1. The MTV Movie Awards might not be a big deal (though don’t tell your favorite teen that), but you must be doing something right to be named the show’s host, especially when few people in America knew who you were just two years ago. Next year’s awards will be hosted by Australian comedian Rebel Wilson, who’s appeared (and made us laugh) in “Bridesmaids,” “Bachelorette,” “Pitch Perfect,” and will star in ABC’s upcoming single-camera sitcom, “Super Fun Night.” The MTV Movie Awards will air April 14. [Inside Movies/EW]
2. The CW’s love affair with fairy tales, or at least stories you read as kid, continues, as the network is developing a Robin Hood-based series called “Sherwood.” The show, penned by “Cashmere Mafia” writer Tze Chun, revolves, “around a young noblewoman who sets out to free her serf boyfriend, who has been wrongfully imprisoned by ruthless Norman occupiers. Seeing help from the vanished Robin of Locksley, she inadvertently reunites — and joins — the fabled Robin Hood and his Merry Men, inspiring new hope for the oppressed people of Nottingham.” Amazingly, the show, unlike most of the network’s other offerings, won’t be modernized and will instead be set in 1072. [THR]
3. The revival of David Mamet‘s “Glengary Glen Ross” isn’t the only production to earn back its initial investment this season. So did the Disney musical “Newsies.” The production, an adaptation of a relatively unsuccessful 1992 movie, has now recouped its $5 million capitalization, and is Disney’s fifth musical to turn a profit. “Newsies” opened in March and won two Tonys in June. [Artsbeat/NYT]
4. We’re used to British television stories being adapted for American audiences (we’re looking at you NBC), but what about the other way around. It happens, but usually the show in question isn’t a beloved television classic that’s been off the air for nearly twenty years like “Cheers,” which is currently being readied for Irish language channel TG4 by Dublin-based Sideline Productions. In this version Stan Malone’s name will be named Sean and his “past changed from being a former baseball star to an Irish sport and also promises localized versions of Cheers’ now classic bar regulars.” Sounds…interesting? [THR]
5. Watch “Ohm,” the latest video from legendary indie rockers Yo La Tengo. Band member Ira Kaplan had this to say about the song: “I am reminded of the oddball great Beach Boys song “A Day in the Life of a Tree,” from Surf’s Up and sung on that record by their manager at the time Jack Rieley (adequate vocalists obviously being hard to come by in the Beach Boys proper), covered once and only once by YLT–Sept. 17, 1998, at Maxwell’s.” “Ohm” is on “Fade,” the band’s 13th studio album, which Matador Records will release on January 15. [Pitchfork]
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