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Bob Jersey

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Oct 22, 2014, 9:14:19 PM10/22/14
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A trio from Nellie...

"Frankenstein" (link) is not a direct port of the Shelley chestnut, but a present-day tale of a morally-corrupt Federal agent brought back from death by an antisocial billionaire and his bio-engineer twin sister... Howard Gordon is an exec...

Will Smith's theatrical fave "Hitch" (link) is on tap to be reworked as a series at Sony for Fox... Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont writing...

Additional casting announced for "Crime" (link), the current identity of what was James Gandolfini's "Criminal Justice" with John Turturro now in the lead role...

Remember this name... Fortune Feimster (link)... she's curly-red-haired, plus-sized, and was a castmember and writer for Chelsea... she was in that not-picked-up Fox sitcom "Cabot College" (Tina Fey was an exec), now she'll do a based-on-her-life laffer destined for ABC...

And, egads!  a reboot of "Bewitched" (link) going to NBC in a fierce battle with ABC, involving the same team who brought you the Nicole Kidman/Will Ferrell theatrical a few years ago, catches up with Samantha's granddaughter 50 years on from the original series.

B
(Mother J is snoozing through the Bionic Man on NBC.2 Cozi when she should be watching a new "Criminal Minds")

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