NBC has ordered up three more scripts for Studio 60, but NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly has admitted he’s keeping a close eye on the show – as well as on Friday Night Lights and 20 Good Years (which has been yanked from the schedules until next year).
Meanwhile, ABC has ordered four more scripts for each of The Nine, Help Me Help You and Men in Trees.
We all know UK and US soap operas are different – if only because of Dallas and Dynasty in the 80s. US soap operas are glossy affairs, while UK soap operas tend to be miserable and down-to-earth (fill in exceptions at your leisure). But there are more differences than that. Don’t believe me? One US soap opera is going to get an honest-to-goodness superhero, thanks to co-operation from Marvel Comics.
Seriously. Guiding Light‘s ‘Harley Davidson Cooper’ will be given the powers of levitation and the ability to conduct electricity.
Now that, my friends, is different.
As noted yesterday, Neil Gaiman and others were asked by Wired to compose six-word short stories. Now Marie has risen to the challenge with “Marie’s hand clutched his sonic screwdriver”.
So how about a new meme? Anyone else want to rise to the challenge? A short story composed of six words. Away you go!
UPDATE: Here’s mine: “The Earth moved… Archimedes’ fulcrum found!” Yes, a rubbish maths/physics joke. Now you know why I gave up writing fiction…
Not content with resurrecting Swap Shop and Terry Wogan’s chat show, the powers that be have decided that Jim’ll Fix It needs to return to our screens, too. Could be interesting. Could be worrying.
Good news: NBC is shuffling its schedules and its Thursday night line-up is going to include both 30 Rock and a new series of Scrubs. The bad news is those two shows are in the 9pm slot, which pits them against Grey’s Anatomy and CSI.
I can hear a death knell sounding right now.
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