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The Oscar nominees were announced yesterday.
What’s up with The Dark Knight being snubbed out of Best Screenplay (let alone Best Directing/Pic)?

Weinstein also had to shed a lot of dough for The Reader to be nominated for Best Pic.

In the TV world, pilots continue to be picked up.
ABC has ordered Eastwick, a show loosely based on the 87 movie about 3 witches starring Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeifer and Jack Nicholson. The pilot is penned by Jack & Bobby‘s Maggie Friedman.

In addition, NBC ordered Mercy, a dramedy revolving around 3 nurses “bound together in friendship”. FNL‘s Liz Heldens is currently writing the pilot.

Other dramas are said to be on the verge of pickups by NBC, such as Dario Scardapane and Peter Berg’s Trauma, an emergency medical procedural taking place “out in the field”, and another project by Alias/Heroes/Lost‘s Jesse Alexander.

The Disney-ABC TV Group is currently in full restructuring with ABC and ABC Studio merging and renamed “ABC Entertainment Group”. ABC’s programming chief Stephen McPherson will head the division.

NBC has meanwhile hired a global marketing firm, Naked Communications, to reposition the net’s brand.

There’s an inextricable link between marketing and programming… These two things define the brand. We’re all aligned against the same goals.

Will they spearhead the network and bring them to less SF/Genre-friendly sked?
Will Chuck be back?
Will NBC change its mind on various pilot picks?
Tune in at an undisclosed future date to find out the electrifying conclusion of NBC: The Brand-Over.

And George Clooney has finally accepted to return for an E.R. cameo. The show’s co-creator, John Wells, recently ordered a closed set for a Clooney appearance.

Also, here is a little clip from Pixar’s next movie, Up.
UPDATE: Vimeo removed the vid.

In and Out

TV Guide has dropped off of its sked grid The CW and MTV among others.
Ouch.
How the hell will I know now when Smallville premieres?

This morning FOX confirmed that Prison Break is canceled with the last epis being shown on Fridays (with Terminator and Dollhouse).
Virtuality was described as too “dense” by Kevin Reilly and the pilot is being recut to one hour instead of the two it should have been.

Meanwhile, NBC announced that 90% of the Super Bowl ads had already been sold.
Some of the movie trailers shown will be for Transformers 2, Up, Wolverine, G.I. Joe, Angels & Demons, Land of the Lost, The Fast and The Furious, Star Trek, and Monsters v. Aliens (with disappointing Red & Blue glasses).
As for the TV side of things, Heroes will have a special trailer made for the Super Bowl and Chuck will promote its 3-D episode.

And here’s for you a behind-the-scenes pic of Cameron’s Avatar.

Also, Bush wants his own 15 minutes of fame by asking fifteen minutes of airtime on each of the major nets next Thursday, to say goodbye.
Please make it quick.

Flash Bump

The Watchmen case seems to be fast-tracked and as predicted Fox and WB are on the verge of finding common ground.
Do I smell settlement?

Meanwhile, some other news have been popping up the last couple of days.

The HIMYM cast got a raise on their paycheck.
HBO has renewed The Life and Times of Tim (yay!).
E.R. is never going to end.
Swoosie Kurtz is going to stint on (dare I say Bryan Fuller’s) Heroes.
Mad Men‘s season 3 is indeed going to premiere this summer. With or without Weiner, although there’s probably as well going to be a settlement.

On the Flash Forward front, Robert J. Sawyer (the man behind the original book) is often making comments on his own blog about the project and seems very pleased about it (as in the polar opposite of Moore’s feelings towards the Watchmen movie).

Sawyer has also confirmed the epicness of the show, comparing it to Lost, and how Goyer and Braga “have mapped out five seasons of Flash Forward” (110 episodes).
Rob Sawyer will as well probably write a couple of episodes.

Besides this, there is an interview out with David Goyer posted on SciFi Wire about the show.
Goyer tells that the season-format will not be too dissimilar to 24‘s as each year hitting reset and having its own flash-forward, with a glimpse of what is to come at the end of the preceding season.
I must admit I am kind of disappointed with that formula.
Heroes failed miserably and 24 really dragged on after the first couple of years.
But then again, those shows weren’t planned beyond the season.
Still, I would have preferred the one major flash-forward across several years instead of four that could ultimately reduce the magnitude of the first one.

The premiere is currently set for Fall ’09, with the first season starting to shoot Feb. 21.