Luck may have run out with HBO, but the horse racing drama is continuing on thanks to writer John Perrotta.
As part of a blog on America's Best Racing -- a site designed to increase Thoroughbred racing events in North America -- Perrotta is contributing weekly posts detailing scenes involving some of the characters featured in Luck.
The first installment posted on Feb. 14 and featured the "Degenerates" -- the characters portrayed by Kevin Dunn, Ian Hart, Ritchie Coster and Jason Gedrick on HBO -- along with those played by the stars of the David Milch and Michael Mann drama: John Ortiz, Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Farina and more.
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Perrotta, the site says, is a veteran of the horse racing and breeding business and a jockey agent for Hall of Famer Gary Stevens (who was portrayed by Ronnie Jenkins in the drama).
The low-rated series, which also starred Nick Nolte, was canceled during production on season two following the death of the third horse on the series. Oscar winner Hoffman in January blamed TMZ and PETA for the drama's cancellation, claiming the animal rights organization spread misinformation about the treatment of the horses on the Santa Anita set.
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"It still deeply wounds me," Hoffman told Fox News. "Not for myself, not for the show, but the pain they caused 400 crew people to have. And I don’t think they lost a moment’s sleep. It’s completely distorted. Anyone who raises horses knows they break their legs. The accusations they made were distorted. Every time we’d race the horses, we’d rest them. They’d race 20 seconds, then we’d rest them for an hour."
Despite critical praise, Luck was a ratings underperformer for HBO, averaging about 625,000 total viewers per episode during its freshman run.
Check out the first installment of Luck online here.
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