Veteran film and television producer Christopher Crowe is
the creator and executive producer of SEVEN DAYS. A new one-hour
series blending science-fiction and adventure with high-impact
drama, SEVEN DAYS is produced by Crowe Entertainment in association
with Paramount Network Television. Following the special two-hour
premiere which airs on Wednesday, October 7th from 8:00 -
10:00 p.m. on UPN, this one-hour series will air on Wednesdays
at 8:00 p.m. on UPN.
SEVEN DAYS features an elite, covert military intelligence
team with the ability to allow one person to step back in
time for precisely seven days to undo catastrophic events.
Using untested equipment and with limited fuel, the "back-step"
team must attempt to rectify only the most cataclysmic events,
and the clock is always ticking.
Crowe created SEVEN DAYS when asked: "What if we had a device
that could go back to undo events, but it had a strict limitation
of seven days?" Crowe, who had been working on an unrelated
movie script about the fabled Roswell alien spacecraft and
had become steeped in the lore of Area 51, where the Roswell
craft is supposedly kept, applied his research to SEVEN DAYS.
Crowe was also drawn to the philosophical struggles inherent
in a project that enables mankind to correct terrible events
but forces those involved to make heart-wrenching choices
about which incidents to tackle. "Its appeal is that all of
us have had the impulse, that wish, that we could go back
and undo something terrible," Crowe says. "What I think is
fresh about SEVEN DAYS is that it has this seven day parameter
so that you have this constant contention as to when to travel."
Crowe has spent more than 15 years in the entertainment business
as a successful writer, producer and director for film and
television. Born in Racine, Wisconsin, his first love was
auto racing. He started as a mechanic at age 16, and became
a driver in many classes under the auspices of the Sports
Car Club of America. He went on to spend the first decade
of his adult life in the race-car business, driving Trans-Am
and dirt-oval cars. "I won a few races," Crowe says, but his
second love -- writing -- led him to script a movie, "The
Last Chase," featuring Burgess Meredith, that provided the
segue into show business.
Crowe moved to California in 1973 and worked at Universal
Television as a writer, story editor, and then producer. His
first film was "Nightmares," a quartet of horror stories.
He wrote the crime drama "The Mean Season," which starred
Kurt Russell; wrote and directed "Off Limits," starring William
Dafoe and Gregory Hines; and "Whispers in the Dark," which
featured Anthony LaPaglia, brother of Jonathan LaPaglila,
who stars in SEVEN DAYS. Crowe co-wrote, along with Michael
Mann, the hit motion picture "The Last of the Mohicans," starring
Daniel Day-Lewis. He was a writer on the thriller "Fear,"
which starred Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon, and the
upcoming "Bone Collector," starring Denzel Washington and
Angelina Jolie.
For television, Crowe was creator and executive producer
of UPN's "The Watcher," an anthology series set in Las vegas.
He was executive producer of "The Untouchables," a syndicated
series recreating the Chicago conflict of Elliot Ness and
Al Capone. His earlier credits include "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
as executive producer; the landmark series "Miami Vice" as
a director; and "Streets of Justice," as creator, director
and executive producer.
Crowe also recently released a CD titled, "Crowe," on which
he reads his own poetry underscored by blues-influenced music
written by composer Joel Goldsmith.
Crowe lives in Los Angeles. He never misses an auto race
on TV.
SEVEN DAYS is a Crowe Entertainment production in association
with Paramount Network Television and is filmed on location
in and around Los Angeles. The Paramount Television Group
is part of the entertainment operations of Viacom Inc.