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'Chris Isaak Show' Granted Extended Engagement
05/02/2001 6:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
(5/2/01, 6 p.m. ET) -- The Chris Isaak Show will rock on for a second season. The behind-the-scenes look at the life of rocker Chris Isaak recently received an additional 17-episode commitment from Showtime and will continue mixing reality-based storylines and characters with comedic and fictional twists.
The series features real-life people such as Isaak, his bandmates Kenney Dale Johnson, Hershel Yatovitz, and Rowland Salley, and guest stars like Stevie Nicks, Joe Walsh, Vince Neil, and Lisa Loeb. Part of the show's intrigue is figuring out how much of the real Chris Isaak is in his television incarnation. Kristin Dattilo, the actress who plays Isaak's manager Yola, explained some of the differences and similarities between the two Isaaks to LAUNCH: "He's [the real Chris] a very smart guy. He's very intense. He's very opinionated--he's a perfectionist. He's just awesome and his character, I think, is kind of like this easygoing, passive nice guy. He's funny like he is in the show. I mean, he writes a lot of his own stuff and he's very funny. He has a great sense of humor, but he's much more intense than his character."
Isaak gave LAUNCH his own opinion on the subject. "They try to make me nicer on TV and hopefully they've made me a little bit cheaper on TV than I am, although my band says I'm cheaper in real life."
The Chris Isaak Show airs Monday nights on Showtime at 10 p.m. ET.
-- Sofia Fernandez, New York
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