{"id":45308,"date":"2014-09-17T10:24:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/in-case-you-ever-thought-fox-was-league-with-the-devil.html"},"modified":"2014-09-18T10:10:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T16:10:25","slug":"in-case-you-ever-thought-fox-was-league-with-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/in-case-you-ever-thought-fox-was-league-with-the-devil.html","title":{"rendered":"In case you ever thought Fox was league with the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#39;re bringing him to TV.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the <i>Lucifer<\/i> comic (written by Mike Carey) was an excellent one, especially early days. The idea of a piano-playing Lucifer, prideful but burnt out, made me suddenly think of Hugh Laurie in the role, which would be awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Doing this up right would be a real coup. I have to wonder, though, how some of Fox News&#39; more, um, evangelical guests will react to the news. Granted, they seem to usually try and keep a bright line between &quot;news&quot; and &quot;entertainment&quot; (or at least pretend to), but I can&#39;t help but think this will ruffle a few feathers.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Geeks of Doom<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We were teased for year with the prospect of a television adaptation of Neil Gaiman&#39;s DC\/Vertigo Comics series Sandman, but that eventually turned into plans for a big screen adaptation. Now, a character from the Sandman universe will be making its way to&hellip;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.geeksofdoom.com\/2014\/09\/17\/fox-to-bring-dcs-sandman-spinoff-lucifer-to-tv'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/sKk_jxM_ew8PcskBow_c2ECN6mwjbuT0aWoz03jwWJfRKVirOui1D3eBRffvQGn1yCxdyACH5Cj7UgQBH_QPzjUrRkoLi3KkZ-xwHFO8r8GT2t_BK_iZ=w506-h303' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.geeksofdoom.com\/2014\/09\/17\/fox-to-bring-dcs-sandman-spinoff-lucifer-to-tv'>Fox To Bring DC&#8217;s &#8216;Sandman&#8217; Spinoff &#8216;Lucifer&#8217; To TV  &#8211; Geeks of Doom<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWe were teased for year with the prospect of a television adaptation of Neil Gaiman&#8217;s DC\/Vertigo Comics series Sandman, but that eventually turned into plans for a big screen adaptation. Now, a character from the Sandman universe will be making its way to the small screen from Warner Bros. TV and FOX for DC Entertainment.FOX has committed to producing a &#8220;put pilot&#8221; for Lucifer, DC\/Vertigo&#8217;s Sandman spin-off comic book series written by Mike Carey&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/YEu5Qw6GsUg'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#39;re bringing him to TV. Actually, the Lucifer comic (written by Mike Carey) was an excellent one, especially early days. The idea of a piano-playing Lucifer, prideful but burnt out, made me suddenly think of Hugh Laurie in the role, which would be awesome. Doing this up right would be a real coup. I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/in-case-you-ever-thought-fox-was-league-with-the-devil.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In case you ever thought Fox was league with the Devil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,11,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138639,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/20\/previously-on-lucifer.html","url_meta":{"origin":45308,"position":0},"title":"Previously, on &#8220;Lucifer&#8221; &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 20-Apr-19 10:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"We're ready for the show's return in a few weeks.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comics &amp; Comic Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comics &amp; Comic Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-comics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Lucifer.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Lucifer.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Lucifer.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11621,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/28\/bt07_tales_of_dark_magic.html","url_meta":{"origin":45308,"position":1},"title":"BT07 &#8211; Tales of Dark Magic","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 28-Jul-07 1:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Lucifer: Evensong, Vol. 11\u00a0(DC Vertigo) [collects #70-75] w. 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