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Lone Star
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Also known asMidland
GenreDrama
Created byKyle Killen
StarringJames Wolk
Adrianne Palicki
Bryce Johnson
David Keith
Eloise Mumford
Alexandra Doke
Jon Voight
Mark Deklin
ComposerDanny Lux
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6 [1]
Production
Executive producersAmy Lippman
Chris Keyser
Kerry Kohansky Roberts
Kyle Killen
Paul Weitz
Running time44 minutes
Production companiesKeyser/Lippman Productions
Depth of Field Productions
20th Century Fox Television
Release
Original networkFox
Picture format720p 16:9 (HDTV)
Audio formatDolby Digital 5.1
Original releaseSeptember 20 (2010-09-20) –
September 27, 2010 (2010-09-27)

Lone Star is an American drama television series which originally ran on Fox from September 20, 2010 to September 27, 2010, airing Monday nights at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Premise

Robert Allen (James Wolk), a Texan con-man, leads a secret double life. As "Bob", he is married to Cat and living in Houston while working for his oil-tycoon father-in-law. Four hundred miles away in Midland, he is "Robert" in a second life with girlfriend Lindsey. As he schemes to take control of the oil business and finds himself torn between the love of two women, he must fight to keep his web of lies from falling apart.[2]

Development and production

In October 2009, Fox made a script-plus-penalty commitment with writer Kyle Killen.[3][4] In mid-January 2010, Fox placed a cast-contingent pilot order under the working title Midland.[5] Marc Webb was signed to direct the pilot episode.[6] In early February, Amy Lippman, Chris Keyser, Kerry Kohansky Roberts, and Paul Weitz were all named as executive producers.[7]

Casting announcements began in mid-February 2010. James Wolk was the first actor cast, in the lead role of Robert Allen.[7] Next to sign on was Eloise Mumford, as Allen's girlfriend, Lindsay.[8] In March, Adrianne Palicki and Bryce Johnson were cast as siblings Cat and Drew Thatcher. Cat is married to Robert.[9] Jon Voight was cast as Clint Thatcher, and David Keith cast as John Allen, to portray the patriarchs of their respective families.[10] Mark Deklin and Hannah Leigh rounded out the main cast at the end of March.[11] Deklin filled the role of Trammell, an elder brother to Cat and Drew, while Leigh played Cat's daughter, Grace.

The pilot was filmed in Dallas, Texas, during the second half of March 2010.[12][13] Fox green-lit the project to series in mid-May under the new name Lone Star.[14] At the network's upfront presentation, Fox announced that the series would be part of the Fall 2010–11 television schedule, airing on Mondays at 9 pm.[2] The series was filmed in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.[15] Lippman and Keyser served as showrunners for the series,[14] which began filming additional episodes in late July 2010.[16][17][18]

In August 2010, it was reported that Andie MacDowell and Rosa Blasi would join the cast.[19]

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Kyle Killen

Kyle Killen

Kyle Killen is an American television writer and producer. He is best known as the creator and showrunner of the critically acclaimed but short-lived television series Lone Star (2010), Awake (2012) and Mind Games (2014). He also wrote the screenplay of Jodie Foster's The Beaver (2011).

Marc Webb

Marc Webb

Marc Preston Webb is an American music video director and filmmaker. Webb made his feature film directorial debut in 2009 with the romantic comedy 500 Days of Summer, and went on to direct The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012, which was later dubbed as the "Webb-Verse" by Marvel Studios in 2021. He also directed the drama films Gifted and The Only Living Boy in New York.

Television pilot

Television pilot

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James Wolk

James Wolk

James Wolk is an American actor. He is known for his starring roles in the CBS comedy series The Crazy Ones (2013–2014), the AMC period drama series Mad Men (2013–2014), the CBS drama thriller series Zoo (2015–2017), the CBS All Access psychological thriller series Tell Me a Story (2018–2019), and the HBO superhero limited series Watchmen (2019).

Dallas

Dallas

Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County with portions extending into Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties. With a 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the ninth-most populous city in the U.S. and the third-largest city in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States and the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea.

Texas

Texas

Texas is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,660 km2), and with more than 30 million residents in 2022, it is the second-largest U.S. state by both area and population. Texas shares borders with the states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest; and has a coastline with the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast.

Green-light

Green-light

To green-light is to give permission to proceed with a project. The term is a reference to the green traffic signal, indicating "go ahead".

2010–11 United States network television schedule

2010–11 United States network television schedule

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Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly 350 square miles (910 km2) into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. According to a 2022 United States census estimate, Fort Worth's population was 958,692. Fort Worth is the second-largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, which is the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the United States.

Showrunner

Showrunner

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Andie MacDowell

Andie MacDowell

Rosalie Anderson MacDowell is an American actress and former fashion model. MacDowell's known for her starring film roles in romantic comedies and dramas. MacDowell has modeled for Calvin Klein and has been a spokeswoman for L'Oréal since 1986.

Rosa Blasi

Rosa Blasi

Rosa Blasi is an American actress, author, model, and therapist. She is known for her roles as Luisa Delgado in the Lifetime medical drama series Strong Medicine and Barb Thunderman in the Nickelodeon series The Thundermans.

Cast

Main

  • James Wolk as Robert "Bob" Allen, a Texas con man married to Cat, the daughter of one of his marks in Houston, while simultaneously maintaining a relationship with Lindsay in Midland, Texas. He is in love with both women and begins to wish for a normal life.
  • Adrianne Palicki as Cat Thatcher, Clint's daughter. At a young age, she married her boyfriend from high school and had a daughter with him. Their marriage ended in divorce. She later married Bob Allen, seeing in him the qualities that were lacking in her ex.[20]
  • Eloise Mumford as Lindsay, Robert Allen's unsuspecting girlfriend in Midland.
  • David Keith as John Allen, Robert Allen's father. He raised his son to be a con man.
  • Bryce Johnson as Drew Thatcher, the youngest of Clint's three children.[21] He admires his brother-in-law.
  • Mark Deklin as Trammell Thatcher, Clint's elder son and Blake's husband. Unlike his brother, he is suspicious of Bob's motives.
  • Alexandra Doke as Grace Thatcher, Cat's daughter from her first marriage to Harrison.[22]
  • Jon Voight as Clint Thatcher, a Texas oil tycoon and father of Cat, Drew, and Trammell.

Recurring

  • Andie MacDowell as Alex, an art appraiser. Clint becomes romantically interested in her; however, she proves more dangerous than anyone realizes.[23]
  • Rosa Blasi as Blake, the Lady Macbeth–esque trophy wife of Trammell.[19]
  • Chad Faust as Harrison, Cat's ex-husband and her high-school mistake. Roguish and unfaithful, he returns to Houston claiming he has changed.[24]

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James Wolk

James Wolk is an American actor. He is known for his starring roles in the CBS comedy series The Crazy Ones (2013–2014), the AMC period drama series Mad Men (2013–2014), the CBS drama thriller series Zoo (2015–2017), the CBS All Access psychological thriller series Tell Me a Story (2018–2019), and the HBO superhero limited series Watchmen (2019).

Houston

Houston

Houston is the most populous city in Texas and in the Southern United States. It is the fourth most populous city in the United States after New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago, and the sixth most populous city in North America. With a population of 2,304,580 in 2020, Houston is located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat and largest city of Harris County and the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second-most populous in Texas after Dallas–Fort Worth. Houston is the southeast anchor of the greater megaregion known as the Texas Triangle.

Midland, Texas

Midland, Texas

Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States. A small part of Midland is in Martin County.

Adrianne Palicki

Adrianne Palicki

Adrianne Lee Palicki is an American actress and model. She is best known for her starring roles as Tyra Collette in the NBC sports drama series Friday Night Lights (2006–2011), as Barbara "Bobbi" Morse/Mockingbird in the ABC superhero drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2014–2016), and as Commander Kelly Grayson in the Fox/Hulu science fiction comedy-drama series The Orville (2017–present).

Eloise Mumford

Eloise Mumford

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Bryce Johnson

Bryce Johnson

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Mark Deklin

Mark Deklin

Mark Deklin is an American actor and fight coordinator. He starred in the Fox primetime drama Lone Star, the ABC comedy-drama GCB, the Lifetime comedy-drama Devious Maids, and in 2017 joined the ABC political drama Designated Survivor as Senator Jack Bowman. He voiced Deimos in the video game God of War: Ghost of Sparta. He also was the voice of Warden in the video game Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege.

Jon Voight

Jon Voight

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Andie MacDowell

Andie MacDowell

Rosalie Anderson MacDowell is an American actress and former fashion model. MacDowell's known for her starring film roles in romantic comedies and dramas. MacDowell has modeled for Calvin Klein and has been a spokeswoman for L'Oréal since 1986.

Rosa Blasi

Rosa Blasi

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Lady Macbeth

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Chad Faust

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Reception

As of July 9, 2010, Metacritic reports that "if this isn't the best-received pilot of the season, it's close", with many early reviews suggesting that the show is "unlike anything else currently on TV."[25] The A.V. Club graded its pilot an "A", calling it "the best network pilot of the year", and possibly the best since Friday Night Lights.[26]

In spite of its widespread critical praise, the series premiere only drew 4.1 million viewers, and the future of the show seemed to hang in the balance.[27] Series creator Kyle Killen had stated that:

For us to survive we're going to have to pull off a minor miracle. Statistically, new shows tend to lose viewers in their second week. We're aiming to gain them. In fact, screw it, let's just double our audience. The good news is, our audience was so small that if my Mom AND my Dad watch it we'll pretty much be there.[28]

The show was canceled after its second episode, becoming the first official cancellation of the 2010–11 television season.[1]

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Television pilot

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club

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Friday Night Lights (TV series)

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Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code
US viewers
(millions)
1"Pilot"Marc WebbKyle KillenSeptember 20, 2010 (2010-09-20)1ASE794.06[29]
2"One in Every Family"Peter HortonKyle KillenSeptember 27, 2010 (2010-09-27)1ASE013.2[1]
3"Unveiled"[30]Scott WinantChris BlackUnaired1ASE02N/A
4"Small Time"[31]Steven RobmanChris LevinsonUnaired1ASE03N/A
5"Near Mrs."[32]Dan LernerChristopher Keyser & Amy LippmanUnaired1ASE04N/A
6"Cost of Living"[33]Billy GierhartKyle KillenUnaired1ASE05N/A

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Kyle Killen

Kyle Killen

Kyle Killen is an American television writer and producer. He is best known as the creator and showrunner of the critically acclaimed but short-lived television series Lone Star (2010), Awake (2012) and Mind Games (2014). He also wrote the screenplay of Jodie Foster's The Beaver (2011).

Peter Horton

Peter Horton

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Scott Winant

Scott Winant

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Chris Black (screenwriter)

Chris Black (screenwriter)

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Steven Robman

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Christopher Keyser

Christopher Keyser

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Amy Lippman

Amy Lippman

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Billy Gierhart

Billy Gierhart

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