Sorry, Garlic Fans, for the lack-of-posting this weekend, as we were, a bit, under-the-weather.
We had this in our crosshairs, despite the disbelieving shaking of our heads.
In the long history of Hollywood (both movies, and television), an overwhelming amount of their product has been based on "material from another source", verses original content.
Theatre, books, magazine articles, foreign movies and television shows (see 'The Office', or, say, "Three Men and A Baby")
You know, something else made money, so we can exploit it, and squeeze something out of it, too.
And, now, we have a new frontier, the New Millennium, the Digital Age;
Twitter user 'Shit My Dad Says' gets CBS deal
Twitter sensation Shit My Dad Says is headed to television.
CBS has picked up a comedy project based on the Twitter account, which has enlisted more than 700,000 followers since launching in August and has made its creator, Justin Halpern, an Internet star.
"Will & Grace" creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick are on board to executive produce and supervise the writing for the multicamera family comedy, which Halpern will co-pen with Patrick Schumacker. Halpern and Schumacker will also co-exec produce the Warner Bros. TV-produced project, which has received a script commitment.
That's right, Twitter will now be foraged, for all sorts of programs, reality shows, and the like, especially if can offer cheap production values, and, of course, the standard exploiting, and humiliation of its' cast.
And, there was this little caveat;
The comedy's title will change if it gets on the air.
The kid should have held out for HBO, or Showtime, to keep the full ambiance in it.
But wait, there's more!
Captain Kirk, William Shatner, has signed on to play the shit-spouting dad.
Halperin's shitmydadsays Twitter account is hysterical, so it's going to be very interesting to see how they build the narrative around it, though, being on the mainstream CBS network, you can see that it will, in all likelihood, fall into the standard sit-com format, with Dad's language cleaned up, naturally.
With Shatner aboard, it could be funny-funny, or it could be dreadful, Mr. Tambourine Man-funny.
Well have to wait to see what Dad says about it.
