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COCKED: Sam Trammell on Brotherly Drama, Playing with Fire, and Amazon’s Pilot Process

February 11, 2015 by  
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cocked-amAmazon’s latest pilot season is nearing its end, and a handful of new original (potential) shows are competing for your attention.

One of the ones I was drawn to is COCKED, a drama that centers around the Paxon family, and their gun business. (It stars Sam Trammell, Jason Lee, Dreama Walker, and Brian Dennehy, and was co-created by LIE TO ME’s Samuel Baum and MANHATTAN’s Sam Shaw.)

I spoke with Trammell — who plays Richard, the Paxon who is reluctantly dragged back into the family business — about the Amazon pilot process, filming one of the pilot’s crazy stunts, where the show might go, and more …

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COCKED: Samuel Baum on the Amazon Pilot Season, What’s to Come in (a Potential) Season 1

February 9, 2015 by  
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cocked-photoAmazon is once again doing its pilot season, and seven potentially new original shows are in contention to potentially move forward.

One of the shows that’s caught my attention is COCKED, a family drama that centers around the Paxons…whose family business is a gun manufacturing company. (It stars Sam Trammell, Jason Lee, Dreama Walker, and Brian Dennehy.)

To get a little more insight into COCKED — and the Amazon pilot process — I spoke with series co-creator Samuel Baum to see what he could share (slight spoilers for the COCKED pilot, so if you haven’t watched it yet, check it out here)

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