Confirming that television has officially run out of new ideas, NBC has signed on to remake The Munsters, just after their announcement of a Frankenstein remake and CBS’s new Bewitched. NBC passed on a revamp of the 1960s show last year, but asked Bryan Fuller, the creator of Pushing Daisies, to make a second attempt. The Hollywood Reporter writes that Fuller wants to make his hour-long version of the Munster’s edgier, darker, and character-focused.
–Curb Your Enthusiasm star and executive producer Jeff Garlin is working with ABC to develop a new comedy. Bruce McCulloch, who worked on The Kids in the Hall and Saturday Night Live is co-writing the script with Garlin as well as producing the show.
-In what Deadline perfectly describes as a very awkward statement, PBS addresses speculation that Sesame Street’s Bert and Ernie relationship extended far beyond friendship. Online chatter picked this up in the past few weeks, with petitions for the couple to marry, which promoted PBS to write:
Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves. Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.
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