Lots of remakes were announced this year, but maybe none was crazier than the CW trying a new take on the teen classic Beverly Hills, 90210. The news about the spinoff was one of the first new shows to be announced after the writers' strike, and at first, it seemed like everything was full of promise. The man behind the spinoff was Rob Thomas of Veronica Mars fame, and the first descriptions of the characters got us pretty excited to see who would play the key roles.
Guess what, Hollywood: Women like movies, too. 2008 has been a good year for proving that women can be a powerful force when it comes to box office dollars. The Sex and the City Movie was a huge deal to fans of the HBO show and many other female moviegoers who appreciated a female-driven movie they could go out to see with girlfriends.
Project Runway was the tentpole show of Bravo, the series that birthed a million spin-offs (Top Chef, Shear Genius) and became a cultural phenomenon. There was no reason to think anything would change — until April, when we first saw the shocking announcement that Project Runway now belonged to Lifetime.
It turns out the announcement of the Weinstein Company's deal with Lifetime was a wee bit premature — or at least naive of the legal battle that was to come.
This month, as part of my Best of 2008 coverage, I'm going to look back at some of the entertainment world's big headlines. The first one on my list was the writers' strike. Today I'm going back to the year's biggest hit movie: The Dark Knight.
This month, as part of my Best of 2008 coverage, I'm going to look back at some of the entertainment world's big headlines. First up: the Writers Guild of America strike.
Though the strike started in November of 2007, it wasn't until early '08 that we really started to feel the effects.