Coming soon to a boob tube near you…
July 24th, 2008 by Amanda Schurr in Television, Whatnota TV series about us boobs.
Variety reports of a new small screen “workplace comedy” in the script stage at ABC. Entitled The Weekly, it’s set “in the office of a dishy alternative weekly publication and blog.”
The Association of Alt Newsweeklies first weighed in…
Then the Salt Lake City Weekly: Bill Frost, among others, alleges theft of his own treatment.
And Mark Athitakis, a writer with CL sister paper, the Washington City Paper, offered his two cents…
There’s much to be said regarding this self-serving (?) development, but we’ll keep it brief and ask:
1. “Dishy”?
2. So what are the chances of survival, then? Cancelled after a week?
(We see ourselves — read: me — portrayed by Selma Blair, but she’s already got a TV gig going, so…)
(And Joe Bardi could be portrayed by Jon Lovitz, but that’s perhaps best suited for a spinoff… And we digress, which is to say, what we do on an hourly basis anyway…)
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July 24th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I will be portrayed by a revivified Orson Welles, from the Frozen Peas stage of his august career:
Director 2: Can you emphasize a bit “in”? “In July.”
Welles: Why? That doesn’t make any sense. Sorry. There’s no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with “in” and emphasize it. Get me a jury and show me how you can say “in July” and I’ll… go down on you. That’s just idiotic, if you’ll forgive me by saying so.
July 24th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I will be portrayed by the disembodied voice of Liev Schreiber. Or Peter Coyote. Reporters will frequently hear me over their speakerphones asking for clarification on copy. They will then forget to take me off speakerphone and continue a conversation with their latest workplace-squeeze, and I will startle them both with my withering sarcasm.