Robin Williams Eyes Return to TV on New David E. Kelley Sitcom

Robin Williams is eyeing a return to TV with a half-hour sitcom from The Practice and Ally McBeal creator David E. Kelley, according to The Hollywood Reporter. CBS is reportedly interested in the show, which is set in the advertising industry. Kelley wrote and will produce the still unnamed single-camera series for 20th TV, and Bill D'Elia is set as executive producer. The show is Kelley's first half-hour sitcom since Doogie Howser, M.D.

The show would mark Williams' first starring sitcom role since Mork and Mindy 30 years ago, though he has recently guest starred on Louie and Wilfred. Michael J. Fox also resurrected his small-screen career earlier this month when NBC picked up his new show, which is also yet to be titled.

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Artist-Musician Mike Kelley Dead of Apparent Suicide

Renowned contemporary artist Mike Kelley, who had close and lifelong ties to the experimental rock world, was found dead of apparent suicide on Tuesday at his home in South Pasadena, California. He was 57.

Kelley grew up in Detroit and attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he co-founded the "anti-rock" band Destroy All Monsters (which would eventually include members of the Stooges and the MC5) in 1973. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, who used a photo of one of Kelley's trademark grimy fabric dolls on the cover of his band's 1992 album Dirty, compiled a three-disc set of Destroy All Monsters' music in 1994. 

Kelley, who had a punk performance group called Poetics when he attended the California Institute of the Arts, remained close to the music world after becoming an art-world luminary. Michael Stipe posted a tribute on his Tumblr calling Kelley a unique artist, "so way far out at the bow of things" and "loud and inimitable." 

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