>He just got off the wildly successful Ocean's flicks, a Best
>PIcture winner where he was the central character, AND two
>critically-acclaimed flicks where he was the lead.

Absolutely. Which is why it's a bonus for this show to have his name on it. In this case, his name is currency: "from Academy Award winning actor Don Cheadle... (and Paul Haggis and nem)"

And let's all remember that Cheadle was a producer on Crash as well.


>Has there ever been an Oscar-nominated dramatic actor at the
>height of his career who said "Let's do a TV series!"? I'm
>not being sarcastic, I just literally can't recall one.

I can't recall one either, but that doesn't mean it couldn't and shouldn't be done.

I mean, Tom Hanks' career hasn't really suffered by going back-and-forth between TV and film, has it?


> Maybe Forest Whitaker? Or was he signed up for The Shield
>before Last King of Scotland? But even for Forest, that Oscar
>was the first big showy role in his career. Don's now had 2
>leads (3 if you count Crash) in a row alongside those Ocean's
>flicks, and I would imagine would wanna keep that steamroller
>plowing along.

Unless he's appearing in every episode, the fact that he's working in TV doesn't mean that the film steamroller stops.

The bottom line is, the old 80's and 90's way of thinking that TV is/was a step down in an actor's career is dead.
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