The Butterfly Effect series - announced way back in 2006 - wasn't actually intended for Fox, but for the Sci Fi Channel, and would have ditched a lot of the emo baggage of 2004's "Time Travel Can Leave You With No Legs" drama in favor of a more Quantum Leap-esque take on the concept, only without Al and Ziggy. As the series got bogged down in pre-production, Benderspink tried to raise the concept's profile with a direct to DVD sequel that only disappointed fans of the first movie (Apparently, they didn't learn their lesson, as there are plans for a third movie being made right now).

It's not clear whether or not Benderspink's CBS deal includes all the shows that were being developed with Fox, but if it does, we have one clear message to send: No-one wants to see someone travel backwards through their life thanks to cosmic seizures with each trip making their life shittier every week, thank you very much. Unless it's done as a broad comedy and stars the guy who played Hyde from That 70s Show, giving it some consistency with the original movie. Otherwise, let it suffer the same fate as Benderspink's planned Preacher show.

Benderspink segues to CBS Par TV [Hollywood Reporter]

Another insanely creepy-yet-supposedly sexy robot is the Svedka vodka mascot, who's wheatpasted all over major cities right now. It's not just her weirdly exaggerated T&A, with the hydraulically tiny waist — we're used to that from superhero comics — but it's also the weirdly smug, yet unexpressive — face. She has a sort of mousey, dessicated smirk that makes her seem sort of unpleasant. Like a mean robot drunk, who puts robo-roofies in your glass when you're not looking.

The actual creepiest robot in mass media right now? Is the Burger King breakfast robot, part of a longstanding trend of the fast-food giant trying to make its mascot as alienating and scary as possible. (Which I sort of respect, since McDonald's also has a creepy mascot but tries to pretend otherwise.) In any case, someone went to a lot of trouble to find a Logan's Run-looking actor to play the guy who gets woken up rudely by the robo-King. As with Ashton and his robo-crotch, the Burger-bot gets in a moment of misplaced sexy-creepiness, when the purple-haired woman says he's so good with his hands, and he does a weird hand flutter. Ewwww! And yet, now I sort of want that breakfast thing. It's even ookier than the shaving robot ad.

[Ashton Kutcher from Trendhunter]
[Burger King robot from SuperPunch]