Stones on FX

FX is hoping that mixing the people who make The Crown with Nick Hornby will strike gold in an uncoming scripted series about the Rolling Stones:

A new scripted biographical TV series about the Rolling Stones is in the works at FX, according to The Hollywood Reporter. High Fidelity author Nick Hornby will write the series; Left Bank, the production company behind Netflix’s House of Windsor drama The Crown, will produce it. FX has ordered two seasons of the yet-to-be-titled show, which will cover the period from the band’s founding through 1972.

I like the Stones as much as anybody but I've never found them as people, or their collective story, to be remotely interesting. Unlike The Beatles, who were four incredibly distinct characters who had everything possible happen to them personally and as a band, the Stones' story has always been "Mick met Keith they both loved the blues they wrote a lot of songs about fucking the end." I read an entire book about the making of Exile on Main Street and the whole thing was "Keith was late to the session so Mick left, then Mick was late to the session so Keith left, nothing got done and gee it sure was hot in France that summer." I love Keef but couldn't be bothered to read his magnum opus, and even that Netflix doc about him was duller than  dirt.

Of course I will watch every minute of this series, of course. Of course.

"Your OTHER right, Charlie...dummy."