Today there are two new pieces of news from the "you can pretty much cancel your cable and Tivo" department. Michael Cera, best known as George Michael Bluth on the lamented Arrested Development, has signed on with CBS to bring a new Web series called The Good Life to their online station Innertube. Cera and writing/acting partner Clark Duke, who also perform in the band The Long Goodbye, have been posting low-budget videos via YouTube on their MySpace Film page, which apparently grabbed the attention of the network, who has ordered eight episodes of the mockumentary about two TV producers who begin prematurely living it up like fat cats before they've actually sold their TV show, or to paraphrase Cera's ex-narrator Ron Howard, spending money they haven't yet earned from jobs they don't yet have.
Meanwhile, Jack Black is teaming up with Rob Schrab and Dan Harmon, creators of Scud: The Disposable Assassin and Monster House, to bring a new viewer's choice show to VH1 and VH1.com, based on Schrab and Harmon's innovative Channel 101. Just like that "channel," The Department of Acceptable Media Presents: Acceptable TV will feature an ever-expanding array of short TV pilots created by Black, Schrab, and Harmon, and amateur Internet filmmakers. The best pilots will be compiled on each Acceptable episode, and viewers can vote online for which shows should get followup episodes. All of the pilots, accepted or not, will be on display at VH1.com.
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