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NBC continues to be the dark spot in GE's otherwise cheery quarterly reports, but the company remains publicly optimistic about the fall schedule, which they can easily use to promote their better-performing divisions to make up for an financial shortfall associated with poor ratings. [Variety]
Universal picks up the comedy Shy Guy for Jay Roach to produce, hoping that the Meet the Fockers director can assist in teasing out the subtleties of the relationship between a "retiring bookbinder" and the "impulsive, hard-partying brother" hoping to "blast him out of his shell." [THR]
After his tame treatment of 9/11 in World Trade Center, Oliver Stone stone is ready to stir some shit up with Jawbreaker, a movie about the invasion of Afghanistan and hunt for bin Laden. The script's new draft will be written by the guy who made the fact-challenged The Path to 9/11 such a hit with the Clinton Adminstration. [Variety]
· The CW's pilot Ghosts is described as "a young Grey's Anatomy in the FBI." Are we already supposed to feel like Grey's horny doctors are too old? [THR]
The unexpected success of new NBC game show 1 vs. 100 may herald a long-delayed Bob Saget renaissance. [Variety]
· We should probably note that Variety's web site just got a nice makeover, but the speed of the rotating images at the upper left has made us too queasy to spend much time lingering on the front page. Then again, maybe we just had too much to drink with breakfast. [Variety]