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Looks like the NBC exec-change is already having an impact of TV shows.
Case in point with the mid-season drama The Philanthropist.
David Eick is now out, now focusing on BSG’s spin-off Caprica while Tom Fontana is back in.
He was previously pushed out after “creative differences” with the previous NBC execs.

Meanwhile new N.Y. taxes should take effect on April 1 (no joke), targetting downloads and other entertainment goods (like iTunes movies, cable/sattelite TV, movie tickets, radio, etc.).
An accretion of $15 million from the 09-10 season and $20 mil from the 10-11 season in the budget is expected with the download-tax, while the proposed sat/cable/radio tax could bring in a further $136 mil for 09-10 and $180 mil for 10-11.

Live and learn

The City University of New York in Brooklyn is now offering a dedicated class around South Park.
The name of the course?
South Park and Political Correctness
Sounds awesome.

The teacher behind the whole idea (Brian Dunphy) said:

“It has the pulse of America more than anything else. It’s proof that you can learn from the most unlikely places.”

Some FOX news today with the announcement of a 13-episode order for Ryan Murphy’s Glee.
It will be an hour-long comedy musical based on a teacher in Ohio taking over his school’s glee club.
Let’s hope this TV musical doesn’t fail miserably like the last one did.

Still no info though on if/when Virtuality will be picked up/shown (if at all), although I’m hearing it is currently being re-worked as a more “mainstream” drama.

Oh FOX, you just love destroying good concepts, don’t you?

Here we go again

New news have emerged regarding projects that have been in the works for some time now.

For you Melrose Place fans out there, you probably know about that remake the CW wants to (re?)make.
One Tree Hill‘s creator Mark Schwahn is now in pole position to write the pilot, although he probably won’t stay with the actual series after that, à la Rob Thomas on 90210.

Robert Carlyle, who recently starred in 24: Redemption (who else thought that movie sucked?) is now set to star as the lead in the next (the third one) Stargate show, Stargate Universe.
The move seems similar to Richard Dean Anderson and Ben Browder’s casting in SG1 way back when: a known face for a new role.
The show should be more character-driven and darker than the previous two with less planet-exploration-type episode, since the show is based on a ship rather than on a team exploring planets.
I’m all for it to be honest.
The Stargate franchise has been dead originality-wise for a few years now.
Bring on the new.

In other news, as predicted, McG is currently working on the fifth Terminator movie, the second in the new Terminator trilogy that is (the one with Christian Bale in it).
The studio feels confident enough to order a fifth movie even though the fourth T-movie might bomb for all we know.

I just love franchises.