Spielberg takes to the catwalk

Steven Spielberg is developing a slew of new TV projects, including a show set in the world of fashion.

Dec 12 2006

With TV appearing to have replaced film as Tinseltown's centre of creativity, director Steven Spielberg has traded in the big for the small screen by taking part in a number of new projects with his Dreamworks TV Company.

While he might have made the cap and sunglasses combo a staple of director couture, Spielberg's is not the first name that comes to mind when one ponders the world of high fashion. It so happens, however, that attending New York Fashion Week's annual extravaganza inspired the director to create a TV show set in the purging, cat-calling world of fashion. In the vein of 'Entourage', the one-hour show follows six twenty-something fashion flunkies including a photographer, a designer, a make-up artist and a model. Director Ed Burns and his wife, former supermodel Christy Turlington, will be penning the drama for Fox.

Spielberg's second Fox project is more closely allied with his past interests. The one-hour show, written by Scott Gemill, centres around two WWII physicists who figure out how to travel through time. The pair hopscotch from the past to the future in order to aid the war effort, but in so doing accidentally upset the space-time continuum.

The former executive producer of the 'Back to the Future' dynasty continues to purge his Stephen Hawking-esque passions with another time travel show, this time in the shape of a documentary on the subject.
Last but not least, Spielberg announced last week that he and Dreamworks TV are joining forces with TNT to produce a six-hour miniseries. The show will be based on Stephen King and Peter Straub's 1980s fantasy 'The Talisman'.