Forget what people say about The Wire, for me the best TV series of the past 20 years had to be The Sopranos. There was something classic and almost Shakespearean about it all, something gutsy and real even though it was about a New Jersey mobster with significant mental health problems. The creator of Tony and co, David Chase, has already earned himself a nice little spot in the TV Pantheon, but he's been a bit quiet of late. Until now. So what's his next project?

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I got excited about this bit of news because a) it's all about David Chase, and b) it'll be based in an era that fascinates me.

Here's what the Hollywood Reporter has to say:

"It will be about the invention of cinema and subsequent growth of the Hollywood film industry, entitled A Ribbon Of Dreams (which takes its name from Orson Welles' description, "A film is a ribbon of dreams.") Beginning in 1913, it will follow two men, one a college-educated mechanical engineer, the other a cowboy with a violent past, who form an unlikely producing partnership as employees of D.W. Griffith and together become pioneers and then powers for a time in motion pictures". Crossing career paths with John Ford, John Wayne, Raoul Walsh, Bette Davis, Billy Wilder and others, the miniseries will cover the age of rough-hewn silent Westerns, to the golden era of talkies and the studio system, to the auteur movement, to television, and finally to the present day."

Can you imagine that? Sounds great! Lots of early 20th century glamour, some amazing names from the silver screen's past and the classic two, contrasting central character set-up. Chase will write and executive produce it all.

I, for one, can't wait. Quick, make it now!