Hey, we didn’t write this – not all of it anyway
The story so far:
Amazon.Com has decided to get into the online streaming TV series cuz, you know, they’ve been having a good year and want to find a new way to lose money. Professional TV production just bleeds $$$, but it appears that this most popular of shopping sites just can’t keep itself from creating more loss leaders. (Like all those Kindle variations, dig?)
This is either the most heartening story of the month, or the most depressing, depending on whether you’re the type who is inspired by the success of others who are just like you, or the kind who hates, hates, hates on those @#$!ing unworthy motherfuckers!
(You’ll never guess which of those descriptions applies to us.)
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Farewell, Reinhold Weege. Our condolences to his family.
The creator of the quirky 1980s NBC comedy series “Night Court,” who also wrote and produced for ABC’s “Barney Miller” and worked on a number of other high-profile TV shows, has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Reinhold Weege was 63.
Weege was a staff writer and producer on “Barney Miller” before he left the show to start “Night Court.” The new series went on to a nine-season run, winning seven Emmys and earning a total of 31 nominations. Reege was a part of four Emmy nominations for outstanding comedy series — one as a member of the team behind “Barney Miller” and three for “Night Court.”
Idris is back!
Word is that a new 4-episode series/season of LUTHER will be on the air on BBC sometime during the third quarter of 2013, to be followed soonish (that usually means three or four months later) in the U.S. on BBC America.
Here’s the official announcement about one of the best-written (and best-performed) cop shows evah:
…Well, this totally rocks my little world. I mean, if ever there was a touchstone, a certainty that helped anchor reality, it was my awareness that OJ Simpson killed his ex-wife and that waiter. And now the Discovery Channel is calling shenanigans?
from IndieWire Blogs
This Wednesday, November 21 at 9PM E/P, Investigation Discovery Films will premiere My Brother The Serial Killer, a feature-length documentary on serial killer Glen Rogers, whose family claims he murdered more than 70 people.
Among his many victims, the film explores claims that Rogers was responsible for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman; apparently, he bragged about all the people he killed, all over the country, including Simpson and Goldman.