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New infos are starting to leak on that Office not-really-a-spin-off-but-kinda, starring Amy Poehler, and premiering next April on NBC. First off, it will start shooting this month. Despite being made by Greg Daniels and Michael Shur and being shot documentary style the show will not be tied in to The Office. Yet Rachida Jones is joining the cast (with Aziz Ansari).
Will she play an all-new character?
Survey says probably.
Jones is playing Poehler’s BFF. Ansari is the intern constantly following Amy’s every move. Think Ryan inside Dwight. Or not. Why the hell would you put that image in your mind?
Anyway, sounds like The Office 2: Revenge of the Awesome.
Now, what about the main character? And what about the actual show?
The show is actually set in Pawnee, Indiana inside “The Department of Parks and Recreation” with Amy Poehler as its deputy chairman.
FYI the actual Pawnee in Indiana is currently a cornfield.

On the actual Office show meanwhile, Idris Elba has been cast as the new nemesis for Michael Scott. He should appear later this season for a 6-episode stint. Elba is going to play a new Dunder Mifflin corporate recruit that is going to make Scott’s life a living hell.

And I’m not even going to bother talking about that Gossip Girl spin-off prequel.

Dammit

First, two unfortunate deaths today:
Patrick McGoohan from The Prisoner and Ricardo Montalban from Fantasy Island.
R.I.P.

Then:
Emily Blunt is rumored to play Black Widow in the next Iron Man.
But Samuel L. Jackson is supposedly out of the Nick Fury role for The Avengers movie.
After Don Cheadle replacing Terrence Howard, this is really some crappy news again. I don’t really care whose finances are too low to not pay a raise or ask for one, but just get Jackson on board and let’s do this.

Meanwhile Jason Bateman is going to try to talk some sense into his on-screen boy, Michael Cera, who doesn’t want to do the Arrested Development movie.
Come on.
Dude, if all the crew wants in, including Ron Howard, and every fans wants it, just do it.
I’m also happy with another possibility: the actual George Michael playing George Michael with no one mentioning that he is now a middle-aged gay man.

Steve Carell on the other hand has launched his own television division named Carousel Prods. Literally one second after its creation, Universal Media Studios inked a 3-year overall deal with the company.
Way to go.

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.