More news of remakes we really didn’t need: Steve Carell, star of The Office (US) and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, is to become Maxwell Smart in a film version of Get Smart. Filming starts next year.
He’s a talented guy, but really, what’s the point?
Month: August 2006
Big 24 spoilers from TV Guide
The weirdness of news writing styles. News broke on Friday about certain casting choices for the next season of 24. Ain’t It Cool News gave us all a recap of that on Sunday, leading with those relatively minor casting choices.
Then buried in paragraph three, it gave us all a great big list of massive plot spoilers. Weird.
Go find out what’s happening next season if you like: it sounds good.
Advice on how not to write comedy spec scripts
Emmy-winning writer Ken Levine gives some entertaining advice on how not to write spec sitcom scripts, using real-life examples he’s received. Amusing and highly valuable.
More on Shatner’s mouthpiece
More on that competition to be William Shatner’s spokesgeek: there’s a web site for you to upload a video where you can explain just why you should be given the job. Go! Go! Go! You know you want to.
New James Bond book coming
To mark the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth in 2008, a new James Bond book has been authorised. Just to prove this isn’t some tawdry cash-in but is in fact a genuine artistic decision, they… oh. They haven’t actually got an author yet. Oh well.
Who am I kidding though? It’s James Bond