Demand the Event in Your City with Eventful.com

The video below contains Blair Underwood explaining to bring The Event screening to your city and then a brief trailer for The Event.

Vote now for your city at http://eventful.com/performers/the-event. The top five cities win a showing of The Event pilot in a local theater with free snacks and prize giveaways.

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Jimmy in GA

"The Event" is Your Next Mystery Sci-fi Obsession - i09.com

i09.com has a spoiler heavy article about the pilot of The Event after their viewing at Comic-Con. Avoid if you do not want to be spoiled. Here's a non-spoilery section of the article.

The Event involves a lot of non-linear storytelling, and you can see the trail of breadcrumbs that the show's writers are leaving, even if we can't tell yet where the trail is leading. I saw tons of small details in the pilot that I'm sure will become important later, and someone who had seen the pilot before commented that she noticed a lot more during the second viewing. Of course, we've had our hearts broken before by science fiction shows whose tantalizing mysteries never fully pay off. But show producer Evan Katz assured the audience that won't be the case here:

"Everything is designed so that we will answer questions so you won't be frustrated. You won't think we don't know what we're doing or that we're making it up as we go along."

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Jimmy in GA

A Repeat of Flashforward?

Lynette Rice from EW is reporting that NBC execs Angela Bromstad hope to make sure The Event will not disappoint it's audience like Flashforward.

NBC execs today attempted to shoot down any skepticism over whether NBC’s new drama The Event will leave viewers more confused than satisfied. Considering what happened last year with high-concept shows like ABC’s short-lived drama FlashForward, “we are going to do everything in our power to guard against (what happened with) Flashforward,” NBC entertainment topper Angela Bromstad told TV journalists today in Beverly Hills. “That show had a great script, a really good pilot and we were afraid of it competitively. I understand it did disappoint the audience. We take those lessons really seriously. The audience and critics will be rightly skeptical. “If we can get this show right, even though the risks are tremendous, the rewards are really great,” Bromstad continued. Read More

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Jimmy in GA

What Is the Event Podcast - Episode 1.04 - The Event at Comic-Con

Episode 1.04 - The Event at Comic-Con
Posted: Wed, 28 Jun 2010 21:50:00 EST

In this episode, we discuss The Event at Comic-Con and some of the news that has come out over the weekend. I mention several of the posts on this site in the podcast including:

http://www.whatistheeventpodcast.com/2010/07/event-comic-con-panel-2010.html
http://www.whatistheeventpodcast.com/2010/07/event-comic-con-videos-at-msn.html

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Jimmy in GA

The Event Comic-Con Wrap Up

There's all sorts of information out there right about NBC's The Event. We still don't what the Event is, but none the less, we know more about the show it's stars and the producers. I'm going to include a few posts from various sources below on The Event Comic-Con experience without spoilers. If you were there, I would love to hear from you. Email us at whatistheeventpodcast@gmail, @reply or direct message us at twitter.com/eventpodcast or call The Event Line at (773) 41EVENT.

The TVSquad has a great post about The Event Preimere and Panel on their website. Here's an excerpt.

Most of the panel for the NBC series that's best described as part 'Lost' and part '24' was taken up by the screening of the show's pilot. Fans had only about 15 minutes for a moderator-conducted Q&A with the ensemble show's cast, which is headlined by Jason Ritter, Blair Underwood and Laura Innes.

But the good news is that If the crowd reaction was any indication, THIS is the must-see series of the fall. If you're still going through Jack Bauer and Jack Shephard withdrawal, trust us -- Ritter's Sean Walker is your new hero.

Each act break ended on a compelling cliffhanger, the biggest one was saved for the end of the show. Kudos to producers for informing viewers as to when a scene was set by starting each one off with "eight days ago" or "13 hours ago." It would be nice if 'Lost' had done that all shows with big casts and lots of flashbacks would do that.

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Many are already comparing The Event to LOST, and this post at nymag.com has some interesting information about the show:

NBC's seemingly Lost-like upcoming series The Event features interconnected story lines, frequent time jumps, and twists within the pilot, but "everything is designed to answer questions so you're not frustrated or feeling like we're making it up as we go along,” said Evan Katz, an executive producer. Two of the first episode's crucial mysteries — involving detainees and an airplane — "will be answered in the second episode," he said. “There are people in LA right now carefully crafting what we hope will be twenty-two hours that keeps people guessing in a fair way." Creator Nick Wauters added that the series has "an element of science fiction," but doesn't rest on that genre. So what is the titular event, anyway? Oh, well, that much they can't say yet! “We can't ruin our surprises,” Katz said. He did say that, thankfully, "the event" is not this very Comic-Con panel, and it's also not our second guess, Blair Underwood's noted salsa-dancing ability.

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I thought the security during the pilot showing was interesting. Luke De Smet at hitfix.com wrote about that here:

On a somewhat more positive note, Comic-Con did provide a surprisingly apt viewing experience for this kind of show. As the on-screen action centered around various attempts to either suppress or expose the truth about the “event,” real-life, dark-suited NBC security officers did their part to heighten the experience by patrolling the aisles in search of any recording equipment that might prematurely reveal the truth to the masses.

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I also thought that this post from buzzfocus.com was informative and funny:

Just like Anchorman Ron Burgundy, NBC’s highly mysterious new show The Event was “kind of a big deal” at Comic-Con this past weekend. While we did see the pilot and did a few interviews with the cast, we still don’t know just exactly what The Event is.

But we did get a seemingly useless “Top Secret” file at the Con that seemed to be a cryptic note about the secret prison in Alaska that’s part of a cover-up in the pilot. As a random shot in the dark, we decided to search Google for “Mount Inostranka” from the doc and were surprised to see a special website as one of the results, theeventiscoming.com, that has some documents, images, a search bar and a map for the new show.

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Jimmy in GA

The Event is Coming.com - Mount Inostranka, AK

TheEventisComing.com shows a map of the Mount Inostranka Facility in Alaska and also has the following Top Secret Document from 1944.

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Jimmy in GA

The Event Comic Con Videos at MSN

MSN 2010 Fall TV Guide has several The Event videos from Comic-con featuring interviews with the main cast of the upcoming NBC show. For some reason, MSN is not offering an embed option for it's videos, so there's several to choose from below, for your viewing pleasure.

Fans Go Crazy for The Event

The Event Who's Who

The Event Behind the Scenes Mystery

The Event: Jason Ritter and Sarah Roemer

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Jimmy in GA

The Event Secret Conversation Part 2 - Videos

This is one of the latest videos from NBC's The Event. In this video and the next, there "is an unedited conversation between the President and his advisors."

Secret Conversation Part 2

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Jimmy in GA

The Event Secret Conversation Part 1 - Video

This is one of the latest videos from NBC's The Event. In this video and the next, there "is a conversation that took place in the White House. It has not been edited."

Secret Conversation Part 1

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Jimmy in GA

The Event Comic-Con Panel 2010 Video

The Event Comic-Con Panel 2010 Video

What are you thoughts? Share them below, email us, @reply us or call The Event Line.

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Jimmy in GA

The Event Walk-On Role Sweepstakes

NBC has a new contest as a part of their mynbc.fanit. If you participate on their website, you earn points and then can spend the points on rewards. One of the options is to spend 5 points to enter the Sweepstakes: The Event Walk-On Role

Now's your chance to become part of The Event!
Enter for a chance to win a walk-on role in one of this season's most anticipated new series.

Prize package includes:
-- round trip airfare for two
--hotel accommodations
--transportation to and from the set
--non-speaking role for the winner.

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Jimmy in GA

The Event to Premiere on TV on Sept. 20

NBC announced that the television premiere of "The Event" will be September 20 at 9 pm, following the forth season premiere of Chuck! Set you DVR soon, you don't want to miss The Event.

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Jimmy in GA

NBC's The Event Comic Con Panel and Pilot Screening July 24th

NBC's "The Event" At Comic Con on July 24

Comic-Con fans in San Diego will watch the world premiere pilot screening of NBC's high-octane conspiracy thriller "The Event." Debuting on NBC this fall, "The Event" follows an unlikely hero who gets entangled in one of the government's biggest cover-up operations that could ultimately change the fate of mankind.

WHO:

Moderated by E! News' Kristin Dos Santos, participate in a Q&A session with the cast - Jason Ritter (The Class), Blair Underwood (In Treatment), Laura Innes (ER), Sarah Roemer (Disturbia), Ivanek (Damages), Ian Anthony Dale (Daybreak) - and the producers - Evan Katz (24); Steve Stark (Medium); Jeffrey Reiner (Friday Night Lights), Nick Wauters (The 4400) and Jim Wong (The X-Files).

WHEN / WHERE:

"The Event" Pilot Screening / Q&A with cast and producers

Saturday, July 24

11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Room 6A @ San Diego Convention Center

If you can be there, don't miss the first public screening of "The Event!"
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Jimmy in GA