David Chase’s SOPRANOS Named Best Written TV Series of All Time – Big 6 Morning Report

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• The Writers Guild of America announced its 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time, and David Chase’s Mob drama The Sopranos topped the list, followed by Seinfeld and The Twilight Zone. The truly best written, acted, directed and just all around greatest series, The Wire, made the list at No. 9. (WGA)
• Forest Whitaker is going for Oscar number 2. He’s in talks to star as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Paul Greengrass‘s long gestating passion project Memphis. (The Wrap)
• Fast & Furious 6 topped the box office for a second weekend in a row, trailed by newcomers Now You See Me and Will Smith’s epic flop After Earth. (BOMojo)
• NBC has made its second good decision in as many working days. First they renewed Hannibal for another season. Now Community creator Dan Harmon is coming back for season five of the show after being fired prior to season 4. (The Wrap)
• Speaking of Hannibal, Indiewire’s Alison Wilmore does an phenomenal job of  unpacking the grisly violence in here feature articles “How Hannibal Earns Its Violence by Engaging Our Fears About Watching.” Check it out on Indiewire.com.
• Michael Douglas said in a candid interview that his throat cancer was caused by oral sex. His throat cancer was caused by contracting HPV. Wishing Gordon Gekko the best. (THR)