Tag Archives: TV

Are you ready for a return to Goodfellas? Deadline reports that AMC will develop Martin Scorsese’s classic 1990 mob movie as a potential weekly series, and though Scorsese (who directed the pilot of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) isn’t involved with the project, the network did manage to secure returning player Nicholas Pileggi to script the show and Irwin Winkler to produce.

AMC Is Developing Goodfellas As A TV Series (NYMag)

Thanks Barry H

That time you were watching Celebrity Salon and you felt a shooting pain down the left side of your soul? It all makes sense now.

Dr Lennert Veerman, from the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, and colleagues report their findings today in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

“If our estimates are correct, then TV viewing is in the same league as smoking and obesity,” he said.

His team estimated that every single hour of TV watched after age 25 was associated with a reduction in life expectancy of around 22 minutes.

According to our calculations, Bodger’s been dead since March 1896.

TV Shortens Life By 22 Minutes Per Hour (ABC News Australia)

‘TV Kills’ by MadelonMeijer
(Thanks Mark J Geary)