With the Television Critics Association tour going on in California, NBC has announced a slate of new miniseries, continuing the resurgence of the format in recent months. They include an updating of Rosemary's Baby and one about the Pilgrims landing on Plymouth Rock, from Survivor producer Mark Burnett. But the big news is the planned 4-hour miniseries about Hillary Clinton, set to chart the former Secretary of State's life from 1998 and the Monica Lewinsky scandal to present day. She's set to be played by Diane Lane and NBC plans for the show to be out before she announces her likely candidacy for president in 2016. What with the feature film and now this, it seems to me that people are in an awful hurry to be doing movies about Hillary's life before we even see what happens in the next election. I mean, they could be leaving out a pretty important event still to come, right? But I suppose there's already been enough drama to fill more than one movie.
In other news, Mitch Hurwitz has insisted that Arrested Development will be back for a fifth season. During a Q&A session at the Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal he says that he definitely plans on it and says the only question is between a series and movie, but promises it will be the whole cast back together on screen at once this time, and that if it is a movie, it will be produced by Netflix. Yay! I'm thrilled of course- they couldn't just leave it forever on the cliffhanger this last season produced.
