Sean Carrigan and Corrine Van Ryck de Groot are Next Action Star winners
NBC's reality experiment to cast the leads for a made for TV action film didn't work out all that well. In fact, the network wound up pulling the pull on the second to last episode of the series to get it over with sooner. Ouch. The male winner was Sean Carrigan, and quite honestly I had him tabbed from the first week. He looks like Green Bay Packer quarterback Brett Favre's long lost brother and has plenty of edge. He was a cut above Jared and the rest of the pretenders.The female side was much weaker. Melisande was clearly the best looking, but Corrine VRdG (that's the last name I give her) was much more physically capable. She had enough acting skill to pull it off, eventually beating out Jeanne in the finals.
Now they get to star in Bet Your Life with Billy Zane, which will air this Wednesday. Whether or not they, or any of the others who appeared on the show have any sort of careers is uncertain, but don't expect NAS2. However, a similar show for mainstream actors might not be so bad. I think the show would have fared better in the ratings if the spicy Viviana hadn't voluntarily left.
Subtlety is not one of my strengths