Showtime Attempts To Succeed Where Mike Myers Failed, Announces Studio 54 Show

Bryan Christian — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:25:00 GMT

You ever get the feeling that this blog is basically "Pay Cable Today"? We sure do. Like, we've announced somewhere between 12 and 20 shows currently under development for HBO and Showtime in the last few months. Where are they gonna find the time to show them all? Are they gonna become the new Fox or something, and show original programming 2 hours a night? Who can say.

Well, here's one show that we're pretty sure we can skip, unless the cast winds up being wickedly profoundly pants-ignitingly hot: Studio, the story of Steve Rubell and Studio 54, as told by Showtime. We don't care if Bryan Singer, one of the principle players in bringing House and the good X-Men movies to the screen, is behind it. He's also the Bryan Singer who gave us Superman Returns and an ill-fated American remake of Footballer's Wives. Besides, between all the disco movies of the late '90's and VH1, are we not a little tired of this story? Look, as we say: if the people are hot enough, we'll give it a shot -- but Lord knows that didn't make 54 any more watchable.

Well, ah-ha! says the New York Observer...

Studio won't be another docu-drama like the movie 54. The show will use Studio 54's co-founder Steve Rubell as a fictional character and recount the months leading to the club's April 1977 opening, according to the Reporter. But none of the other characters on the show will be based on a real person and the plot will be fictional.

Ah, we see; they're gonna take the broad-stroke circumstances of one actual dude and wrap a sex-laden, entire totally bullshit story around him? Hmm.. so basically it's The Tudors with coke? Pass.

Now here's a "Studio" somebody should make a show outta.

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Showtime Attempts To Succeed Where Mike Myers Failed, Announces Studio 54 Show