It’s amazing what 140 characters can do! Twitter sensation Sh*t My Dad Says, the creation of Justin Halpern, is heading to the television format at CBS, and now with Shatner confirmed in the lead, the series has been green lit for a pilot. Halpern set up the Twitter feed after he moved back in with his parents in San Diego, California. The series of tweets is based on simple daily conversations he has with his curmudgeonly, and often delightfully profane, 73-year-old father.
In case you have forgotten, Shatner is a classically-trained Shakespearean actor, an Emmy award-winning TV veteran, sci-fi novelist, Priceline.com pitchman, and the world’s most famous interpreter of Elton John’s pop song “Rocket Man.” His renditions of Sarah Palin’s gubernatorial resignation speech and her novel Going Rogue on Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show were truly in the stratosphere of his lifetime of work.
Shatner was most recently seen in the closing ceremony of the Vancouver Winter Olympics, along with such Canadian luminaries as Michael J. Fox, Catherine O’ Hara, Neil Young, Michael Buble and Inward Eye. Shatner, a native of Montreal, proudly told the world last night, “We are a people who know how to make love in a canoe.”
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