The Return of Mr. Ed
Okay. Sherman Hemsley? “Mr. Ed has his own wild ways”? So let me get this straight: Fox has run out of every single reality show and teenage drama set in California ideas that they’ve now started remaking some of the stupidest TV series ever made? Someone’s been smoking some SERIOUSLY bad crack.
I give it six months until we hear about the BJ & The Bear remake. (sigh)
Mr. Ed Gets Hip
Sara Paxton, who stars in a pilot remake of Mr. Ed for the Fox network, told SCI FI Wire that she plays Amanda, the daughter of Wilbur, owner of the title talking horse. The proposed remake of the classic 1960s sitcom deals in part with the problems of Amanda, whose character didn’t exist in the original show.
“The family has to move from New York to the country, because I’m going wild, having big parties and going crazy,” Paxton said in an interview. “They say, ‘OK, we need to get her away from the city. She’s got to go to the country to calm down.’ And a horse comes to the property, Mr. Ed, who can talk. But I guess they haven’t solved [Amanda's] problem, because I’m still with all the guys in the country.”
The new Mr. Ed has his own wild ways, too. “Mr. Ed now is played by Sherman Hemsley [The Jeffersons], and he’s kind of like the hip Mr. Ed,” Paxton said. “He was a police horse in New York City. He likes to trample the peace-loving hippies. He’s wild and crazy and fun.”
Paxton added that the pilot features computer-animated enhancements to make Mr. Ed talk. “It was really hard to train the horse to get in that exact position” for the CG, she added. Fox has not yet picked up Mr. Ed as a series.
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