Tennessee Williams’s Formative Gay-Repression Years Subject Of New Biodrama

· Taylor Hackford is set to direct Tenn, about Tennessee Williams’s formative years. It’s being financed by the same company that brought you Capote, the second part of their planned Great Sissies of History trilogy that will conclude with the harrowing fitness-empire biodrama, Simmons. [Variety]
· Author Plum Sykes is co-writing a sitcom pilot for NBC called Mogulettes, about young, beautiful she-captains of industry. No one remotely suspects what they’re hiding in their pantyhose! [Variety]
· The End of Ideas: We Can’t Even Really Be Bothered To Type Out The Rest of This Etc. Etc. Edition: A TV version of The Witches of Eastwick gets a pilot pickup at ABC. [Variety]
· Starz’s Vongo and Morgan Freeman’s ClickStar both shutter their internet-movie-download operations. [Variety]
· Oh, for the love of God: “CBS is saying aloha to a new installment of the Hawaii Five-O franchise from Criminal Minds exec producer/showrunner Ed Bernero.” Aloha means goodbye in this instance, we hope. [THR]