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You know what I always missed when I watched Parks and Rec and The Office? Dead Bodies. I always thought, "Man, if only this took place at a funeral home." Well, it looks like my prayers have been answered, because that's just what Jamie Lee Curtis has started working on with CBS.

The project is called Quality of Life, and it is planned to be a multi-cam comedy in the same vein as Parks and Rec and Modern Family. I think that a funeral home has a lot of untapped potential. I mean how many comedies take place there? After Scream Queens was canceled after the second season, this will give Curtis a great comedy outlet. She has proven herself in the world of comedy in the past couple years in my eyes. 

The project will be produced by CBS, and I have a lot of faith in it. We'll...

Jamie Lee Curtis is attached to star in and executive produce the multi-camera comedy “Quality of Life,” which has been put into development at CBS. A multi-camera comedy, the project centers on a family-run funeral business and is described as “a show about life and marriage and sibling rivalry and the unique perspective that growing up in a funeral home gives you.” “Till Death” alum Janis Hirsch serves as writer and executive producer on the multi-camera comedy alongside Curtis. Also Read: CBS Boss Fires 'Must-See TV' Shot at First-Place NBC: '90s Ad Slogan 'Doesn't Fit Anymore' The project hails from CBS Television Studios.

CBS has put in development Quality of Life, a multi-camera comedy from Jamie Lee Curtis, Janis Hirsch, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum and CBS Television Studios, with Curtis attached to star and executive produce. Co-written by Hirsch (Till Death) and Curtis, Quality of Life is described as a multi-generational sitcom about a family-run funeral business and the unique perspective that growing up in a funeral home gives you. Hirsch and Curtis also executive produce with Erik and…...

Jamie Lee Curtis and CBS are looking to put the “fun” back in funerals.

The Scream Queens star has signed on to star in and executive-produce a CBS sitcom currently in development that’s set at a funeral home, according to our sister site Variety. In the multi-camera comedy, titled Quality of Life, Curtis will play the matriarch of a family that’s run a funeral home for generations.

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Curtis came up with the idea for the series along with Janis Hirsch (Will & Grace,...

The people have spoken. The votes have been counted. And three new figures are ready to represent you . . . on the Monopoly board.

Fans of the game cast 4.3 million votes from 146 countries during “Monopoly Token Madness,” a 21-day voting period in January, to select the eight pieces they would find in the next generation of the game.

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On Monday, Hasbro announced the winners: A rubber ducky, T-rex and penguin will join the Scottie dog, top hat, car, battleship, and cat in a new edition of the classic board game,...

This story originally appeared on time.com.

Vienna, Austria was once again ranked the city with the highest quality of life — for the eighth year in a row.

European cities dominated most of the top 10 spots on the annual Mercer Quality of Life Survey, which ranks 231 cities by evaluating various quality-of-life factors including healthcare, education, housing and environment. Zurich, Switzerland and Aukland, New Zealand followed Vienna — the same ranking order as. Three German cities — Munich, Dusseldorf and Frankfurt — also made it into the top 10 as did Basel, Switzerland, a newcomer to the list.

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Research has shown that happier employees are more productive in the workplace.

For the globe-trotting, Emmy Award-winning host of “Parts Unknown,” chef Anthony Bourdain, that can be achieved with one simple rule.

”The No A–hole Rule,” Bourdain said in a recent New Yorker podcast interview, when asked how he avoided burnout. “Absolutely everyone I do business with I like. I always ask myself: Look. There’s a lot of money involved here—but if the phone rings at 10 at night, am I going to go, ‘aw damn’? I’m not going to do that… life is too short.”

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A not-quite-a-remake-but-still-revamped version of Final Fantasy Xii is headed to PlayStation 4 next year, sporting a new subtitle: The Zodiac Age.

Announcing the re-release on Sony’s PlayStation blog, Square Enix producer Hiroaki Kato says that fans of the 2006 original can expect to see several “modern advancements” when they step foot in Ivalice once again, including a new ‘Zodiac Job’ system and a Trial Mode.

Final Fantasy Xii The Zodiac Age is officially making its way to North American and European shores in 2017! Players can expect several modern advancements when they return to Ivalice, including a reconstructed battle design and a revamped job system. I am excited for North America and Europe to experience several all-new gameplay features, including The Zodiac Job System and Trial Mode for the first time!

But that’s far from being everything that Square Enix is planning to improve over the PlayStation 2 version. Along with new systems,...

The Golden Leopard of Locarno Film Festival’s 68th edition went to Right Now, Wrong Then by South Korea’s Hong Sang-soo.Scroll down for full list of winners

The top award comes two years after Sang-soo picked up the Leopard for Best Direction for his previous feature, Our Sunhi.

A previous winner of Locarno’s top award from South Korea was Bae Yong-kyun for Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Dalmaga dongjogeuro gan kkadalgeun) in 1989.

Right Now, Wrong Then – which is handled internaitonally by Fine Cut - also received the Best Actor Leopard for Jung Jae-Young and a Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury.

The International Jury – which included German actor Udo Kier, Israeli filmmaker Nadiv Lapid and veteran Us director Jerry Schatzberg awarded its Special Jury Prize to Avishai Sivan for Tikkun, and the Leopard for Best Direction to the veteran Polish director Andrzej Zulawski for Cosmos, his first film...

Locarno’s Golden Leopard has been awarded to Filipino director Lav Diaz’s five-and-a-half-hour epic From What Is Before.Scroll down for full list of winners

The film, which has the Filipino title Mula sa kung ano ang noon, also picked up the Fipresci International Critics Prize, the Environment is Quality of Life Prize, and the International Federation of Film Societies’ (Iffs) Don Quixote Prize.

On learning that he had won Locarno’s top honour, Diaz said that he wanted to dedicate the award to his father.

“He brought me cinema, he’s a cinema addict, and he started this passion in me,” said Diaz.

“For the Filipino people, it’s for them, for their struggle, and then I would like to dedicate it to all serious filmmakers in the world, to Pedro Costa, he’s my brother and I love his work, to Matias Pineiro, and to the makers of all the other films in the...

The From Dusk Till Dawn TV series continues to bolster its cast and we’ve learned that Adrianne Palicki, Jake Busey, and Lane Garrison are the latest additions:

“New York and Austin, TX – December 16, 2013 – Additional cast members have joined the Austin-based production of the highly-anticipated, “From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series,”premiering in Q1 2014 on El Rey Network, the new 24-hour English-language cable network. Produced in association with FactoryMade Ventures and created and executive produced by network founder and filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, the supernatural crime saga (based on the cult classic film of the same name) will feature Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights, G.I. Joe: Retaliation) in the newly-created role of Vanessa Styles; Jake Busey (Starship Troopers, Enemy of the State, Identity) as Professor Aiden Tanner; and Lane Garrison (Bonnie & Clyde, Prison Break) as Pete, a character portrayed by John Hawkes in the original film. The 10-episode series will serve...

"The Big C" returned to Showtime Monday (April 29) with the first of four one-hour episodes that will wrap up the award-winning dramedy about Cathy Jamison and her battle with cancer.

The first episode of "Hereafter" is titled "Quality of Life" and for Cathy that means no more chemotherapy. It turns out her wonderful, carefree boat ride with Angel was actually a hallucination. Cathy was found during her diving excursion and rushed to the hospital.

The cancer is metastasizing in her brain and for that, Dr. Sherman has recommended chemotherapy. But as it turns out, the good doctor also has cancer (colon) and it is his outlook on wanting to keep working that causes Cathy to quit her job, start doing the things she wants to do and to live out the rest of her life feeling as good as she can, rather than as a woman sickened from the chemotherapy.

Las Vegas — Beauties from every state are competing for the Miss America crown Saturday night, an honor that carries with it a $50,000 scholarship and a yearlong run as an advocate and role model.

The winner will go on tour, speaking to groups around the country and raising money for the Children's Miracle Network, the organization's official charity.

The competition at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip is the culmination of a week of preliminary competitions and months of preparations for the titleholders from all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each one has already proven her poise, charm and volubility by winning her state crown.

The queens have been staying at Planet Hollywood, but the humming slot machines and flashing marquees have been little more than a blurry backdrop for a tight schedule of rehearsals, media events and one-on-one interviews with the judges.

If you know the Doom or Quake series, you know American McGee. Eleven years after American McGee's Alice was unleashed on PCs and Macs across the world, McGee's company, Spicy Horse, and EA have teamed up once again (with Unreal Engine 3 this time) for the long awaited sequel, Alice: Madness Returns.

Also set eleven years later, Alice finds herself questioning her repressed memories of her parents' death and wondering if it really Was an accident. As time goes on, frequent and severe hallucinations force her to return to Wonderland; but it's not the same place she remembered.

Meet American McGee - Tester, Level Designer, Sound Designer, Tools Programmer, Co-Producer, Co-Writer, Producer, Creative Director, Developer, Founder/Owner ... coolest motherfucker on the planet.

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American McGee: The...

We already knew that there were Yankee fans in the comics community, thanks to the Twitter Report feed, and they showed up along with some non-Yankees supporters today to mourn the lost of the team's owner George Steinbrenner. I have a feeling that a few of them were more familiar with Steinbrenner on "Seinfeld" than they were with his real-life business endeavors.

Elsewhere, if you follow any faces at all in comics on Twitter, you've probably seen the #movieswithbatman tag showing all over the place. I've included Gene Ha and Warren Ellis' submissions below, along with critical comparison of early "Avengers" comics to "Jersey Shore" and Fred Van Lente's feelings about "Entourage."

I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is the Twitter Report for July 13, 2010.

George Steinbrenner pt. 1: @ronmarz I'm no Yankee fan, but I admire their success and way of doing business. They are what they are today because of George Steinbrenner.

Our collective dream of a Jetsons-like future is inching closer to reality with a little help from Intel, which this week showed off Herb (the Home Exploring Robot Butler) to FastCompany.com. The robotic butler, built as part of a collaboration with the Quality of Life Technology Center and Carnegie Mellon University, uses six multi-core computers along with multiple sensors to perform various tasks around the kitchen.

Herb has some powerful capabilities. It can serve, toss things in the trash (or recycling), sort dishes and place them in the dishwasher, and more. But there are still plenty of issues to overcome before Herb can will be scrubbing your pots. During our demonstration, Intel programmers spent nearly 10 minutes debugging code before the Herb was finally able to grasp a container and throw it away. Once Herb got going, though, we could see a real-life robo-maid become a very distinct possibility. Check out our video below.

The woman who broke Irish actor, Stuart Townsend's heart, Charlize Theron, listened to the adivse her mother dished out. Theron's mother told her to keep things to herself. Theron, who recently launched the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, said keeping things to herself improves the quality of her life. She said: “There are little things that I want to hang on to for myself. I really do believe you can make certain choices in your life that give you the life you really do like. "There are certain things in my life that I hold on to very sacredly. Maybe it was the way I was raised. My mom used to always say, 'There's certain things that are yours and you don't share that.' "I know that so much of my life is out there already. Quality of life is incredibly important to me, and I don't know...

Charlize Theron's mother has taught her to never give too much away. The Oscar-winning actress, who recently split from long-term partner Stuart Townsend, likes to keep some things to herself as she believes it improves the quality of her life.

"There are little things that I want to hang on to for myself. I really do believe you can make certain choices in your life that give you the life you really do like," she said. "There are certain things in my life that I hold on to very sacredly. Maybe it was the way I was raised."

"My mom used to always say, 'There's certain things that are yours and you don't share that.' I know that so much of my life is out there already. Quality of life is incredibly important to me, and I don't know how much quality of life you can really have...

Putting her time in at the gym, Charlize Theron was spotted leaving her workout facility in West Hollywood, CA on Wednesday (April 29).

Not wanting her picture taken, the “The Road” actress attempted to hide under an umbrella, but those sneaky paps snapped up a few shots anyway.

In a recent interview, Ms Theron reiterated that she likes to keep certain things private. She told press, “There are certain things in my life that I hold on to very sacredly. Maybe it was the way I was raised. My mom used to always say, ‘There’s certain things that are yours and you don’t share that.’”

Continuing on, Charlize admitted, “I know that so much of my life is out there already. Quality of life is incredibly important to me, and I don’t know how much quality of life you can really have if it’s all out there for the world.

Dito Montiel (i.e. the director of Channing Tatum's past and future films 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints', 'Fighting', 'Brotherhood of the Rose', and 'Son of No One') has sent out another casting call for the next movie that Chan will film.

'Son of No One' is currently in pre-production and will start filming in New York City very soon. This Sunday the production will be holding an open call for boys and girls of any race who can pass for ages 14 through 16. No experience is necessary, but please only attend the open call if you fit the age appearance requirement.

The open call will take place at Kaufman Astoria Studios on March 7th at 3412 36th Street in Queens between 12 and 4pm. You can Click Here for directions. Minors Must bring a parent or legal guardian with them to the casting call.

Dito Montiel (i.e. the director of Channing Tatum’s past and future films ‘A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints’, ‘Fighting‘, ‘Brotherhood of the Rose‘, and ‘Son of No One‘) has sent out another casting call for the next movie that Chan will film.

‘Son of No One‘ is currently in pre-production and will start filming in New York City very soon. This Sunday the production will be holding an open call for boys and girls of any race who can pass for ages 14 through 16. No experience is necessary, but please only attend the open call if you fit the age appearance requirement.

The open call will take place at Kaufman Astoria Studios on March 7th at 3412 36th Street in Queens between 12 and 4pm. You can Click Here for directions. Minors Must bring a parent or legal guardian with them to the casting call.

Last I heard, ‘Son of No...

The Academy Awards nominations for 2010 hit close to home for the comics world this morning -- and not just because sci-fi and animated films like "Avatar," "District 9" and "Up" made it into the Best Picture category. Neil Gaiman's "Coraline" adaptation earned a Best Animated Feature Film nod, and Kevin Smith's former sound collaborator ended up with a Best Sound Editing acknowledgment.

Even if they don't have a horse in the race for the Oscars, most creators still had opinions to share, though. You can find retweeted reactions to "District 9," "Up" and "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" actress Anna Kendrick's nomination for "Up in the Air" after the jump. And even if the Oscars don't interest you, you can check out what Dave Gibbons thought of "Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut" and discover which big-name writer took a taxi to McDonald's yesterday.

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I just wanted to remind everyone that the open casting call for Chan's movie 'Son of No One' is Today!!

For those who don't know, 'Son of No One' will be directed by Dito Montiel (i.e. the director of Chan's past and future films 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints', 'Fighting', and 'Brotherhood of the Rose') and will start filming in New York City in March 2010. The crime thriller will be released some time in 2011.

The production is holding an open call for boys and girls of any race today in New York City. They are looking for boys to play 15 year old versions of Channing Tatum and Terrence Howard. 'Son of No One' is also looking for girls who look like they're 15.

In case you're wondering what Chan looked like around the age of 15, you can...

MySpace has teamed with independent film distributor Bside Entertainment and festival consultants Right Angle Studios to present the Bside Roadshow. The touring film and music festival will kick off June 4 with a large, free outdoor show in downtown Austin. The tour also will showcase a series of regional MySpace bands encompassing such genres as alternative, hip-hop, rock and reggae. Films participating in June's inaugural Bside Roadshow include documentary Before the Music Dies, MySpace audience choice award Quality of Life and docu-comedy The Outdoorsman: Blood, Sweat and Beers.