Will Arnett’s new show “Running Wilde” premieres tonight. Given the early criticism, we’re already bracing for disappointment.
I admit it—I’m not a morning person. I wake up every day to NPR, and sometimes when the haze of sleep is particularly stubborn I hear the damndest things in the space between wake and sleep.
This morning I was fighting my way to the surface as Will Arnett was on the air discussing his new show “Running Wilde,” which premieres tonight. When I finally got up, I got up chuckling—I’d had this crazy half-dream that Arnett was admitting that maybe having a white guy play a Middle Eastern guy in brown-face was perhaps not the best choice.
Except, that turns out not to have been a dream. Zap2it has this quote from actor Peter Serafinowicz on his time in brown-face: “First of all I’m a foreigner. He was from somewere in the Middle East, but we don’t know what’s going on with him [yet]. You’ll have to watch and find out.”
Sounds very awkward, although after Danny DeVito sported brown-face brilliantly as Gandhi last week we’re willing to believe that anything’s possible. However NPR describes the pilot as having “few laughs — and fewer sparks.”
“Running Wilde” has all the necessary components for greatness, so hopefully all the negative reviews are based solely on a misguided pilot, and Arnett will be able to carry this show to victory.
Not that this “Running Wilde” trailer really gave us cause to hold our breath—but we’re holding it anyway.
