
While Brad Pitt's been busy
releasing photos of his new babies, his production company, Plan B, has
picked up the rights to a four-volume manga series by Mark Crilley titled
Miki Falls. Variety has more details:
Story chronicles the final year of high school for Miki Yoshida, the series’ protag who tries to befriend handsome new student Hiro Sakurai but is met with resistance. Stubborn Miki, however, refuses to take no for an answer, which leads to a surprising revelation about the secretive young man.

Fans of
Gossip Girl, rejoice! There's another season of frenemy-making, backstabbing, and rabble-rousing from S, B, and the rest of the Upper East Siders coming our way.
Gossip Girl is
one of six series that the CW renewed today.

In a night filled with
quite a few repeats, the
Supernatural Christmas episode seems like it could be a bright spot. The episode finds brother demon-hunters Sam and Dean Winchester investigating a series of mysterious murders in which the victims were sucked up through the chimney — kind of like Santa in reverse. In fact, the brothers realize their killer himself is a demonic Anti-Santa.

While
Phasekitty was collecting news from many of the movie panels at
Comic-Con in San Diego this weekend, many TV shows were breaking news of their own. Among the most exciting bits:
Kevin Smith will be directing an episode of "Heroes: Origins," the spinoff that's set to air next spring. The announcement apparently took even the
"Heroes" cast by surprise, as one member exclaimed, "No way!