HBO negotiating to bring Watchmen to small screen.

It makes sense. I guess.

Fresh off critical favorite The Leftovers, Damon Lindelof is in talks for a potential Watchmen TV series for HBO. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the project is in the early development stages. An official deal is not yet in place. Representatives for HBO and producer Warner Bros. Television declined comment.

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The Return of Fraggle Rock to HBO.

Oh, relax. It’s just the original. Your childhood is safe.

Fraggle Rock, Jim Henson’s beloved Muppet vehicle, is headed back to HBO in HD, EW has confirmed.

The show originally debuted on HBO in 1983, and lasted five seasons and 96 episodes. It will make its digitally remastered return to the network later this year.

There’s nothing here to worry about. Seriously. The only bad thing that they could do here would be to screw up the colors or the sounds somehow, and that’s just poor restoration work.  They’re not gonna cross it with Games of Thrones…

I hope that True Detective is part of this deal.

Because if it is: sweet.

I assume that they’ll price it accordingly and this way I wouldn’t have to wait for the DVD set to come out*. The way TV works is funny these days, huh?

Moe Lane

*I’m not getting cable just to get HBO, although if they offered it separately I might change my mind on that.