Jeff Goldblum is in talks to star in the pilot for a new NBC drama called “Seeing Red.” To be directed by Oscar nominee Frank Darabont, the program centers around an “eccentric, brilliant cop with the ability to talk to dead victims, who help him solve his cases.”
One can’t help wondering why none of those same dead people have yet informed Goldblum or the creators of “Seeing Red” that we have already seen this show at least four times…when it was called “Medium,” “Tru Calling,” “The Ghost Whisperer,” and, in theaters, “The Sixth Sense.”
Can’t we leave the dead people dead for once? They must be tired of all that crime-solving by now, wouldn’t you think? When it’s my turn to be dead, I’m not going to waste valuable time fighting crime. I’ll be sitting on the couch with a quart of Baskin-Robbins Pralines ‘n’ Cream, watching TLC home makeover shows non-stop, only getting up long enough to spook the neighbors’ high-strung lapdog every once in a while.
But that’s just me.
