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About politics, you think yes? Not a chance! TV, movies, music, 1970s commercials on Detroit radio. Hey, you might as well read about what we're talking about: Dan and Rob typically spend most days gabbing with each other. About politics, you think yes? Not a chance! TV, movies, music, 1970s commercials on Detroit radio. Hey, you might as well read about what we're talking about: Rest in peace, Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltraine - Actor James Best died Monday at the age of 88. He was best known, of course, for playing the inept Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltraine on the Dukes of Hazzard. The show's theme song, referring to the Duke boys, of course, said, "Someday the mountain might get 'em but the law never will." We don't know if the mountain got the law, but it seemed to us that in spite of his incompetence Sheriff Roscoe provided some sort of a check on Boss Hogg's self-serving corruption. We're not totally confident Enos is prepared to step up to the task. Rest in peace, Mr. Best. We enjoyed you. The Muppet Show Returning? - If you, like Millions of people in their early 40's, think "The Muppet Show" was the best 70's show that didn't take place on a cruise ship, you're in luck. It's been added to the now mile-long list of TV series that are returning to the airwaves. From Vanity Fair:

After two recent, successful sojourns on the silver screen, including this summer's Muppets Most Wanted, ABC is currently in the process of bringing The Muppets back to television. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network wants to reboot the beloved children's variety show that hasn't been on the air since 1981. Bill Prady, who is a co-creator of mega-hit The Big Bang Theory is already onboard to write the script. Prady got his start working for Muppets creator Jim Henson in 1982 and reportedly shopped the Muppets' return to Netflix (too busy with Full House?) before it landed at ABC.

A Lynch-less Twin Peaks? Or a negotiating ploy? - Twin Peaks fans, including your two favorite columnists (well two of the three; we don't think Herman indulges), were crestfallen this past weekend when David Lynch announced that he would not be directing the upcoming season of Twin Peaks on Showtime as previously announced. The story is apparently this: Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost completed the initial scripts for the planned nine episodes and submitted them to Showtime, which quickly concluded that the money required to produce the episodes would be a lot more than they previously thought. That led to renewed discussions over how much the network would kick in, and while both Showtime and Frost seemed to believe they were working toward a resolution, Lynch surprised everyone this past Sunday by announcing via social media that he was out. But is he? Showtime insists it's still trying to bring him back in the fold, and in the meantime they say they remain committed to the series with or without Lynch. Could it work? If they use the original Lynch/Frost-written scripts, at least it's still a Lynch story. But don't try telling that to the original cast members who made the following video (which interestingly does not include Kyle MacLachlan). We don't think this story is over, but we wish Lynch wouldn't put us through this! Daredevil on Netflix - Last night at midnight, Netflix added all 13 episodes of Marvel's original "Daredevil" series. We haven't seen it yet, but we're hearing really good things, and Rob's pretty interested in checking it out. So, we thought we'd share this "launch day" featurette with you. Lost in Space 50th Anniversary - As part of Hollywood's ongoing effort to make you feel really old, Twentieth Century Fox has announced it will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Irwin Allen's "Lost In Space" by releasing a huge, 18-Disc box set of the complete original series. In addition to all the episodes remastered in high-def, it will boast the slew of extras listed below.

• "Lost in Space: The Epilogue" - Special Cast Reunion Performance of Bill Mumy's 1980 Un-Produced Script w/Bill Mumy, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen, Angela Cartwright, Veronica Cartwright, Guy Williams Jr., Toni Williams, Kevin Burns and Robot B-9
• "No Place to Hide" - Original Un-Aired Pilot (Version #1/Long Version)
• "No Place to Hide" - Original Un-Aired Pilot (Version #2/Short Version)
• Guy Williams Screen Test forLost in Space(1964)
• Bob May's Home Movies (1965)
• Lost in Space1965 CBS Advertisers and Affiliates Presentation
• "Seven Wonderful Nights"Lost In SpaceExcerpt (1965/66 CBS Promo w/Dick Van Dyke)
• CBS NetworkSeason OneTelevision Spots (1965)
• CBS NetworkSeason TwoTelevision Spots (1966)
• CBS Network Preemption Bumpers w/Jonathan Harris and the Robot (Season Two)
• Lost in Space Season Two/ Main Title (with alternate/unused theme music by Warren Barker)
• Lost in SpaceSpecial FX Outtakes (1965-68) (w/Lost in SpaceRare Music Outtakes)
• Original Dick Strout Fox Promotional Interview with June Lockhart and Guy Williams (1966)
• Original Dick Strout Fox Promotional Interview with Jonathan Harris (1966)
• Lost in SpaceAnimated Special (1973)
• Syndication TV Spots (1970s)
• Syndication TV Spots (1983)
• "Studs in Space" Promo #1 (Radio Promo forSTUDS) ("Classic TV")(1992)
• "Studs in Space" Promo #2 (Radio Promo forSTUDS) ("I'm Thinking")(1992)
• Never-before-released 20th Anniversary Interview with Irwin Allen (1985)
• "The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen" (1996)
• "Lost in SpaceMemories" (Program Interstitials for "The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen") (1996)
• "Lost in SpaceForever" (Segment with Dr. Smith, Robot and Will Robinson Only) (1998)
• "Never Fear, Smith is Here" (Jonathan Harris A&E Biography) (2002)
• Lost in SpaceAnimated Series Pitch (2005) (by Scott O'Brien)
• "The Ballad of William Robinson" (Music Video by Bill Mumy)
• Jonathan Harris and Al Lewis onMANCOW(Chicago Radio Show)

Max Headroom Returning? - While everyone rushes to rebooot, revive, and renew every imaginable show from the 70's and 80's, one of the best has been largely ignored. Max Headroom ran for two seasons (really more like one and a half) from 1987-1988 and presented an eerily prophetic view of a world destroyed by the media landscape we currently inhabit. Now, there are... rumblings of a relaunch. Star Matt Frewer did an interview with Blastr last week in which he said:

It's interesting, because there's lots of talk about it coming back. Here we are in the digital world, and the whole conceit of the show was 20 minutes into the future. Well, we've arrived. It could be wonderful. It's still somewhat tied up in a log jam of rights issues and so forth, so it's difficult to explore it fully. But it would be great fun, as I played Max again in a series of commercials for Channel 4 when they went digital. We made him grumpy because he was older and crotchety; a liver-spotted version of Max. [Laughs] I remember thinking just before the cameras rolled, I distinctly remember thinking, "Holy s***, it's been 20 years since I've played this character!" Then I immediately went into it and time was out of joint and fused together two decades suddenly.

So it sounds like a longshot, but those of us who'd like to see the return of Network 23have our fingers crossed. Is Blank Reg still out there? The Haunted Mansion - If you know the history of Disney's Haunted Mansion ride, you know it tells (vaguely) a great story that would make a pretty solid film. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with the 2003 abortion starring Eddie Murphy. That was just...awful. For the last five years, director Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) has been talking about a new, supposedly-in-the-works, take on the property. Given Del Toro's long track record of announcing projects that don't happen, people were starting to assume it would never see the light of day. Now, it looks like it might be coming after all, starring Ryan Gosling. As The Wrap reports:

Gosling and Del Toro have developed a close friendship of late, with the Mexican filmmaker moderating a panel with Gosling at SXSW last month to discuss the making of "Lost River." The duo were also photographed together at Disneyland over Oscar weekend, where they rode the Haunted Mansion ride in addition to Space Mountain, Thunder Mountain Railroad and the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. "Haunted Mansion" has been in development at Disney for several years, as the project was first announced at Comic-Con in July 2010. D.V. DeVincentis ("High Fidelity") is currently working on the script for the supernatural family film. "Haunted Mansion" represents a homecoming of sorts for the actor, who is a former Mouseketeer. He also co-starred in Disney's beloved sports movie "Remember the Titans."