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CW Announces Sex in the City Prequel Series

As if prequels don't have a bad reputation as is, CW announced yesterday their intent to close a deal on a script for an upcoming show called The Carrie Diaries. Because we've all wondered at some point how Carrie got to where she was in Sex in the City, The Carrie Diaries will detail Carrie's final year in high school in the 80s and the internship that brings her to New York City.  read more

Colbert Report Writer Max Werner Sells Fun Size Script to Paramount

As brought to our attention by The Hollywood Reporter, Max Werner’s Fun Size script has been characterized as a “cross between Superbad and Adventures in Babysitting that is set on Halloween.” If that’s not intriguing enough, consider that Werner is one of the writers for Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, one of the most hilarious faux news shows on television....  read more

High Definition: Chuck—The Best Music on TV

Chuck managed to avoid the axe after its second season, an impressive feat for an NBC show these days. It’s a fun show—the story of a regular guy who gets U.S. intelligence downloaded into his brain and becomes the government’s most valued secret agent. He bumbled his way through two seasons before an upgrade gave him the ability access the knowledge of kung-fu, Russian or boxing, all Matrix style. Season 3 has also kept things fresh by putting Chuck Bartowski’s brother-in-law, Awesome, in the role of reluctant spy....  read more

Gossip Girl's Best Musical Moments

Josh Schwartz has done it again. The producer who introduced Death Cab for Cutie to millions of 16-year-olds via The O.C. is still out there sewing the seeds of musical variety through his CW hit Gossip Girl. Thanks to his many projects like Chuck and GG, Schwartz has effectively transformed himself into the musical tastemaker of a generation. From Rihanna to Elliot Smith, Kings of Leon to Siouxsie and the Banshees, there seems little rhyme or reason to his picks, except how well they fit his grand cinematic moments....  read more

Gossip Girl spin-off headed to '80s L.A.

As Gossip Girl developed into a flagship series for The CW, two of its principal architects, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, began to float ideas for a spin-off. The winner: A new series that would trade New York for L.A. and swing back to the ’80s for the debutante days of Lily van der Woodsen (currently played by Kelly Rutherford, above). ...  read more

Josh Schwartz talks WB web show Rockville, CA

In Feb. 2008, the newly launched WB.com approached...  read more

O.C. and Gossip Girl creator to pen X-Men reboot

Although it will doubtlessly inflame fans, Fox has hired Josh Schwartz, the man who brought us Gossip Girl and The O.C., to write the script for a youthful reboot of the X-Men franchise. ...  read more