More news, more news

• Sara Rue cast as the female lead in Spaced. This remake is ruining my life. How can you remake Spaced? It’s an impossiblity. The worst part is, it was done without the blessing of the original creators. At least the US Office had Ricky Gervais’s involvement from the beginning – and notice that it’s one of very few UK remakes that have succeeded. McSpaced? I give it four, maybe five episodes. And they will be excruciating to watch. Except maybe the pilot, and only then because it’ll be Simon and Jess’s words.
• Sarah Wayne Callies returns to Prison Break, Samaire Armstrong departs Dirty Sexy Money. For the latter, it will inherently lead to more Seth Gabel and Glenn Fitzgerald scenes, and that can only help the show, I mean, really. For the former, I believe this says it all:

• ABC realizes it has too many shows set in hospitals (Hi, Scrubs!), adds three cop shows. Yawn.
• Hollywood is racist, no one is surprised. I have to admit, as someone who liked Bringing Down The House (the book, not the ill-conceived Steve Martin/Queen Latifah vehicle), 21 looks vaguely interesting (even if the reviews are mixed). But it’s hard to imagine what this movie would have been marketed as, if they’d insisted on casting true-to-life (like that would actually happen). Probably: Better Luck Tomorrow – with gambling! (Incidentally, another one of the few movies that has a main character named Stephanie.) Sad, but true.

This week has been long, but things have been good. More people like Escape to Chimp Eden, How I Met Your Mother is looking less and less bubble (10.6 million!), and we’ll know the state of Friday Night Lights sometime next week. (Come on, Ben Silverman, after the Family Feud thing I’m not sure how much lower you can go..) That’s all for now. I leave you, with the story of a man raped by a wombat. Or so he claimed.