We like this article because it pays attention to the rest of the writing staff Clyde’s brought in. Oh, and also because Clyde looks so much like TVWriter™ pal Stan Berkowitz, another formidable slinger of words. (Maybe that’s why Stan and Clyde are such good friends?) But we digress…
Clyde Phillips Inks New Deal With Lionsgate TV, Talks About Rebooting ‘Nurse Jackie’ – by Nellie Andreeva
Not munchman, Munch. John Munch, played by Richard Belzer. We thought he was just another TV cop. Turns out he’s the glue that holds the entire television world together. For reals:
From TVTropes.Org:
Danny Boyle’s ‘The Beach’ Being Developed as a TV Drama at Fox – by Allison Willmore
The 2000 Leonardo DiCaprio film “The Beach” may be considered one of the lesser entries in Danny Boyle’s filmography, but does it have the makings of a decent television show?
Fox seems to think so — Deadline is reporting that the network has signed on to develop a TV series based on the movie and the 1996 book written by Alex Garland from which it was adapted (Garland also scripted Boyle’s 2007 sci-fi drama “Sunshine”).
Time to stop being so serious. I want to mention something that even the most jaded adult secretly loves: cartoons. Not just Adult Swim either, where you can feel hip and ironic about watching cartoons with swearing and violence. No, I want to talk about cartoons actually meant for kids. Specifically, I want to talk about “Phineas and Ferb.”
This show is so strange, so creative, and so damn cool that I can hardly stand it. And it’s on the Disney Channel, not usually a hotbed of actual goodness. (Though I was also fond of “Kim Possible.”) Hard core cartoon fans remember the 1990’s Warner Brothers TV shows, from “Tiny Toons” to the immortal “Pinky and the Brain.” I haven’t heard anyone raving about anything on the Disney Channel.
Writers making money! Writers making movies! Writers making demands!
Now that’s what we call a sacred Trinity!
Paramount Re-Ups Fake Empire’s Josh Schwartz And Stephanie Savage – by Mike Fleming