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· HBO is in talks with Everybody Loves Raymond's Brad Garrett on a comedy project, continuing its plan to drain network TV of all of the stars of hit sitcoms. Within two years, the networks may be forced into a blighted primetime comedy landscape of According to Jim and King of Queens spinoffs. [THR]
· Paramount is gunning for its own, "classy," 8 Mile-style hip-hop movie, signing Jim Sheridan to direct the 50 Cent vehicle Locked and Loaded from a script by Terence Winter of The Sopranos. Next up: The ghost of Stanley Kubrick directs Fat Joe in a hip-hopera treatment of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. [THR]
· The WGA East is unhappy with the WGA's buggering over DVD residuals in its tentative deal with the networks and studios. This, of course, leaves the door open for a fresh buggering should the two sides be forced to renegotiate. No worries, it always hurts less the second time. [Variety, sub. req'd.]
· NBC Flop Report: LAX gets quarantined on Wednesday night for sweeps, Hawaii is disappeared into a hiatus that will likely never end. [THR]