There is also a pilot being shot for a Parenthood series, based on the film starring Steve Martin. Astute readers will remember that there was already a Parenthood TV series, but apparently TV executives are morons.
“Friday Night Lights” creator/exec producer Jason Katims wrote the adaptation, produced by Universal Media Studios and Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine TV. (The feature, which earned two Oscar nominations for co-star Wiest and Randy Newman’s song “I Love to See You Smile,” was produced by Imagine and Universal Pictures.)
In other moron news, a Witches of Eastwick TV series is also being prepared. Guess what? There was already a TV series pilot of that as well! (Two, actually, one in 1992 with Julia Campbell, Catherine Mary Stewart, and Ally Walker; and one in 2002 with Marcia Cross, Kelly Rutherford, and Lori Loughlin)What is next, a new M*A*S*H series set in Iraq? (which will be hard to do as there aren’t M*A*S*H units anymore!) I guess because there was a sequel written to the original novel that came out in 2008 there is renewed interest. Women just can’t stop talking about the Witches of Eastwick. This is what they are saying:
Feel the buzz!
The 1980s are definitely in this pilot season. In addition to “Parenthood,” pilots based on the 1980s feature “The Witches of Eastwick” and mini “V” have been ordered by ABC.