TUESDAY NEWS DAY - BRUCE CAMPBELL MAKING AN ASH OF HIMSELF ON TV

Ash Williams, the character played by Bruce Campbell in the "Evil Dead" trilogy of movies is being adapted for the TV Universe by Starz.  And best of all?  "The Chin" will be reprising his role as the monster hunter who has a chainsaw for a hand.

You may have noticed that I said 'Ash vs. Evil Dead' is coming to the TV Universe; I didn't specify he would be found in Toobworld.

Ash's battles with the Deadites promise to be too conspicuous for Earth Prime-Time - a long-running series like 'Supernatural' has kept the Winchesters' demon-hunting under the radar all of these years, but how could you pull that off with hordes of Deadites?  So for the time being, 'Ash vs. Evil Dead' will be relegated to one of the Cinematic Borderlands where the Cineverse and Toobworld overlap.

There will be ten half-hour episodes produced by the same team who provided a lot of syndication gold out of New Zealand around the turn of the millennium like 'Hercules: The Legendary Journeys' and 'Xena, Warrior Princess' as well as Campbell's earlier effort in the half-hour action adventure mold, 'Jack Of All Trades'.

Ash will have two companions in his battle against the Deadite plague - Pablo Bolivar and Kelly Maxwell, played by Ray Santiago and Dana DeLorenzo, respectively.

BCnU!