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"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" Senior Foreign Correspondent Rob Riggle rides a rickshaw in China while covering Olympic Games.
Riggle goes to China for 'Daily Show'
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BY DAVID BAUDER ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Foreign correspondence on the fake news of "The Daily Show" usually amounts to someone standing in front of a video screen on the New York set, a few steps away from Jon Stewart's desk.
But to coincide with the Olympics, the show's Rob Riggle, a KU graduate, went to China. Really. His skewed travelogue unfolded last week on the Comedy Central hit.
That's when they find out whether they've created any international incidents.
"It was an opportunity to go over to China and do something that has probably not been done in the past — go to China and do some comedy," said Riggle, a former U.S. Marine who served in Afghanistan and is still on reserve.
Riggle, who last year traveled to Iraq for "Operation Silent Thunder," started planning by applying in January for a journalist's visa. With the intercession of MTV executives in China, he got the go-ahead less than 24 hours before his plane was due to leave on July 29.
Other times when police expressed concern about what the crew was doing Clements essentially hid behind the language barrier.
Trying to explain what "The Daily Show" did would have been
"There were days when we got promising news and days when we got not-so-encouraging news," said Glenn Clements, field producer and Riggles' traveling partner. "But we decided to stick it out until the end, and it paid off."
"Our motto was 'Let's just go until they tell us to stop,' Riggle said.
They were able to film segments on the Great Wall of China and within Tiananmen Square, the latter historic site the focus of debates with Chinese authorities over access.
Riggle and his crew were followed almost everywhere by Chinese police, although only once was a hand placed over a camera lens cap and they were told to go away. It was a moment the comedy writers probably couldn't
have made up: They were filming the outside of a 7-11 convenience store.
But anytime Clements' crew tried turning the camera around and speaking to Chinese citizens, the crowds would scatter. They would literally turn and run away, Riggle said. As a result, only a foreign journalist and Chinese newscaster were interviewed for
the series.
Even for an ex-Marine, the police state atmosphere was intimidating.
"There were moments where you were just being watched very closely," he said. "We still did what we wanted to do, but I was hurrying it up, saying 'Come on, come on, let's go.' It was a subconscious thing."
His first segment, on Monday, was a mock "up close and personal" look at Riggle and his journey to the Olympics. They also took a tongue-in-cheek look at the exotic and mysterious places in China, hence the trips to 7-11 and malls. The team will also took some shots at the Chinese authoritarian government and a critical look at history, much the same way as "The Daily Show" satirizes the U.S. government, Clements said. The four segments, prepared over the weekend between bouts of jet lag, were called "Rob Riggle: Chasing the Dragon."
Riggle also had the somewhat unexpected experience of being recognized on the street. Twice. One young Asian couple came up and said how much they enjoyed watching him on Stewart's show, leading him to wonder where they had seen it.
"Jon always has a very good sense of what's in good taste and bad," he said, "and we'll try to stay within the bounds of what we think is good taste. We didn't go in there to make fun of the Chinese people at all."
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TORRANCE. Calif. — "Gutter balls only, please!" someone yells during a rehearsal at the Lucky Strike bowling alley for the CW's new series "90210." So co-stars Jessica Stroup and Shenya Grimes downplay their bowling skills.
CW resurrects teen drama'90210,'adds new edge
BY KINNEY LITTLEFIELD ASSOCIATED PRESS
If the show mimics the hot bodies, hip fashion and angst-ridden affluence of "Beverly fills, 90210," it will also play edgier and less preachy, says co-executive producer Gabe Sachs.
"Look, we're not stupid," Sachs says. "We know people are probably expecting a cheese-fest and that's just not what we do."
Sachs and partner Jeff Judah cut their teeth as producers on the quirky yet short-lived teen series "Freaks and Geeks" and "Life as We Know It."
CW tapped the duo to produce its rich-kids reprise after Rob Thomas, creator of moody teen drama "Veronica Mars," dropped the project.
"The truth is, Jeff and I write how we write," Sachs says. "Everything's got to come out of real emotion. We want to deal with issues and show consequences, but not the issue of the week and pound you over the head."
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Front rrow from left, Ryan Eggold as Ryan, Jessica Stroup as Silver, Michael Steger as Navid; mid row from left, Jessica Walter as Tabitha, Tristan Wilids as Dixon, Annalynne McCord as Naomi; and back rrow from left, Rob Estes as Harry, Lori Loughlin as Debbie, Shenae Grimes as Anne and Dustin Milligan as Ethan, make up the cast of CW's new series "9021", a spin-off from the popular "905" TV show "Beverly Hills," 90210.
But despite her announced participation, Tori Spelling (yet another star in the original series as well as daughter of the late TV mogul) isn't expected back.
To help spin the spin-off, original cast members Shannen Doherty, Jason Priestley and Jennie Garth will reprise their roles as special guest stars on "90210." Joe E. Tata will return as Peach Pit cafe owner Nat.
"Earlier in the summer we anticipated that she was going to appear in the show, but those plans were postponed for personal reasons on Ms. Spelling's behalf," CW spokesman Paul McGuire. In June, Spelling gave birth to her second child with husband Dean McDermott.
The original hooked a generation of viewers on trendy teen melodrama honed by creator Darren Star and executive producer Aaron Spelling.
"But I can never ever knock the original '90210," Sachs says of the series that ran from 1990-2000, trading on youth issues from addiction to pregnancy and amping the fortunes of the fledgling Fox network.
There currently are no plans for the 35-year-old actress to be part of the new series, according to McGuire and Spelling's publicist, Meghan Prophet.
Heading into its third season, CW is aiming "90210" straight at its advertiser-coveted target audience, cool-conscious female viewers from 18 to 34 who buzz about CW's "Gossip Girl."
Like the original, "90210" is a fish-out-of-water tale about a Midwestern family transplanted to Los Angeles, the land of freeway jams and perpetual tans.
Although the original series' core family, the Walses, were from Minnesota, the Wilson clan hails — with shades of Wizard of Ozian irony — from Kansas. Like siblings Brenda and Brandon Walsh (Doherty and Priestley), Annie Wilson (Grimes) and adopted brother Dixon (Tristan Wilds of "The Wire") are gorgeous, yet more grounded than their classmates at West Beverly
Among Annie and Dixon's new best friends are bad little rich girl Naomi (AnnaLynne McCord of "Nip/Tuck") and top jock Ethan (Dustin Milligan).
Hills High School.
There's Silver, a "Gossip Girl" type (Stroup), who produces her own tell-all video series on YouTube, and dirt-dishing, high-school newscaster Navid Shirazi (Michael Steger).
The Wilson parents (Rob Estes and Lori Laughlin) seem hip and handsome in ways the Walsh parents (Carol Potter and James Eckhouse) were not.
"This has the glitz of an Aaron (Spelling) show, but at the same time Gabe and Jeff have taken it and given it a sense of humor — they really flip it on its ear sometimes," says Estes, who starred on
The "90210" formula will also include product placement "as long as it doesn't hit you over the head," Sachs says. "I think it's important to show what kids really use."
But at the core of "90210," it's all about fresh faces, and who will break big.
Spelling's "Melrose Place" from 1993-1999.
"And they're also like 12-year-olds, you know?" Estes says. "They completely understand the electronic world, like texting."
"Things can take a turn, and you can get a big head, or get jaded," says Stroup of the fame game. "The next two weeks, we're going to be unveiling more and more ads and everybody that we talk to is saying, 'Get ready, get ready.' And we're all like, 'Where are we going to hide?'