A Comedy About The Apocalypse and Other Entertainment News

This should be interesting. The folks who brought you Superbad are working on a comedy about the end of the world:

The end days are near for Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel. The pair will star in the action comedy "Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse" for Mandate Pictures.

The film is based on a comedy short from "Superbad" scribes Rogen and Evan Goldberg, which in turn was based on a story by Goldberg and Jason Stone. Rogen and Goldberg will write and produce the feature.

Several production companies vied for the rights to the comedy, which revolves, as the title implies, around two guys dealing with the apocalypse. Last summer, the project caused a stir in the blogosphere when a trailer for the short appeared on YouTube.

And speaking of shows about the end of the world, I've got some good news and some bad news about "Battlestar Galactica." The bad news is that there will be no more new episodes until 2009. Here is the good news:

According to well-informed sources, it’s almost certain that at least one “Battlestar Galactica” TV movie will be made this year.

Here’s even better news: The last-ever episode of “Battlestar” will run three hours, which means that final part of Season 4 will be 11 hours long.

You heard that right: The last leg of the show’s final season will expand to 11 hours, instead of the originally planned 10 hours.

As he discussed here, the show’s executive producer, Ronald D. Moore, wrote "Battlestar's" final episode, which, as written, is three hours long (a wild guess here: Sci Fi probably wouldn’t air the whole thing in one night). Mary McDonnell described her reaction to the script this way: It filled her with "an incredible feeling of adrenaline,” she told Ain't It Cool News. “It made me understand the entire saga, and made me excited for all of you.”

A Sci Fi spokesman said Friday, "As written by Ron, the phenomenal finale script extends beyond the time alotted for the episode. We're exploring how to shoot the extra footage as Ron has envisioned and written it."

And here you go, Dan: The classic 60s British television series The Prisoner is getting an update. Ain't It Cool News is reporting that the new Prisoner miniseries is set to begin shooting this August in Africa and will star Ian McKellen (Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy) as Number Two and Jim Caviezel (Christ in Jesus Chainsaw Massacre) as Number Six.

The reason I mentioned Dan is because, a couple of years ago, I convinced him to watch the first few episodes of the old series, but he didn't really like it. He said it was "too dated" but he did appreciate how it explained an episode of The Simpsons. Maybe the updated version will be more to his liking.