Category: News

munchman’s Laugh of the Day

Serious bizness, yah. But I can’t help it. This strikes me as, um, well, erm funny:

1 picture is worth a million words of complaint (The violence definitely isn’t funny. The official reaction to it, OTOH…)

Showtime’s ‘Homeland’ Receives Threat of Legal Action From Government of Lebanon – by Team TVWriter Press Service (via UK Telegraph)

The award-winning Showtime drama “Homeland” has received a legal threat from Lebanon, with the country’s minister of tourism expressing outrage at Beirut’s portrayal by the show as a city filled with terrorists, reports the U.K.’s Telegraph.

The story was reported before Beirut was rocked Friday by a deadly car bombing. read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 10/19/12

“Luv me, luv me, say that you love me…” (preferably w/dollars, not flowers)
  •  Aseem Batra (ANIMAL PRACTICE, SCRUBS) is writing the pilot for an NBC sitcom based on the life of reality star Rachel Zoe, who, of course, will produce (because the dullest known quantity is more interesting to NBC than the most exciting fresh idea).
  • Annie Hendy (THE CATHOLIC GIRL’S GUIDE TO LOSING YOUR VIRGINITY) is writing the pilot for THE GEORGE CLOONEY MANIFESTO, a Fox sitcom about a young woman who tries to live her life to the fullest after being unlucky at love (because George Clooney’s name can sell even the oldest, tritest concept…as we’re seeing right now).
  • Kayli Stollak (creator of the blog GrannyIsMyWingman.Com) & Donald Todd (SAMANTHA WHO?) are writing the pilot for a CBS sitcom based on Stollak’s blog (because the most inane semi-known quantity is more exciting to CBS than the freshest unknown concept).
  • David Rosen (I JUST WANT MY PANTS BACK) is writing the pilot for GAVIN & STACY, Fox’s version of the BBC sitcom of the same name (because even a cancelled BBC series is more attractive to Fox than something nobody else has bought yet).

Congratulations, kids. (Um, can you e-mail us later about how to get in touch with you in time for staffing?)

Warner Brothers is Still Trying to Screw Superman’s Family

Warner Brothers has been fighting tooth and nail against a court-ordered award requiring them to pay the family of the late Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman for their use of the character after 50% of the rights reverted to the Siegels. Here, thanks to Deadline.Com, is the latest update, from Laura Siegel Larson, Siegel’s daughter:

October 11, 2012 read article

munchman: NBC Pulls ANIMAL PRACTICE Off the Air

…Just when I was almost psyched up enough to make myself watch an episode.

Yep, NBC has cancelled the show without calling it a cancellation because network executives are, you know, cowardly bags of brainless shit rotting vegetation. Taking its time slot will be WHITNEY, as of November 14th when it premieres for its second season.

Till that date, NBC will play off a few more ANIMAL PRACTICE eps so anybody who hasn’t already flooded on Crystal the monkey can still do so. read article

BET Co-Founder: “…we squandered a really important cable network….”

Aw, she’s just saying this because she can:

(Caution: Major Boldface type follows. Not our fault:)

BET Co-Founder Sheila Johnson Goes Off On The Network…Again – by Sergio (IndieWire)

She’s done it before and now she’s done it again. That is, BET co-founder Sheila Johnson criticizing the very network that she created with her former husband, Bob Johnson. read article