Posts Tagged ‘Fox’
Fringe to Continue for Another Season
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010According to Entertainment Weekly, Fringe has been picked up for a third season. This despite a tough time slot of Thursday nights and a low Nielsen rating. I can’t wait for the season to restart on April 1st!
Daredevil remake in the works… For all the wrong reasons
Monday, February 8th, 2010
It looks like Fox, in an effort to not lose the Daredevil property to Disney, is looking to make another Daredevil movie. The deal between Marvel and Disney continued any previous rights granted to movie makers as long as it was not an abandoned property (or a property no longer in production). In other words, it looks like Fox is just trying to keep a hold of the rights.
Reinforcing this point is the fact that they’ve hired David Scarpa to write the script. “Who?” you ask? Well look him up on IMDB! He wrote the screenplay for the 2008 movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still”!! He also wrote “The Last Castle”! Aaaand that’s all, at least according to IMDB. Now I don’t want to be the one to say “oh, this guy is a sh*tty writer”. Please don’t think that’s what I’m saying. For all I know this guy might be the “next big thing”. What I’m saying is that Fox went to what looks to be the least expensive guy they could so the movie could be considered “in production” and they could keep their rights without spending too much money. I’m betting this movie never gets made, at least not in this current incarnation. There’s no director attached, no actors, no nothing. Way to go, Fox.
Fringe taking a 7 week break
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Fringetastic
God d--n it so much Fox…
According to The Futon Critic, Fox is putting Fringe on a 7 week hiatus starting in February. They SAY this is so that they won’t have to show any Fringe repeats during 2010, but the buzz has been buzzing that Fringe is “on the bubble”. While Fringe is hiatusing, presumably on a beach somewhere in Mexico with a pretty girl and a belly full of rum, Fox will present its midseason offering drama “Past Life”, a new series about a pair of past-life detectives who investigate whether what is happening to you today is the result of who you were before. Sounds lame. BOO. And how many times have we heard this line from Fox right before they cancel a show? In my opinion, Fringe is one of the best shows on TV right now. It doesn’t deserve to be anywhere near “on the bubble”. Listen up Fox, don’t even think about canceling this show.
