’t forget to ask him to please include the episodic commentaries that are already done and ready to go!
Also, send FM Le Sieur some love and appreciation for the music that has created such a unique and evocative atmosphere in Charlie Jade.
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Well worth the wait and superb job! Some very unexpected revelations and insights into the Charlie Jade ‘verses. Many thanks.
Thanks for all the hard work, and to Robert Wertheimer for the great interview.
For some reason, I have never been able to get the “download” option to work for the podcasts. When I click on it, it simply open a new tab in Firefox with a playback screen and begins the audio playback.
Any suggestions?
I’d really like to download these podcasts as a file to my mp3 player and listen to them during my jog. Is this possible?
Thanks!
Doug
—-> Doug
RMB -> Save target as…
i wish we had HD versions of those beautiful picture shots and scenery from charlie jade, considering we ll never get it on blu ray.
I am on a quest to find more stills, maybe create a photo gallery here, but my feeling is that unless I find out who the actual photographer on set was and find out if they kept the shots they took, we may be out of luck.
Listening to this podcast made me sad.
Ok, there were a few interesting points that we got some insight in to… but having seen the show a couple of times and accepted that somethings worked and somethings didn’t… I now know why some of it didn’t work, there was no real underlying stucture to the storyline… as Robert said, sooooo many times.. he was making it up as he went along, …not only does this show that there was no overriding understanding to the story on the writer’s side but that because this was the case, there couldn’t have been very much honest caring about the show on their end.. because how can you care about something that you are just pulling out of thin air, with no proper time to think about what you are writing/making.
The main thing I came away with from the ‘cast was that for most of the time, he was throwing crap together… it takes the shine away from my outlook over the show.