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Three men and a show

Simon Beaufoy, who will probably win the Oscar for his Slumdog Millionaire script, is set to write a romcom for Spyglass entitled Leap Year and starring Amy Adams.

Bill Campbell is set to star in NBC’s Lost in the 80s, a show centering on the Mobley family, a family of six.

In Joss Whedon/Dollhouse news, Joel Keller has posted an interview he had with the Man about Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible, and the future of media.
According to Whedon, we might see the return of Dr. Horrible (although not in the way you might think):

We are dancing around that concept. We all want to do it. We all are extremely occupied—we have other jobs. And we’re kind of trying to figure out the philosophy as well. How do we want to present it? We don’t necessarily want to do exactly what we did, part two. We’d like to shift the paradigm a little bit. But we’re sort of keeping everything open. We have a concept, and when these writers have time to really sit down with it, we’re going to see what we’ve got. It’s definitely our intention for Dr. Horrible to rise again.

The interview was put on The Daily Beast.

Pilots in the Woods

Two actors have finally been cast for the Joss Whedon/Drew Goddard extremely-awaited horror movie inauspiciously entitled “The Cabin in the Woods“.
The two actors I am referring to are Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford, also known as great actors. Just Richard Jenkins’ performances in Six Feet Under or The Visitor show how talented he is. Unfortunately I haven’t seen much of Bradley Whitford’s but a lot of praise was given to The West Wing so I’m sure his work there was tremendous.

You can sense by this casting that this horror film is going to twist the “young people stranded in the woods and scared shitless” movie.

Even Goddard (almost) says so:

It’s really just your basic typecasting: When you need two actors to run through the woods in low-cut nighties, you immediately think of Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford.

The pair should play white-collar co-workers that have a mysterious connection to ‘the cabin’.
I just hope we’re not talking about Jacob’s cabin here.

The movie is set for a Feb. 5, 2010 release with a Spring shoot.

I am really excited about this pic. I like genre-twisting, I love Whedon and Goddard, and both Jenkins as well as Whitford are sublime actors; so this is going to be phenomenal.

FOX has ordered 7 pilots for its pilot slate, including 4 comedies, and 3 dramas.
Let’s take a quick look at them.

For the comedies:
The Station co-produced by Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films, is about a covert CIA operative and his workmates who are embedded in a South American banana republic with a mission to install a new dictator.
That sounds like a prequel to a Fulgencio Batista biopic.
Walorsky revolves around a lazy ex-cop-turned-security guard patrolling a mall in Buffalo, N.Y., and is forced to grudgingly step it up after he is assigned an idiot partner.
Two Dollar Beer centers on a blue-collar couple and their extended family and friends in Detroit.
Sons of Tucson will talk about a charming but misguided hustler hired by three rich young brothers to act as their “father” while their real one serves time for a white-collar crime.
So is that Drillbit Taylor meets daddy-issues?

As for the dramas:
Maggie Hill will be about a brilliant female surgeon who thrives despite enduring adult-onset schizophrenia.
There’s also an untitled reincarnation pilot about ex-investigators using faking the idea of reincarnation to help clients solve mysteries from their past lives in order to resolve their problems in the present.
The Mentalist without the mental in it?
And last but not least we have a 24-companion on our hands with Human Target, based on the DC Comic of the same name. The show centers around a mysterious body guard named Christopher Chance that assumes the identities of his life-threatened clients to become himself the “human target”.

Another great news this morning is the announcement of Michelle Obama’s hairstylist inking a TV deal.
Isn’t that just great.

TV Mid-Season '09: The Complete Review – What is new

Let’s finish the round-up with the brand new shows that are going to pop up in the next few months.

Fresh new shows for fresh new schedules.


– Harper’s Island (premieres April 9): Lots of retooling and backstage changes for this “Scream meets 10 Little Indians” show. The showrunner is currently Jeffrey Bell, who has written some pretty great Angel and X-Files episodes, so hopefully Harper’s Island will be worth my time.


– Kings (premieres March 19): The David v. Goliath myth set in an alternate place in “present times”. Ian McShane and the preview has definitely gotten me intrigued.


– Castle (premieres March 9): Despite me disliking the pitch (a novelist helping the NYPD solve crimes), it stars Nathan Fillion, so I’ll definitely be watching at least the first epis.
– Cupid (premieres March 24): Reboot of Rob Thomas’ show, by Rob Thomas, without Jeremy Piven.
– The Unusuals (premieres April 8): Even though I strongly dislike procedurals, I might check this one out. I read the pilot last summer and it had some interesting characters.


– Lie to Me (premieres Jan. 21): Tim Roth stars as a human lie-detector. The show could be a potential hit, seeing as it is right behind American Idol: Fight to the Death Edition. I’ll definitely check it out just because it’s Tim Roth starring.
– Dollhouse (premieres Feb. 13): Despite being a Whedon-prod with an awesome cast, I have my doubts about the show due to too much behind-the-scenes waves.


– East Bound and Down (premieres Feb. 15): A funny pilot with Danny McBride who has very quickly made a name of himself with Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express and Drillbit Taylor.


– The United States of Tara (premieres Jan. 18): The long-awaited Diablo Cody/Spielberg HBO show about a housewife with dissociative identity disorder. I also read the pilot way back when, sounded interesting. The filmed version is supposedly out on the Sho website for online viewing.


– Trust Me (premieres Jan. 26): Mad Men in today’s world, and funnier. At least that’s what it sounds like to me when I read what the show is about. Eric McCormack (Will from Will & Grace) and Tom Cavanagh star in this new dramedy about two BFFs that are creative partners at a high-levelled Chicago ad agency. Sounds good to me. I guess we’ll see how it turns out.

2009 is going to be a great year for new shows, I can sense it.