Earlier today I posted a casting call from Central Casting Georgia; wondering why they're particular looking for Hawaiian-looking Extras. Peter Lenkov has been speaking about a possible crossover with Hawaii Five-0 for quite some time, after all. It's just been confirmed that the crossover episode will air on March 10: http://tvline.com/2017/02/03/hawaii-five-0...kim-grace-park/

The worlds of MacGyver and Hawaii Five-0 will collide when Daniel Dae Kim, Grace Park and Taylor Wily — who play Chin Ho, Kono and Kamekona on the long-running latter drama — guest-star on the Friday, March 10 episode of the CBS freshman, it was confirmed on Friday. Lucas Till hinted at the crossover with this tweeted photo of Wily on the MacGyver set.

In the MacGyver episode, titled “Flashlight,” Mac and the team travel to the big Island of Hawaii to aid in earthquake-relief efforts. There, Mac and Jack team with Chin Ho and Kono to rescue a group of government scientists trapped in a building on the verge of collapse. But as they do so, a dangerous group using the chaos as a distraction aim to steal some top-secret weaponry that the scientists were working on.
“This crossover has almost seemed inevitable since the day MacGyver premiered,” Lenkov, who serves as showrunner on both Friday series, said in a statement. “We have always envisioned that our H50 ohana and the Phoenix team live in the same universe, and it was about time that Mac and Jack had a case in Hawaii.”
For those keeping score, this means, by the transitive property, that MacGyver exists in the same universe as NCIS (and JAG, for that matter), seeing as Five-0 and NCIS: Los Angeles crossed over years ago. (Scorpion also falls within the shared universe, given LA boss Hetty’s October 2014 visit.)

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More Info from Entertainment Weekly: http://ew.com/tv/2017/02/03/hawaii-five-0-...yver-crossover/

EW has confirmed that the two CBS dramas will cross over in the March 10 episode of MacGyver, which will feature Hawaii Five-0 stars Daniel Dae Kim, Grace Park, and Taylor Wiley.

Production on the episode, which will be shot in both Oahu and Atlanta, has begun. The news first leaked when MacGyver star Lucas Till shared a photo on Twitter.

Per CBS, here’s what’s in store: Mac and the team travel to the big Island of Hawaii to aid in earthquake-relief efforts. When there, Mac and Jack (George Eads) team with Chin Ho Kelly and Kono Kalakaua from the Five-0 Task Force to rescue a group of government scientists trapped in a building on the verge of collapse. However, as they work on the complicated rescue, a dangerous group using the earthquake chaos as a distraction aim to steal the top-secret weaponry the scientists were working on.

“This crossover has almost seemed inevitable since the day MacGyver premiered,” says Peter Lenkov, executive producer on both MacGyver and Hawaii Five-0. “We have always envisioned that our H50 ohana and the Phoenix team live in the same universe and it was about time that Mac and Jack had a case in Hawaii.”

The idea for a crossover between the two CBS procedurals has been brewing for quite a while. Back at San Diego’s Comic-Con International, Lenkov told EW he was hoping they’d eventually do it, even revealing they planted a seed in the pilot that they’d “take advantage of that could lead to a crossover.”


In November, Lenkov told EW that the two shows were actively trying to work out the logistics. “On Five-0, we’re in season 7,” he said. “All the actors have these crazy schedules where not everybody works every day, so the logistics of getting the people we need to get in those scenes is just becoming very difficult, so we’re trying to do it. It’s just a matter of when.”

Anyone else think the description of this crossover episode sounds remarkably similar to the original series pilot episode?

I haven't thought about that before, but you're right.

When the news hit online, several H5-0 fans joked about if they're actually trying to pass off Atlanta as Hawaii. Since the usual Georgia-based casting agency is handling the casting and looking for Atlanta-based Extras, it just seems they will.

So it makes sense having a storyline like that - they can film everything indoors and put in some footage from Hawaii. They don't need to ship all the actors off to Atlanta (unless they send some of the main cast, but that would be probably too time-consuming). I think that's a missed opportunity though; would have been fun to have a tropical setting.

Meh...

Now if it were a Supernatural crossover, then we'd be talkin'...

Not a fan of this concept. Especially so with MacGyver. The beauty of (the original) MacGyver was the uniqueness of the compelling world they created. It was one that you felt comfortable stepping into any time and yet had an air, ambience to it that was totally different to anything else. It was a fictional yet 'finite' place. Imo opinion and to merge/blend series' as such is to further demystify, dilute, & degrade it.

Lenkov is about as predictable as reading tea leaves. We all knew it was going to happen but it matters little to me since this reboot matters even less

It's most likely to help promote MacGyver 2.0 and get the H-50 fans to give it a go.

Predicable sure, but a smart move.

I would have loved to see an original Knight Rider/MacGyver crossover. Weren't RDA and David Hasselhoff friends or something like that? That would have been a hoot... lol

That was my first thought when I read it. The difference is that there are villains in this one, and I don't think there were in the original pilot, were there? I can't really remember exactly, but I thought it was basically Mac against the undergound lab (which happened again in The Human Factor.)

Before this reboot started, I remember Lenkov saying that one of the things he liked about the original series is that there weren't always "bad guys", sometimes it was just Mac struggling to survive in whatever environent he was in. I think he reference Trumbo's World as an example. But so far, we've seen nothing like that at all in this reboot, so it's odd that he mentioned that as something he liked.

As for crossing over with Hawaii 5-0, honestly, I think Hawaii 5-0 is a higher quality show than MacGyver. Hopefully the cross-over will elevate MacGyver to H50's level, rather than bringing down H50 down to MacGyver's level.

I preferred a MacGyver/Magnum crossover because they are opposites. Mac's neat and tidy, Magnum is sloppy and messy.

I still think a MacGyver / Jack Bauer cross-over would be interesting, except Jack would probably lose patience with Mac's "nice guy" approach very quickly (I could see him shouting in Mac's face: "THERE IS A BOMB ABOUT TO GO OFF WITHIN THE HOUR! WE DO NOT HAVE TIME TO PLAY WITH PAPERCLIPS, DAMMIT! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!!!")
And Mac, on the other hand, would quickly lose patience with Jack shooting people in the kneecaps to get information out of them.

I would pay good money to watch MacGyver one up Jack Bauer. I can't stand that show, and Kiefer Sutherland is the reason.

I want to punch that man in the face any time I see him.

As much as I enjoy MacGyver as a guilty pleasure, I think 24 was higher quality show, and Kiefer was a huge part of what made it work. But, as they say, different strokes.....

Its Marvel's fault. We live in a shared universe nowadays.

|Universals doing it with its shared universe monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy), TV shows are doing it. I know its been done before for ages but its just more frequent now.

I've seen Jack killing people for less, Jedi. You better watch out. And if you have seen everything, i think it was in season 7 he sort of admits, he doesn't like doing what he does but that he has to because nobody else is doing it. And the producers themselves admitted that what happens in 24 is greatly exaggerated and that torture is never the solution.

Now it has a new hero for the tenth season.

What shared universes is concerned... it is indeed of all ages. Universal started it, I guess with their movie monsters but also with their shows. Tom Selleck played two guest roles in other shows as Thomas Magnum. Once for Simon and Simon and once for Murder She Wrote. Jessica Fletcher appeared as a guest star in Magnum. And also Callista Flockhart appeared as Ally McBeal in an episode in the Practice before she got her own show(s). Her first show was Ally and later became Ally McBeal. And there's plenty of others: Jason vs. Freddy, Alien vs. Predator... you name it.

The idea behind shared universes is very interesting. Ever since the new Planet of the Apes movies, I can't help but think what if they would just make a movie in which men and ape are fighting out their war for the planet and than the machines rise and men and ape have to set their differences aside to fight together to defeat the terminators and than they stumble on a large breeding ground covered with thousands of alien eggs. Now how would an alien look like if it uses an ape as a host? And with the earth destroyed and hordes of aliens it would be the perfect hunting ground for the Predator, don't you think? Planet of the Apes vs. Terminator vs. Aliens vs. Predator.

You know there is even a theory that Kevin McCallister from Home Alone might be the actual Jigsaw Killer from Saw. Home Alone/Saw crossover?

And as matter of fact even the original MacGyver has his own crossover. The Coltons episode. If that show was picked up who knows if RDA made more appearances as Mac.

Do any of you actually know Tommy Westphall from St. Elsewhere? There is a theory that all the shows we know takes place in Tommy's mind one way or another. So in other words everything is a crossover set in a snowglobe.

https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com/about/
Here you can find what it's all about and how they make the connections. Directly and indirectly. They have now 441 television series connected to Tommy Westphall's mind. (Our) MacGyver is not one of them but Hawaii Five-O is as well as the original as the reboot. So it might be possible that the MacGyver reboot might become part of the Tommy Westphall Universe. Whether or not it's part of some kid's mind, (maybe it's better it's not) I think the idea is interesting. All the fictional universes connected one way or another. Maybe not all of them, some would stand just on his own, as MacGyver is.

Of course there are some objections why we shouldn't have to agree according to this site.
http://tar.weatherson.org/2004/10/04/six-o...all-hypothesis/

Because (our) MacGyver is not on the list, I also used this as a motivation to create the timeline and to find connections with other fictional universes. And as a matter of fact I did find one. It might be a little far fetched but to me it's reason enough. I am willing to believe that MacGyver and the Halloween franchise share the same universe because Penny Parker was born on October 31 1963 which is the day 6-year old Michael Meyers killed his older sister with a kitchen knife in the movie. To me that date is the connection. Coincidence? Maybe. Reason enough? Don't know but this is just as an example.

I know it's a little mindbending. Ones are looking for the least connection while others claims it's not necessarily so. As in the objections is said. It's not because a certain character shows up in two different shows it means the two shows are set in the same fictional universe. Well actually to me when it happens it does. But this might become a little much to comprehend right now. There are plenty of reasons to why thing may or may not be. At this point I'm more willing to search for connections the way I did than to find ways to disprove them. If for example MacGyver shows up in two different shows than they share that same universe, period.

I've seen Jack killing people for less, Jedi. You better watch out. And if you have seen everything, i think it was in season 7 he sort of admits, he doesn't like doing what he does but that he has to because nobody else is doing it. And the producers themselves admitted that what happens in 24 is greatly exaggerated and that torture is never the solution.

Jack Bauer can bring it... XD

I have four guy friends that can take him, and they're very protective of me. I fear no man...

It's more or less an attitude thing. I dislike the ACTORS more than their roles. Because I don't like him, it automatically makes me dislike their show. I'm the same way with Tom Cruise... can't stand the guy. I wish I was able to look past their personalities, but I can't.

Generally, if I need an action movie, I'll watch something with Jason Statham or Cynthia Rothrock. I have more respect for people with actual skills than acting ability.

For instance, RDA may not be the world's greatest actor, but that's okay because he's genuinely a nice guy and I can respect that.

It's how I roll... XD

In this Interview at aTVfest (starting at Minute 19), they talk about filming the crossover episode. Well, they don't talk much about it, because they can't . But it looks like Lucas and George actually flew to Hawaii this week to film some scenes, so that's pretty cool.

http://www.fanbolt.com/83071/atlas-podcast-episode-45/

They also give a shoutout to RDA, stating they don't know how he managed that workload since they are an ensemble cast like most other TV shows and are already exhausted.

That's where i am different. For me acting is acting and real life is real life. I couldn't care less what they do in real life and yet never let it distract me from what they do on screen. Like Cruise. I know he's a can of worms in real life but when he's on screen, he's awesome IMO. Quite possibly why i enjoy his Mission Impossible series despite them making Jim Phelps the villain in this series.