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The River
Peaches
Episode 1.05 - Feb. 28, 2012
Lee Tergesen plays Russ Landry in two episodes of "The River," a
mid-season series for ABC that premiered Feb. 7, 2012.
Lee's first episode will be "Peaches," airing on Feb. 28.
The official synopsis of the "Peaches" episode says, "The Magus
crew are run aground by another vessel, and soon learn that the
seemingly welcoming crew members of a ship claiming to have come to
their rescue have in fact a very different agenda, causing a dire,
life-and-death situation. The crew also make a shocking discovery
that will leave one of them in tears."
Eight episodes will be produced for the first season of the show,
which focuses on a documentary crew searching the Amazon region for a
popular TV host and wildlife expert, Emmet Cole (actor Bruce
Greenwood). After Cole goes missing deep in the Amazon, his family,
friends and crew set out on a mysterious and deadly journey to find
him.
The series is described as a paranormal/adventure/horror show. It has overtones of "Lost" and "Blair Witch Project" or "Paranormal
Activity." The latter makes sense because the director and
co-writer, Oren Peli, was the executive producer of "Paranormal
Activity." Other key production credits include Steven Spielberg and
showrunner Michael Green, a comic book writer who also has produced
and written for TV shows including "Heroes," "Smallville" and "Kings."
ABC won a heated bidding war for the project, and ordered the
script to pilot in February 2011 and then announced in May that it
would premiere in the 2011–12 mid-season. The pilot episode was
filmed in Puerto Rico, but the rest of the series was produced in
Hawaii, where Lee shot his scenes.
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