David Milch is reportedly working on a new series pilot for HBO entitled “Last of the Ninth”. The series takes place in New York City in 1972 and according to milch follows “a young detective returned from Vietnam in a department fiscally crippled, under attack by revolutionaries, and which has been brought by allegations of systemic corruption into public disrepute”.

The series was co-written by former NYPD detective Bill Clark, who won an emmys for his work with Milch on NYPD Blue.

Joel Hogsdon and the original MST3K cast return in Cinematic Titanic!

From their website:

Cinematic Titanic is a feature length movie riffing show and is an artist owned and operated venture created by Joel Hodgson, the creator of the Peabody award-winning Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Cinematic Titanic features the original cast and writers of MST3K, which is Hodgson (Joel Robinson), Trace Beaulieu (Crow), and J. Elvis Weinstein (Tom Servo). Filling out the ensemble is Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl Forrester) and Frank Conniff (TV’s Frank). Cinematic Titanic’s focus is to riff on the movies we love, which are ‘the unfathomable’, ‘the horribly great’, and the just plain ‘cheesy’ movies from the past.

This is not to be consfused with Mike Nelson’s RiffTrax, because no one actually liked Mike, and no one cares what he is doing.

Bill Maher returns to HBO on Friday with new episode of his Emmy nominated talk show “Real Time with Bill Maher”. Like his late night compatriots Maher will reutnr without pre-written material, and instead will rely on his stand-up experience to play off the audience, and it will be missing will be the show-closing segment “New Rules”.

As a member of the WGA, Maher is prohibited from working from any pre-written material, which recent landed Jay Leno into hot water for admitting to writing his own monologues when The Tonight Show returned to late-night. At present, the only hosts who can write jokes are Letterman and Craig Ferguson, whose production company struck and independent deal with the WGA.

What the hell does that mean… Repurposed?

Well whatever it means, CBS has picked up Dexter to fill its sad showless WGA-strike ridden lineup.

it will air Sundays @ 10PM starting February 7^th… I’ll rewatch it just to see what’s left after the network censors are done.