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New York Upfronts hosted by Ariel Foxman, Editor of InStyle, and ICM at 34 Greene St on May 18, 2010 in New York City.



Some new Hawaii Five-O pics:










Thank you Alyssa at H5O:




Credits pic for H5O:

Thank you to Midnight Louie at H5O:

This show rocks!

You beat me to it Bianca! LOVE LOVE LOVE this trailer. Hope the show is as good! Talk about an amazing cast of regulars and guest stars... James Marsters (Buffy) and Norman Reedus (Boondock Saints) and I'm already drooling!

Great interview with James Masters about him and Alex doing their own stunts.

These look amazing. The preview is badass. Love the snark between Alex and Scott.

Bianca - I have to be honest and say that I have been cautiously optimistic about this but now that I see that CBS is really backing it I'm getting excited! Let's hope that the clips that we've seen aren't the best that they have to offer and that there will be lots of humor and suspense! Thanks for keeping us up to date on all the 5-0 and Alex news!

I really think that this is the show which will be put Alex at the top! The reviews are good and it looks like CBS is 100% behind it.

All kind of neat stuff about the show:

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And the Most Anticipated New TV Show of the Fall Is...

Today 12:11 PM PDT by Kristin Dos Santos

Dun dun dun na na na….Dun dun dun na na.
Sorry, just singing a little ditty that just so happens to be the theme song of the most exciting new series coming out this fall. According to you.

That's right. Thousands of you have weighed in on the show you're looking forward to the most for the coming 2010-11 season, and it is:

Hawaii Five-O!
Yes, the CBS remake, with Lost's awesome-sauce Daniel Dae Kim and Moonlight's awesome-sauce Alex O'Loughlin (whom we just spoke with; see below) was chosen by you fans as the show most worth getting excited about.

For those who missed our Pick Your New Fave tournament, the fans were given sneak-peek video and info for all 34 new series, then asked to choose the most kick-ass-looking show from each individual network. Those top five series were pitted against each other to determine the Ultimate New Fave, for ultimate early buzz bragging rights.

Here are the top shows you're looking forward to for 2010-11, and their final ranking:
1. Hawaii Five-O, CBS (27% of the vote)
2. Hellcats, CW (24%)
3. The Event, NBC (20%)
4. Mr. Sunshine, ABC (19%)
5. Running Wilde, Fox (10%)

Yep, Ashley Tisdale's new cheerleading series Hellcats (produced by Tom Welling) ranked in at number two out of all the new series (!), followed by Jason Ritter's new Lost-meets-24-ish series The Event, then Matthew Perry and Allison Janney's new comedy Mr. Sunshine, with Keri Russell and Will Arnett's Running Wilde coming in last (but first for all Fox shows).


To celebrate Five-O's impressive, early-buzz coup, we checked in with Five-O star Alex O'Loughlin at the Donate Life Hollywood Film Festival, where the star was honored with their Person of the Year award, and got a little more info for you who are already shaping up to be fans...

What can fans expect from the new Five-O?
It's a modern reboot of a classic, an old favorite that was CBS' number one show for 12 years. It was a huge show. What we are doing is bringing a whole new spin to it. I play Steve McGarrett, which is Jack Lord's character, and you will learn all about Steve's background as opposed to in the old show, you didn't really know much about him. We open up the pilot learning all about these characters, where they come from, how they come together and it's about fighting crime in Hawaii.

Are you a fan of Lost and how great is it to be working with Daniel Dae Kim?
Yeah. Fantastic and yeah, he's a great guy. He's super nice. I'm very, very glad he's on the cast. He's a pro. He's a terrific actor, but he's a really great person as well. So it's going to be fun.

Will you be doing any of your own stunts?
I'm very physical and I really enjoy that side of things and stuff. I'll do whatever they let me!

You and Scott Caan, who plays your partner, have some strong chemistry in the pilot. Is he the comedic relief to your straight man?
There's more to my character McGarrett than you saw in the pilot so he's not as straight as you think. I mean he's as straight as a [Navy] SEAL, but he's got a bunch of stuff that's gonna come out later on and we riff pretty well together. It's fun. Naturally, in life, I'm more of a clown, it's different.

Will you and Scott be the next great TV bromance?
Me and Scott, oh yeah, we will be the bromance of the decade!

Do you agree that Five-O is most deserving of early buzz? Are you surprised by any of the results? Is there another new show that deserves more love? The comments are yours for the taking.
—Additional reporting by Tierney Bricker

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Get Ready for Hawaii Five-O
Preview: Producer Roberto Orci and cast member Grace Park talk about the new version of the iconic series.
June 15, 2010
by Eric Goldman

One of fall's most buzzed about new series, CBS's Hawaii Five-O stands out from other cop series thanks to its extremely geek-friendly participants. Two of the shows executive producers, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, are well known in fanboy circles, from their days working on Hercules and Xena to their time as Alias writers, to their recent credits - which include writing Transformers and Star Trek and co-creating Fringe with their frequent collaborator J.J. Abrams.

As for the cast, Alex O'Loughlin (Moonlight) takes on the lead role of Steve McGarrett (played by Jack Lord in the original), while his partner Danny Williams is played by Ocean's 11's Scott Caan. Rounding out the special police unit McGarrett leads are two characters played by well known actors to genre fans – Daniel Dae Kim (Lost) as Chin Ho Kelly and Grace Park (Battlestar Galactica) as Kona Kalakaua.

I recently spoke to both Roberto Orci and Grace Park about the project, and Orci noted that he and Kurtzman were initially reluctant about being involved with Hawaii Five-0, in the wake of Transformers and Star Trek, "because we thought, well, we don't want to be known as 'reboot guys.'"

However, Orci explained that executive producer Peter Lenkov (24, CSI: NY), who wrote the pilot, "Pitched us a great story… and such a great kind of paradigm for the show and how to really get into the characters that he really talked us into it. And then we thought, 'This could be really fun.'"
As far as the tone they're reaching for on the series, Orci said, "The sweet spot for us was always like Lethal Weapon or 48 Hours," noting that while that may sound easy , "Everyone always tries to do the action buddy [cop] thing with real stakes and it's actually deceptively hard. This is our opportunity to take a stab at that kind of a classic tone, where the violence is real, but you can still have a lot of fun with it. It doesn't have to be totally grim, you know?"

One more bit of geek-bait in Hawaii Five-0 is James Marsters, known to Buffy and Angel fans for his role as Spike. Marsters plays the bad guy in the pilot, and I asked Orci if it was a one-off role or whether he could return to face Steve McGarrett again. Orci replied, "The editing room will tell! We still have much to decide how it will end. Until it airs, it's just a work in progress."

Amusingly, just as on Battlestar Galactica, Grace Park finds herself playing a character from a 1970s TV series who was male in the original version. Explaining the new show's take on Kona, Park told me, "Kona's fresh out of the academy, and she has quite a few skills under her belt which would make her an asset to the team. She's right at the beginning of the formulation of this elite task force which is developing in Hawaii."

Park noted that while, "Hawaii is not necessarily a place with a lot of crime," international criminals, "might be attracted to Hawaii for several reasons, and so that's where we come in."

"I play cousins with Daniel," added Park. "His name has kind of been dragged through the mud, and he's been set up. So his character thinks that mine doesn't have a hope in Hell because of the family name."

Hawaii Five-O looks to really deliver on the action front, especially when it comes to what we expect to see on TV. Remarked Park, "I'd read the script, but then watching the pilot really blew me away. To me, it looks filmic. I recently saw another huge budget movie, and it just lacked that pop, and Hawaii Five-O delivered."

Kona gets a big introduction, as the guys show up on the beach to find her surfing. While this is a natural skill for Kona, Park revealed, "I'd never surfed before!" Park mentioned that her reply to those telling her she looks great in the surfing sequence is, "Well it's actually not me! That's another chick." Park smiled, adding, "She's got a great body, thankfully, because that's supposedly me!"

Park noted she does snowboard, but "it's been awhile since I've been riding mountains." With some time off until Hawaii Five-0 begins production, she added, "I'm planning to head over to Tofino on the west coast of Canada for a few days. Freshen up [on surfing] a little bit, because I've only ever gone twice."

Hawaii Five-O debuts this fall on CBS.

Hawaii won an E! Online poll as "The most anticipated new series for Fall." (Thanks to Deb at LLOL for the video).

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Hawaii Five-O will shoot in old Honolulu Advertiser building
Jun 24, 2010 7:10 PM CDT Thursday


HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Sources at CBS announced Thursday that the former home of the Honolulu Advertiser on Kapiolani Boulevard will be the home stage for the new Hawaii Five-O television show.

"It's an iconic structure for an iconic series, paying tribute to the history and community of Honolulu" said a CBS spokesperson in a press release.

The 81-year-old building became vacant earlier this month when the Honolulu Advertiser merged with Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The three story structure is on both state and federal lists of historic places.

Shooting is scheduled to begin in July 15. CBS says they plan to showcase numerous locations around the state in the crime drama.

The world premier of the series opener will be shown at Sunset on the Beach September 13. The first episode will air on KGMB September 20 at 9:00 PM.

Here's a closeup picture of the building from the front.

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