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· Director Brett Ratner signs a two-year development deal with 20th Century Fox TV, bringing his hacky, music video-quality visual skillset to the small screen. It didn't seem possible, but Fox just got a whole lot louder! [THR]
· ABC adds Nash Bridges creator Carlton Cuse as an executive producer on their hit Lost. Say what? Don't they usually saddle a show with extraneous EPs when its tanking? ABC must have forgotten what to do when a show succeeds. They'll probably cancel it after they win their timeslot next week. [THR]
· From the circular show development file: X-files writer Frank Spotnitz is developing a Night Stalker remake for ABC, a show that was one of the main inspirations for the X-files. [Variety, sub. req'd.]
· HBO gives a script commitment to Sopranos executive producers Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green for their half-hour comedy Powerball, which will follow the life of a lotto-winning family. At least Green is tempering her expectations, admitting, "The Sopranos is the funniest television show I've ever seen in my entire life. That would be an impossible act to follow."[Variety, sub. req'd.]
· Joel Schumacher will direct The Crowded Room, a movie about a man with 24 different personalities. God, we hope two of them are Batman and Robin! [Variety, sub. req'd.]