Please ignore me if this has already been discussed. I don't have time to do a good look around. I've been noticing Jeremiah Chechik's credited on a couple episodes of the SyFy version of Being Human last couple weeks and I was thrilled. I used to dig his work and thought he would end up with a bigger career in the 90s than he did ultimately -- The Avengers with Connery and Thurman totally screwed him after Diabolique with Sharon Stone already had him on his knees. I liked his tastes, his imagery in other work, and I was fascinated how the director of Christmas Vacation could go from that to dark, sinister films (he was also once a fashion photographer, which also caught my eye, being a photographer myself). Anyway, I never heard of him again until this show.
SImilar thing happened last year with John Dahl when he began turning up on Dexter and many other good shows I watch, not to mention others, like Nick Gomez (who I think did some work on The Wire).
What other directors whose promise was snuffed by failure have had success with the demands of big budget cable TV? Who are we excited to see again?
