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munchman: ABC Gives McG Pilot Commitment for…”Romeo and Juliet?”
That’s a lot of initials, all adding up to another set of letters: WTF?
For reasons I can’t for the life of me fathom, ABC today announced a deal with The Feature Film Director Who Pretentiously Calls Himself McG. (A name that might be kinda cool if he was African-American, but since he isn’t…)
The genius behind the film re-doodoos of CHARLIE’S ANGELS is producing a primetime soap based on either Shakespeare’s play or Leo DiCapria’s film or something. According to TVBizWire this time around we have two families in Southern California’s Venice Beach, one “well-off, the other struggling.”
Why is DOCTOR WHO So Good? ITWS!
“It’s the writing, stupid!”
Today we got word – from our P.R. friends at the BBC – that Jack Lothian is writing an episode of the Good Doctor’s Adventures. Lothian has written for such U.K. shows as SINBAD, BEAVER FALLS, SPOOKS, DOC MARTIN, and the Boss’s personal favorite, ASHES TO ASHES, so you know he’s one of the best.
Inspired by this bit of inspired writing casting, we looked around for info on more DOCTOR WHO writers and found a pretty good rundown by alex on a blog with this also, to us, inspirational name: A Beginners Guide to Free to Air TV.
If DOCTOR WHO Were Made in the U.S.A.
…By Dan Harmon and the COMMUNITY gang. (Should that be “former COMMUNITY gang?” We won’t know till we see what the new showrunners come up with, will we?)
It’s show within a show, see? On COMMUNITY. Or as, ~tinderbox210, the creator of this poster puts it:
This is my newest obsession – a sadly very underrated comedy tv series called COMMUNITY. Those who know the show have probably fallen just as fast as for it as i did, those who don’t – shame on you
STRIKE BACK Returns to Cinemax This Month
…And we never knew it existed. Or, for that matter, that Cinemax had, like, its own series. Where have we %#@!en been?
Here’s what Cinemax.Com has to say about the show: