Crisis in Six Scenes Trivia | 25 facts about the series

«Crisis in Six Scenes» is an American television miniseries written and directed by Woody Allen for Amazon Studios.

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1. Crisis in Six Scenes is an American television miniseries.
2. It was written and directed by Woody Allen for Amazon Studios.
3. Woody Allen wrote and directed six episodes for the half-hour series.
4. This was the first time he has done so for television.
5. It is available exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.
6. The series premiered on September 30, 2016.
7. It gained generally unfavorable reviews.
8. Woody Allen himself denounced the series.
9. He called it a “cosmic embarrassment”.
10. Woody Allen also stated that it would conclude with one season.
11. The deal with Woody Allen was seen as giving Amazon a possible advantage in its competition with Netflix and television networks.
12. The series was announced within days of Amazon winning the Golden Globe Award for the comedy-drama Transparent, another original series.
13. Woody Allen had last written new material for television in the 1950s, when he wrote for Siddy Ceasar.
14. In a May 2015 interview, Allen said that progress on the series had been “very, very difficult” and that he had “regretted every second since I said OK”.
15. Woody Allen has said of the series, “I don’t know how I got into this. I have no ideas and I’m not sure where to begin. My guess is that Roy Price [the head of Amazon Studios] will regret this.”
16. For about three weeks in early 2016, filming for the six episodes took place at 508 Scarborough Road, in Briarcliff Manor, New York.
17. Woody Allen and Elaine May previously starred together in Small Time Crooks (2000).
18. This is May’s first acting role since that film.
19. This was Elaine May’s first television acting role since The DuPont Show of the Month: The Red Mill (1958) 58 years earlier.
20. Woody Allen (Sidney J. Munsinger) and Elaine May (Kay Munsinger) are the only actors to appear in all six episodes of the series.
21. This is the second time an Amazon series has had a director who typically concentrates on the big screen.
22. The first was Ridley Scott who produced ‘The Man In The High Castle’.
23. In January 2016, it was announced that the series would star Allen, Elaine May and Miley Cyrus, and that shooting would begin in March.
24. In February 2016, it was announced that John Magaro and Rachel Brosnahan had joined the cast.
25. In March 2016, Michael Rapaport, Becky Ann Baker, Margaret Ladd, Joy Behar, Rebecca Schull, David Harbour and Christine Ebersole had joined the cast of the series.