Two great tastes that taste great together, together again: We all remember how the McConaughssance peaked in 2014, when Matthew McConaughey portrayed ponytailed investigative savant Rust Cohle in the first season of True Detective. This week FX announced a script-to-series order — meaning that if FX likes the script, it will skip the pilot stage and go right to series — for Redeemer, which will reunite McConaughey with True Detective creator/showrunner Nic Pizzolatto. McConaughey will play “a former minister turned dissolute security guard whose search for a missing woman in Texas leads him through a corruption and criminal conspiracy, as his past and present impact and entwine around a mystery of escalating violence and deceit.” If that sounds familiar, you’d do well to remember that time is, indeed, a flat circle. (The Hollywood Reporter)
In other flat-circle news, Bill Murray will reportedly reprise his most (literally) indelible character, Phil Connors from the 1993 classic Groundhog Day, for a Jeep commercial that will run during the Super Bowl. Murray’s brother, Brian Doyle-Murray, and longtime That Guy Stephen Tobolowsky will also reprise their roles as the Mayor of Punxatawney and persistent insurance salesman Ned Ryerson, respectively. And, in other flat-circle news, Bill Murray will reportedly reprise his most (literally) indelible character, Phil Connors from the 1993 classic Groundhog Day, for a Jeep commercial that will run during the Super Bowl. (SlashFilm)
Frustrated because you can’t watch The Late Late Show with James Corden on Sling TV? Well frustrate no further, because Comedy Central is now airing next-day reruns in the morning, paired with the previous night’s Daily Show. Your treadmill will never know what hit it. (Variety)
