EXCLUSIVE: Seth MacFarlane is one of the busiest creatives in show business -- and he just got a lot busier. I've just learned that he's finally realized one of his life's ambitions: to reboot The Flintstones as a TV and film property. My scoop today follows years of very complicated negotiations between 20th Century Fox TV, where McFarlane is based, and Warner Bros Television, which owns the rights to the series after absorbing The Flintstones' famed producer Hanna-Barbera. Not only did the suits have a ton of deal points to work through, but I hear the "Yabba Dabba Doo" prehistoric family sitcom's rightholders were somewhat concerned how the classic series would be interpreted given MacFarlane's brand of raunchy comedies like Family Guy. (But, if you ask me, Universal's dreadful Flintstones films were the real abomination ...) So here are all the Hollywood players who had to unentangle this mess: MacFarlane's attorney Jim Jackoway, WME's Ari Emanuel and Greg Hodes; 20th Century Fox TV's Gary Newman, Ira Kurghan, and Howard Kurtzman; and Warner Bros Television's Peter Roth, Brett Paul and even Bruce Rosenblum. There's no broadcast date as of yet, but the reboot will air on Fox.
I never could figure out how Fred and Wilma did it. I mean, he was huge and she had that little bitty waist. I always wondered if Wilma and Betty would strip down to nothing but their rock necklaces while the boys were at the quarry and...
Wilma was hot. Betty not so much.
Would smash either
^^This man, he knows!Mr. Slates secretary would also have got it.
Did you see Pebbles when she grew up? Damn
Heard Bam Bam turned out to be gay
Made Mr Slate a happy man...
Thats what you get for letting a pet like Dino stick around.But not Fred.
Pump your brakes, kid. That's the closet thing they had to a dog....you telling me that you hate dogs?
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