· Oh, goody! Eight-ball-faced (literally, not in the Andy Dick sense) Looney Tunes character Marvin The Martian will get his own Warner Bros. feature, in which he shall finally be reunited with his beloved eludium pu36 explosive space modulator. [Variety]
· HBO secured rights to Liza Palmer's chunk lit classic, Conversations With the Fat Girl. [Variety]
· In more HBO news—these guys are desperate for a hit! Everyone's tuning over to AMC! FUCKING AMC!!!—they've returned to executive producer Mark Wahlberg's muscled embrace, greenlighting his pilot How to Make It in America. It's about "three enterprising downtown twentysomethings who hustle their way through New York City determined to achieve the American dream," aka NYCtourage. [THR]
· ABC purchased French sitcom Fais pas ci, fais pas ca for Americanization by Samantha Who? co-EP Bob Kushell. [THR]
· Josh Lucas will star in Tim Robbins's Showtime pilot Possible Side Effects, about a pharmaceutical dynasty. The title is a humorous play on the common warnings you find on prescription drug literature. [THR]