Lemony Snicket Netflix show looks ace

I thought the movie version of A Series of Unfortunate Events was pretty great, mostly because of the gorgeous visuals and Jim Carrey's nutso performance as Count Olaf.

Alarmingly that feature came out more than 12 years ago, and while it got good reviews and even made a bit at the box office a franchise never managed to surface.

And so it comes around again, with Netflix bagging the rights for a series. Given that there are 13 books in Daniel Handler's saga so far, it's pretty much a perfect way to present the stories, and the cache of Netflix means that there's a decent budget to throw at the thing too.