The Pilot:
Charlie Sheen on downers? Not pretty, kids. Downright ugh.
Episode 2:
Less reverence, more assholery. Much better.
Author: munchman
Because We Love Good News About Writers
Written by Nellie Andreeva and culled from Deadline.Com by our ever-vigilant Not-A-Bot:
‘Bones’ Exec Producer Stephen Nathan Signs New Overall Deal With 20th TV
Stephen Nathan, Bones‘ executive producer and creator/exec producer Hart Hanson’s right-hand man, has signed a new overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV, the studio behind the long-running Fox dramedy. The two-year pact (with an option for a third) keeps Nathan onBones as the second-in-command to showrunner Hanson. Additionally, Nathan will have the ability to develop new projects for the studio.
munchman: Anyone Remember Bob Cringely?
What feels like centuries ago, the Robert X. Cringely byline went with a couple of books/films and many columns in an otherwise obscure IT weekly whose name we forget. Cringely was kind of famous, even though he wasn’t real and was “played” by several different writers, the best of whom spent much more time talking about Cringely’s supposed relationship with a hot young babe (fun!) than about IT (not fun).
Somewhere along the line there was an intellectual property war over the byline, and the winner has a sometimes interesting blog that we sometimes get something interesting out of. Case in point:
Why YouTube isn’t the future of TV
by Robert X. Cringely
In a few weeks I’ll be launching a YouTube channel where you’ll be able to see lots of shows readers have been asking about including Startup America and even that lost second season of NerdTV. YouTube, as the largest video streaming service anywhere, is the absolute best place for me. But YouTube isn’t the future of TV.
The Rapture Comes to HBO
No, silly, not that kind of rapture. We’re talking the Big One, not what the French refer to as the Little Death.
Damon Lindelof returns to TV to film the Rapture for HBO
by Meredith Woerner
Damon Lindelof is getting back to his television roots with Tom Perotta’s The Leftovers, a supremely wild novel about what happens to those left behind after the Rapture. The two are currently in talks to adapt this book for an HBO series.
It’s the Hulk! On the Toilet! What Else Do You Need?
Destined to be the biggest viral video of the century, if it isn’t already:
Huh? Oh, you want the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Tp6beYfqm18