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Spike TV ordered a single-camera comedy pilot, Peep Show based on a current BAFTA Award-winning British series, per THR. The 30m Peep Show is an updated Odd Couple scenario about a slacker musician Jeremy (Rob Chester Smith) living with an uptight office worker Mark (Brad Morris). In this version, the storyline will be delivered via a first-person perspective with voice-overs from the characters. Production just wrapped on the 30m pilot in Chicago and producing is Pangea, the script unit of RDF USA and British company Objective. In the UK, Peep Show will soon begin its sixth season on Channel 4. (Cynopsis 10/1)

I spent much of this past week motoring around LA and for some reason Peep Show kept coming up in conversation.  You may remember back several months ago when I went on a bender filled with passion about this show.  I feel irksome that Spike TV decided to re-make this series rather than re-broadcasting the original which I truly believe is one of the best comedies ever on television. Check out a piece from the original British version.

Robert Duvall is back in the saddle developing a new Western-themed series for AMC in partnership with the Donners’ Company, cites Variety. The untitled drama will focus on the famed Pony Express with Duvall playing one of the characters. (Cynopsis 10/1)

Ratings for the network were up 32% over a year earlier among viewers 18 to 49, led by “Project Runway,” which drew an average of 2.674 million viewers in that age group. Programs including “Million Dollar Listing” and “Shear Genius” also saw huge growth in audience numbers over 2007. Broadcasting & Cable (9/30)

FOX gave a nod to a 30m animated comedy pilot presentation called Good Vibes from David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express) who will write the project about two high school surfer guys living near a California beach. (Cynopsis 10/1)

Ellen Burstyn cast as the matriarch of the Hunt family in the Showtime drama pilot Possible Side Effects, centering inside the pharmaceutical industry, reports Variety. Tim Robbins is writing and directing as well as executive producing with Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and Daniel Thomas. (Cynopsis 10/1)

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