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No Beverly Hills Cop 4 but a TV show, maybe

Eddie Murphy is out talking with the press about his new movie Tower Heist. He's been relatively quiet from the Hollywood spotlight, except for the occasional pickup of a transsexual that needed a ride, but now he's given an interview to Rolling Stone talking about everything under the sun from doing stand-up again to starring in another Beverly Hills Cop movie.

Wiseguy headed back to network television

Back in the 1980s one of the smartest cop shows you could watch was Wiseguy. Ken Wahl played Vinny Terranova, an undercover cop who went deep undercover by doing real time in prison to establish his street cred. After Terranova was released, he began to get in with various criminal organizations to provide intel about their make-up, and to gather enough evidence to take down the perps.

HBO will undertake the TV journey to The Dark Tower

We haven't heard much lately about the effort to make Stephen King's The Dark Tower. As you know, plans to make the proposed movie installments at Universal Pictures were grounded when the studio didn't want to meet the budget requirements producers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard wanted.

AMC renews The Walking Dead for third season

AMC has given the go-ahead for a third season of The Walking Dead. For those of you that have been following the news reports about the second season's viewing figures, today's announcement shouldn't come as too great a surprise.

Season 2 premiere of The Walking Dead breaks records

The first episode of season two of The Walking Dead premiered last night on AMC and the turnout was big. The cable network has issued notice that an impressive number of zombie watchers tuned in: 7.3 million viewers, up 38% from the average number of watchers from season one (5.2 million.)

The Simpsons renewed for 24th and 25th seasons

The Simpsons will be broadcasting new episodes until at least 2014, which will be the show's 25th season on the air. A deal has been reached between the actors that provide the voices of the characters and Fox, the network that owns the program.

The Playboy Club is the first fatality of 2011's TV season

After three episodes NBC has cancelled The Playboy Club and pulled it from the network programming schedule. Those poor little Playboy Club bunnies!

X-Files' Chris Carter headed back to TV with Unique

The creator of The X-Files has a new TV show idea and it's Unique.

Ashton Kutcher's Two and a Half Men draws big numbers

Last night's season debut of Two and a Half Men -- the first one without Charlie Sheen and with Ashton Kutcher -- drew huge numbers. Estimates come in at 27.7 million viewers, nearly double what last season's first episode drew.

Source Code being developed as a TV series

If the stars align correctly then about a year from now you could be watching the first episode of a Source Code television series.

Season 2 of The Walking Dead begins with 90-minute episode

When the new season of The Walking Dead premieres on October 16, that night's episode will run 90-minutes in length.

DC's Deadman by way of Supernatural creator

One of DC Comics lesser known superheroes, Deadman is Boston Brand, a former trapeze artist who died while performing a high wire act. In the afterlife Brand finds himself a wandering spirit, called upon by a higher power to help those on the mortal plane seeking justice. Yeah, a supernatural Quantum Leap, but the catch is that Deadman debuted in comic books 20 years before that NBC series, in 1967.

Jerry Bruckheimer and The Rock like wrestling in the 80s

When CSI super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer sells a pilot to a network, it's news. When said pilot will be executive produced by the man formerly called The Rock, it's bigger news.

When said pilot is a drama set in the golden 1980s era of professional wrestling, the ghost of Randy "Macho Man" Savage smiles down from Heaven.

What really happened to Frank Darabont and The Walking Dead's second season

Kim Masters has written an excellent piece of showbiz journalism for The Hollywood Reporter trying to describe what the mood is amongst the cast and crew on The Walking Dead after showrunner Frank Darabont was dumped by AMC. After interviewing crew members and agents that represent actors working on the show, Masters paints a picture of a troubled production, one that is "scared" of how the network is pulling rank and dictating how the show will get made.

A new Cosmos TV series from the creator of Family Guy

I gotta admit, I didn't see this one coming.