Blood & Oil
| Blood & Oil | |
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| Genre | Soap opera |
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| Composer(s) | Mark Isham |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 (list of episodes) |
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| Producer(s) | Louis G. Friedman Drew Comins |
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Shelly Johnson John Aronson |
| Editor(s) | Casey Brown |
| Running time | 43 minutes |
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| Distributor | Disney–ABC Domestic Television |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format | |
| Original release | September 27 – December 13, 2015 |
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Blood & Oil is an American prime time television soap opera created by Josh Pate and Rodes Fishburne, that premiered on ABC September 27, 2015. The series follows a young couple that moves to fictitious Rock Springs, North Dakota, after the biggest oil discovery in American history.
The series features an ensemble cast headed by Don Johnson as oil tycoon Harlan "Hap" Briggs. Blood & Oil also stars Amber Valletta as his catty socialite wife, Carla; Scott Michael Foster as his villainous son Wick; and Miranda Rae Mayo as his illegitimate biracial daughter Lacey who has an affair with Hap's personal driver, AJ Menendez (Adan Canto), who leads a triple life. Chace Crawford and Rebecca Rittenhouse play young couple Billy and Cody LeFever, while India de Beaufort plays bar owner/loan shark Jules Jackman, and Delroy Lindo plays a sly sheriff, Tip Harrison.
The original order of 13 episodes was reduced to 10 on October 23, 2015.
The project was written by Josh Pate and Rodes Fishburne, with Tony Krantz as executive producer. In September 2011, ABC bought the script (then titled The Bakken) along with several other projects by Krantz, but did not order a pilot for the 2012–13 television season. In October 2014, the project moved to the USA Network under the title Boom and would be produced by ABC, but was never filmed.
On January 30, 2015, it was announced that the project had returned to ABC and had been picked up as pilot, which was filmed in Northern Utah and was directed by Jonas Pate. On May 7, 2015, ABC picked up the pilot to series (still untitled). By May 27, 2015, the title was Oil. On June 1, 2015, it was reported that Cynthia Cidre had been hired as executive producer and co-showrunner of the project, now titled Blood & Oil. On August 5, 2015, it was announced that Cidre would be replaced by Jon Harmon Feldman as showrunner, after the production ran into problems due "to its big scope".
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