Las Vegas (TV series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Las Vegas |
| Original title | Las Vegas |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2003-2008 |
| length | 44 minutes |
| Episodes | 106 in 5 seasons |
| genre | Dramedy , crime thriller |
| Theme music | US: Elvis Presley vs. JXL - A Little Less Conversation DE: Charlie Clouser - Let it Ride |
| idea | Gary Scott Thompson |
| music | Charlie Clouser |
| First broadcast | September 22, 2003 ( USA ) |
| German-language first broadcast |
January 11, 2006 on ProSieben |
| occupation | |
Las Vegas is an American television series directed by screenwriter Gary Scott Thompson ( The Fast and the Furious ). The series was from September 2003 to February 2008 from television - network NBC broadcast. The first season started on January 11, 2006 on ProSieben and was canceled after only six episodes due to insufficient audience ratings . In the summer of 2007, the series was repeated by Kabel eins , but also canceled in May 2008. In Austria, the first four seasons of the series were broadcast between January 30, 2006 and January 14, 2008 on ORF 1 and then repeated; the fifth followed on December 15, 2008. At the end of March 2007, the first season was released in German synchronization, the second season has been available since September 27, 2007.
Las Vegas is a joint venture between NBC Universal Television and DreamWorks Television . The creative mind is Gary Scott Thompson. Gardner Stern ( CSI , Law & Order ) was hired as a producer . The Mandalay Bay serves as the backdrop for the fictional Montecito , and the film is also being shot in Los Angeles . The style of the series is characterized by fast, fluid tracking shots and a corresponding cut , as they are also used in the CSI series. Likewise, several storylines are often told in parallel.
NBC canceled the series after a total of five seasons and 106 episodes.
action
1st season
The setting is the fictional Hotel and Casino Montecito in the American city of Las Vegas .
Season one begins with Ed Deline ( James Caan ), the hotel's chief security officer, his daughter Delinda ( Molly Sims ) and his right-hand man catching Danny McCoy ( Josh Duhamel ) in bed together. The two are a couple, which annoys "Big Ed" because he knows his daughter and is afraid she could hurt Danny, even if he put it the other way round. Delinda later separates from Danny, but they remain friends. Mary Connell ( Nikki Cox ), Danny's childhood friend, is delighted because she has always been in love with him. Nessa Holt ( Marsha Thomason ) is the adopted daughter of Ed Deline. She took her in after her birth father, his then CIA partner, died. Samantha Jane Marquez ( Vanessa Marcil ) is the Montecito's casino hostess . On the outside, she is a strong career woman who has built a wall because she has had to go through a lot in her life so far. Mike Cannon ( James Lesure ) is initially one of the hotel's car parkers, but is repeatedly recruited by Ed and Danny due to his MIT degree in technical matters until he changes completely to the security department at the end of the season. Ed is later promoted to managing director of Montecito while Danny takes over Ed's old position.
2nd season
Danny comes back from his assignment with the Marines, in which he was able to repel the enemy in Iraq with an order to fire on his own coordinates ( Danger Close ) and all soldiers in his unit died except himself. Danny has changed and cannot cope with the events in Iraq. Only when Ed, who had similar experiences in his time with the CIA, recommends Danny a psychologist and Danny accepts the advice, he becomes the same again. During this time, Danny also makes a marriage proposal to Mary, who accepts him for the time being, but separates from him halfway through the season, as the two are never really together and have no dates. At the end of the season, after a long search for the right person, Mike and Nessa start an affair. Nessa keeps getting hints that her father could still be alive. At the end of the season, she heads to London to meet her father and start a new life. Delinda accompanies her because she argues with her father and he does not accompany her. Danny also has problems when his father is unexpectedly killed in a car accident. Eventually the Montecito is taken over by an unknown new owner who wants to rebuild it from scratch.
3rd season
As between the first and second season, the third begins with a larger time jump. The new Montecito has already been completed and is about to open. The new owner Monica ( Lara Flynn Boyle ) would like to win Danny back as head of security, who is now running his father's construction company. After an initial refusal, Danny finally accepts the offer. Danny brings Mike and Sam back. Delinda and Mary, on the other hand, do not want to go back to work at the Montecito because Delinda still dislikes her father and Mary is enjoying her life with her new boyfriend. In the course of the episodes, however, both come back, so the old team, apart from Nessa, is reunited.
Later, the new owner of the Montecito dies unexpectedly, who fired Ed and caused a lot of trouble for the others by falling from the roof of the Montecitos. Sam's husband Casey Manning ( Dean Cain ) appropriates the Montecito. He wants to win Sam back, but he also wants to make money as he is a successful businessman and wants to keep growing his money.
When Delinda meets her ex-boyfriend from college again, falls in love with him and wants to get married, Danny realizes that he actually feels more about Delinda than he would like to admit. Delinda isn't sure she's doing the right thing. At the end of the season, Ed opens the door of his apartment and is shot by a stranger.
4th season
Just as Delinda wants to confess her love to Danny, he is radioed and informed of the shot. Danny immediately runs to Ed's apartment to overpower the stranger and take Ed to the hospital. Once there, he is still waiting for Delinda, Jillian Deline ( Cheryl Ladd ) and Delinda's fiancé. Here it becomes finally clear for everyone involved what Danny and Delinda feel for each other. Meanwhile, Ed is again visited and questioned by the CIA agents who visited him at the end of Season 3. Ed is then, after his hospital stay, on the way looking for the supposed terrorist.
Danny and Delinda get together for good and are shunned by Mary, who is mad at both of them. In the further course of the story, Danny and Delinda have to survive a kidnapping of Delinda, which ends with Danny saving them. Furthermore, Delinda becomes pregnant at the end of the season, which she doesn't want to tell Danny because she believes Danny is still or again in love with Mary. Danny supports or protects Mary because she has to testify in a lawsuit against her father, who abused her in her youth and wanted to do this again with his current children or has done so. However, her father is acquitted, whereupon Mary falls into a hole, drinks and gets a revolver. The season ends with Mary, Danny, and Ed shooting independently at the same time at Mary's father, who is being robbed of Montecito, a former marine comrade of Danny who is mentally disturbed, blows himself up in the Montecito while Delinda is with him , and Sam is kidnapped overseas by a murderer and rapist locked in a suitcase.
5th season
At the beginning of the fifth season, Sam tells the same psychologist Danny was with after his Iraq assignment and Delinda after her kidnapping what actually happened after the end of the fourth season. So it turns out that Mary and Ed shot Mary's father, but not Danny. After seeing the demolition inside the Montecitos, he goes there immediately, as he had received a call beforehand from Delinda, who is in the same room as the suicide. He looks in the hallway where his old comrade blew himself up, but a firefighter explains to him that nobody is alive here. Undeterred, he continues his search, finds Delinda's mobile phone and searches the laundry trolley, where he finally finds her. She tells him that she is pregnant. Mary goes into hiding, and there is only one brief hint that she is still alive and at large. Ed, accompanied by his wife Jillian, also later goes into hiding after it is discovered that he and Mary were the only ones able to shoot Mary's father. The hit was fatal. The way is now clear to introduce AJ Cooper ( Tom Selleck ) as the new owner of the Montecitos and Piper Nielsen ( Camille Guaty ) to the series.
The further course is characterized by the fact that Cooper constantly demands new ideas from his employees in order to highlight the Montecito of Las Vegas casinos. However, like “Big Ed” Deline before, he supports his employees in every situation and always has advice or a solution. Mike and Piper want to get married, and Danny and Delinda join, creating a double wedding. But a Montecito jet plane crash with Cooper allegedly aboard overshadows events; the double wedding quickly turns into a memorial service. At the funeral, Cooper, who was believed dead, suddenly appears again and asks what is wrong. Just as everyone looks back at him in amazement, Delinda starts screaming and just says that something is wrong with the baby. When she takes her hands from her stomach, they are covered in blood. Danny runs down to her. The fifth season "ends" unfinished with only 19 instead of the originally 22 planned episodes.
Characters
- Danny McCoy is a former Marine who was born and raised in Las Vegas. He was Ed Deline's apprentice and later became the casino's chief security officer and, after Ed Deline's retirement, became its managing director. His character tells the story of the series in the first few episodes.
- Nessa Holt , also known as "Frozen", was born in Manchester , England and grew up with the Delines after her father was allegedly killed in a CIA mission. She's the best pit boss in Las Vegas. Your past is muddled. At the end of the second season, she leaves Las Vegas for England, because she has a half-sister there who she didn't know about before.
- Mary Connell is from Las Vegas and acts as Special Events Director at Montecito. She was temporarily engaged to Danny McCoy. In the first seasons her role in the casino was blurred, only in later episodes her role was specified and at the beginning of the third season she works as a hotel manager. In the fifth season, she no longer plays as the police are looking for her for murder.
- Edward 'Big Ed' Melvin Deline is a former CIA agent and former security chief at Montecito. As managing director, he runs the hotel until the beginning of the fifth season. Then he goes into hiding and AJ Cooper becomes the owner of the hotel.
- AJ Cooper has been the new owner of the Montecito since the fifth season and, like Danny, a former Marine who u. a. served in Vietnam.
- Sam Marquez lives in a suite in the casino. Your task is to lure wealthy business people to the Montecito and to fulfill their every wish so that they are animated to play. She is the casino hostess of the Montecito.
- Delinda Deline is the daughter of Ed Deline and was temporarily in a relationship with Danny. She later becomes the manager of Mystique, a successful restaurant in Montecito. In the fourth season she gets back together with Danny and even becomes pregnant by him.
- Mike Cannon is Danny's best friend and was the valet manager for a long time, later moving to the casino's security department. He studied mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He is the casino's electronics specialist and always comes up with ways and means to track down fraudsters. After Danny's promotion, he takes over the management of the security department.
Cast and dubbing
main actor
| Role name | actor | Main role (seasons) |
Supporting role (seasons) |
Guest role (seasons) |
Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Danny McCoy | Josh Duhamel | 1.01-5.19 | Dennis Schmidt-Foss | ||
| Ed Deline | James Caan | 1.01-4.17 | 5.01 | Bodo Wolf | |
| Nessa Holt | Marsha Thomason | 1.01-2.24 | Judith Brandt | ||
| Mary Connell | Nikki Cox | 1.01-4.17 | 5.01 | Schaukje Könning | |
| Samantha Jane "Sam" Marquez | Vanessa Marcil | 1.01-5.19 | Ulrike Stürzbecher | ||
| AJ Cooper | Tom Selleck | 5.01-5.19 | Norbert Langer | ||
| Delinda Deline | Molly Sims | 1.01-5.19 | Bianca Krahl | ||
| Mike Cannon | James Lesure | 1.01-5.19 | Nicolas Boell |
supporting cast
| Role name | actor | Appearances (seasons) |
Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mitch Sassen | Mitch Longley | 1-5 | Matthias Klages |
| Jillian Deline | Cheryl Ladd | 1-5 | Monica Bielenstein |
| Luis Perez | Guy Ecker | 1-2 | |
| Gunther | Harry Groener | 1-3 | |
| Polly | Suzanne Whang | 2-5 | |
| Casey Manning | Dean Cain | 2-3 | Michael Deffert |
| Sarasvati Kumar | Lakshmi Manchu | 2-3 | |
| Kathy Berson | Rikki Klieman | 3-5 | |
| Monica Mancuso | Lara Flynn Boyle | 3 | Claudia Urbschat |
| Erika | Anna Pheil | 3-5 | |
| Shannon | Malaya Rivera Drew | 4-5 | |
| Piper Nielsen | Camille Guaty | 5 | Vera Teltz |
Guest appearances
Various greats of American show business have guest appearances in the series, such as Jon Bon Jovi , The Black Eyed Peas , Paris Hilton , Brooks & Dunn , Snoop Dogg , Jean-Claude Van Damme , Pussycat Dolls , Sylvester Stallone , Alec Baldwin , Ashanti Douglas , Wolfgang Puck , Rihanna , Hugh Hefner , Terry Bradshaw , JC Chasez , Rachael Leigh Cook , Elliott Gould , Brian Austin Green , Jill Hennessy , James Hong , Dennis Hopper , Kathryn Joosten , Jon Lovitz , Christian Kane , Dominic Keating , Gladys Knight , Jerry O 'Connell , Robert Wagner , James Blunt , Michael Bublé , Dennis Rodman , Ne-Yo , Everlast and many more.
Furthermore, some poker pros like Phil Ivey and Chris Ferguson have a guest appearance.
Remarks
- There are five crossover episodes with the series Crossing Jordan - Pathologist with Profile .
- The Montecito set is located in Culver City , California .
- In the television series Heroes , some of the main characters can be seen in the Montecito.
- In the new television series Knight Rider , some scenes take place in the Montecito.
- In the fourth season, Ed Deline uses the code name Alan Traherne. This is the name of James Caan's role in the classic film El Dorado .
- In the third season there is a reference to James Caan's role as Santino in The Godfather , but where Ed Deline denies having seen the film.
- In the fifth season there is a guest appearance by Larry Manetti and Roger E. Mosley . Both played the roles of Rick and TC on the side of Tom Selleck in the TV series Magnum (TV series) .
Awards
Mac Davis and Charlie Clouser won the BMI Film & TV Award in 2004 and 2005 . John E. Nordstrom received the ASCAP Award in 2004. Las Vegas has been nominated twice for the Art Directors Guild for its production design.
Web links
- Las Vegas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of NBC (English)
- Las Vegas at Serienjunkies.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.quotenmeter.de/cms/?p1=n&p2=26828&p3= kabel eins is taking “Las Vegas” out of its range
- ↑ "Las Vegas" has played out
- ^ A b Series dubbing : “Las Vegas” in the German dubbing file