by Robin Reed
Well, they didn’t tell me. I am the target audience for any show with a science fiction, fantasy, or horror premise. I will watch anything in those genres. And Stephen King – I have two shelves devoted to his books. I haven’t caught up with “The Colorado Kid” yet, a short novel of Mr. King’s from a few years ago, but if I had heard a hint of a TV show being made that was based on it, I would have been there to check it out.
‘Mad Men’ Writer-Producer Sells Medical Drama to CBS – by Lacey Rose (Hollywood Reporter)
Dahvi Waller’s 20th TV doctor drama, “Guinea Pigs,” centers on a group of trailblazing doctors who run clinical trials in a Philadelphia hospital.
Mad Men’sDahvi Waller is heading back to broadcast.
…Which we love because the series is created/produced by Alan Spencer, whom we would swear is the reincarnation of Mel Brooks except that Mel Brooks is still incarnate. (Actually, Alan is cooler than Mel Brooks, but let’s get back to Eddie:)
Eddie Izzard Talks Snow Globes, Sex with Trees and Finding the Truth in His Outlandish Villain in IFC’s New Miniseries “Bullet in the Face” – by Danny Bowes
…Unless you consider the web to already be Big Time, which, btw, we do.
Fox Buys Comedy Based On ‘Couple Time’ Web Series With Ellen DeGeneres Producing – by Nellie Andreeva (Deadline.Com)
Allyn Rachel & Patrick Carlyle’s digital series Couple Time is headed to television with Ellen DeGeneres executive producing. Fox has bought Couple Time, a single-camera comedy project based on Rachel and Carlyle’s series of vignettes (watch sample below) that the two say explore “weird stuff couples do when no one else is around!” (That is the PG/R-rated silly stuff couples talk about, not the XXX stuff they sometimes do when alone!)
…What? You didn’t know I had pals? Well, maybe I won’t after this. But I gotta be honest, you know?
NECESSARY ROUGHNESS
So many jocks. So little game.
THE FIRM
So many gambits. So little result.
