The gods at 20th Century Fox are sending mana from heaven in the form of a Magic: The Gathering movie. Announced Monday, the studio has acquired screen rights to the fantasy card game from Hasbro in the hopes of launching "a massive franchise on the scale of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings."
Excellent television company 20th Century Fox, the studio behind fan favorites like Arrested Development, New Girl, and Homeland, has found a new way to make you smile this holiday season: charity dog calendar.
What do you do when you're two of the hottest show creators working in television and your banner show is drawing to a close? Panic that you'll never create anything nearly as brilliant and beloved again? Sit back and rest in your jacuzzi filled not with tepid frothy water, but piles of sweet syndication money? Make another hit show about PhD-chasing nerds and their hot neighbor? All great options! Or you could just go the Carter Bays-Craig Thomas route, and just make the same show all over again.
The only thing better than watching the fall TV season's rodeo of failures is getting your hands on failed network pilots—the first episodes of the shows that didn't quite make it to air. Comedian Sarah Silverman just released her failed NBC pilot, Susan 313, and given that this pilot was beat out by a show about a veterinarian and his pet monkey that lasted six episodes should tell you all you need to know about just how abysmal it was.
