NBC, titans of network comedy that they are, have just offered a pilot commitment to The Big C showrunner, Jenny Bicks for an untitled mermaid comedy. Perhaps they should just title it The Show About The Mermaid, which is what everyone will call it anyway.
Harris Wittels, the Parks and Recreation writer and Humblebrag creator whose difficulty bringing a show to series formed part of our article on the split between Universal Television and Parks and Rec's co-creator Greg Daniels, responded to the article in an email last night. We've added it to the article, seen below.
After fewer than two years at CAA, fashion agent Mitch Grossbach is already looking to set up camp at a new talent agency - and carting around a hilarious Powerpoint deck to sell himself.
No more quirky mockumentaries for Universal Television. Greg Daniels, the man behind NBC's The Office and Parks and Recreation, has severed ties with his longtime studio in a fit of pique: Apparently, he's upset that none of his projects over the last two years have made it to series, and for that he blames UTV.
Slouchy philanderer Kristen Stewart is about to take on her most challenging role yet: college freshman.
Days after his ex-wife Michelle Ghent filed a second restraining order against actor Terrence Howard, alleging that a recent conciliatory trip to Costa Rica went violently awry, Philadelphia Magazine has discovered that Howard once assaulted a Philadelphia woman and her fiance at a diner back in 2005. Not that it's shocking: The Chris Brown apologist already has a long history of violent outbursts, dating back more than a decade.
In a 1,500 word article, titled "Why Is Hollywood Obsessed with This Pencil," we learn why the Eberhard Blackwing 602 wasn't just any old Numero Dos, it was a cult pencil. Favored by writers like Truman Capote and Vladmir Nabokov, animators, and musical legends Quincy Jones and Stephen Sondheim, the pencil was praised for its creamy writing ability and the fact that, thanks to its rectangular eraser, "it never rolled off the page."
When The Hills ended its six-year-run in 2010, pulling the camera back to reveal Kristen's limo slowly pulling away from Brody only to drive in circles around an MTV soundstage, it came as no surprise that the reality show was about as real as Justin Bobby's name.
Kelly Oxford used to be known for being a Canadian housewife whose Twitter feed you couldn't turn away from. In three years she amassed over half a million dedicated followers. Celebrities like Jimmy Kimmel and Olivia Wilde RT'd her en masse. Then came the script deals. Followed by the movie. And after that, the book deal.
That's it everybody. We can all just pack it up and go home now, because summer is officially cancelled.
Your chances of getting a show on the air at a major broadcast network are at about 6%.
