The Point Radio: Why GRIMM Works For NBC

  One of the most enjoyable successful stories on TV this season has been NBC’s GRIMM. Despite a Friday night time slot, the show has grown to the point where the network has rewarded it with another full season in 2013-14. Star David Giuntoli talks about what it feels like to be on top and how it all has worked. Plus what books are flying out of the book stores these days, who will be The Black Panther on the big screen and how Charlie McCarthy is getting a biopic. Take us ANYWHERE! The Point Radio App is now in the iTunes App store – and it’s FREE! Just search under “pop culture The Point”. The Point Radio  – 24 hours a day of pop culture fun for FREE. GO HERE and LISTEN FREE on any computer or on any other  mobile device with the Tune In Radio app – and follow us on Twitter @ThePointRadio.

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Hello, it's Mike Raub and welcome to The Point where all parts of pop culture come together. In a season that had a lot of failures, Grim is a success story for NBC and for the fantasy genre as well. I talked to start David Gee and told me about what lies ahead for this year and the upcoming third season.

Plus, what's flying off the shelves in the bookstores, who is going to be the black panther? Let's get to The Point. This is The Point, The Point Radio. Get The Point, Radio. In a season with not too many success stories for the network, NBC can proudly point to

Grim. Now, winding up its second season and already renewed for a 22 episode third run on the network, I sat down with series star David Gee and told me to talk about the show and where things are going for the rest of this year and in the future. One of the things we talked about was the fact that the role on the show gives him a

chance to play a variety of genres from action to comedy. And how does he like that? Well, I do appreciate the variety. So, I will say it is a dark show and I really love when we get a squeeze in some more comedic elements.

Every now and then we'll have a more comedic episode, one of which would have aired maybe three weeks ago. We had a Ziga-Vulk lawyer charming the entire jury and Rosalie was on the jury and Sergeant Wu was testifying and he changed his testimony. There are a lot of many great cases in that.

So I'd say the comedy is something I like squeezing in there. Without spoiling anything for those of you that are catching up, there's been a lot of changes to the show over this season. Is any of that really shock David? That's a good question.

It does not surprise, nothing really surprises me on Grim. Our writers are not afraid to go anywhere. So nothing really surprises me. I want to speak especially through the relationship between the captain and Nick. I wanted to make sure that even though we are working together, I'm not too easy with

him. I wouldn't call it a friendship. I wouldn't call it pals. We wouldn't go out and meet together. I think we more or less have a common enemy.

I also like to think when I'm working with the captain, I always think about that picture from World War II where Stalin and FDR were sitting next to each other with Churchill. You're like, how did Stalin get there? But they just had a common enemy. So we're working tentatively together.

He did, after all, try to kill my end. So as far as Juliet goes, I think we're going to be seeing us patching things up, turning things around a bit. And I'm sure that in grim fashion they'll find some way to make that as difficult as humanly possible.

So with an odd season run that began last August and even a couple of changes on the schedule, how's this show become so successful? Successful television show is a mystery, how to make it, but there have to be certain components. We have writers and creators who are seasoned and excited, and that's a really great combination. They know what they're doing.

They have found the sweet spot. David Greenwald has this gallows humor about him, as does Jim Calve, our two main writers, executive producers. They balance this story well with a lot of darkness and a little bit of levity, and there's some very lovable characters.

And that's what it takes. They just know their stuff. I asked David if he could talk about anything coming up the rest of this year or in season three. I have not received any nuggets of what's to come as far as supernatural powers.

At the end of season one, I did get some info that they wanted me to turn me more into a hero with supernatural abilities, but I did not ask what they were, and I just kind of found out a month before the viewer did. I would imagine going forward, we're going to revisit some of what we kind of teased with my superhuman hearing and ability to fight fruit with it back.

I've got more with David Gian