The Kids in the Hall are back with a new series in development called Death Comes to Town (working title) and might hit television in the fall of 2010. The whole crew is back to write and star in the eight episode series. They will each be playing multiple characters. So we've got a Canadian League of Gentlemen? Works for us. Source: CBC.
David Mitchell and Robert Webb (of Peep Show and, naturally, That Mitchell and Webb Look) are working on a new show called Playing Shop that sounds rather brilliant. "They play Eric and Jamie, who set up a business in a garden shed after being made redundant, convinced that everyone else involved in commerce are idiots." I know plenty of people like that, except for the bit about actually setting up a business--so that puts Eric and Jamie ahead of most, anyway. Pilot gets done this month. Source: Chortle.
Every so often there's a story that warrants 500 words. These are not those stories. Enjoy.
Amazon's deal today? 62% off The X-Files: Complete Collector's Edition, which is the whole series plus the first movie. It's normally about $330, right now it's $123.99 or until they run out. You can snag yours here.
Fred Thompson returns to television in a guest shot on Life on Mars U.S. as the chief of detectives. Look on the bright side, Fred: it probably pays better than the job you were trying for earlier. Source: EW.
Dark Knight is getting re-released on January 23rd. This to push it past the $1B mark. If you didn't catch it on the big screen, in the name of Adam West himself, I demand you fix this situation at that time. Source: Variety.
Give Disney credit: sometimes they ain't dumb. Where a slew of Broadway shows are shuttering starting January 4th, Disney has introduced the "Kids Go Free!" deal. For their shows The Lion King, Mary Poppins and Little Mermaid--you get a free ticket for a child for every adult ticket purchased for performances between January 6th and March 13th. The deal is good through December 12th assuming they don't run out. Three days of sales = $1M. Source: Variety.
Some sites want to spend the whole time berating you with long drawn out stories about what's going on. Screw that. We all have better things to do. Enjoy.
Marco Pennette, scribe of the light but satisfying Samantha Who? has got a couple of projects you might need to know about. One is an hour-long drama called The Romeos, telling the story of a four man band who become huge stars--and it tells it from the present day looking back to their time in the 60s when they first got started. Why do you care? Because composer Jeff Marks (Avenue Q) is on board. What else is he working on? The book for the Flintstones musical. What can we expect from it?
Pennette's script will rely on contemporary issues: Wilma, for example, mulls leaving Fred because he still acts too much like a caveman and hasn't adapted to more modern ways. Barney and Betty tackle fertility issues before deciding to adopt. Musical will also tackle global warming -- but in this case, as "The Flintstones" takes place before the ice age, the characters will confront "global cooling."
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Wow. That is...exactly what the world wants from Flintstones: The Musical. No. Honestly. We've been crying out for somebody to take a fun animated series and turn it into some godawful non-funny "contemporary issues"-ridden piece of shit. Well done. Tonys all around. Source: Variety.
There's lots of pop culture news. You need to know it, but it can be taken in very small doses. Enjoy.
Alan Gordon was the songwriter who helped bring you "Happy Together," as well as "She's My Girl" and "Celebrate," along with Garry Bonner. Gordon died of cancer November 22nd at the age of 64. Source: Variety.
In honor of Gordon's passing, here's a Needcoffee send-off courtesy of The Leningrad Cowboys.
Because sometimes a haiku will do in place of an epic. Enjoy.
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We know very little about Every Day but the cast is nice: Brian Dennehy, Carla Gugino, Helen Hunt, Eddie Izzard and Liev Schreiber. There's some sort of love triangle between Schreiber and Hunt and Gugino. Source: Variety.
John Michael Hayes, scribe for Rear Window, Peyton Place and To Catch a Thief has died of natural causes at age 89. Source: Hollywood Reporter.
matt pond PA has released a free EP online, entitled The Freeep.
Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver) is defecting to Bollywood? Apparently so. In search of "creative freedom and audiences." He's there to scribe Extreme City, about "an American man who travels to India to help resolve a kidnapping case for his father-in-law, only to get caught up in a gangster plot." But it isn't assured to have musical numbers or be three hours long, apparently. Watch your ass, Paul. My understanding from people who are from India is that that's how films are gauged to be worth the price of admission. Source: Hollywood Reporter.
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