ShareThis"Murder, She Wrote" is among the past TV staples that "Castle" brings to mind. Actor Nathan Fillion, who stars as novelist Richard Castle, seems prepared and willing to be TV's next Angela Lansbury.
"That's what I like to say. They hate it when I say that," Fillion joked last month at an ABC press conference for the show. "If Angela Lansbury was more manly, but just a little."
Series creator Andrew Marlowe acknowledged that the will-they-or-won't-they relationship between Castle and detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) bears some similarities to other TV couples, including the leads of Fox's "Bones."
"Part of the success of these shows is promising that and seeing the near misses and seeing how the relationship evolves," he said. "We'd want it to evolve naturally over a period of time."
Marlowe said "Castle" is a different kind of procedural, with more of a focus on the characters: "Those character moments are the pearls that we string on a piece of string, and the piece of string is the procedural."
As for the show's title and the lead character's last name, Marlowe chose it for how it sounds when shouted.
"Since our character is kind of a rogue and is always getting into hijinks and trouble and going places where he doesn't belong, it's certainly a way when you're yelling his name for it to sound a little bit like -- if you take the 'C' away," he said, noting the similarity of the sound to a profanity.
(Contact TV editor Rob Owen at rowen(at)post-gazette.com.)
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