I Want My Nero Wolfe

A & E Channel ^ | 09/03/02 | Vidalia

[Vidalia]

To All NERO WOLFE Fans:

A&E has been fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with such dedicated and talented professionals as actor/director Tim Hutton, and writer/executive producer Michael Jaffe, the team whose passion and creative vision for NERO WOLFE have made it such a truly distinctive drama series. Mr. Hutton and Mr. Jaffe, along with (Maury Chaykin, Bill Smitrovich, Colin Fox) and the rest of this hardworking and talented cast and crew, were responsible for bringing to life this classic mystery series, each week, to devoted viewers in the U.S. and in Canada.

We at A&E remain extremely proud of NERO WOLFE. It is a high quality, beautifully produced and entertaining show, unlike anything else currently on the television landscape. Although it performed moderately well amongst tough competition for two seasons, it simply did not do well enough for us to be able to go on making it, given the current television climate.

A&E will continue to air encore presentations of the first and second season of NERO WOLFE in the coming weeks and months.

We certainly appreciate your support for the series and for the network. We appreciate the time and the care you have taken in sending us your letters, cards, and emails to let us know how strongly you support this wonderful show.

We hope that since you love NERO, you will continue to enjoy the encores, and that you will tune in to enjoy some of the other specials coming up, including Lathe Of Heaven, starring James Caan, Lukas Haas, airing in September, The Lost World, starring Bob Hoskins and Peter Falk, and our documentary special Old Friends, hosted by Academy Award winner Julia Roberts. As well as a number of our weekly documentary series including Biography, City Confidential, Minute By Minute and American Justice.

Thanks again. We appreciate your thoughts and feedback.

[Adrastus]

Hell and damnation. I really didn't want to hear that news. I can only echo all the praise for the program that are here posted. There's gotta be a way.......

[CIB-173RDABN]

I just wish that somewhere, somehow, that there would be a TV channel, that would forget about ratings and money, and just produce quality shows....

Funny, I thought that was the promise of these cable channels. I have the basic cable package and I get over 125 channels (most of which are so specialized I blocked out). A&E or Arts and Entertainment channel to use it full name, is the prefect channel for quailty shows. There may be more to this then they are announceing.

I do not expect much from television, and I usually get what I expect, but sometimes they surprise me.

[Athwart]

Yes, I watched a few of them but had the same sort of problem: well done, but hard to watch for those of us who know all the little details. I didn't want the images from the series to interfere with my many fiture rereadings of those great books. I share your high opinion of Stout. His level of craft was astonishing.

I was impressed by Tim Hutton's performances as Archie. I really wouldn't have thought he could do it, but he did. The actor who plays Wolfe did a decent job, but turned splenetic too often, didn't have quite a deep or commanding enough voice, and was not quite able to pull off Wolfe's regal dignity or sense of humor. I believe that there was only one man capable of portraying Wolfe perfectly, and I regret that it never happened: Orson Welles.

[Spirited]

I remember Ellery Queen, didn't know Hutton was his son. Kudos to Hutton. He did a fine job in the series.
Nero Wolfe is one of the few things which turned the tv on in this house.

If there is something to be done put me on list.