We are wholeheartedly fucking psyched for a B.E.E.-penned "horror-tinged" soap to make its way to our TV screens. Called "The Canyons" ("a reference to Los Angeles but also a 'metaphor for the chasm people have in relating to each other'"), the series will center around a young New York magazine editor who follows a friend to LA, only to find himself isolated when the friend is killed in a mysterious accident. Awesome! We love it when B.E.E. taps into his Stephen King/Christopher Pike streak.

The six main characters — including an art gallery owner, lawyer, event planner and a closeted bartender — deal with career and relationship issues. They encounter violent situations and anxieties that are briefly manifested as monsters and other apparitions that may or may not be real.

So it's like Ally McBeal, except instead of a retarded dancing baby it's a face-eating Furby hallucination. We're setting our nonexistent TiVo in gleeful anticipation already!

"American Psycho" Author Plans Showtime Horror [Reuters/Hollywood Reporter]

5:45 PM on Tue Dec 12 2006
By Emily Gould
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GaryGnu at 06:03 PM on 12/12/06
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Is "The Canyons" also a reference to the constant gash-flashin of Paris, Britney, et al?
Sailor at 06:19 PM on 12/12/06
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no, more likely an indicator of how interesting this project is going to be.
TedSez at 06:57 PM on 12/12/06
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Connectedness Index: 583

"It's like, in Los Angeles, people are all rich and trendy, and they all have these really cool jobs, but the problem is they can't, like, connect. It's like they go driving on the freeways, and they're afraid to freakin' merge. Oh, wait, I used that metaphor already. I know: Canyons!"
lovelyday at 07:30 PM on 12/12/06
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Less Than Zero Interst In Watching.
clashcityrockerkat at 07:40 PM on 12/12/06
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It sounds like all six of his books rolled up into one helluvva daytime-soap rizla.
heartbreakturnip at 09:18 PM on 12/12/06
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Jay: Help me, Brett, I'm falling into the caaaanyonnnnnnnnnn.

[Audible] Splat. Sound of dripping blood.

[Jumpcut] Crows scattering, bits of wedding cake in their beaks.

[Jumpcut] Close in on bloodshot eyes, tuxedo tie askew.

Brettt: Oh my God. [Beat.] Jay. [Beat.] I feel so isolated now. It hurts, man. Damn you, Jay. [Peers over precipice] And you also look like shit.
RonMwangaguhunga at 10:17 AM on 12/13/06
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Why'd you have to mention the Furby hallucination, huh Gawker? Why'd you have to go there?
raincoaster at 12:56 PM on 12/13/06
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That's no hallucination. Never, never turn your back on a Furby with fresh batteries.
Clare at 01:02 PM on 12/13/06
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This sounds an awful lot like "Mulholland Drive: The Pay-Cable Series." Which, ironically, "Mulholland Drive" was originally supposed to be. ¡No hay banda!