The richly drawn characters and all-encompassing themes would have translated fantastically to a sprawling family drama along the lines of Parenthoodor Friday Night Lights, and the cast would have elevated the material to a premium cable-worthy level.
The book follows the Lambert family through the decades leading up to the final Christmas dinner at the Lambert’s old house. The novel spans years and generations and is a true epic, almost like Game of Thronesbut on a deceptively simple Midwestern level. Jonathan Franzen’s massive novel The Corrections is one that seems perfectly suited to get the HBO treatment.
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No one ever talked about its demise, no one ever confirmed that it existed, and there’s a very real chance that the pilot is just an intense fever dream of every TV fan across the world. Unlike most shows on this list which died in a blaze of glory, All Talk just kind of vanished, and there hasn’t been a single mention of it ever since it was announced.
Alan Alda was in negotiations to star opposite Stiller, and the pilot was to be shot in the fall of 2012 right up until….it never happened. The pilot was described as a “politically, religiously, culturally, intellectually and sexually irreverent” comedy, and was to focus on the life of a family in Washington, DC. Set to be the next project from novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, All Talk was being developed by Scott Rudin and Ben Stiller, who was also attached to star and direct. Though we have an idea of what The Corrections- the next show on our list - might have looked like, HBO’s All Talk was an unknown entity right up until its extremely undramatic death. HBO in 2012 seemed to be the year of high-profile family dramas gone awry.
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