HBO Scraps a New Series

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HBO is abandoning the costly comedy series “12 Miles of Bad Road.” Linda Bloodworth-Thomason of “Designing Women” fame conceived the series, which starred Lily Tomlin as a wealthy Dallas matriarch. It was originally shot as a pilot in the summer of 2006. In Monday’s Los Angeles Times, Matea Gold reported that network executives had been “disappointed by [...] (link)

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Published 3/19/2008 by Joel Brown at TV with MeeVee
... Holy crap. HBO is abandoning "12 Miles of Bad Road," a Linda Bloodworth Thomason ("Designing Women") project started back in 2006, starring Lily Tomlin. And they're killing it with six episodes in the can. It must have been really bad. (TV Decoder) ...

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