One major criticism still thrown at Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 classic, The Birds , is simple. It's too short! Two hours of a San Francisco socialite being mysteriously pursued and clawed by winged beasts wasn't enough. Not even the 1994 made-for-TV sequel The Birds II: Land's End could quell viewers' avian flu. Finally, the fine folks at the Home Box Office have heard your squawks, and they've got a whole limited series starring Sarah Snook to satisfy the flightless masses. Deadline reports that HBO is developing a Birds TV show from the guys who brought you Watchman and the upcoming Harry Potter series that its cast keeps apologizing for.
Leftovers executive producer Tom Spezialy and Harry Potter EP David Heyman are adding some new elements to their modern-day adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novella. The pilot episode, written by Spezialy, apparently throws a murder mystery and some new characters, particularly a new protagonist, Myra Massey (Snook), into the feeder. According to Deadline , the pilot follows Myra after a bitter custody battle. Returning home with her daughter, she begins secretly investigating a childhood friend's disappearance, and that's when the birds start pec...