Trade Round-Up: Kudrow's Comeback On HBO
· Sex and the City's Michael Patrick King unveils his anticipated comeback move for HBO, taking Lisa Kudrow and essentially recreates the Jason Alexander storyline from Curb Your Enthusiasm, where a former sitcom star tries to revive her career. Oh, and it's self-consciously/obviously named The Comeback. We can't wait for the recycled banter about shoes and spunk. [THR]
· NBC may hold boxing reality series The Contender until midseason. Hopefully, people will have forgotten that an eerily similar Fox boxing show tanked several months earlier, making their own failure seem refreshingly original. [THR]
· Sarah Jessica Parker says there will be no Sex and the City movie. While this is incredibly good news to us, the passers-by that have always wished her well will certainly not be pleased. [THR]
· Variety notes that "reality is now a legit member of the Emmy family." What tipped them off? Simon Cowell and Donald Trump woodenly tag-teaming an award presentation? Or the fact that nearly every presenter name-checked The Donald in between roughly eight-thousand Trump reaction shots? [Variety, sub. req'd]