Nitpicks & Rumors - October

Nitpicks

Pick

Gripe - Fox Trot creator Bill Amend dropped daily strip

and has only been doing sunday editions. Sigh. Check out the interview about the semi-retirement.

Rumor

Movies
Fast & the Furious 4

Justin Lin and Chris Morgan are returning to directing and writing and trying to bring back Vin Diesel and Paul Walker .

Queen Sequel

Peter Morgan has started work on a follow-up to The Queen that will center on former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair's relationships with U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The project will be the third film in Morgan's "Blair trilogy," which began with Channel 4 telepic "The Deal" and continued with The Queen. Michael Sheen is expected to reprise his role as Blair.

Tintin
Has a writer, "Steven Moffat, who has been busy writing for the TV Series Doctor Who and Jekyll.Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg will be directing with Kathleen Kennedy serving as producer of the state of the art movie, which will be made using performance-capture technology and produced in digital 3-D."

Television

Important Things With Demetri Martin

"Comedy Central is set to announce Wednesday the pickup of a second series from "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart's production company. The sketch-variety show "Important Things With Demetri Martin" is slated for the second half of 2008; anywhere from six to 10 episodes will be executive produced by Stewart and Martin, who has been a featured contributor on "Daily Show." Martin will alternate between taped sketches and stand-up performances in front of a studio audience...segments riff on "the important things" about ... chairs. Future episodes will give the same treatment to everything from apples to "what happens after we die."

Books

Nothing at present.

Music

Nothing at present.