Cookies.
In a galaxy far, far away, I purchased the Han Solo in Carbonite ice cube tray from Think Geek. I knew that I wanted to use it to mold chocolate. But I wanted more than a chocolate bar. And by harnessing the power of the dark side, I added a sugar cookie layer.
…Only of course they had to change the name because the original name might mean something to a potential viewer, and that would ruin the fun of failing. Yipes!
BBC America Joins British ‘Musketeers’ Series – by Michael O’Connell
BBC One’s previously announced The Musketeers has gotten a new production partner in BBC America.
The stateside cable sibling will co-produce the 10-episode drama inspired by Alexandre Dumas‘ classic novel, The Three Musketeers. Adrian Hodges, the My Week With Marilyn writer who’s TV work includes British series Survivors and Primeval, is penning the venture, currently slated for a 2013 debut.
We haven’t been this excited about a show since, oh, SUPER TRAIN. (Mom made us watch from the womb.)
Fox Buys Aircraft Carrier Drama From Writers Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner – by Nellie Andreeva
Longtime House executive producers Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner are back at Fox with a new project. The network has handed out a script commitment with penalty to an untitled ensemble drama written and executive produced by Friend and Lerner. Set at a naval aircraft carrier, the project has an upstairs/downstairs dynamic: the “downstairs” is filled with 18-20-year-olds, their coming-of-age stories heightened by the life and death nature of their everyday jobs; the “upstairs” is anchored by a female fighter pilot and her season long quest to solve a murder that occurs on board…
Lerner and Friend joined House at the beginning of season 2 as co-executive producers and were upped to executive producers at the end of Season 3. They stayed with the show until the end of its eight-season run in May.
Another day, another deal. We’re thinking NBC did Dan a favor:
COMMUNITY’s Dan Harmon Also Signs TV Deal with CBS – by Adam Chitwood
Following his very public ousting from the showrunner position at NBC’s Community, fans were eager to know where Dan Harmon’s inevitable new series would pop up. As the key creative force behind the brilliance of Community, Harmon fielded interest from a number of networks. It appeared as though we had our answer when news broke last week that Harmon was nearing a deal with Fox for a new multi-camera comedy series, but now word comes that Harmon is alsopenning a project for CBS.
The 6 Most Important Sci-Fi Ideas (Were Invented by a Hack) – by Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells is credited as one of the most influential science fiction books ever written, having introduced ideas like super-advanced aliens coming to Earth and said aliens hating the shit out of us and trying to wipe us out. Even though it was published as a novel all the way back in 1898, it’s seen as the blueprint for every alien invasion blockbuster released more than a century later. This article isn’t about that book.
In the same year, a writer named Garrett P. Serviss crapped out an unauthorized sequel to Wells’ book called Edison’s Conquest of Mars, in which famed inventor Thomas Edison turns the tables on the aliens from The War of the Worlds by flying to Mars and killing all of them with his revenge boner — it’s the Victorian-era equivalent of shameless straight-to-DVD crapfests like Transmorphers and Titanic II.