Shattered
Mick Jagger made nonmusic news recently when he agreed to appear in an ABC-TV pilot tentatively titled Let’s Rob Mick Jagger, a 24-style serial comedy wherein former MTV cabdriver Donal Logue and friends plot a season-long heist of Jagger’s penthouse apartment. Left unreported was the fact that the show is actually only one of several Rolling Stones-related projects in development. A few of the others:
SURVIVOR: FIJI: Two teams, the Sticky Fingers and Tattoo Yous, square off in the now-familiar series of endurance – and ingenuity-testing challenges, modified for participants’ advancing ages. Production suspended after Keith Richards‘ and Ronnie Wood‘s boozy race to the top of a palm tree goes awry.
THE LONELY PLANET WITH CHARLIE WATTS: Watts recently announced the band’s current Bigger Bang tour would be his last. Here he takes over this PBS travel series from Monty Python alumnus Michael Palin and studies percussion techniques in exotic locales including Morocco, Indonesia, and South London.
MAKING THE BAND: Single-camera show that documents bassist Darryl Jones‘ daily life as he repeatedly tries to convince skeptical friends and family that he is, in fact, a member of the Rolling Stones.
TUMBLING DICE: Sitcom starring Jagger as doddering yet saucy single dad dodging paternity suits while coping with houseful of young children, some of whom may even be his. Co-starring Bill Wyman as the unemployed but wacky neighbor.
This article appears in May 19 • 2006.