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Saturday Night Live: The Complete Fifth Season Review

DVD Release Date: Dec. 1 Creator: Lorne Michaels Starring: Bill Murray, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Garrett Morris, Harry Shearer Studio: NBC Still not ready for primetime By its fifth season, SNL needed a shot in the arm—instead, it had the limb lopped off completely. In 1980, producer Lorne Michaels and the Not Ready for Primetime Players quit over a contract dispute and were replaced by a new cast that included Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscopo and, um, Charles Rocket? The shakeup ushered in the first dark period in the show’s long history, but in retrospect it was completely necessary—SNL had sunk...  read more

Update: Judd Apatow not involved with Ghostbusters III

Update: According to the L.A. Times, Judd Apatow won't be involved in Ghostbusters III. "It's not true," Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures, tells LAT. "We have some great new writers working on a new script, but Judd isn't involved. Judging from the frenzy on the Internet, there still seems to be plenty of interest in the idea of doing another film, so we're certainly taking that as a good sign."--Something strange in your neighborhood? Something going on and it don't look good? Who you gonna call? Judd Apatow, apparently. Months-old rumors that Apatow might be involved with Ghostbusters III...  read more

Ghostbusters III a go, Dan Aykroyd says

Ghostbusters III rumors are alive and well thanks to a few of Dan Aykroyd's incomplete utterances to a question at a promotion for the new House of Blues in Boston. As part of a live chat session with Boston Globe readers, Aykroyd said this about the project: "Script is commenced early Summer. Hope to be in production by late Fall 2009."...  read more

Ghostbusters video game gets a release date

If you've played the first Ghostbusters game on the original NES, you may recall driving around in a white box meant to represent the Ghostbusters' Ecto-1, and disappointment that the game didn't live up to the movie. The news that Ghostbusters: The Video Game has made it out of production limbo, and is solidly slated for release on June 16 for all major systems might finally make up for that. ...  read more