Cooked ‘Mole’?
HOLLYWOOD (New York Post) -- A studio fire in Hollywood has thrown ABC's "Celebrity Mole: Hawaii" into chaos. The offices of Stone Stanley Entertainment, which produces the show, were heavily damaged by water in the battle against the blaze -- meaning that all the "Celebrity Mole" videotapes were soaked just three weeks before the show's Jan. 8 premiere. "I don't want to panic," Stone Stanley president Scott Stone told The Post. "We're optimistic that we have backup [tapes] we can find somewhere. "We won't know for sure until sometime in the next 48 hours [whether or not the tapes can be saved]," he said. ABC says it has no plans to pull the show and believes the series can be rescued. "We have every confidence in Stone Stanley and are optimistic that the show will proceed as planned," said an ABC spokesman. "Celebrity Mole," hosted by Ahmad Rashad, will feature Corbin Bernsen, Stephen Baldwin, Kim Coles, Frederique, Kathy Griffin, Michael Boatman and Erik von Detten - trying to discover which one of them was "planted" to sabotage the group's plans. Meeting the deadline to produce the Jan. 8 show is one thing -- but Stone said "it's always possible" that successive episodes could be irretrievably lost. If no subsequent shows can be found - or edited in time - presumably the network will have to delay or cancel the series. Stone said the fire broke out around 1 a.m. on the second floor of Hollywood Center Studios -- with water from the firemens' hoses flooding the first floor, which houses Stone Stanley's tapes and equipment.
HOLLYWOOD (New York Post) -- A studio fire in Hollywood has thrown ABC's "Celebrity Mole: Hawaii" into chaos. The offices of Stone Stanley Entertainment, which produces the show, were heavily damaged by water in the battle against the blaze -- meaning that all the "Celebrity Mole" videotapes were soaked just three weeks before the show's Jan. 8 premiere. "I don't want to panic," Stone Stanley president Scott Stone told The Post. "We're optimistic that we have backup [tapes] we can find somewhere. "We won't know for sure until sometime in the next 48 hours [whether or not the tapes can be saved]," he said. ABC says it has no plans to pull the show and believes the series can be rescued. "We have every confidence in Stone Stanley and are optimistic that the show will proceed as planned," said an ABC spokesman. "Celebrity Mole," hosted by Ahmad Rashad, will feature Corbin Bernsen, Stephen Baldwin, Kim Coles, Frederique, Kathy Griffin, Michael Boatman and Erik von Detten - trying to discover which one of them was "planted" to sabotage the group's plans. Meeting the deadline to produce the Jan. 8 show is one thing -- but Stone said "it's always possible" that successive episodes could be irretrievably lost. If no subsequent shows can be found - or edited in time - presumably the network will have to delay or cancel the series. Stone said the fire broke out around 1 a.m. on the second floor of Hollywood Center Studios -- with water from the firemens' hoses flooding the first floor, which houses Stone Stanley's tapes and equipment.