Penis-Curious Adam Sandler Reunited With Former Roomie Judd Apatow
· Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann will star in "Untitled Apatow Manchild Project" for Universal and Sony, providing ample opportunity for former Apatow-roomie Sandler to glimpse his director's flaccid manhood. [Variety]
· Mila Kunis will play opposite Mark Wahlberg in Max Payne, the movie version of the pulp noir videogame. Sadly, lack of cheat-codes will prevent audiences from seeing her blow some guy's brains out completely naked. [Link NSFW!] [Variety]
· Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien still dominate late night, though overall ratings for post-primetime have been decreasing. [Variety]
· HBO veers away from the stunt-cock sexuorealism of Tell Me You Love Me, ordering 13 episodes of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Anthony Minghella's adaptation of the best-selling books by Alexander McCall Smith. Also: they greenlit a comedy pilot called Driving Around With Joni, about a widow who drives "around Los Angeles with her French bulldog, looking for meaning in her life." Finally—something to fill the Sex and the City void! [THR]
· The L Word got picked up for its sixth and final season, providing eight more episodes with which to wrap up the various dangling story lines. (We could have done it in one, but it would have involved a gigantic mothership beaming the cast up and flying them off to galaxy Sappho-18 for untold lesbian space adventures. [THR]