Blog From The Bench

Aardman Animation is making seven Americanized episodes of Creature Comforts for CBS sometime in the 2006-07 season, according to Reuters (via Yahoo!). The show's stop-motion animated animals speak with the voices of real people who were interviewed by the Aardman folks, better known as "the Wallace & Gromit people."

Check out the Reuters brief at:

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/va/20060202/113894793600.html,

or check out the DVD Verdict review at:

http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/creaturecomfortsseason1.php.

Oddly, that's not the only one I reviewed in 2005 that got on a TV development list:

I've forgotten where, but I saw that ABC is plotting a Mr. and Mrs. Smith series. It was a great one-off movie, but probably would be tricky to execute weekly. I'm waiting to see whether the team involved goes with a prequel or a sequel.

A Sin City TV series has also been mentioned. Sounds like the perfect Showtime original, but I never saw which network wanted it.

Now if they'll only do a series version of Eolomea . . .

http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/eolomea.php