So, is an “Arrested Development” movie a sure thing? It sure seems like it to Jason Bateman, talking today at the TCA gatherings for the renewed cult hit, which arrives in a few months on Netflix (making its debut at the TCAs).
Read all the details on the movie here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/arrested-development-jason-bateman-movie-netflix-tca/
What do you think of an AD movie? Something you’d like to see? Or is it going to be like the show, much loved but by a relatively small audience?
Funny coincidence to read this story about Aaron Sorkin at the TCAs talking about false rumors that he’d fired nearly all his writing staff from “The Newsroom.”
It comes as I’m Netflxing (it’s a new verb; you know what it means) back episodes of his first TV-network series, “Sports Night.”
I’m at the place in that show where a “ratings guy” (star Felicity Huffman’s real-life squeeze William H. Macy) is brought in to boost the show’s poor numbers, and everyone is afraid they’ll get fired. Much hi-larity and earnest conversation ensues. This time, the “stiffness” in the room is affecting the show’s real writers, not just the characters playing people like that. LIfe is full of little ironies.
Read the whole story here: http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/aaron-sorkin-denies-firing-newsroom-writing-staff/
Oh, the pitter-patter of little filmmakers’ feet: Howard Gordon, now the man helping make “Homeland” such a big critical and ratings hit, took time from his appearance at the TV Critics Association meetings to say he’s hearing “stirrings” of interest in creating a movie based his last smash TV hit, ‘24’
It’s been a while since “24” seared the screen. Is there still a lot of pent-up interest out there for a movie based on Jack’s very full days? Or have new dramas such as “Homeland” absorbed most of that energy?
Read more about Gordon’s comments on “24” and “Homeland” at Deadline.com here: http://ow.ly/1lKA9e
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All right, we get that the CW wants to reboot the “Beauty and the Beast” myth, and we also get that the CW tends to, ahem, focus on the physical in its casting, but really, between Jay Ryan and Kristin Kreuk, which one is the beast?
Read more from Deadline contributor Ray Richmond about this rather amusing and quite becoming take on a very old story: http://www.deadline.com/2012/07/cw-on-beauty-the-beast-reboot-tca/
Gone all weekend? Olympics absorbed? If you missed Deadline’s coverage of CBS at the TV Critics Association semiannual gathering and our other TV news, catch up with our handy Storify digest.
We’ve got stories about new takes on Sherlock, Jersey and Vegas; amusing video of Jon Hamm, Zach Galifinakis and Will Ferrell on the Daily Show; the TCA awards; honors for Glee’s Ryan Murphy; an analysis of which media companies win and lose if cable bundles get broken up; ratings and much more.
Read more here: http://ow.ly/cBjdx
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Leah Remini at the TCAs and now in “Family Tools,” talks about getting booted from “The Talk”: It was a learning experience.”
Read more here: http://ow.ly/cyIA8
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Not a lot of glitz in the ABC announcements at TCA today, as they announced dates for all their fall premieres, swapped slots for “The Neighbors” and ”Suburgatory”
You can read all the schedule and other details here: http://ow.ly/1lELex
The low-key approach kind of fits with ABC’s more traditional premiere practices in a year when everyone else is scattering new shows hither and yon across the calendar, and providing sneak peeks on all sorts of platforms and opportunities.
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Read all of Deadline’s team coverage of @NBC’s TCA day in a Storify digest here: http://t.co/2Csul1E2
We’ve got stories on Dick Wolf, Jimmy Fallon, #SNL, Revolution, Animal Practice, Jonathan Rhys Myers as Dracula, ratings, high-speed/high-cost Internet, and so much more. It was a very full day in the TV business.
Oh, and can we have an industry-wide moment of silence for the pioneering African-American sitcom actor Sherman Hemsley, who died today?
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“Law & Order” creator Dick Wolf talking at the TCAs about his new show, “Chicago Fire,” and how it differs from Leary’s “Rescue Me.”
His new show is not a procedural, such as the umpteen L&O variants of the past two decades. Instead, Wolf says, he’s taking a run at creating another “platinum drama.”
Read more here: http://ow.ly/ctn6d
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More TV Critics Association goodness from Deadline, in this case the NBC panel featuring executive producer Jimmy Fallon, talking about a new sitcom whose name he said could NOT be “DILFs.”
If you want to know what he called instead, go here:http://ow.ly/ctkd7
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