America Does Indeed Have Talent
We have a talent for making two great tastes taste great together!
films . videos . television
A couple of years ago, Scrubs scribe Bill Lawrence created a show called Nobody's Watching. It was the story of two guys, best friends united by their mutual love of sitcoms. Lamenting the sad state of sitcoms today, they decide to create their own and move to California to do so. They end up with a development deal with the WB and the show was supposed to chronicle their ups and downs of putting together the best sitcom ever.
I was going to call this one Arrested Development news, but I thought might give many false hope that the show had been revived.
This news should make fellow B5 junkee, Kat Coble extremely happy.
So I thought about it, and I suggested a bunch of short films. Little mini-movies or an anthology show set in the Babylon 5 universe. I pick a character and develop an hour-long story around that character. Stories that I wanted to tell during the B5 series but never had the chance to develop. They said, Okay. I said I wanted complete creative control. Do not change my words that I write, and I want that in writing. They said, Okay. And I want to direct. They said, Okay.
This project was green lit less than two weeks ago. Its going to happen. Production starts in September in Vancouver, Canada. Post-production will occur from October to February with a release of the first three anthologies in the second quarter of 2007.
Also, reading the article, JMS is apparently suddenly a big commodity in Hollywood again. He's got a lot on his plate from the new B5 to writing for Marvel's flagship The Amazing Spider-Man to a new script that is to be directed by Ron Howard.
Gateworld is reporting this morning that SciFi is considering running the entire season of Battlestar Galactica (which kicks off again October 6) in one, long 20 episode block. Last year, the series ran in two blocks of 10 epiosdes each with a mid-season cliffhanger.
SPOILERS within! You have been warned!
As the Joker in the Batman Begins sequel?!?
Movie critic Joel Siegel was at a critic's screening for Kevin Smith's highly anticipated (at least by me) Clerk's 2.
Starting Aug 5, Netflix subscribers can check-out a DVD containing the pilots of two highly anticipated NBC series as part of their subscription service. The DVD will contain the full pilots for Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Kidnapped, as well as previews and teasers for the rest of NBC's new fall line-up.
Last Saturday morning, I stupidly left the television on Channel 5 for a couple of hours. The combination of Dora the Explorer, Blues Clues and whatever other cloying garbage passes for children's entertainment these days made my brain scream for the sweet embrace of death.
No, Joss Whedon isn't reviving his classic TV series for the small screen (if he were, I'd barely be able to type with my excitement...).
TV Guide's Michael Ausiello is at the fall press tour (along with a lot of other media type people) and is posting reports in his blog at TV Guide On-Line.
Reading USA Today's coverage of the CBS press-junket for the fall season, I came across this interesting tid-bit of how some of CBS's line-up will be marketed this fall...
In the latest marketing gimmick to promote fall shows, CBS has scrambled together "egg-vertising," ads that will be laser-printed onto fresh eggs sold in supermarkets. Individual eggs will be inscribed with such slogans as "CBS Mondays: Leave the yolks to us" and "CSI: Crack the case on CBS," which will appear alongside expiration dates and "traceability codes" for the ovoid edibles.Advertising and marketing is becoming more and more pervasive.
Mark you calendars....season three of Battlestar Galactica starts Friday, October 6 at 9 p.m. CST. according to the Unofficial Battlestar Galactica blog, which got its info from the Futon Critic.
Last week, the Emmy nominations were announced and TV fans everywhere let out a collective "What the heck?" and "Why wasn't ________ nominated?"
The first two webisodes for The Office are on-line. It's a running story about the accountants at Dunder Mifflin trying to find a $3000 discrpency in the books.
GameShow Network is doing a countdown of the greatest game shows of all-time.
So, the nominations for the Emmy awards are out and all I can say is--this new system isn't working. Here they are:
Rose Tyler leaves the TARDIS this weekend when Doctor Who's twenty-eighth season (second season of the new series) comes to a close.