09.10.09 TEXTS FROM LAST NIGHT: THE TV SHOW

Texts from Last Night is an awesome website. And now, thanks to the wonder of television producers being idiots, it’s going to be a crappy TV show. Thanks, Hollywood!

Fox is developing a TV adaptation of the popular website “Texts From Last Night.” “The Big Bang Theory” scribe Steve Holland is set to write the comedy, which has scored a script order plus a large penalty from the net. Sony Pictures TV will produce, along with Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison shingle.

In writing the TV version, Holland will loosely base the show’s characters and plot on the whole idea of racy — and sometimes embarrassing — communication, particularly among the twentysomething set.

Bear with me for a second while I get to the point in a roundabout fashion: Most people don’t read blogs, so 95% of the time when I meet someone for the first time and I say that my job is blogging, they say, “And you do that for a living?” And then I say something about hardly calling this living, hahaha, then I talk about being immersed in the culture of web humor, cats in clothes, blah blah blah. And then the other person goes, “Oh, have you heard about this site called Texts from Last Night?” And it’s like, yeah motherf*cker, I know about it. YOU know about it because of people like me. You’re welcome.

Anyway, maybe this show will stop that conversation from happening again. That would be nice.