OK, it's not quite as exciting as hearing that Steven Spielberg is putting down his pina colada and ending his, admittedly well earned, break. But the news that Spielberg is working on two TV shows is still enough to get our Minority Report branded underpants in a twist.
Spielberg, who becomes eligible for his free bus pass next Monday, is helping Ed Burns and Christy 'Mrs Ed Burns' Turlington develop a show about five twenty-somethings with jobs in the fashion world. Spielberg came up with the idea after becoming overwhelmed by the fabulosity at New York Fashion Week. The combination of the words 'Ed Burns' and 'fashion' have our finger quivering over the remote control, but then the premise of 24 - man runs around for a full day laughing in the face of logic and never going for a wee - didn't sound as great as it became.
The second show is being written by Scott Gemmill and concerns two American WWII physicists who discover a way to travel to the future. After, presumably, a bit of betting on the horses and finding out what happens in Eastenders sixty years down the line, the two use their new power to try to aid the war effort, but start upsetting the space-time continuum. Time travellers never learn.
Spielberg also recently announced that he's working on a documentart on time travel, as well as a six-hour mini-series based on Stephen King's novel The Talisman. Which actually has probably left him very little time for pina coladas.