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Carole Myers is an executive producer, writer and media entrepreneur developing shows for television and branded entertainment properties with partners around the world, from idea through production, distribution and marketing. Her work includes dramatic and non-scripted series and specials for network and public television as well as sports events, live concerts and theatrical shows.
She combined music, sports and celebrities for televised pro-celeb events at glamorous resorts, including golf, tennis and concerts with Barry Gibb and the Bee Gees.
She was publicist and event producer for the groundbreaking NBC series "Miami Vice" and co-created The Silver Foxes, a fitness and lifestyle brand for people 50+ that spawned a multi-platinum #1-selling home video featuring the parents of superstars.
Carole and award-winning IMAX director Dennis Earl Moore created high tech videos and on-site films at Biosphere 2, the public environmental science experiment and exhibit in Arizona.
She developed and was a producer of "The Marshal," a prime time ABC/Paramount drama series based on her concept and access to the U.S. Marshals Service.
Through International Media Partners, Carole produces and distributes specials and series for Public Television/PBS. She is Co-Executive Producer of the Off-Broadway hit one-man touring comedy "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, Live," based on the mega-million selling book by John Gray.
As Executive Producer of "Night of the Proms," Carole brought Europe's most successful annual classic-meets-pop concert tour to the U.S., backed by a documentary television series and specials on PBS stations. She won the Mid-America Emmy Award for Arts/Entertainment Program/Special as Executive Producer of the TV series "Night of the Proms."
Carole is now engaged in the development of an international film company. She serves on the board of the Weston Arts Council and is mentor to Duffel Bag Productions, an association of Black graduates of the prestigious Writers Guild Veteran Writers Project.
Scott Weinberger is known for On the Case with Paula Zahn (2009), True Conviction (2018) and Disaster in the Gulf: A Race Against Time (2010).
The Marshal is an American action-drama television series that aired on ABC for two seasons in 1995. The show starred Jeff Fahey as the title character, a United States Marshal charged with pursuing fugitives across the nation. In 1995, the episode "Hitwoman" was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Series at the 47th Primetime Emmy Awards.
Plot
Winston MacBride (Jeff Fahey) is a family man and fugitive-chasing Deputy U.S. Marshal who has never let a criminal get away. By tracking and guarding criminals, he wanders all over the country, meeting different people along the way. The wisecracking MacBride relies largely on his quirky sense of humor and intellect to fulfill his duties.[1]
Production
Development
The idea for the program came when producer Carole Myers and a former law enforcement officer obtained a formal letter from the U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., and Myers presented the idea for a series based on the Marshals to Paramount Television, the TV arm of Paramount Pictures. After gaining Paramount's interest, Myers, who was formerly a special projects producer and publicist for Miami Vice, presented the project to Don Johnson, the former star of Miami Vice who had a production company based at Paramount.
Originally, the production was to be a reality series in the same vein that Cops was for police. After the Waco siege, however, the plan was dropped and the concept reworked into a dramatic series on Myers' recommendation. Johnson realized that no television series had specifically targeted the U.S. Marshals, the nation's oldest law enforcement agency, dating back more than 200 years. ABC, which had a somewhat long and successful relationship with Paramount since the late 1960s, picked up the series for its 1994–1995 schedule.
Casting
Johnson chose Jeff Fahey to play the lead character, Deputy U.S. Marshal Winston MacBride. Fahey had been a friend of Johnson's for years and guest-starred in the Miami Vice third season premiere "When Irish Eyes Are Crying". This casting was considered particularly crucial since MacBride would have no sidekick or other regular supporting characters to interact with. Not since The Fugitive had a crime drama focused so tightly on a single character. Guest stars were a regular part of the program's formula; the episode "Bounty Hunter", directed by Johnson, featured his former Miami Vice castmate John Diehl as a fugitive serial killer.
Filming
Due to the low shooting expense, The Marshal was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia and Calgary, Alberta which would double as "Anytown, U.S.A."; due to the manhunt nature of the series, they would serve as a variety of cities.
Carole Myers is an executive producer, writer and media entrepreneur developing shows for television and branded entertainment properties with partners around the world, from idea through production, distribution and marketing. Her work includes dramatic and non-scripted series and specials for network and public television as well as sports events, live concerts and theatrical shows.
She combined music, sports and celebrities for televised pro-celeb events at glamorous resorts, including golf, tennis and concerts with Barry Gibb and the Bee Gees.
She was publicist and event producer for the groundbreaking NBC series "Miami Vice" and co-created The Silver Foxes, a fitness and lifestyle brand for people 50+ that spawned a multi-platinum #1-selling home video featuring the parents of superstars.
Carole and award-winning IMAX director Dennis Earl Moore created high tech videos and on-site films at Biosphere 2, the public environmental science experiment and exhibit in Arizona.
She developed and was a producer of "The Marshal," a prime time ABC/Paramount drama series based on her concept and access to the U.S. Marshals Service.
Through International Media Partners, Carole produces and distributes specials and series for Public Television/PBS. She is Co-Executive Producer of the Off-Broadway hit one-man touring comedy "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, Live," based on the mega-million selling book by John Gray.
As Executive Producer of "Night of the Proms," Carole brought Europe's most successful annual classic-meets-pop concert tour to the U.S., backed by a documentary television series and specials on PBS stations. She won the Mid-America Emmy Award for Arts/Entertainment Program/Special as Executive Producer of the TV series "Night of the Proms."
Carole is now engaged in the development of an international film company. She serves on the board of the Weston Arts Council and is mentor to Duffel Bag Productions, an association of Black graduates of the prestigious Writers Guild Veteran Writers Project.
Scott Weinberger is known for On the Case with Paula Zahn (2009), True Conviction (2018) and Disaster in the Gulf: A Race Against Time (2010).
The Marshal is an American action-drama television series that aired on ABC for two seasons in 1995. The show starred Jeff Fahey as the title character, a United States Marshal charged with pursuing fugitives across the nation. In 1995, the episode "Hitwoman" was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Series at the 47th Primetime Emmy Awards.
Plot
Winston MacBride (Jeff Fahey) is a family man and fugitive-chasing Deputy U.S. Marshal who has never let a criminal get away. By tracking and guarding criminals, he wanders all over the country, meeting different people along the way. The wisecracking MacBride relies largely on his quirky sense of humor and intellect to fulfill his duties.[1]
Production
Development
The idea for the program came when producer Carole Myers and a former law enforcement officer obtained a formal letter from the U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., and Myers presented the idea for a series based on the Marshals to Paramount Television, the TV arm of Paramount Pictures. After gaining Paramount's interest, Myers, who was formerly a special projects producer and publicist for Miami Vice, presented the project to Don Johnson, the former star of Miami Vice who had a production company based at Paramount.
Originally, the production was to be a reality series in the same vein that Cops was for police. After the Waco siege, however, the plan was dropped and the concept reworked into a dramatic series on Myers' recommendation. Johnson realized that no television series had specifically targeted the U.S. Marshals, the nation's oldest law enforcement agency, dating back more than 200 years. ABC, which had a somewhat long and successful relationship with Paramount since the late 1960s, picked up the series for its 1994–1995 schedule.
Casting
Johnson chose Jeff Fahey to play the lead character, Deputy U.S. Marshal Winston MacBride. Fahey had been a friend of Johnson's for years and guest-starred in the Miami Vice third season premiere "When Irish Eyes Are Crying". This casting was considered particularly crucial since MacBride would have no sidekick or other regular supporting characters to interact with. Not since The Fugitive had a crime drama focused so tightly on a single character. Guest stars were a regular part of the program's formula; the episode "Bounty Hunter", directed by Johnson, featured his former Miami Vice castmate John Diehl as a fugitive serial killer.
Filming
Due to the low shooting expense, The Marshal was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia and Calgary, Alberta which would double as "Anytown, U.S.A."; due to the manhunt nature of the series, they would serve as a variety of cities.
