It's just a near-summer Friday, so not all that much is happening. A Trainspotting author turns to directing. Jim Carrey will soon be steaming into your town. And terrible TV series and movies still get made, every day, in this old place of ours.

Novelist Irvine Welsh found a bunch of notes for his 1993 novel Trainspotting, about the seamy, druggy world of Edinburgh junkies in the 80s, and decided there's enough for a prequel. The prequel will cover the halcyon younger days of his main characters, and their descent: "It's about how Renton and Sick Boy went from being daft young guys just out for the buzz on drugs, to total junkies," he told London's Times. [Times Online]