You might consider as an April Fools’ prank or a joke of some kind but, it is 100 percent true. Ashton Kutcher has been attached to play the role of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in an upcoming biopic.
So what were the factors that came Kutcher’s way that allowed him to bag such a high profile role in probably the most anticipated biopic in recent history? No one really knows but one thing going for Kutcher is that he actually looks little like Jobs when he was young. [Read more…]
Yet Another Blog Sold to CBS
I know what you’re thinking: What’s in the drinking water over at CBS TV? And when will this madness end?
Actually, this time, the idea sounds like a winner. Ashton Kutcher has once again spearheaded the television sitcom rights of a popular weblog/Twitter feed to CBS. Dear Girls Above Me is a blog written by a man named Charlie McDowell, where he chroniclesthe “annoying dumb things” that the two girls who live in the apartment above him say on a regular basis and adds his own witty responses. McDowell himself is expected to work as one of the show’s writers.
The blog is a riot; you should check it out immediately. The titular “girls” are ridiculously stupid and entitled, cut from the same cloth as Paris Hilton and her ilk. Which makes them perfect fodder for sitcom hijinks.
But after all the blogs that have been snatched up lately for TV, I think it’s time to draw the line. Okay, Ashton? Know when to “no more.”
CBS Planning Another Twitter Show
God help us all. CBS’ $#*! My Dad Says has been deemed a success after healthy ratings for its debut, so of course CBS is applying the standard Hollywood playbook to any money-making venture: “if the public loves one, they’ll love two even more!”
Yes, another thoroughly unnecessary sitcom is in the works from CBS that’s based on a Twitter feed, and it’s a rather similar-sounding one. Where $#*! My Dad Says is based on a guy that tweets the profane, politically-incorrect stuff that his father spews round-the-clock, Shh… Don’t Tell Steve, the new show CBS is working on, is based on a Twitter feed by a guy that secretly tweets the kooky activities of his lazy, drunken roommate. The show will similarly follow an average guy who has to put up with an outrageously immature roommate.
CBS has signed a deal for a pilot script, which will be executive produced by avid Twitter user Ashton Kutcher.