The Playlist gave a great link to a site that shows what happens when NSFW meets WTF?! It's the trailer for the new Showgirls 2, a film that supposedly cost 25 million to make. It looks like it cost 25 bucks and they couldn't even afford towels to dry up the water from previous takes (You'll get that if you watch even the first few seconds of the trailer.) Apparently the site has gotten too much traffic but this is a film that has the potential to match "The Room" as one of the great disasters of modern cinema. Or, it could just be incredibly boring, which the trailer is despite all the boobage.

The Hollywood Reporter's blog has a nice roundup of the new dramas coming this fall, although I haven't found part 1 of the article yet. Anyway, there are, as should be expected, a lot of "Mentalist" rip-offs, some more acronyms for CBS, and a lot of cop shows. Thankfully, none of the shows are like the idea I'm currently working on although there are a few that come dangerously close. I've revamped the idea so it's moved away from Michael Chiklis's family of superheroes show. One of my heroes also has supermemory, which is what one show this season is about, but I'm betting my girl is different. Also, I just don't see how a great memory is really a great concept for a full hour drama.

With all of the new cop shows, I've been considering working on "The Lost Angels" again. It's a spoof of TV detective shows and films but I haven't figured out if I want to make it a straight spoof or just a satire. Granted, the terrible reviews of "Cop Out" probably won't help me sell the satire angle, especially since the script it was based on was once considered one of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. You should check out the bad reviews at Rotten Tomatoes; seems like a lot of critics have been waiting for a chance to rip Kevin Smith a new one. My guess is that the movie, like most of his work, is stupid but with enough sporadic laughs that the fanboys will still love him while others are left underwhelmed.

Other than that, I've just been sitting back and thinking about whether a prequel to Entourage would work. Maybe it's just for a few episodes but I think the show would be a lot better off if they spent some time in this next season, going back to when Vince first came out to Hollywood or when Drama was living the high life as the star of Viking Quest. I think it would be a better direction than their current one, with E getting married and everyone basically doing nothing. Turtle could struggle living off of Vince's much shorter coattails, Vince could have to deal with the crap that all wanna be actors deal with, Ari could be Ari. It worked for the West Wing and I think more shows might be wise to take a page from reboot craze in the film world to try it with their programs. I was thinking about maybe trying to write a spec but I'd need to do some research. I'm sure Ari's mentioned where he first noticed Vince but I don't remember and couldn't find it on the web.

That's all I got for now. Not great but hey, at least it's better than this.