There have been rumors that Rob Zombie would direct a Munsters movie for years – and now, it's official. Mr. Zombie confirmed this himself on social media, promising more "exciting details as things progress." While this may seem like a weird choice to some, Zombie is a full-fledged Munsters fanboy. His son "Dragula" references the car the…
Read More
In this edition, a video compares Marvel's vibranium and adamantium vs beskar from The Mandalorian, look back at The Munsters Chistmas special, and more.
Read More
NBC's The Munsters reboot from Seth Meyers and Jill Kargman will move the family from the suburbs to the hip New York neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Read More
For two years, Austin based artist Tim Doyle has been proving locations on television are as essential as the characters. The Kwik-E-Mart on The Simpsons; the RV in Breaking Bad; Castle Greyskull in Masters of the Universe; these locations are as important to their show as Homer, Walt or He-Man. Now, for the third year in a row,…
Read More
Briefly: Over the past couple years Bryan Fuller and NBC have been working to come up with a new take on The Munsters, the '60s TV show that vaguely melded the Universal monsters with then-popular TV sitcom family concepts. Bryan Singer ended up coming on board to direct the pilot for what became Mockingbird Lane, with Jerry O’Connell…
Read More
With construction already underway on its sets, NBC's Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane is moving a few last pieces into place for its main cast. Jerry O'Connell and Mariana Klaveno have just been cast as Herman and Lily Munster in the Bryan Fuller-created show, joining previously cast stars Eddie Izzard (Grandpa), Charity Wakefield (Marilyn), and Mason…
Read More
In today's TV Bits, Uma Thurman puts on her dancing shoes and Charlie Sheen comes back from the dead. After the jump: AMC picks up another Robert Kirkman comic, Thief of Thieves Charlie Sheen's Anger Management gets a new teaser Uma Thurman does her best Marilyn impression for Smash Fox revisits the first episode of…
Read More
Yes, that Munsters reboot is still happening, and now it even has a star. After the jump: Eddie Izzard heads to Mockingbird Lane Mad Men messes up a tiny period detail Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine is an actor now Terra Nova star Jason O'Mara finds a new job Starz has already renewed Magic City HBO has…
Read More
While most people would agree Scott Stewart's 2010 film Legion isn't exactly a masterful piece of cinema, the film's idea is rock solid. God has decided to smite humanity and sends his legions of angels down upon us. It's then up to a rogue angel to help a group of strangers make their last stand.…
Read More
When last we left Bryan Fuller's reboot/re-imagining/overhaul of the classic Sixties TV show The Munsters, it was being described as a mix of True Blood and Modern Family. While difficult to imagine exactly what that means, at least it sounded encouraging. The latest update sounds less encouraging. TV Line is reporting the show has been…
Read More
We've been following Bryan Fuller's reimagining of The Munsters for NBC with a mixture of curiosity and trepidation ever since it was first announced over a year ago. On the one hand, another reboot of the beloved '60s series seems totally unnecessary, and there's always the fear that the new version won't do the old…
Read More
In 2010 when talk first started to surface about a new version of The Munsters, it was to be a collaboration between Guillermo del Toro and Bryan Fuller (Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies). The show stalled out and when NBC eventually asked Fuller to rework the pilot script into something edgier, Guillermo del Toro…
Read More
We've got a lot of the usual news bits about casting, renewals, and so on in today's TV Bits, but first, don't you want to read about a possible racial slur in a decades-old episode of Fraggle Rock? After the jump: A Texas man reports an offensive slur in a 1984 episode of Fraggle Rock…
Read More
We've got lots of odds and ends for you in today's TV bits, including renewals, a remake, and a rant by notoriously rant-y Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter. After the jump, read about: NBC's remake of The Munsters The new poster for Season 6 of Dexter Kurt Sutter's thoughts on the AMC debacle Renewals…
Read More
The last time the TV show Wild Wild West was revamped, it resulted in an atrocious Barry Sonnenfeld film that stands as one of the more forgettable big-budget pictures of the '90s. But the last time Ronald D. Moore revamped a show the result was the new Battlestar Galactica, which was better than anyone would…
Read More